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To: Rob Rob who wrote (1559)	5/14/1998 6:56:00 PM
From: Wallace Rivers	Respond to of 6439

Not to mention black market tobacco...My Mother was a three pack a day smoker, and died young (60), and in no way do I hold tobacco companies responsible. She chose to smoke, and I'm sick and tired of the govt. telling us what we can and cannot do. Haven't the pols in DC ever heard of personal responsibility? I think they've been given too many freebies for viagra, and have the resultant hard on for the tobacco companies.

To: Rob Rob who wrote (1559)	5/14/1998 7:02:00 PM
From: Devon B.	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 6439

***NEWS*** The Senate Finance Committee voted to raise taxes $1.50 a pack over three years, a steeper/faster tax, than the $1.10 a pack over five years measure approved last month by the Committee panel.

To: Rob Rob who wrote (1559)	5/15/1998 10:16:00 AM
From: Jay Rommel	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 6439

Rob, I guess what bothers me the most about the bill is that the politicians are hiding the fact that it's another way to tax the public... and NO this is not a cigarette tax ! Mark my words, if the bill passed, you will see everything that MO sells go up ... then the public will realize that and say, "hey I don't smoke, why did the price of my Oscar Meyer go up?" These "voted" officials and the lawyers must really think someone is stupid ... if all the proceedings have no MONEY attached to it and it's just a bill to protect the kids from smoking, no lawyer would touch it. The next industry I see under pressure will be the Beer and next the oil ...