Amendment to highway bill sideswipes Little Tobacco

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24. The point you were making...

was in response to this paragraph... correct?

"That represents a big savings in social security and medicare no matter how you cut it. So arguing that smokers should pay more because they cost more is just another big lie. Gets tiresome doesn't it? By making smokers pariahs, no one minds if they are forced to pay a huge dishonest "health" tax on each pack, a burden that fast food afficionados bypass....pardon the pun. Smoking is a huge cash cow for both state and federal government. If people are growing and rolling their own that is a huge chunk of change they will be missing."

And since in most areas of the country, laws are in place to keep smoking away from non-smokers, is your assertion of smoker's contributions to non-smoker's health problems even vaguely true insofar as they once were?