
01-09-2004, 09:21 AM
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Join Date: Nov 2002
Location: Coastal foothills of Willamette Valley
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Hey Lixy ...
I don't believe anyone has to worry about RJ Reynolds going out of business anytime soon. With declining sales in the US, they have all targeted and marketed to people of the third world countries for increased sales. And unlike the US, where advertising is banned or strictly controlled, advertising in other countries proliferates on a massive scale.
Jenna & PF - you mentioned the collected taxes being used for health care and educational issues. That's exactly what the Tobacco Settlement was supposed to do. I say was and supposed to because here in New Hampshire, as in other states as well I suspect, that money has been greedily siphoned off for other purposes.
I tend to view it this way ... when the government figures out how to tax sunlight, there will be rapid advances in the use of solar power.
(Climbing off soapbox now....)
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