Oregon State Parks and Smoking
New policy. Just got an email notification saying that smoking is now illegal in all Oregon State Parks except inside your vehicle and inside the immediate boundaries of individual campsites. I ...
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RGar974417 wrote:
I gave up smoking 33 years ago,but jeeze,if you can't smoke outside,why don't they just ban it.Oh yeah,then they wouldn't be able to get all that tax money.I think you would call that,hypocritical.
Oh so true! And the most idiotic part is the states and feds are taxing themselves out of this particular windfall. The reason that tobacco tax rates keep going up is because fewer people are paying them because they are 'encouraged' to quit (or never start). That makes revenues go DOWN. I cannot imagine that Congress and the Legislatures are eager for tobacco and its tax windfall to vanish entirely. Yet that is exactly where they are headed with this.
How will they replace this lost revenue? Oh, I forgot, reduced health care costs. Who really believes that?
