Anti-smoking Wackos

Banning smoking from college campuses? Oh yeah, that'll work...

This is just another incidence of the Left wanting to have its cake and eat it. We're so concerned about the health effects of smoking that we're going to make it as hard as possible to smoke, but at the same time we're going to tie lots of health care funding to the taxes generated by tobacco sales.

Like all other liberal solutions, this is another unsustainable near-Ponzi scheme that has nothing to do with people's health, and everything to do with taxation, control, and wealth redistribution.

How long is it going to be before some anti-smoking zealot is going to actually propose ending tobacco sales and put the lie to the real motivations of the anti-smoking movement, i.e. anti-capitalism and command economics?

If I were running a tobacco company, I'd be seriously tempted to do something like this: "Due to the current business conditions in Pennsylvania and the targeting for retail and use discrimination of our legal product by regulatory forces, we are immediately suspending the sale and distribution of our products in Pennsylvania until market conditions improve."

I wonder how the Left would react if their precious tax dollars just went away because they had hammered a business to the point that it just wasn't worth it anymore.

If anything, I bet the Left would need a drink after being hoisted on their own petard - or perhaps a smoke...