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Article #21279Re: State propaganda (anti-smoking)
From: Danny Low
Date: Thu, 06 Oct 1994 16:46
Date: Thu, 06 Oct 1994 16:46
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DaveHatunen (hatunen@netcom.com) wrote:
: The commercials are paid for out of a special tobacco tax. If you are
: not a smoker, you are not paying for them.
Not exactly correct. The ads are SUPPOSE to be paid out of a special
tobacco tax. When the tax was approved, Gov. Deukmeijan confiscated
the tax into the general fund and allocated some money to pay for
the ads. The amount is far smaller than what the tax revenue brings
in. The people who created the tax basically said this was illegal
but did nothing to stop it. So smokers are subsidizing non-smokers
through this tax. The ads are only a token effort to be technically
legal and are really paid out of the general fund.
Danny Low
"Question Authority and the Authorities will question You"
Valley of Hearts Delight, Silicon Valley
HP NSD dlow@ppg01.sc.hp.com
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 106ed4,1bafa84b90355868 X-Google-Attributes: gid106ed4,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1994-10-06 14:04:50 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!bga.com!news.sprintlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!spool.mu.edu!agate!news.Stanford.EDU!unix.sri.com!hplabs!hplextra!news.dtc.hp.com!hpscit.sc.hp.com!dlow From: dlow@ppg01.sc.hp.com (Danny Low) Newsgroups: ca.general Subject: Re: State propaganda (anti-smoking) Date: 6 Oct 1994 16:46:09 GMT Organization: HP LOVECRAFT DIVISION Lines: 17 Distribution: ca Message-ID: <3719kh$ehf@hpscit.sc.hp.com> References: <26@compata.uucp> <hatunenCx7uCp.9xz@netcom.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: ppg01.sc.hp.com X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL1.4]