07-26-2016, 07:14 PM
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Originally Posted by tonycsmoke
A few years ago the American Cancer Society paid to get a tobacco tax increase on the ballot in Missouri. They advertised it as going to help education. They had little kids asking to increase the tax for them. In reality, about 40% went to "smoking cessation". It would have netted them tens of millions of dollars every year. It scared the shit out of us. We knew that if passed, they would spent all that money lobbying to pass smoking bans and enact even higher taxes. It lost, while it was close it cost them over 8 million dollars to get it on the ballot and to advertise. That hurt them and they have been in the background ever since. That's why I say it's a good thing for them to spend their money on unproductive work. I hope the lawyers soak them.
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Good point.
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