Dr. Jack Wheeler
Behind The Lines
Friday, 25 June 2010

On Monday, June 21, the demented state legislature in Albany passed a
bill increasing cigarette taxes. A pack of smokes will average $9.60
across the state, and will be $11 a pack - $11 for a single pack of
cigarettes - in New York City.

This is not only pro-smuggling, it is pro-terrorist. Who do you think
runs the most lucrative cigarette smuggling operations from Virginia
and the South into New York? Hezbollah and Al Qaeda. The higher
taxes will mean higher profits for them, which they will use to kill
Israelis and Americans in Afghanistan.

The state legislators who voted for the taxes should be tried for
aiding and abetting terrorism for this alone. But the consequences
could be vastly worse. New York's new tobacco tax law is an example
of the Law of Unintended Consequences run amok. It's the coming
nightmare of Crack Nicotine.

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