On 23 Feb 1997, Pan D.Modium wrote:
Predictions for the Year
2. Tobacco companies will cave in to the states on liability for medical costs and declare bankruptcy. The few remaining small companies not party to the suits will see themselves targeted after prices on a pack of cigarettes rises to 1000% of the current price. Two years from now, cigarettes will be almost impossible to get and result in smuggling on a scale that dwarfs cocaine and marijuana trafficing.
When I was a kid, we'd just grab a tobacco leaf in the barn and roll it up in a piece of paper. Informal cigarettes will always be easy to get. But the FDA will have an excuse to start fielding large SWAT teams. Brad attention: WKEWE EOXEN RILKX OC'QD ,CYEL VPJVL KRLKC IQ'BM E;SRF U;RVU