Dark Times Ahead

[Brad Dolan]

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

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