Furthermore....

How much money is government recieving from tobacco companies? (USA)
"The IRRC findings were reported by the Cybercast News Service (CNS) in a series of stories in March. Doug Cogan, director of IRRC's Tobacco Information Service, told CNS that even beyond the investments--Texas alone put $10 million into tobacco stocks--very few tobacco-settlement dollars were being spent on preventing tobacco use. Cogan puts the figure at as little as 5 percent. (The General Accounting Office estimated last year that 7 percent of the settlement was being used for prevention programs.)

According to the terms of the settlement, 46 states will receive $206 billion from tobacco companies over the next 25 years, with no stipulation as to how the funds will be spent. Because some 95 percent of this money is being poured into general revenues, the states have actually become invested in the financial well-being of the companies."
(taken from http://www.findarticles.com/p/articl...34/ai_85701093)

Hmmm...I wonder why the government don't make tobacco illegal?
Especially when it accounts for a high percentage of strains upon the economy!!!

So, to the issue of "They trust their government, and if the government wont legalise it, then it must be for a legitimate reason.".... here is a 'reason'....legitimate?

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