The 108th Congress
should
- deny funding for the Justice
Department’s suit against cigarette makers,
- enact, under the Commerce Clause,
legislation that abrogates the multistate tobacco settlement,
and
- deregulate the growing of tobacco
and the manufacture and advertising of tobacco products;
- end government subsidies of the
tobacco industry.
The federal government has paid
tobacco farmers to grow tobacco, and sues cigarette makers for
selling cigarettes. If this makes sense to you, then you are
probably not a Libertarian candidate for Congress.
Use of government coercion to fight tobacco encourages government
coercion in other areas:
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