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Be Careful What You Wish For 

What does the government do to industries it gets control of? It runs them into the ground, it destroys them. And the danger of running the tobacco industry into the ground is it's one of the greatest sources of tax revenue for the federal government and states. . . .

if they succeed in this, which is what they publicly profess their interest is, is in getting as many people to quit as possible, do you realize what's going to happen to tax revenue? It's going to plummet. They're going to have to make it up somewhere and then all of you who don't smoke and all of you who are happy that this somehow is going to improve the health circumstances in America are going to be anteing up to make up the difference. So be careful what you wish for.

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