To get a better perspective on the proposed cigarette tax, I went to see the movie Thank You For Smoking. You lobbyists will love this film. When the tobacco lobbyist was asked how he could defend cigarettes he called it the Yuppie Nuremburg Defense. "You have to pay the mortgage."
Good luck to Texas' own tobacco lobbyists in fighting the cigarette tax, see the film for speaking points.
^What the fuck? We got spammed by the damn movie studio?
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