First there was the attack on big tobacco companies. Next came the ban on smoking in bars and restaurants. Some cities are even considering a ban on public smoking, but the question is what will these cities, towns and states do to replace the taxes they made off of tobacco?

You know they will have to replace the lost revenue some way or the other.

Could it mean an even higher fuel tax, or will it mean higher taxes on the beer and liquor people consume?

In any event, will these lords over the people proceed in telling the public what is good and what is bad for us while in the back of their minds are thoughts of what to add more taxes to compensate for lost taxes on tobacco? I read an article once in US News that stated that Texas consumed more beer than any other state in the Union. We also purchase more pick-up trucks than any other state.

Could be that is where the additional taxes will come from, the beer and trucks. But whatever takes place, it wont bother me at this time, for I neither smoke nor drink. But when they go to messing with pickup trucks, they will have a fight on their hands. Who know what these silly politicians will attack next, eating pork ribs in public?

Kenneth Guthrie