re: #212 abolitionist

[snip] If you smoke, you’re a supporter of terrorism.

Where are you getting that? Some funding for terrorism has been raised by bootlegging cig’s - the illegal (untaxed or less-taxed) stuff, typically moved to NYC, where state and local taxes are higher. The feds are going after bootleg distribution channels, partly for that reason.

FTA:

The stings by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives have yielded about five dozen federal arrests, albeit none on terror charges.
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While there have been terrorists who have made money through cigarette smuggling, it’s far more common to find smugglers linked to organized crime, said John W. Colledge III, a Nevada-based consultant who once ran large-scale cigarette smuggling investigations for the U.S. Customs Service.

“Unfortunately, terrorism has become a sort of a buzzword,” he said. “That’s what gets you funding.”

99% of the people busted are just trying to get around tax increases.