http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archives/2008/11/18/smoke_signals Comments On: Smoke Signals by Paul Constant en-us Copyright 2009 The Stranger. All rights reserved. This RSS file is offered to individuals, The Stranger readers, and non-commercial organizations only. Any commercial websites wishing to use this RSS file, please contact The Stranger. webmaster@thestranger.com (The Stranger Webmaster) Mon, 23 Nov 2009 00:00:01 -0800 Mon, 23 Nov 2009 12:15:00 -0800 Foundation http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story…
Posted by sean]]> Wed, 19 Nov 2008 09:34:59 -0800 The Stranger Posted by A-d]]> Wed, 19 Nov 2008 08:14:18 -0800 The Stranger Posted by A-d]]> Wed, 19 Nov 2008 08:13:35 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Vince]]> Wed, 19 Nov 2008 07:06:08 -0800 The Stranger
Except for Prop 8...but hey, hypocrisy is just human, after all.
Posted by AR]]> Tue, 18 Nov 2008 22:42:32 -0800 The Stranger Posted by lorinyc]]> Tue, 18 Nov 2008 22:25:45 -0800 The Stranger Posted by RainMan]]> Tue, 18 Nov 2008 19:11:20 -0800 The Stranger Posted by elenchos]]> Tue, 18 Nov 2008 18:59:06 -0800 The Stranger
I grew up in Kentucky. Talking about restricting tobacco access in Kentucky is ugly and unpatriotic. The people who want to limit access to tobacco in Kentucky (both in price and convenience) are the same people who want to eliminate no-call lists, send our troops back into battle in bullseye-painted tank tops, and give the Daily Show back to Craig Kilborn.

Which... not that I'm defending Kentucky's smoking, because it's obviously not healthy. But the farmers are turning a profit and making donations to Kentucky's politicians, and the taxes they pay fund Kentucky's government and its programs. Kentucky already has a problem paying for its infrastructure, schools, and so forth, so nobody's overly anxious to convince unsubsidized, profitable farmers to maybe grow something that earns less money.
Posted by Christin]]> Tue, 18 Nov 2008 18:50:14 -0800 The Stranger No doubt!
Posted by Sleestak]]> Tue, 18 Nov 2008 18:35:49 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Jet Exhaust Kills]]> Tue, 18 Nov 2008 18:05:41 -0800 The Stranger Do you think there's a correlation?

That isn't a matter of opinion. You compute your Pearson R and your confidence interval and you have your answer. The more difficult question, with arguable policy implications, is "is there a causal relationship?" And that question is much harder to answer.

It might well be, for example, that states with fewer smokers are more likely to impose high tobacco taxes because there are fewer affected voters to fight those taxes.
Posted by David Wright]]> Tue, 18 Nov 2008 17:49:41 -0800 The Stranger Posted by jrrrl]]> Tue, 18 Nov 2008 17:34:12 -0800 The Stranger
Utah and California suggest price alone isn't a determining factor.
Posted by Dougsf]]> Tue, 18 Nov 2008 17:08:27 -0800 The Stranger
That, and you'd think the freezing cold would deter people... not so much.
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