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...average cost of a pack of Marlboros in the U.S. is $3.15. Of that, 43 cents goes to state excise taxes. Another 34 cents goes to federal excise taxes. Throw in another 58 cents for the cost of the $206 billion settlement with 46 states - a suit, the irony of which should not escape anyone, launched to recoup "lost" healthcare costs due to smoking - and you're down $1.35 and on your eighth coffin nail before you even start paying the boys down in Raleigh-Durham...
...trial lawyers, smokers are coughing up $30 billion a year to The Man. (Keep in mind these numbers are after John McCain?s $400 billion-plus-$1.50-a-pack-tax settlement bill failed in 1998, and pending the settlement of a Clinton-launched $20 billion heath-care-recoup suit that the Bush DOJ is cool on pursuing...
...challenging Big Tobacco with dozens of low-cost smokes, and black-market cigarettes (including the ones that major companies give away as marketing ploys) are on the rise. Were it not for the relatively hospitable air in Washington - John Ashcroft?s Justice Department is looking to dump the Clinton suit and George W. Bush declined to add another round of excise taxes - the long-predicted death of Big Tobacco (and the concurrent rise of Little Tobacco) might have happened already...
...other party to the ABM treaty. The tests the Pentagon has in mind will violate its terms "within months, not years," says a freshly circulated State Department memo. Officials talk of deployment as early as 2004. That schedule turns the screws on Putin to modify the treaty to suit Washington right away--or the U.S. will simply pull...
...BRAD PITT's icy blue eyes or JENNIFER ANISTON's adorable button nose, but up until last week you could have purchased the couple's everlasting symbol of commitment--and at a nice price too. Pitt and Aniston filed a $50 million suit in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles against Damiani International, the jewelry outfit that produced their wedding rings, for hawking "Brad & Jennifer white-gold wedding bands with diamonds," an alleged violation of an agreement prohibiting the rings' reproduction or sale. The bands, available in lovely 18-karat gold, were selling for a mere $1,000 at outlets...