"However, a voter enacted smoking ban inside taverns and restaurants, sent gamblers to casinos and damaged revenues from the route operations."

A drag racer owns a large piece of Short Line Express convenience stores in Las Vegas. Before the smoking ban, his small banks of slots and VP machines netted more than the rest of the stores' operations combined. Now they're a drop in the bucket. The secondary repercussions caused by this government (yes, government, it can't be law without government enforcement) interference in the use of private property to conduct business with regard to usage of legal consumer products is putting people out work and driving some businesses into failure, or to the brink of it.

Obama has already mandated a 60 - 70 cent per pack federal tax increase on each sale of a pack of cigarettes. That will become law April 1st (rather fitting if you ask me). This tax increase is supposed to fund a new child health care insurance program. How does anyone expect a level of sustainable tax revenue increase on a product that is increasingly having its usage banned?