Say Anything Blog

North Dakota’s health bureaucracies are doling out the pound of flesh the trial lawyers chopped out of the tobacco industry to the tobacco prohibitionists who are going to use it to run preachy, marginally effective public service campaigns to get people to stop using tobacco.

This is a preview of what will happen on a much grander scale if the initiated measure to create a permanent fund out of North Dakota’s tobacco settlement money gets passed.

I call these anti-tobacco hordes “prohibitionists” as a reference to the alcohol prohibitionists, but I actually think these modern day Carrie Nations are worse.  They’ve not only figured out how to be more effective, in a more subtle and pervasive way, than Carrie Nation ever was they’ve also figured out how to get other people to fund their meddling.