Spiro Agnew? How old do you take your readership to be? Now, if you would have included something from say, Eliot Spitzer, most people would have understood what was being lied about.

"That would pay for a lot of healthcare reform, which some have estimated will cost as much as $1 trillion to implement over the next ten years." So, how much of the tobacco taxes have gone towards smoker healthcare and prevention and how much has gone into the "general fund" for non-healthcare related pork projects? Let's not kid the kidders here, any new taxes on these goods will be going into the general fund to be divvied out as pork by the taxers.