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As if we needed any more evidence that the Bush administration lives only for big business. From the Washington Post another example of George Bush's You're-On-Your-Ownership Society:

If I am reading this correctly, all you smokers out there who would like some help in quitting, don't look to the Feds to help you. In fact, unless you become addicted within a very specific one-year time frame forget about it.

The government announced yesterday that it will further scale back its demands for penalties on the tobacco industry in a landmark civil racketeering case, saying it is no longer seeking to help 45 million American smokers quit their habit.
In the surprising final day of an eight-month trial, the Justice Department's lead attorney said the government now wants tobacco companies to pay only for smoking cessation programs for an unspecified number of future smokers who may become addicted to cigarettes in the first year after the trial concludes.

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