Health professors at Yale University have actually compared Ronald McDonald to Joe Camel. They've already floated the idea of a punitive tax on red meat and other products high in saturated fat as a means of compensating government health-care programs for the costs of treating heart disease and related illnesses. Next up could be gambling. The new federal gaming panel will inevitably lead to meddling in Nevada's primary industry, whether in the form of regulation, taxation or both. Yes, this is all just overheated rhetoric.
Tobacco is a special case.
Once smokers are forced to heel, mission accomplished. The nanny staters will just pack up and go away. Nevada's largest daily newspaper.