Pubdate: Sat, 28 Oct 2006 Source: Detroit Free Press (MI) Copyright: 2006 Detroit Free Press Contact: http://www.freep.com/ Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/125 Cited: Drug Policy Alliance survey http://www.drugpolicy.org/drugbydrug/tobacco/ Saturday Starters: Some Points You Can Raise to Get a Conversation Flowing This Weekend IF CIGARETTES WENT UNDERGROUND A new national poll done for the Drug Policy Alliance found that 45% of Americans support making cigarettes illegal within the next 10 years, with the strongest support among folks 18-29. This will never happen, of course, given America's costly and disastrous experiment with banning booze. However, a ban could produce an underground economic boom for border cities, as Prohibition did for Detroit, and if the Michigan economy is still in the dumper a decade from now, let's revisit the issue ... - --- MAP posted-by: Richard Lake