Maybe (Government) better consider making smoking mandatory. For the children, of course.

Read this interesting comment and thread of comments to Rex Bell's Richmond Palladium-Item blog The Bell Curve titled "Smoke 'em if you got 'em", in which the writer cites numbers that the proposed State Childrens Healthcare Insurance Program (SCHIP) will need 22 million new smokers for the new tax on cigarettes to pay for the program.

Smoke cigarettes and cigars! It's for the children!