In the 2004 campaign, the Bush administration promised they were going to stop subsidizing tobacco growers. It didn't quite work out that way. They did, however, convince the Supreme Court to let them prosecute people who smoke marijuana for medical reasons. Where's the justice in that?
Now, they've made the big tobacco companies gasp.
"Justice Department lawyer Stephen D. Brody shocked tobacco company representatives and anti-tobacco activists by announcing that the government will not seek the $130 billion that a government expert had testified was necessary to fund smoking-cessation programs. Instead, Brody said, the Justice Department will ask tobacco companies to pay $10 billion over five years to help millions of Americans quit smoking"
from http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8136714/
That sure took my breath away.