Kick 'em When They're Down

I was just reading in the Winston Salem Urinal about how the Dept of Justice is bringing suit (again) against all the tobacco companies.  This time they're trying to grab all the profits these companies have made over the years from people who started smoking as youths.
 
Right up front let me say that I am a smoker.  I started smoking as a youth around 40 years ago and fervently wish I'd never started.  But after the Master Settlement Agreement and all the other RICO suits brought, isn't there an end to the greed of these slimy pricks at DoJ?  Sorry, but IMHO, this suit is a crock of shit.  Why not just grab all the profits and assets from all of these companies and shut them down?
 
Oh, yeah - then they wouldn't be able to keep milking us for the tax dollars.
 
Just how the hell is this to be determined?  Are they talking about every person who ever started smoking as a youth, even if it was 100 years ago?  Are they going to go out and ask everyone who ever smoked how old they were when they started?  Or are they going to just assume that all smokers started before they were 18?
 
And you just know who's going to get this money, don't you?
 
It's past time for the government to decide: either tobacco is a legal product or it isn't.  If it isn't, then shut them down.  If it is, however, then Ashcroft needs to call his attack dogs and tell them to STFU and STFD.