Distributing Cigarettes Not Drug Dealing

Source from:  tr.itsmyiq.com Oct 10, 2007 10/12/2007

A German federal court ruled yesterday that requiring someone to distribute cigarettes did not amount to forcing him or her to be a drug dealer, according to a Reuters report. The court found that a government insurance agency had the right to withhold benefit payments from two partially disabled former miners who turned down jobs filling cigarette machines, claiming that to do so would be 'drug-dealing with nicotine'. The defendant was a special federal insurance organization for seamen, railway workers and miners. Enditem