Liberals Send the Truth Up in Smoke

North Star Writers Group ^ | October 8, 2007 | Nancy Morgan

[ConservativeColumns]

All smokers have choices. Some are hard choices, like quitting. Some are no-brainers, like not blowing smoke in the face of a baby, or lighting up at a table where others are eating.

As a long-time smoker, I have exercised choice. I have chosen, of my own free will, to allocate a portion of my budget to purchasing cigarettes. And despite increasing social pressure, I feel no guilt for not taking that money and buying instead something more socially acceptable like, say, carbon credits – or using it to contribute to some UN fund to cure poverty. Color me selfish.

My choice is called free will. Everyone has it. Only for smokers, it's not so free anymore. The self-righteous arbiters of America's morals have decided to take away this choice. And they're succeeding in the court of law, the court of public opinion, and society at large...

[CharlesWayneCT]

In Bangor, Maine, a city councilman, oops, councilperson, Patricia Blanchette, has submitted preliminary legislation to make Maine one of the first states to make it illegal to smoke in any vehicle when minors are present. This legislation comes with the false presumption that all smokers are so rude, low-class and lacking in manners that the force of law is necessary to protect innocents from dread second-hand smoke.

Apparently enough of them are that they are going to pass legislation for it.

Of course, if none of them are, nobody will be effected by the legislation. I don't understand if her argument is that we should oppose a law because almost everybody won't break it, or because she thinks we SHOULD be allowed to smoke in cars with children in them.

On the other hand, she could have mentioned how the Democrats think that if you want to smoke, you should also pay for poor children's health care, "poor" being anybody wo makes less than $82,000, and "children" meaning people up to age 25.

The Democrats don't explain why smokers should have to pay for children's health care.

We need to get back to the day when we followed the constitution, which USED to say that all taxes had to be shared equally by all citizens, before the Supreme Court decided to change it.