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"Thank you, sir, for your very lucid commentary on what is going on regarding smoking bans and the assault on smokers of tobacco."

Thanks. You know the irony of it all is, the liberal "elitists" who look down their store-bought noses at those who smoke, and like to categorize them as "rednecks" or "low life" are being hypocrites (what's new for a liberal).

If they would shut up, and go away, the smokers would all die, and the elitists would have it all to themselves...

That is, except for someone to "vote" for them at election time...

That is, except for someone to contribute "tobacco taxes" to their favorite causes...

That is, except for someone to buy tickets to their latest movie or play...

I quit smoking, and I'm glad I did...caused be some health problems, but what the hell, I smoked for nigh on 30 years, and enjoyed every minute of it. I'd still be smoking them if they didn't mess with my blood pressure.

Of course, sometimes I think the democRATs do more to elevate my blood pressure than cigarettes ever did.

But, let's looks at mortality and smoking...ya know, if Teddy and Mary Jo had just had a smoke, maybe they wouldn't have gone off the bridge.

Smoking normally takes out people who have smoked for years...older folks, ya know. But at the same time, carloads of kids get killed every year by drunk driving, or drunk drivers.

Smoking does not alter your primary thinking; you can be sane, calm and rational while smoking a cigarette...in fact, a lot of people find a calming effect from smoking a butt.

Drunks think alcohol does that too...and in moderation, it might. But one too many and it's fussin', feudin', and fightin'. How many illegitimate babies come into the world because the parents did it because they were drunk, and not in love?

I've even heard about a traffic accident, or two, caused by someone trying to retrieve a dropped cigarette. Most of the time, the driver was drunk, and wouldn't have dropped the cigarette otherwise.

There is no definative study that anyone gets cancer from secondary smoke...that's a ficticious argument invented by those who are out to take down tobacco companies, simply because they make too much money and don't give it all to the demoncRATS.

The anti-smoking campaign is the biggest farce imposed on the public in the last 40 years, and has its beginnings and is still being caused by finances, and not carcinogens, secondary smoke, or "endangered saliva".

Of course, with an educational system that produces graduates who can't read their diploma, anything the TV says, "must be the truth"....duhhhhhhh.

Time to bring back the '60's and have "smoke-ins" on the doorsteps of all city halls that have banned smoking. If they continue to ban smoking in all public places, then they need to know that if they are so anal and intent to take away tradional smoking places, like bars, restaurants, and the park, then we'll replace it with smoking on the courthouse steps.

Of course, people have to really believe in something to risk the chance of spending the night in the pokey, I guess.