Oh, how I wish you were in my life again, friend.
Anti-tobacco is Anti-American!
The leftist nanny-state just cannot bear the fact that some people are actually enjoying their lives doing what they hate.
Wow! Put on your flame suit.
Incoming! (getting the popcorn)
They just like to control people no matter what it is.
Socialism =no freedoms for anyone and eventually, even for the sheeple lefties
but they think it won’t happen to them. LOL
Oh, and how is that “freedom of speech” going for Code Pink in Iran?
Yes and there are plenty of those people on the FR. Here they come now in all their self-righteous fury.
At the cost of prosperity and personal freedom.
Personally, I would rather be destitute on my own than to blame it on an incompetent leader.
If lining up at the unemployment line is a job then yes...Obeyme has indeed created “jobs”.
Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Tyranny.
Thanks for the post! I was beginning to think I was alone in my defense of my right to make my own choice. You don’t want me to smoke in your house (bar, restaurant), then I won’t. If you don’t want to come to my house (bar, restaurant) because people smoke there, well, don’t. The property owner calls the shots.
Good links. Thanks.
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If you want to know what the philosophy of this article is, it is the philosophy of individual liberty. Hank
Thank you for posting this.
You are correct, of course.
I don’t smoke. Many smokers are just rude. They want to smoke in your home, car and in your face. Some of course are not like that. When I retire and life is short, I may take it up but not until then. I tell my children. Don’t smoke. Don’t drink and drive. Wear your seatbelt (they saved my life). But when you are old what do you have to fear? Skydive. Parasail. Smoke. Do all the things a youngster should not do because they have their life ahead of them and do not imperil that needlessly.
Freedom, prosperity, and a good smoke. Even after eight years I'm still in Flavor Country. It's the insufferable puritanism that's gaining ground now that pisses me off. It's always been here, but lately anything that gives a little enjoyment is something to be ashamed of. Not a good attitude to impose on a country as large and productive as the United States.
Oh the hilarity.
Another Moron Ping.
Smoking is good for you.
The world is flat also.
The Whale and the Shrimp, running every aspect of your life for your own good.
Let me know when the Useful Idiots among us finally wake up.
Little League Baseball has taken one hell of a hit. (no I never did smoke). (LF outfielder who could reach that 200ft fence). The lefties without discipline can kiss my ass. They have ruined the way that sports were funded and how Dad kicks your ass if you smoke a cigarette. Idiots
I hope this is sarcasm.
My mother had part of a lung removed because lung cancer; my father is on oxygen for the rest of his for emphyzema.
Smoking is pernicious.
government controlled ciggs- dictate that ciggs must contain less and less nocotine- causing smokers to be forced into buying more ciggs to meet their nic requirements = more tax money for hte government- dictate the length ciggs can be- again, forcing smokers to have to buy more ciggs to meet their nic requirements = more tax money for government,
Sounds like a mob sydicate takeover of a product they KNOW they can manipulate to force people into buying more than they currently do. What next? Coffee? Caffeine? Chocolate?
LOLOL! It is so true that "The leftist nanny-state just cannot bear the fact that some people are actually enjoying their lives doing what they hate." At the very least, folks who do the things the nanny-staters hate will be made to pay.... Dontcha know the "experts" know better than we do what is "good for us," and will work tirelessly to try to save us from ourselves? Whether we want them to or not?
I just wish these ninnies would get a life.... And stop living vicariously through mine.
To me, there is something morbid about an excessive preoccupation with health. Plus something's got to kill you. You might as well enjoy your life as you see fit while you have it. Plus people who do so tend not to be the ones who nitpick and meddle in the lives of others.
Very interesting essay/post, Hank! Thank you so much for putting it up.
Under normal circumstances the natural human reaction is to avoid smoke. We naturally know that sucking fumes from burning material is bad for our lungs. Everyone who has even tried smoking knows how they had to fight down the coughing reflex to start their habit. The nasty stuff found in smokers’ lungs and reduced breathing capacity is pretty straightforward evidence that cigarettes are doing bad things.
What most smokers fail to realize is how filthy and awful they smell to non-smokers. Much of my family smokes and I after I visit them I have to hold my nose on the way to the washing machine and everything my mother sends us has to be washed multiple times to get the smell out. Every surface in a smoker’s home and car is coated in brown gunk and feels grimy- even in fastidiously ‘clean’ smokers’ homes. I grew up in that stuff, when I’m in it it seems normal, but get a little distance and it is disgusting.
This crud justifying smoking is about the equivalent to pot heads and heroine justifying their own habits. Nicotine junkies are no different that any other addict is their desperate need to justify themselves and drag others down with them.
I don’t agree with attempts to bad cigarettes or even tax the heck out of them, but let not kid ourselves that the habit is any healthier than any other addiction. I don’t want to pay your medical bills either.
You keep telling yourself that. While I suppose that anyone has the right to kill themselves anyway they want, they can leave me out of it.
/flame suit on...
I’ll remember to tell my patients in the hospital dying of emphysema how much good smoking has done them. Ditto the ones dying of lung cancer. I’m sure they will enthusiastically agree with you.
Why aren’t you on my ping list? There should be an investigation.
God bless America! Land of the free and home of the brave!
This article implies that Bozo created thousands of jobs driving vehicles smuggling tobacco into the US and an army of regulators to enforce the new rules. It would be funny if it wasn’t true.
Save Us, Sarah!
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Some very intense , interesting information here.
I like the author’s ideology, bur apparently smoking doesn’t prevent cranial rectalitis, because when it comes to science he has one of the biggest cases I’ve ever seen.
Reference bump! ;-)