Posted on 01/08/2003 1:43:02 AM PST by chance33_98
Edited on 04/13/2004 2:41:38 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
Worn down by its fiscal crisis, California may be losing its edge in the nationwide effort to curb cigarette smoking, according to a new report by the American Lung Association.
"California leads the nation, literally, in protecting the public against tobacco-related illness," said Linda Weiner, spokeswoman for the American Lung Association of San Francisco and San Mateo Counties. "But it is literally failing to maintain that leadership."
(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...
Sounds like a huge load of Bravo Sierra to me!
The main problem with health there is the pollution, sitting in traffic for hours with fumes being sucked into your car. But there is little money in that for them. California, America's biggest live freak show.
I thought all that tax money and lawsuit shakedown dollars were supposed to go to re-educating smokers.
WHAT HAPPENED???
Tax the heck out of cigarette smokers, then use the money to try to get them to quit. Sounds like Democratic logic to me.
Oh really, they keep telling us, the higher the tax, the more quitters.
This is an obscene abuse of the system, and those who support it are so blinded by their hatred of smoking and smokers they can't see how it undermines everything we hold dear.
A democracy can not exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves money from the public treasury. From that moment on the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most money from the treasury, with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, followed by a dictatorship."--Professor Alexander Tyler
If anyone still thinks we have a representative republic instead of a "democracy," try to get one of those "representatives" to do something for you--even just uphold the Constitution--without a massive donation.
Ask Robber Reiner.
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