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Researchers Debate a License to Smoke Cigarettes
LiveScience ^ | November 13 2012 | Stephanie Pappas

Posted on 11/14/2012 6:14:38 PM PST by EveningStar

They do it for coal-burning power plants. So how about something for what many consider to be a walking smokestack — the cigarette smoker?

Yes, a license to smoke. Simon Chapman, a professor of public health at the University of Sydney in Australia, offers this radical proposal to help reduce the damaging health effects of tobacco, both for the user and the recipient of second-hand smoke.

(Excerpt) Read more at livescience.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government
KEYWORDS: license; napl; pufflist; smoking
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1 posted on 11/14/2012 6:14:41 PM PST by EveningStar
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To: Eric Blair 2084

Ping.


2 posted on 11/14/2012 6:20:13 PM PST by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: EveningStar

They have a license. It’s called being 18 years old, in most jurisdictions.


3 posted on 11/14/2012 6:20:13 PM PST by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults.)
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To: Slings and Arrows

ping


4 posted on 11/14/2012 6:21:17 PM PST by EveningStar
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Can one deduct the license fee?


5 posted on 11/14/2012 6:21:45 PM PST by Gene Eric (Demoralization is a weapon of the enemy. Don't get it, don't spread it!)
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To: Jonty30

This prof’s idea goes farther than that.


6 posted on 11/14/2012 6:23:11 PM PST by EveningStar
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To: EveningStar

Sure!..it must be in the commerce clause...but on a bigger scale...cant we just tax all the damned amendments to the Constitution?


7 posted on 11/14/2012 6:27:16 PM PST by M-cubed
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To: EveningStar

The Third Reich rises from the ashes of “Election” 2012!


8 posted on 11/14/2012 6:27:27 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (The South's Gonna Do It Again.)
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To: EveningStar

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYgLAPhbyKg


9 posted on 11/14/2012 6:30:06 PM PST by Gator113 (I would have voted for NEWT, now it's Romney & Ryan.~Just livin' life, my way~)
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To: EveningStar

Next they will put a carbon tax on it.


10 posted on 11/14/2012 6:30:16 PM PST by Revel
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To: EveningStar
I merely scanned the article; however, one suspects that your alleged president is still a tobacco addict (no evidence, just a suspicion) it might be interesting to see if there are exemptions for political fungi.

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11 posted on 11/14/2012 6:30:33 PM PST by Seaplaner (Never give in. Never give in. Never...except to convictions of honour and good sense. W. Churchill)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

This is in Australia, but I am sure our fascists will love it.


12 posted on 11/14/2012 6:31:07 PM PST by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: EveningStar

Oh I know. It’s all about control.


13 posted on 11/14/2012 6:34:28 PM PST by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults.)
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To: EveningStar

Charcoal grills?

Fireplaces?

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14 posted on 11/14/2012 6:35:41 PM PST by Mears
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To: EveningStar

If you think this is a good idea, I have a much, greater idea.. A license to screw, and and an advance degree to to procreate! Yeah!..

Now, which idea has a greater positive impact on our culture, and humanity in general..???


15 posted on 11/14/2012 6:38:34 PM PST by carlo3b (Less Government, more Fiber..)
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To: EveningStar
Yes, a license to smoke.

Sure. Then we can have a french fry consumption license, a 16oz soft drink license, a fatty food license, candy bar license...

16 posted on 11/14/2012 6:49:22 PM PST by Flick Lives (We're going to be just like the old Soviet Union, but with free cell phones!)
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To: EveningStar

This will just cause lots of non-smokers to get a license to sell what they buy on the black market.


17 posted on 11/14/2012 6:50:35 PM PST by Teflonic
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To: EveningStar

We exhale the most insidious of all pollutants: CO2.
We must all get licenses and be regulated for the amount of pollutant we are allowed to exhale. Those identity groups that invented other pollution producers such as dairy cows must have shorter licenses to exhale than the noble savage of Rousseau who invented no pollutants. :)


18 posted on 11/14/2012 7:10:19 PM PST by spintreebob
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To: EveningStar; MeekOneGOP; Conspiracy Guy; DocRock; King Prout; Darksheare; OSHA; martin_fierro; ...
"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience."

--C. S. Lewis


19 posted on 11/14/2012 7:15:41 PM PST by Slings and Arrows (You can't have IngSoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
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To: EveningStar

For a long time I`ve been trying to understand how liberals can be AGAINST smoking evil tobacco anywhere while being FOR the legalization of pot. Wouldn`t smoking a joint be prohibited under the same anti-smoking laws? Would marijuana be ok but tobacco not? One smoke bad for your health even second hand but the other not? Someone help me make sense of this.


20 posted on 11/14/2012 7:31:03 PM PST by ClearBlueSky (Whenever someone says it's not about Islam-it's about Islam. Jesus loves you, Allah wants you dead!)
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