Kill the Intolerant!
Posted on 08/25/2016 6:15:31 AM PDT by Drango
Banning cigarettes will work just as well as banning the sale or manufacture of whiskey did 100 years ago.
Except for the free people who smoke. Then, when the non-smoking free people vote to tax them, they can experience the tyranny of the majority.
Nothing like true democracy!
The answer to everything is more government and higher taxes.
All hail the Nanny State!
Fixed it - Not a smoker myself, but what people do to their own bodies is their business. Smoke free buildings are OK following the "your right to swing your fist ends at my nose" changing to "your right to distribute smelly carcinogens ends at my nose" philosophy, but the sort of mindset that restricts people from smoking in the privacy of their homes or outdoors or tries to tax the behavior out of existence is impinging on personal liberty.
This is the same mindset that bans guns
Ban jogging because of future medical problems for andkles,knees, shins and joints, ban biking on roadways because of the danger to self and drivers, ban skydiving, scuba diving and anything associated with having public costs for rescue and emergency treatment. Ban tofu (we’ll figure out why), ban liberals (we know why). Ban those ninnies that say “we need a law for .......” Ad nauseam.
Correct, not as long as the government stands to lose billions of dollars in taxes every year.
People have to keep smoking!
It’s for the KIDS!!!!
Or the banning of marijuana, heroin, meth, etc.?
Kill the Intolerant!
Typical commie lib. Her solution to improve the quality of life demands less individual freedom, and greater government control over people’s lives.
Liberalism is a far worse cancer than anything caused by smoking.
These totalitarian commie freaks wants you to select your gender, but they don’t want you to smoke? Back-off.
[but what people do to their own bodies is their business. ]
I agree, but I take issue when it’s affecting MY body. As an ex-smoker, I enjoy the fact I am not smelling smoke in restaurants, bars, or other establishments.
My biggest beef with smokers is the littering that results. It makes me sick to go to the beach, put my feet in the sand, and pull them out with old butts stuck between my toes.
Banning cigarettes will work just as well as banning the sale or manufacture of whiskey did 100 years ago.
Tobacco is not like alcohol. If it were not physically addictive, it would probably have died out a couple of decades ago. Alcohol brings “benefits” that are, frankly, universal. Smoking much less so, by several orders of magnitude.
However, the concept of banning them would disgust me. In a free country, people need to have the right to choose how they handle the available vices, up to the point where it directly affects others. Also, it really should be a local issue. If Mayberry wants to be dry, it should have that right.
And second hand smoke is bad for cats. That is all that has been proven. A LOT of stuff that is no problem for you, your dog or your mice is bad for cats.
I say this as a non-smoker (though I have a cigar on the front deck every six months or so) and cigarette smoke makes me sick. I am in “bar bands” and loved, in the Seattle area, being able to finish a gig without my clothing and equipment stinking. But It should be voluntary. There were clubs that prohibited smoking over ten years ago. They were my favorite places to play.
Now I’m in Kentucky. I pass many tobacco fields on my way to work. A lot of people in my church smoke. Cancer rates are higher here, but not by much. And we are a commonwealth, which means much more control is at the county, rather than state level. It’s why we have both dry and wet counties.
Regarding tobacco production, there is a push here to grow hemp rather than tobacco. However, the FedGov is fighting it because the DEA in their helicopters can’t tell the difference between hemp and Marijuana with their infrared sensors. When growing hemp becomes legal, tobacco production will almost come to a halt here. The hang up is the FedGov and the DEA.
For a quick check on that anecdotal statistical, visit about any doctor's office or take a stroll around your local hospital.
The hypocrisy is staggering.
I’ve got a strong beef with their recruitment of minors. Not overt recruitment, but they are turning a blind eye to kids becoming addicts. 90% of adult smokers started as teenagers, got hooked and can’t quit.
Georgia: “ the percentage of bars and restaurants permitting smoking has almost doubled due to loopholes in the law” Not so, completely wrong. I live here and haven’t been into a restaurant allowing smoking in many years.
Not so, completely wrong. I live here and haven’t been into a restaurant allowing smoking in many years.
Ditto that, FRiend. I have not been in any building since 2005 where people are smoking here in GA...other than a private residence.
Or maybe snotty Millenial bloggers living in Boston or Brooklyn need to stop trying to tell the people of Kentucky or Georgia what their tobacco laws ought to be.
Ditto.
My last cigarette was in March of 1986.
I quit cold turkey and never looked back.
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