Oh yes. Smokers are the scum of the earth. This tells me which side of the fence THIS guy sits on! I wonder if he includes the terrorist's in his agenda???
Posted on 02/26/2005 10:13:36 AM PST by Mears
February 26, 2005
IT IS NOT surprising that dictatorial employers would fire workers for smoking even off the job (''Smoke screens," editorial, Feb. 20).
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During the last 20 years punitive and regressive taxes have been imposed on tobacco. Smoking, which is legal in the United States, has been outlawed in private businesses, and institutionalized scorn has been directed at smokers.
I attended a meeting at the Harvard School of Public Health where Howard Koh, then health commissioner, said he had considered asking that every pack of cigarettes sold in Massachusetts bear the phrase, ''You are the scum of the earth."
Society has always found cause to scapegoat particular groups based on race, religious, or political ideolology. In this case, it's public health.
S.H. Cambridge
Gosh, who can argue with a sensible, yet compassionate, without agenda mind who would be so visionary as to recommend a statement as such?
I really get steamed when a chain smoker going like 100 mph throws a burning chain out of his car and it smashes through my windshield. Well! I mean wouldn't you be mad?
At least a chain might be useful.
"I don't think they are the scum of the earth, but they do tick me off when they throw their cigerette butts out of car windows. I guess they just assume it is someone else's job in life to pick up their spit soaked, tar filled, lipstick covered pacifiers."
Actually there's a guy on campus who goes around with a thing picking up cigarette butts real early in the moring. And street cleaners of course. Can't forget them. Yeah, I'm being an ass.
"Rent the movie, "Soyent Green". That is what they want to do with smokers, in time."
Never heard of it. What is it about, in a nutshell?
I think it is "Soylent Green" and have heard it referred to many times here on FR.
It seems to be about loss of personal freedoms. I must get it and see it since it seems to be quite popular around here.
I'll have to put it on my "to do" list.
I always stick my butts in my empty beer cans before heaving them out the car window.
Put a knife to your throat and force yourself to move to Texas.... You are welcomed here! Plenty of room and no Kennedys......
Not hardly, Joe. It's easy for these pukes to sit behind their monitors and spew "big guy words." You come face-to-face with them in real life and it would be THEM that cower!
I really get steamed when a chain smoker going like 100 mph throws a burning chain out of his car and it smashes through my windshield. Well! I mean wouldn't you be mad?
This is BS. In all my years of driving on the Interstates, roads and highways, I have never had a butt hit my car, ever. Even when a trucker that high up should throw a butt out the window, that butt was never a threat to my car behind him.
What kind of chit are you trying to spew here?
Let me get my ping list pinged, here. I just signed on and am running a bit behind.
Oh yes. Smokers are the scum of the earth. This tells me which side of the fence THIS guy sits on! I wonder if he includes the terrorist's in his agenda???
I can hear the hypocritial liberal democrats all the way down in Texas! And what do I hear?
"We support alternative energy and hate big oil, But Not In my Back Yard!"
I just got this in email. And thought it would be good to pass on. And I will continue passing this on every smoking thread for a long time!
Do we realize that the state of New York, or any state, cannot collect taxes on sales from other states, don’t we?
Article 1, section 9 of the Constitution for the United States of America, paragraph 5 states simply: “No Tax or Duty shall be laid on Articles exported from any State.”
Ain’t it amazing how our constitution is ignored? I think it should be required reading in our schools and a requirement that one is well-versed in our Bill of Rights before one can get a drivers’ license or a job.
However, the government frowns on a truly educated society, especially one that is educated on their rights.
Well let me offer you an even better technique. Use wide mouthed beer bottles, and then you can take a leak in them before you put your butts in before you throw them out the window.
Well, that ticks me off too....and I smoke. I never throw my butts out the window, or leave them on the ground.
Then I plead guilty!
Gang up on the smokers, tax them, restrict their freedom, and leave us alone. Easy prey in their minds.
You are so full of it!!!! A butt hitting your windshield???In what universe???
I always knew you were a thoughtful guy,metesky,and your post #47 just proves it.
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