Really now. Tell it to this guy, face to face:
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
An acquaintance of my son just relocated from Midland to Massachusetts. Is he in for a culture shock or what?
The wind farm is being fought by people like the Kerrys on Nantucket,the Cronkites on Martha's Vineyard,and of course the Kennedys in Hyannisport.
They would love the windfarm off the coast,as long as it's near Hull or Lynn.
Limousine liberals all!!!!!!!
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.
Sounds to me like a typical statement made at Harvard.
Really now. Tell it to this guy, face to face:
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Apparently, Harvard, despite being one of the countries most expensive and exclusive universities is not a repository of wisdom. It is particularly discouraging since Harvard, Yale and other Ivy League schools often train the leaders in many fields.
Isn't that a great picture!
It would be just as great without the cigarette.
It would be just as great without the cigarette.
Well, maybe to you.
The "public health" lobbies and fascists are the worst scum on the face of the planet. They are the biggest police state ninnies I've ever had the misfortune of seeing in action.
Just one question - was he talking about smokers, or tax-payers in general? That seems to be the prevailing atttitude among people on government payrolls.
Please give him a break. He's just a kid from Kentucky who hasn't been enlightened to the terrible risks to his health by his poor decisions. Maybe thats why he is in Iraq for us.
The cigarette being clean and white and him being dirty and beat up is a good contrast, other than that, I am just as impressed with him without the cigarette as with it.
Goodness,how'd you do that? You technical types astonish me.
LOL!
I'm just a blue collar worker on a drilling rig.
I'm about as far from a technical type as you can get.
Aw,come on---I'll bet you are a geek with sandals,dirty jeans,greasy hair and a Malcolm X T-shirt. LOL
Oh God,"flower power"-----I had forgotten all about that.
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