GORE: CIGARETTE SMOKING 'SIGNIFICANT' CONTRIBUTOR TO GLOBAL WARMING

To: Nature_Boy_NC

This man is an IDIOT!

21 posted on 09/29/2006 12:45:07 PM PDT by Panzerlied ("We shall never surrender!")

22 posted on 09/29/2006 12:48:57 PM PDT by jla

To: patton; Nature_Boy_NC; SheLion; Gabz; leda

The sad thing is many FReepers agree with him..............as has been established on various and sundry tobacco related threads over the years.

23 posted on 09/29/2006 12:56:21 PM PDT by Gabz (Taxaholism, the disease you elect to have (TY xcamel))

LOL. I missed the first thread...sorry.

24 posted on 09/29/2006 12:59:06 PM PDT by patton (Sanctimony frequently reaps its own reward.)

At the Democratic national convention in 1996, Gore giving a moving speech about his only sister's painful death from lung cancer. And since then he has pushed the administration's aggressive anti-smoking campaign.

What Gore didn't mention is that he grew up on a tobacco farm, worked on it, and continued to accept checks from that farm for years after his sister died. In 1988, while running for president, he defended tobacco farmers while campaigning in Southern tobacco states (and made the quote up above: 'I've raised tobacco ... I've shredded it, spiked it,... and sold it.') He accepted contributions from tobacco companies as late as 1990.

Gore claimed that "emotional numbness" led him to defend and profit from the tobacco industry. "Sometimes, you never fully face up to things that you ought to face up to."

Gore himself smoked during college. "Peer pressure played a factor," he said, "stress in college." We should have guessed that the guy who said "Tobacco addiction ... is just as powerful of an addiction as heroin or crack addiction" was an ex-smoker.

Is he still living on that tobacco money?I think he should take it all and give to the poor people that has died of tobacco related illness..

25 posted on 09/29/2006 1:17:23 PM PDT by Beth528

I remember both speeches very well.

The guy is a hypocrite, in addition to being a moron.

26 posted on 09/29/2006 1:19:05 PM PDT by Gabz (Taxaholism, the disease you elect to have (TY xcamel))

Thanks, there are some good graphics out there about Al and Bill and many others..

27 posted on 09/29/2006 1:20:03 PM PDT by Beth528

To: Nature_Boy_NC

The man's off his rocker.

28 posted on 09/29/2006 1:21:27 PM PDT by Firefigher NC

They are all hypocrite(democrats)I think they think all the stuff they say or magically disappears after they say or do it

29 posted on 09/29/2006 1:22:48 PM PDT by Beth528

What about farts algore?

I guarantee you that more people fart than smoke cigarettes.

Farts have methane...right?

30 posted on 09/29/2006 1:28:21 PM PDT by Armedanddangerous (Lt. Col. John Dean "Jeff" Cooper, 1920-2006 Rest in peace Jeff..DVC)

To: Nature_Boy_NC

Hang on. Fat Albert has this backwards. If smoking kills people 10 years early, that's 10 years less time they can be on earth exhaling CO2, driving SUVs, burning coal, and emitting methane. Ergo, smoking is good for the earth!

If Gore really loves the earth, he should become a 3 pack of non-filtered Camels a day man.

It would also help him with that weight problem he has.

31 posted on 09/29/2006 1:30:23 PM PDT by Ditto

To: Nature_Boy_NC

Lucky for me I only smoke cigars.

32 posted on 09/29/2006 1:55:46 PM PDT by HEY4QDEMS (Sarchasm: The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the person who doesn't get it.)

To: Nature_Boy_NC

straight jacket need on aisle 7... sheesh!! Will someone put a leash on this moron...

33 posted on 09/29/2006 2:16:37 PM PDT by xtinct (I was the next door neighbor kid's imaginary friend.)

To: Nature_Boy_NC

I was in a doctor waiting room yesterday and was reading a magazine called STRATOS - the magazine for jet owners. (I knew I was paying that Dr. too much!)...ANYWAY, there was a piece with John Travolta who said that he flies on his private jet every day. EVERY DAY.

34 posted on 09/29/2006 7:22:22 PM PDT by Hildy (Canada is like a loft apartment over a really great party house)

35 posted on 09/30/2006 5:46:39 PM PDT by roamer

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