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To: Ditter; Moonman62

My husband has asthma, too. He grew up in a no-smoking home. His Dad died at age 37 when DH was 13. His dad had that lung cancer you get from asbestos which he contracted while he was in the Navy removing asbestos from submarines because it wasn't good for us. Go figure.

Everyone can trade family stories on this stuff all day long. It makes no difference.

What does make a difference is the constant chipping away of our rights by the Nanny Staters and the Smoke Gnatzies based on bogus, manipulated data. Both of you had better not be fat, because they're coming for "the fatties" next. ;)

One's right to not smoke does not trump another's right to smoke when the product is legal and taxed. If it's so deadly, take it off the market as they did with asbestos. Create yet another Black Market for a product, because we all know how lucrative that is. ;)

But darn...the government has a hard time taxing the h3ll out of those Black Market products, so I guess that won't be happening any time soon, LOL! I mean, the War on Drugs has been such a stellar success. *Rolleyes*


22 posted on 05/19/2006 7:16:03 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (Save The Earth. It's The Only Planet With Chocolate.)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin
Everyone can trade family stories on this stuff all day long. It makes no difference.

That's right, but it hasn't stopped you from doing it. So let's look at the scientific studies instead, and when they are tallied, it comes out against the tobacco activists.

Keep calling us nanny staters and Nazis. It's not helping your cause. If you are confident that your conclusions are factual you wouldn't have to do that.

23 posted on 05/19/2006 7:24:29 AM PDT by Moonman62 (The issue of whether cheap labor makes America great should have been settled by the Civil War.)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin
To date I have not seen any evidence that you are not allowed to smoke. I can drive my Tahoe 70 miles an hour, just not on my street where the speed limit is 30. I can strip naked and dance to the music of "Hair", just not at the mall. These restrictions in "the places you can smoke" have been coming on slowly now for quite a few years because the non smoking crowd has grown larger and the smoking crowd has grown smaller. All your weeping and gnashing of teeth is not going to change it.
24 posted on 05/19/2006 7:37:14 AM PDT by Ditter
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