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Gates and Bloomberg to Stamp Out Smoking WORLDWIDE
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Posted on 07/23/2008 8:51:43 AM PDT by estrogen
2 of the richest men to join forces to stamp out smoking
TOPICS: Health/Medicine; Miscellaneous; Society
KEYWORDS: nannystate; pufflist; smoking
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Just heard on CNBC that Gates and Bloomberg are joing up to stamp out smoking worldwide........I am sick and tired of everyone deciding for me what is for my own good. Nanny State.....this is not a free country anymore, the government and influential people are going to decide what is best for me.
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posted on
07/23/2008 8:51:43 AM PDT
by
estrogen
To: estrogen
God save us from billionaire nannies.
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posted on
07/23/2008 8:55:08 AM PDT
by
mgc1122
To: estrogen
I'll be glad to blow some pungent cigar smoke at both of 'em!
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posted on
07/23/2008 8:57:32 AM PDT
by
NRA1995
(It should be called "Cosa Nostra", not "Congress")
To: estrogen
I don’t smoke, but would consider starting if these two rich gents want to pay me to stop and stay off the cigs.
To: NRA1995
Hmmm... I love a good Partagas...
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posted on
07/23/2008 8:58:45 AM PDT
by
gjones77
To: estrogen
I think I'll plant a couple of tobacco plants in my garden in their honor. When I think of Bloomberg stamping, I picture him with his steel toed boots stamping out smokers instead of smoking.
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posted on
07/23/2008 9:00:03 AM PDT
by
KarlInOhio
(Whale oil: the renewable biofuel for the 21st century.)
To: estrogen
Tobacco is admittedly bad, but I resent anyone telling me what I can or can’t do. Next they’ll dictate what I can eat.
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posted on
07/23/2008 9:00:08 AM PDT
by
TexasRepublic
(When hopelessness replaces hope, it opens the door to evil.)
To: NRA1995
My humidor is right next to my gun safe.
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posted on
07/23/2008 9:02:48 AM PDT
by
andy58-in-nh
(A society of sheep must in time beget a government of wolves.)
To: NRA1995
Bury a few of those bad boys in the bottom of the humi, and let them sit for about a year. You’ll be glad you did.
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posted on
07/23/2008 9:03:01 AM PDT
by
dbwz
To: estrogen
Gates and Bloomberg to Stamp Out Smoking WORLDWIDEGood luck pulling that off in Iraq, butt-buddies.
Just for one example.
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posted on
07/23/2008 9:04:30 AM PDT
by
Allegra
(Ain't it grand? I'm back in the sand...)
To: estrogen
What about this guy?
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posted on
07/23/2008 9:04:53 AM PDT
by
xp38
To: estrogen
I’ll take Bloomberg and Gates seriously when they begin their crusade warning of the extreme dangers of homosexuality which is far more dangerous than smoking.
To: estrogen
If they’ll pay for me to go to a fat farm for a few months, along with a personal trainer and a home gym, I’ll help them kick off their campaign to stamp out FAT worldwide.
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posted on
07/23/2008 9:14:22 AM PDT
by
ChocChipCookie
(Homeschool like your kids' lives depend on it.)
To: NRA1995
I’d more than gladly join you!
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posted on
07/23/2008 9:15:54 AM PDT
by
fightinbluhen51
("...If it moves, tax it, if it moves faster, regulate it, if it stops, subsidies it.")
To: estrogen
Will they ban unsafe sex too? Seems to me THAT is killing more folks than smoking.
Also, where will they get the tax revenues once everyone stops?
Can you tax unsafe sex? Can they just get the hell out of our lives?
Bad day.....
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posted on
07/23/2008 9:18:21 AM PDT
by
poobear
(“…individual salvation depends on collective salvation." Barack Hussein Obama Wesleyan University)
To: estrogen
“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies.
The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.” CS Lewis
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posted on
07/23/2008 9:23:01 AM PDT
by
Grammy
(Obama worked for 143 days as a Senator before deciding he was qualified to be President.)
To: estrogen
Gates and Bloomberg to Stamp Out Smoking WORLDWIDE
2 of the richest men to join forces to stamp out smoking Better idea: Let's stamp out arrogant billionaires.
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posted on
07/23/2008 9:26:50 AM PDT
by
calcowgirl
("Liberalism is just Communism sold by the drink." P. J. O'Rourke)
To: xp38
What about this guy? or this one ...
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posted on
07/23/2008 9:28:24 AM PDT
by
tx_eggman
(Privatizing profits and socializing losses is no way to run an economy)
To: NRA1995
I'll be glad to blow some pungent cigar smoke at both of 'em! Mm-mmm! I love a good #10! Or a Montecristo #2, or even a Punch Rothschild!
But my all-time favorite, put-me-in-seventh-heaven cigar would have to be an Arturo Fuente Hemingway Classic!
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posted on
07/23/2008 9:37:47 AM PDT
by
jeffc
(They're coming to take me away! Ha-ha, he-he, ho-ho!)
.
Can they also save us from the unending mental anguish from Vista OS?
.
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posted on
07/23/2008 9:49:47 AM PDT
by
polymuser
(Taxpayers voting for Obama are like chickens voting for Colonel Sanders.)
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