“According to Germany’s national accounting office, by 1941 tobacco taxes constituted about one twelfth of the government’s entire income.”
Anti-tobacco is just one of many. When you compile a list of Nazi beliefs and modern leftist beliefs, the degree of commonality is chilling.
I recently bought a couple of cuban cigars in Victoria BC, the clerk said that the tobacco tax was 90%....yikes! Now thats fascist!!!!
At least the Nazis got one thing right.
Obama straddles the fence. He has prohibited all flavored tobaccos except for menthol flavored. He had prohibited candy cigarettes. And yet he still smokes several packs of the real thing every week.
The current climate on tobacco use in the USA defines us as a Hitlerian Society.
I know that may be offensive to Bloomputz of NYC.
It’s all about control.
Liberals control easy, reasonable, things (like tobacco), to get a foothold, then slowly continue to expand control.
I smoke cigars on occassion just to make liberals mad.
Note to self: smoke good cigar tonight; strike personal blow against Hitlerism.
I wonder if the Nazis issued summonses to people who possessed ashtrays.
http://www.theagitator.com/2003/12/04/dumbstruck/
Dumbstruck
Thursday, December 4th, 2003
You really need to read this NY Times article to believe it. Not only can you no longer smoke New York City’s public places, it is also illlegal to possess an ashtray in public. That would include collectables, antiques, even that lump of fired clay your kid made for you in art class. And “inspectors” can raid your office or place of business without a search warrant to find them.
Think I’m exaggerating? Read:
As some New Yorkers have learned the hard way, the mere existence of an ashtray in a place where smoking is prohibited can lead to a summons. It doesn’t matter if the ashtray is stored well away from public areas. It doesn’t matter if it is used as a decoration, or to hold paper clips or M & M’s. No ashtrays are allowed, period…
…As first reported in The New York Post the other day, health officials, acting on an anonymous tip, insisted last week on inspecting the office of the club’s executive director, John Martello.
They found no one smoking. But â?? shades of Eliot Ness on the trail of rum runners from Canada â?? they came upon three ashtrays on a shelf behind a desk.
THEY were there just to get them out of the way,” Mr. Martello said yesterday. “We had to get them out of the public eye. They were collected. Who thinks about throwing them out?”
“I think what I was most appalled about,” he said, “was the constitutionality of them being able to come in and search my office. Unlike the police, they don’t need a search warrant. They just walked in on an anonymous tip.”
Ms. Mullin acknowledged that “there is some discretion offered to our inspectors.”
“If we do see stacks of ashtrays,” she said, “it is tantamount to the potential that people are permitting smoking.”
You can’t make this up.
You can be fined for actions “tantamount to the potential” that you’re allowing people to smoke. Actual smoking need never have taken place.
The anti-tobacco movement of today screams bloody murder when reminded of this simple fact. They get very testy when reminded of the Hitlerian similarities and immediately resort to pejoratives and denial that they have any similarities with Hitler and his anti-tobacco enactments.
This is particularly true here at Free Republic.
When will Obama tell me (and all other freckled redheads) that we MUST wear sunscreen and brimmed hats to reduce our chances of developing melanoma?