Free Republic Smokers' Lounge 2nd Annual Yearly Threads Edition

Cut him off after another two, ok Joe?

I'll make sure he's home by midnight.

Here comes another set.

Secret Documents Reveal Tobacco Industry Influence on African American Groups
Gross-Out Health Warnings ~ Oh Brother!
Smoking Bans Burn Buisness (In Delaware) NYC Smokers' and Small Businesses' Last Chance This thread was pulled by JimRob. Reason: enough

The Unintended Consequences of Cigarette Tax Hikes One of the best reads on "unintended consequences"
Mass: Tobacco Related News Cancelled!
Reasons for Businesses to Not Allow Smoking(Editorial Montana)
New York City Alert! New York City Smoker Freep 18 December! Almost 300 posts to this one
Texas, San Antonio to be Anti Smoking Battlegrounds Texans, pay attention
New York passes tough anti-smoking law
Smoking ban backlash ensnares AIDS group Oh, the irony of it all!
Hey, Boston get your butts over here!
California judge reduces $28 billion punitive judgment in smoker's lawsuit to $28 million
Ban Opponents on Recall Warpath (Smoking Ban - Pueblo, CO) The folk are finally trying to fight back
Mayor Bloomberg's Harsh Anti-Smoking Law Bad For Biz
Cafe business up in smoke (smoking ban closes restaurant)
'A toast to Delaware' * Cecil bars benefit from First State's smoking ban
PARTY FAVOR: MIKE GIVES RUDY'S CIGAR PAL A SMOKE BREAK
Owens is accused of smoking in office
NYC's Bar Business: Up In Smoke?
New York City: Restaurateurs: 'This Is Really Bad Timing'
Bar patrons receive free cigarettes from tobacco companies
Puff List
Armed gunmen steal pallets of cigarettes
Patterns: Smoking: Hazardous to Your Cat
In New York, a Black Market For Illegal Cigarettes Thrives
Bars, patrons in a slow burn over new law
Month later, health officials pleased with Delaware smoking ban
Councilman Kicked Out of Restaurant, Pueblo CO
Where there's smoke, there's usually politics (Democrats frequent smoking palace)
RJ Reynolds and Philip Morris win Calif. smoking suit
Calif. Judge Clears Tobacco Firms in Case

Re: Some GIs Fume Over Smoking Ban
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/fr/801287/posts
Is it me or is PC in?
{yawn}
I remember when... [poof! where did everybody go?]
Seriously, smoking was OK in the enlisted club in 29 Palms
in 1985.

Thanks! for the Haiku, Joe
ciao-
TR

Yeh, I remember in '80 it was no problem in the EM club in Orlando on the Navy base.

Night. (I told the better half I'd have you home by midnight.)

OK folks, The threads are going to come rapid fire now.

It's not about smoking, it's about constitutional guarantees!
Some DEFY Pueblo Smoking Ban(CO)
SMOKING BAN IGNITES LAWSUIT
Attorneys in tobacco litigation shower Hatch with contributions
A year later, smoking ban is topic of heated debate
In Pueblo, Ix-nay on the Ashtray(CO-smoking ban update)
India to Ban Tobacco!
As Smoking Ban Hits Jails, It's the Guards Who Worry
Total Ban on Smoking the Only Solution (Canada)
CALIFORNIA: 5-year-old ban in bars leaves owners, customers fuming
NEW YORK WINS 2004 GOP CONVENTION!!
Obesity and Smoking
Docs: Fat at 40 bad as smoking
Cities Address Smoking Bans (Colorado)
In Pueblo, Ix-nay on the Ashtray(CO-smoking ban update)
Philip Morris Changes Cigarette Discounts to Retailers
Texas receives two 'F's on smoking report card
No more puffing near playgrounds -puffing within 25 feet of the swings and seesaws , $250 Fine (CA)
Budget woes hold California back in fight to reduce smoking
Rising Cost of Cigarettes May Help Smokers Honor New Year's Resolution to Quit`So They Think
Pueblo Smoking Ban Opponents Turn in Petitions
Ministries at Odds Over Calls for Increased Price for Cigarettes (Finland)
Council: Issue likely will go to voters (COLO Smoking ban)
Maine: ST.SEN. KARL TURNER (R-Cumberland) to elmininate smoking in TAVERNS, LOUNGES AND POOL HALLS!
Agreement Reached on Suffolk's Smoking Ban
PA: Allegheny County Considers Restaurant Smoking Ban
Oklahoman Editorial: Anti-tobacco militancy crosses a line
Ditka: Smoke won't hurt you
Pittsburgh Ponders Smoking Ban
California: Davis calls for tax hikes (Budget Crisis )
Muslim body launches own cigarette brand -Marketing promotions to be done at Quran gatherings

Then a joke

A couple married forty years were revisiting the same places they went to on their honeymoon.
Driving through the secluded countryside, they passed a ranch with a tall deer fence running along the
road.

The woman said, "Sweetheart, let's do the same thing we did here forty years ago."

The guy stopped the car. His wife backed against the fence and they made love like never before.

Back in the car, the guy says, "Darling, you sure never moved like that forty years ago - or any time
since that I can remember!"

The woman says, "Forty years ago that fence wasn't electrified!"

Then another set.

State (Ohio) may target booze, cigarettes (Again!)
Bend Proposes to Outlaw Body Odor on City Buses
Cigarette Robberies Smoking in Chesterfield (Virginia)
Fla. cigar industry challenges no smoking law
U of M Will Go Smoke Free
Perdue Proposes Hike in Sin Taxes in GA
ISSUE OF EASY AVOIDANCE OF STATE CIGARETTE TAXES IS BEGINNING TO BOIL OVER
Pueblo Smoking Ban Suspended
Groups question tobacco ban: Measure would make it a misdemeanor crime to sell or use product
WHO Unveils Anti-tobacco Pact
California Prisons Experiment with Smoking Ban
The Totalitarian Impulse
TAX HIKE SLOWS CIG SALES
Judge who won't butt out given smoking chamber
Caldwell (Idaho) Representative Wants To Triple Cigarette Tax
Smoking ban a Pueblo issue, say supporters
Tempe smoking ban goes undercover
Legislators resume smoking debate Tuesday (Delaware)
Kids' crusade against fat: Special Report
Freepers are the BEST
NEW YORK CITY MAYOR FUMED OVER 'SMOKING' ON STAGE AT STONES CONCERT
State moving forward on lower-fire-risk cigarette law
City Seeks to Recoup Tax Money From Internet Cigarette Vendors
Up in Smoke / Did the Smoking Ban Create the Cigar Frenzy?
More Lunacy {Banning smokers and fat people}
Beatles CD's/Posters altered to remove cigarettes
Delaware LP joins forces to fight anti-smoking law
Trial Of Class-Action Cigarette Lawsuit Under Way Plaintiffs Seek Money To Quit
NORTH DAKOTA LEGISLATURE: Tobacco ban gets lit up in House
Bloomberg Booed As 2,100 New Cops Graduate
Federal Judge Throws Out Lawsuit Against McDonald's
Parents abuse children by smoking, group says

Another joke

The 70-year old groom and the 25-year old bride attracted raised eyebrow attention as they
checked into the resort hotel. Next morning at eight sharp, the groom came into the dining room
whistling a gay tune, sat down at a table and ordered ham and eggs. The smile on his face and the
twinkle in his eye told everybody present that he was happy and confident.

Fifteen minutes later the young bride slowly trudged into the dining room and seated herself across
from her 70-year old. Her face was drawn and her voice weak as she ordered toast and coffee.

The groom, now finished, excused himself and strolled into the lobby for his morning cigar.

As the waitress approached with the bride's toast and coffee, she said, "Honey, I don't understand it.
Here you are a young bride with an old husband, looking like you've encountered a buzz saw."

"That guy," said the bride, "double crossed me. He told me he saved up for 60 years and I thought he
was talking about money!"

Another set

City of Dallas bans smoking in most public places
Report: Maine tops nation in youth anti-tobacco spending
WE SPEND MOST ON BOOZING AND FAGS (NOW THERE'S A BIG SURPRISE)
Smoking limits welcome, but point out track's double standard
Tourism office touts state (Delaware) smoking ban -Yeah this going to work
Odds are against us, (Delaware)casinos say
Suit pushes case for smoking signs - condominiums & warning signs about secondhand smoke (CA)
Concurrent treatment for alcohol and tobacco dependence: are patients ready to quit both?
City stymied on smoking referendum
Shame on You America-Hating Liberals
States Accused of Hypocrisy in Spending Big Tobacco Bucks
Suffolk OKs Smoking Bans as of 2006 (Freep the Poll!)
NPR: The Great (Smoking Ban) Debate
End the Smoking Apartheid
Bill Would Ban Smoking In Car With Kids
Research paper up in smoke?
Smoke control freaks target new victim
Social costs of smoking are triple those of illicit drugs (Junk Science & Barf Alert)
What is Fascism?
NEW YORK STATEWIDE SMOKING BAN BREWING
Lawyer Files Complaint Over (Canadian) Smoking Judge
Actions reaffirm Republicans strong anti-tax sentiments (Pubies actually behaving like Pubies Alert)
(Pennsylvanian) Tax increase sure thing, Fumo says
Group meets to bring back Pueblo smoking ban (FReeper help, please)
More inmates around U.S. are losing smoking privileges
Jury rules tobacco companies not responsible for smoker's illness
FEATURE-Outcast smokers now U.S. state budget saviors - Boy do they have THIS one right!
New York: Jail tobacco bucks go up in smoke
Tobacco Settlement Money Targeted To Balance Budget (NM)
New York City: Smokers Fight To Reclaim Their Rights
Cigarette Taxes, Black Markets, and Crime: Lessons from New York's 50-Year Losing Battle

Another joke

The teacher called on Johnny to solve the next question. "There are 3 ducks sitting on a fence", she
said, "and the farmer comes out and shoots one of them. How many are still on the fence?.

Johnny thinks a second and says "none".

The Teacher asked him how he figured that. "Well, he said, when the farmer shot the first duck, the
noise scared the other 2 and they flew away".

The teacher said "That's not really the answer I was looking for but I like your thinking".

Then Johnny says "Now can I ask you one?".

The teacher said okay. Johnny says "There are 3 women with an ice cream cone in their hands. One
is chewing it, one is biting it and one is licking it. Which one is married?.

The teacher says, "Why, the one that's licking it" to which Johnny answered "Wrong. It's the one with
the wedding ring on, but I like your thinking..."

Another set

With RJR considering leaving, Winston Cup is for sale
Tobacco announcement adds fire to NASCAR's big day
Beer Lovers Would Feel Sting of Proposed Tax Increase
Appeals court rules smokers aren't entitled to tobacco money
$2 Federal Cigarette Tax Hike Sought
Internet smokes put out for good
Please Don't Poop in My Salad
Pub Owners, Patrons Scapegoated
FINAL TALKS ON GLOBAL TOBACCO CONTROL START
Petitions submitted in bid to recall Sova (COLO. Smokers retaliate)
World: WHO Says, 'No Smoking, Please'
U.S. Mulling $2-A-Pack Tax on Cigarettes
48-Cent Per Pack Increase in Cigarette Tax Heads Toward Passage in Wyoming
Police to file criminal raps vs ex-mayor(smoking nazi barf alert )
Leading Anti-Smoking States Cut Tobacco Prevention Programs
Project halves number of teen smokers
Authorities Raid Tommy Chong Business - Raid Part Of Larger Sting Operation
Tobacco, Alcohol, Drugs Kill 7 Million a Year
New York City Smokers Say 'Bye-Bye Bloomberg!'
Hizballah Is Moving Up The Threat Chart
CIGARETTE MAKERS SINGED BY N.Y. SMOKING DROP
Smoke screen from Big Tobacco on treaty, by Nancy Pelosi
Tax Law Hits Online Buyers Of Tobacco
New York smoke ban on unhappy hookahs
UN World Health Organization Announces Agreement on Global Tobacco Control
Top Tobacco Executives Charged With Sending Cigarettes To Smugglers
Rich countries pledge to help poor nations fight tobacco
Philip Morris USA will relocate its NYC headquarters to area in June
New SBSC Study:NYC Tobacco Tax Hike Kills Jobs, Hurts Businesses, Reduces Revenue
Barf Alert - US abstains in the war on tobacco
FEATURE-Outcast smokers now U.S. state budget saviors
BUTT BUSTERS HIRED FOR ANTI-SMOKE LAW

joke

An elderly gentleman went to see his doctor and asked for a prescription of Viagra. The doctor said,
"That's no problem. How many do you want?"

The man answered, "Just a few, maybe 4, but cut each one in 4 pieces."

The doctor said, "That won't do you any good."

The elderly gentleman said, "That's alright. I don't need them for sex anymore as I am over 90 years
old. I just want it to stick out far enough so I don't pee on my shoes."

set

The importance of social sources of cigarettes to school students.
FUMING OVER A FINE MESS
THE 'GRAND' PLACE TO SMOKE
Bill favors smokers' neighbors Assemblyman wants to clear air in apartments, condominiums
Opponents seek to lift Dallas smoking ban
Tobacco Tax Hurting Small Business Profits, State Revenue
Joe Bob's America: Non Fumar? Comprende
Bill Would Limit Smoking by Apartment Dwellers - & allows law suits if your smoke drifts
Connecticut Smokers Face Ides of March: How to Deal With Skyrocketing Prices
Denver:State kicking habit LOL!!
Restaurateurs Sue to Block Nassau County's Ban on Smoking
Taxing smoke doesn't work

And while they weren't posted to the Puff List I can't help but add these two

The Great Smoking Debate & Freepers
Freeper Smokers: Please Help
Tobacco tax hike could wipe out jobs
Four arrested in NW Indiana cigarette smuggling probe
Smoking visibility, perceived acceptability, and frequency in various locations (Barf Alert)
Vote to ease (Delaware)smoking ban likely close in House
Smoke Evasion---Higher cigarette taxes are not raising tax revenue.
U.S. Seeks $289 Billion in Cigarette Makers' Profits
Ban Opponents on Recall Warpath (Smoking Ban - Pueblo, CO) (Update at reply #51)
Judge: Philip Morris Liable for Deception [to the Tune of $10.1 Billion in Damages]
Two Iraqis Arrested on Wire Transfers
City May Ban Smoking in Senior Homes
Jacques Chirac declare la guerre au tabac (Chirac declares war on tobacco) French Surrender to Tobacco Companys!
Holy Smoke! Bloomberg Supports Statewide Smoking Ban; NY Legislature Votes Today
Judge Questions Legal Fees in New York Tobacco Case
Understanding Anti-smoking
No More Smoking In N.Y. Businesses - $1,000 penalty for violations
State tobacco settlement threatened
Possible lessons from the tobacco experience for obesity control. (Health Nazis on the March Alert)

ROTFLMAO!

A few days before his proctological exam, a one-eyed man accidentally swallowed his glass eye.

He was worried for a while, but there were no ill effects, so he forgot about it.

Once he was in the doctor's office, the man followed his instructions, undressed and bent over. The
first thing the proctologist saw when he looked up the man's butt was that glass eye staring right back
at him!

"You know," said the doctor, "you really have to learn to trust me."

Here comes another

German GP bans 'Allied' patients
States line up against smoking case bond: Default threatened as $2.6 billion due
Tobacco Shortage Makes Marines Irritable
Two of Nation's Top Cigarette Manufacturers Sue California For Misuse of Tax Funds
Once Foes of Big Tobacco, States Have Been Hooked [Can't Afford Philip Morris Bankruptcy]
Public smoking ban cut heart attacks by 60%
Maine:Maine students join in national anti-smoking effort - How about KICK FAT BUTTS?
Turning off the tap: the real solution to cigarette smuggling. (Yeah Right)
Philip Morris appeals ruling: Seeks to subtract punitive damages of $3 billion
When Banned Smoke Heads Outdoors, Pedestrians Say They See New Threat
Bloomberg says he will return to City Hall (Delusional RINO/Liberal Alert)
Troops Discover High Cost Of Battle: $50 For A Pack Of Cigarettes
Tourism office touts state (Delaware) smoking ban -Yeah this going to work
States Eye Tobacco Lawsuit Settlements
Bill Would Place Caps on Tobacco Lawyers
Bouncer Fatally Stabbed in Brawl Over New York City Smoking Ban
Maine getting share of tobacco settlement
City of Lights -- Despite the law, New Yorkers are still smoking
Delaware Reaps an Unlikely Harvest: Smokers
New Yorkers' Right to Buy Cigarettes Online May NOT Go Up in Smoke
Tobacco bonds tanking: S&P questions if states will get their cigarette payments
NYC Cops Arrest Man in Smoking Ban Death (of Nightclub Bouncer Who Enforced Smoking Ban)
Or Is It All Just Smoke & Mirrors?
Bar owners group to sue state over new anti-smoking law(NY)
NJ Mulls Hiking Legal Smoking Age to 21
City Has Wary Eye on "Puff" Parents
Higher smoking age is sought (NJ)
GOP, DFL at Odds Over House Cigarette Tax Plan(MN-Tax is NOT a tax- REPUBLICAN-LITE?)
'New Yorkers should be able to choose how they go to hell'
Woburn, Mass: Put behind the eight ball?
NYC's smoky night life moves to the sidewalks
Fines for smoking ban violations in NYC to begin
SMOKE-BAN VIOLATORS OUT OF GRACE. PERIOD.
Fines for smoking ban violations in NYC to begin
MAINE: Legislature considering outlawing smoking in bars
MOLES ON SMOKE PATROL
Maryland: Court Snuffs Montgomery's Smoking Ban
Soak the Trial Lawyers: Kyl, Cornyn Propose that Tobacco-Suit Lawyers Return Exorbitant Fees
Law firms in tobacco suit seek $1.2b more
Boston: Smoking Ban Goes Into Effect Today
The Tax Cut Up in Smoke?--It's time to put the federal tobacco lawsuit to rest.
Bill to reduce tobacco lawyers' fees will test Democratic Party loyalties
Why it is so easy to smuggle cigarettes in North Carolina

OOOOOhhhhh

A surgeon went to check on his very famous patient after an operation. She was awake, so he examined her.

"You'll be fine," he said.

She asked, "how long will it be before I am able to have a normal sex life again doctor?"

The surgeon seemed to pause, which alarmed the girl.

"What's the matter Doctor? I will be all right, won't I?"

He replied, "Yes, you'll be fine, Miss Lewinsky. It's just that no one has ever asked me that after having their tonsils out.

Almost there

Lawyers plan new fast food assault
CRYPTIC 'X2' IMAGE TROUBLES MUSLIM GROUP Not sure where the tobacco comment came from in this one.
Bar owners celebrate lifting of Ames' smoking ban
New Yorkers Charged to Check Smokes at Cloakroom
17 ILLEGAL SMOKERS GET TICKETS - IN THEIR CELLS
Maine: Penobscot Nation fights bingo smoking ban
New York Sniffs Out Smoke in 2 Bars, Lofty and Less So
I'LL WIN IN A LANDSLIDE, BLOOMY BOASTS (Barf Alert) My biggest, "Yeh, Right" of the week
Times Reporter Who Resigned Leaves Long Trail of Deception (Fabricated Stories for years) Not Sure where this fits in
A BOSTON GLOBE EDITORIAL: Smoke-Free, Statewide
CIG BAN LEAVES LOT OF 'EMPTIES'
BLOOMBERG LIGHTS INTO CIG-BAN BIZ BROUHAHA
Bottom Line, Bloomy, You're Wrong (secondhand smoke doesn't kill) RUSH LIMBAUGH
NJ--Outdoor Smoking Ban
Smoking foes need to butt out One of the more prolific threads this week.
Passive smoking risks in doubt, study says
Ban Opponents on Recall Warpath (Smoking Ban - Pueblo, CO) Update, the ban went through 57% to 43%.
Curbs asked on alcohol, cigarettes (new law would prohibit smoking out of doors!)
U.S. Shocks with Promise to Back Anti-Smoking Pact (Tommy Thompson told journalists (WHO)) )
UNR Study Seeks Link Between Vitamins and Secondhand Smoke Resistance (needs volunteers)
Warning: the health police can seriously addle your brain
The Government Says You're Fat
NYC Smoking Ban: Stick Your Butt in Bloomberg's Face!
State smoking tax boost proposed - Perry, others in GOP dismiss Strayhorn plan for $1 extra per pack
(New Jersey) Legislators delay a vote on indoor-smoking ban
QUICK WITH-DRAW-AL
Smoking Kidman Sparks Controversy
GLOBAL TOBACCO TREATY WILL CURB FREEDOM, NOT SMOKING, LIBERTARIANS SAY
Nicotine Nic (Kidman in trouble over public smoking)
Voters embrace ban on smoking
Nonsmokers on the move
Smoking Ban Cutting NY Lottery Sales - Business UNITES
Smoke-free and unsociable: New York loses its edge
Preferences and practices among renters regarding smoking restrictions in apartment buildings Another suspect survey/study.
What kind of job is Mayor Bloomberg doing? Freep this poll

One last blond joke

A man comes home from work one night to catch his blonde wife
sliding naked down the banister.

He blurts out, "What do you think you're doing!?"

"Just heating up dinner." she replies.

You my friend, have one plush job!!!

I think you need to take the 'p' off that statement, mom. ;^)

Both are true. :-)

Sorry for the lag. I had to go back to real (sic) work for a few minutes there. Some crisis with a company officer that is sorta high-maintenance from an IT standpoint. Sheesh.

Networking would be a *lot* of fun if it weren't for all these damn *users*. :-P