Free Republic Smokers' Lounge 2nd Annual Yearly Threads Edition

You might have some yourself after oral surgery. I know I would...

Not with the painkillers they have me on right now. They're 'killer' painkillers and any alchohol would probably put me completely out.

I'll send the CD sometime next week.

Another installment coming up.

Wisconsin's tobacco-settlement payments will use ALL of the money for this years budget!~whew
Smoke screen/Phillip Morris Wants The FDA to regulate cigarettes
Online cigarette sales light up
New Study Shows Passive Cigarette Smoke At Least Doubles Risk Of Cancer In Cats
Lawyers find new target: The Big Mac
Supply-Side Smokers
Mean-spirited, petty busybodies put bar owner behind eight-ball
Tobacco fees: one brave judge
Internet Smoke Shops Lure Tax-Averse Cigarette Buyers
Taxed smokers stock up/Michigan
California Smokers'Contribution To The State Economy -2001/For Informational Purposes
UNITED NATIONS seek to fight tobacco smuggling (Global Tax)
Budget vetoes: Feeling the pain/MASS/It's Always About Smoking!
MICHIGAN SMOKERS' CONTRIBUTION TO THE STATE ECONOMY - 2001
Shame on you, teen smokers' mom says
Charity revenue is going up in smoke
"I'M ASHAMED OF THIS" Interview with a 'copter Wildfire Fighter.
Congressmen fight to give tobacco ''the image it deserves''
(Property rights)-- The forgotten fundamental right
Italians Propose Health Warnings for Cigarette Scenes
5 cent tax per bullet on agenda in CA, smoking age to 21, suing gun manufacturers-Legislative alert
With their fanatical zeal, you have to wonder how far busybodies will go
Cigarette smuggling
STARTLING SMOKE $IGNALS
New Tax Lowers N.Y. Cigarette Sales
Anti-smoking measure under review by CLO
Plan targets restaurant smoke in Dallas - Nonsmoking sections must be smoke-free
California speaker proposes $3 cigarette tax
California : If you smoke, you'll fume (State socialists find lots of money!)
Tax Addiction
Bloomberg Seeks to Ban Smoking in Every Restaurant and Bar

And afterward, another joke.

There's a bear chasing a rabbit in the woods to catch and eat him when they come across a golden frog. They think this is an amazing discovery and they are even more amazed when it talks to them.

The golden frog admits that he doesn't often meet people, but when he Does he gives them
six wishes. He tells them that they can have 3 wishes each.

The bear immediately asks that all the other bears in the forest be female. Which the frog
immediately does.

The rabbit after thinking for a while, asks for a crash helmet and one appears, which he
places on his head.The bear is amazed at this, but carries on with his next wish, he asks
that all the bears in the neighbouring forests be female as well, and thus it is so!

The rabbit then wishes that he could have a motorcycle, it appears Before him, and he climbs
on board and starts revving the engine. The bear cannot believe it, he remarks to the rabbit
that he has wasted two wishes that he could have had for himself.

Shaking his head, he makes his final wish, 'That all the other bears in the world be female as
well.The frog replies that it has been done and they both turn to the rabbit for his last wish.

The rabbit revs up the engine and thinks for a second and then says:- "I wish for the bear to
be gay!" and promptly drives off as fast as he can!

They're 'killer' painkillers and any alchohol would probably put me completely out.

You are probably right. Better safe than sorry.

I will look forward to getting it. Thanks..

Here's another joke.

A proper man met a beautiful girl and agreed to spend the night with her for $500. So they
did. Before he left, he told her that he did not have any cash with him, but that he would have
his secretary write a check and mail it to her, calling the payment "RENT FOR
APARTMENT." On the way to the office, he regretted what he had done, realizing that the
whole event was not worth the price. So he had his secretary send a check for $250 and
enclosed a note:

Dear Madam:

Enclosed find a check in the amount of $250 for rent of your apartment. I am not sending the
amount agreed upon because when I rented the apartment I was under the impression that:

(1.) it had neven been occupied;
(2.) that there was plenty of heat;
(3.) that it was small enough to make me cozy and at home......

Last night, however, I found that it had been previously occupied, that there wasn't any heat,
and that it was entirely too large.

Upon receipt of the note, the girl immediately returned the check for $250 with the following
note:

Dear Sir:

First of all, I cannot understand how you expect a beautiful apartment to remain unoccupied
indefinitely. As for the heat, there is plenty of it if you know how to turn it on. Regarding the
space, the apartment is indeed of regular size but if you don't have enough furniture to fill it,
please don't blame the landlord.

Here come's another one set.

Townsend backs 36-cent increase in Maryland cigarette tax
Cigarette tax hike pushes sales down, but drives revenue up
On TV, twins make pact to quit smoking
Hollywood's Responsibility for Smoking Deaths
Meathead's Proposition 10 Needs Smokers
Most smokers likely wouldn't dodge levy
Smokers - common sense questions
Dahan: Anti-Smoking Law Has Failed
A cigarette in hand onscreen is just a gun aimed at a kid (give me a break alert)
Slam the brakes on fast food before health problems get any worse (binge & purge alert)
(Delaware) Smoking ban fires up opponets
BEACH BUTT PATROL
State says lawyers continue to avoid answering questions about tobacco fees ($3.3 Billion $ fee)
Anti-smoking crusade is noble but misquided
Butting in
Forget the War on Terror - Smokers are the Real Threat
Smokers Bristle Over Cigarette Taxes, But generally tolerant of restrictions on smoking in public
The End of the Smoky Bar
Smokers Steamed Over NYC Smoking Ban
Smokers don't want tax dollars up in smoke
(CA Democrats) DRUNK WITH POWER
Eden Prairie company may flee proposed smoking ban for businesses yeaaaaaa
Panel stalling bill to raise smoking age Lawmakers need the taxes to cover shortfall
World Summit Generates Tons of Trash - "Clearly a lot more education needs to be done"
Smoke tax burns stores
Assembly Forges Budget Breakthrough
RHODE ISLAND SMOKERS' CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE STATE ECONOMY 2001 One of the more heated discourses in a while.
Couch potato lifestyle is worse for your health than smoking
Tax hike seen as key to kicking the habit It's not just the USA, it's overseas also.
Vice Fund Hopes Cigarettes, Booze Pay Off
The Declaration of Dependence/Parody
Report Says Diesel Exhaust "PROBABLY" Causes Cancer
After the (smoke filled) air clears

Where is everybody today?
The party last night wasn't THAT good.

Oh well, time for another installment of the last years tobacco related threads.

Antitobacco ads vanish as state budgets shrink
Jury says flight attendant no victim of seconhand smoke
Department of Human Services Announces Smoke-Free Restaurant Bill
Governor touts anti-smoking help line
NYC SMOKING BAN BILL
McJunk Science
Tobacco firms seek to overturn tough Canadian law
Supreme Court Puts Healthy Michigan Amendment-Reports Citizens for a Healthy Michigan
Most oppose higher cigarette tax/Kentucky
How Does Your State Rank on Taxes?
State's cigarette vendors blame tax hike for falling sales
Drug Laws Won't Be On The Fall Ballot, But Tobacco Money Will
PENNSYLVANIA SMOKERS' CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE STATE ECONOMY - 2001
Judge orders estranged parents not to smoke around child
No Smoking in NYC, sez Sullivan (50%BARF)
Calif. Court Dismisses Tobacco Ad Suit
Judge Slashes Flight Attendant's $5.5 Million Award in Tobacco Suit to Tenth That Amount
HERE COME THE FAT POLICE
Oregonians to Vote on Cigarette Tax Hike, School Aid Increase
In the war on tobacco, money goes up in smoke
R.J. Reynolds' grandson to speak against smoking/Huge Barf Alert Maine Freepers!
Weary (tobacco)farmers ready for (federal)buyout - some propose raising taxes to pay for it
Officials Fume At Online Sale of Cigarettes
Bill Aims to Ban Workplace Smoking
KENTUCKY SMOKERS' CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE STATE ECONOMY - 2002
Smoking ban debate heats up in Eden Prairie
Court places plan to raise Missouri cigarette taxes on November ballot
Mission Viejo Could Widen Smoking Ban - would be strictest in nation
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and AMA working with 44 states to take away smoking rights.
Will Phoenix Smoke Out Tobacco?
Firms stoked to fight smoke ban
Fifty Thousand Current and Former Smokers Needed For National Lung Screening BEWARE

I was out a bit late last night. So I'll just start out with a ginger ale.

Aw, heck, throw some Seagrams in it.

Try this, it's made with ginger ale. It's called a 'mint wave'.

heh heh

Only in America

only in america...can a pizza get to your house faster than a ambulance.

only in america.. are there handicap parking places in front of a skating rink.

only in america... do drugstores make sick walk all the way to backof the store to get their
prescriotions while heathly people can buy cigarettes at the front of the tore.

only in america... do we leave our cars worth thousands of dollars in the drveway and put our
useless junk in the garage.

only in america...do we use answering machines to screen calls from family and griends and
then have call waiting so we won't miss acall from some we didn't want to talk to in the first
place.

only in america...do we buy hot dogs buns in a package of eight and hot dogs in package of
ten.

only in america...do they drive-up to ATM machine to get money and at the same time have
gas pump suck it all up.

only in america... do we use the politics to describe the process so well: "poli"-in latin
meaning "many" and "tics" meaning "BLOODSUCKING CREATURES"

only in america... could a homeless combat veteran lives in cardboard box while a draft
dodging, lying weasel lived in the White House

And three of 'em all nicely lined up.

You're Alright!

I'm just gonna sit back and sip and catch up on my FReeping.

Thanks & Have a Great Weekend!

You're Alright!

They tell me I'm the best nartender in the place.
Of course that could be because I'm the ONLY bartender in the place. ;^)

Hi Joe. Make mine a gin martini, extra, extra dry, shaken not stirred.

And, don't forget my Montecristo No. 2.

Your tobacco related threads make me want to drink more, smoke more, and curse more.

Shame on you.

Again, let me point out something that all of us know. And that is with the Congressional Research Service Report on Environmental Tobacco Smoke (aka Second Hand Smoke) and Lung Cancer.

Remember when the EPA (under Clinton) claimed that there were 3,000 deaths due to lung cancer from environmental tobacco smoke?

For the Congressional Research Service report on Environmental Tobacco Smoke and Lung Cancer, Nov. 1995, check out http://www.tobacco.org/Documents/9511crsepa.html

and especially note page 55, first line,

"Finally, it is possible that very few or even no deaths can be attributed to ETS."

and page 62, second paragraph:

"Therefore, had OSHA performed a meta-analysis, it seems likely that it would have found no increased lung cancer risk from occupational ETS exposure."

Among those requesting this study was none other than Henry Waxman. Naturally, he, and the media quickly forgot about it.

It is, like the case brought before a Federal Judge, a scathing indictment of the agenda method that Clinton's radlib Browner (head of the EPA then) used to first set the result, and then change statistics laws (i.e. p) and ignore certain studies to get to that result. And, if the radlibs went to such great lengths to lie about this, what about second hand smoke (aka environmental tobacco smoke) and other disease/health problems.

Now, how about some jokes to cheer us all up?

The Parking Ticket

I went to the store the other day, and I was in there for only about five minutes. When I came out there was a motorcycle cop writing a parking ticket.

So I went up to him and said, "Come on, buddy, how about giving me a break?"

He ignored me and continued writing the ticket. So I called him a pencil-necked Nazi. He glared at me and started writing another ticket for having worn tires!

So I called him a piece of horse dung. He finished the second ticket and put it on the windshield with the first. Then he started writing a third ticket!

This went on for about 20 minutes.

The more I abused him, the more tickets he wrote.

I didn't care.

My car was parked around the corner.

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Paintball

Got a little too much time on your hands.

Well, how about playing a little paintball.

http://www.miniclip.com/paintball.htm

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Female vs Male

1. NAMES

If Laurie, Linda, Elizabeth and Barbara go out for lunch, they will call each other Laurie, Linda, Elizabeth and Barbara.

If Mark, Chris, Eric and Tom go out, they will refer to each other as Fat Boy, Godzilla, Peanut-Head and Scrappy.

2. EATING OUT

When the bill arrives, Mark, Chris, Eric and Tom will each throw in $20, even though it's only for $32.50. None of them will have anything smaller and none will actually admit they want change back.

When the girls get their bill, out come the pocket calculators.

3. MONEY

A man will pay $2 for a $1 item he needs.

A woman will pay $1 for a $2 item that she doesn't need but it's on sale.

4. BATHROOMS

A man has five items in his bathroom: a toothbrush, shaving cream, razor, a bar of soap, and a towel from the Marriott.

The average number of items in the typical woman's bathroom is 337.

A man would not be able to identify most of these items.

5. ARGUMENTS

A woman has the last word in any argument.

Anything a man says after that is the beginning of a new argument.

6. CATS

Women love cats.

Men say they love cats, but when women aren't looking, men kick cats.

7. FUTURE

A woman worries about the future until she gets a husband.

A man never worries about the future until he gets a wife.

8. SUCCESS

A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend.

A successful woman is one who can find such a man.

9. MARRIAGE

A woman marries a man expecting he will change, but he doesn't.

A man marries a woman expecting that she won't change and she does.

10. DRESSING UP

A woman will dress up to go shopping, water the plants, empty the garbage, answer the phone, read a book, and get the mail.

A man will dress up for weddings and funerals.

11. NATURAL

Men wake up as good-looking as they went to bed.

Women somehow deteriorate during the night.

12. OFFSPRING

Ah, children.

A woman knows all about her children. She knows about dentist appointments and romances, best friends, favorite foods, secret fears and hopes and dreams.

A man is vaguely aware of some short people living in the house.

13. THOUGHT FOR THE DAY

Any married man should forget his mistakes.

There's no use in two people remembering the same thing.

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Have a Great Weekend!

Gin martini, the vermouth bottle got to look at it, shaken, not stirred

and a Montecristo #2.

Those are nice catches on the reports and, of course, the people that wanted the studies to begin with don't want to hear about them now.

Let's go for another set of threads.

Tobacco, Christians and moral meddling
Fading smoke-free vets clubs eye injunction MASS
Fifty Thousand Current and Former Smokers Needed For National Lung Screening BEWARE
Judge Certifies Nationwide Class Action Suit Against Tobacco Companies
Circling Their Stogies Against Mayor
State Addicted to Tobacco Taxes
Kentucky man held on tobacco charge: 55,000 cigars found in car stopped for violation
$200M lost to smokes smugglers/Yearly city, state tax shortfall from gang & Internet sales
Philip Morris sues over Internet cigarette sales
Boy, 13, Dies in beating on street
Philip Morris sues over Internet cigarette sales
Doctor fights pharmacies over cigarette sales
Smoke ban goes private/ Clubs group for war with mayor
Boston Mayor Offers Smoking Ban At Work, Bars,Restaurants
LAS VEGAS! Casino profits could go up in (no) smoke
Tax hike on smokes is burning bodegas
Groups spend millions on ballot-initiative signatures
The world without cigarettes
NYC City Council Meets To Ban Smoking Everywhere. Alert!!
$18.34 million comes to county- Tobacco settlement money going to new govt buildings
ALERT! Smokers Avoid Reno Airport. No Smoking Ban In Effect!
Philip Morris Lowers 2002 Estimates Shares Decline GOOD!!
LCC smoking ban includes OUTDOORS (Lansing Community College)
Congress Holds Hearing on Buy-Out of Federal Tobacco Program
Public (Smoking) ban may fizzle
New York judge throws out $1.25 billion legal fee awarded to lawyers in tobacco suit
WEEKLY FARM: Lawmakers Consider Overhaul of Tobacco Program
Tempe tax loss prompts city to ax 100 jobs
L.A. County employees charged monthly smoking fee How Much More Abuse Will Smokers Take
Smoking's bad, big government is even worse
IF THEY WEREN'T SERIOUS, THIS WOULD BE HYSTERICAL This was the hot thread of the week

hey there everybody...!

Weeks' over, or almost, and I need that Wild Turkey Rocks Double, and a Redhook. :-)

Freepin' at da bar again...

You folks realize that I've only posted a little less than half the years threads, don't you.

We need to have a little chatter going on here so they don't all run together.

So there I was at thirty thousand feet when...

How 'bout this, I give you the bottle and you get your own glass and rocks. I had oral surgery yesterday and am on painkillers today so I'm a little off my game.

But I will get you the Redhook.