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To: metesky
Way to go, Metesky!

This article just highlights one small part of the complete idiocy surrounding the entire smoking controversy. I'm still angry that an entire industry that served American smokers for many years was targetted and caved. That industry also helped growers, harvesters, producers, sellers, and generated untold millions in jobs, tax revenues--and here I go again with another run-on sentence.

I've heard it said that 1/6th of smokers die of smoke-related illness. Assuming that's true, and I doubt it, that means 5/6ths die of something else. And I think the 1/6th figure is exaggerated. Don't even get me started on second-hand smoke, which causes exactly NO disease or death.

I despise the tobacco companies for not putting up a better defense, I despise the propagandists who want everyone to think that a molecule of cigarette smoke is assault with a deadly weapon, I despise the nanny governments who want to tell everyone how to live and what to do and where to do it.
I depise the lawyers whose greed is unbounded, as they put on a cloak of hypocrisy and claim that their concern is the health of the average American when all they have EVER wanted is the huge egregiously obscene legal fees they thought they were guaranteed from the backs of average American smokers.

In fact, bleep them all. Bleep the whole frikken bunch.
21 posted on 11/03/2003 10:35:24 AM PST by Judith Anne (Cyanide, mercury, and botulinum toxin are medically and industrially useful friends to mankind.)
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To: Judith Anne
God,Judith Anne,I wish I had the way with words that you do. You always say exactly what I'm thinking.

Keep the words coming,it's joy to my ears(or eyes in this case).

You made me feel so good I'm going to have something very chocolatey and sinful,drink a sinful cup of black coffee and smoke two sinful cigarettes.

Mears aka The Sinner
24 posted on 11/03/2003 11:41:45 AM PST by Mears
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