"I am using my beauty to send a strong anti-smoking message," says Silvia Ceccon, Italy's Miss Universe 2004, smiling generously at the assembled photographers.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4161245.stm
Posted on 01/13/2005 11:53:07 AM PST by bob3443
That's disgusting. Only a man with no couth would come up with that.
Wonder if someone interviews for a job if they are excluded because of their smell? We all have a smell of some type.
I don't. I bathe daily. I do wear cologne, but not an overload. I never smell body odor on a person unless they don't bath. After- shave and cologne on a clean body can smell really good.
I've run across FReepers who want to stop people from smoking in their own homes. I was amazed that FReepers could think this.
That is the line that should not be crossed.
Anyone who tries to stop me from smoking in my own home better be ready for a fight because that's exactly what you're going to get if you try.
Get a load of this. Those smarmy, terminally PC Ad Council geeks are only too happy to throw more gasoline on the fire.
This is the most disgusting one yet.
With socialists in this country it's always about "the children". This is the easiest way to introduce socialism into this country with barely a fight.
I'd rather be seen as cold-hearted that as ignorant as one has to be to believe all these "studies".
How many "Action Plans" do you think are on the drawing board right now?
They're waiting until their propaganda campaigns have smokers just a bit more demonized, and their brain dead cheerleaders will be praising this new advance in "public health."
For the children.
Sticking up for ANY side should not entail absurd extrapolation from the Constitution. This argument is ludicrous whether it is pro or con smoking. We complain when Liberals read whatever they want into the Constitution yet "conservatives" do the same to uncritical applause.
Mommy, can I be a liberal when I grow up? I want to ignore the facts and still get my way everytime anyway!
*snort*
Well you don't get hired for the 5th floor. What is that smell?
Mommy, can I be a liberal when I grow up? I want to ignore the facts and still get my way everytime anyway!
ROFLMAO
"I am using my beauty to send a strong anti-smoking message," says Silvia Ceccon, Italy's Miss Universe 2004, smiling generously at the assembled photographers.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4161245.stm
Their wedge will be "the children."
Don't confuse involuntary activity undertaken in an attempt to not be offensive to others with that which essentially says "screw you if you don't like smoke."
I am not an anti-smoking fanatic but to cast any doubt on the right of smokers to smoke anywhere and anytime they want is sufficient to provoke the Smoke-uber-alles crowd to name-calling.
Anymore? The fact that the government is taking away private property owners rights without actual justification.
If they're going to use the justification that ETS is a health hazard they should have to PROVE that it actually is a health hazard.
No one disputes that salmanella is a health hazard, no one disputes that cockroach droppings in your food is a health hazard, there are plenty of scientific studies that dispute ETS being a health hazard.
How about holding the antismokers, and the government (municiple, county, state, federal), to the same standards?
If it's only about the SMELL, the private property owner's rights should not be encroached upon.
Maine: Do not smoke if your a foster parent! The DHS says so! It's ok if you sprawl on the couch at night drunk though!
DHS creates smoking rules for foster homes, vehicles
2-26-04 - article here
Beauty? She thinks a lot of herself, doesn't she. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. I'm glad she thinks so much of herself.
It reflects the inherent contradictions in their tax 'em till they quit schemes. They supposedly want everyone to quit, and when folks do, they lose money! Well, they can't have that, so they freak out and start shouting about the fact that so many "haven't gotten the message", so they can justify raising the tax further. It's a vicious circle, and one that shows them for the fools they are.
BWAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
Too bad she doesn't have the brains to match her looks. Then she might actually say something that makes sense.
Exactly! Excellent post. Thank you!
After you read that, just to avoid any possible misunderstanding, know that I believe property owners have the right to set whatever rules they want with regard to whether and where smoking is permitted on their property. (On public property, the public decides, either through a ballot initiative or by proxy through their elected officials.)
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