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Do smokers have any rights?
eco-logic Powerhouse.com ^ | February 15, 2005 | Alan Caruba

Posted on 02/15/2005 8:24:48 AM PST by SheLion

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1 posted on 02/15/2005 8:24:48 AM PST by SheLion
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To: Just another Joe; Great Dane; Madame Dufarge; Gabz; MeeknMing; steve50; KS Flyover; Cantiloper; ...

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2 posted on 02/15/2005 8:25:44 AM PST by SheLion (God bless our military members and keep them safe.)
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To: SheLion
Bumper sticker on my car.
You only have the RIGHTS that you are willing to FIGHT for!
3 posted on 02/15/2005 8:27:33 AM PST by HMFIC (Fourth Generation American INFIDEL and PROUD OF IT!)
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To: SheLion

I read an article yesterday that ten years ago if someone had told us that gays would have the right to get married and adopt children but smokers would be fired for smoking, we'd have thought they were crazy.


4 posted on 02/15/2005 8:27:49 AM PST by Peach (The Clintons pardoned more terrorists than they ever captured or killed.)
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To: SheLion

Only smokers of the baloney pony have rights.


5 posted on 02/15/2005 8:28:08 AM PST by CzarNicky (The problem with bad ideas is that they seemed like good ideas at the time.)
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To: SheLion
I'm a smoker, and I believe you should have the right to smoke. However, I am going to try to quit because Phillip Morris contributes the the ACLU!
Join the Fight at StoptheACLU discussion forum
Join the Fight at StoptheACLU discussion forum


Prayer for the Youth

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Join the Fight at StoptheACLU Blog


6 posted on 02/15/2005 8:29:04 AM PST by Jay777 (Join The Resistance at www.stoptheaclu.org)
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To: SheLion

The only RIGHT smokers have, is to pay huge, obscene TAXES to the government in exchange for the "privilege" to practice thie habit....but fear not smokers, the government WILL NEVER outlaw cigarettes. Money is more important than your life.


7 posted on 02/15/2005 8:29:18 AM PST by EagleUSA
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To: HMFIC
You only have the RIGHTS that you are willing to FIGHT for!

Good bumper sticker. But when the highly paid professional anti-smokers have all the money in their corner, it's kinda hard to fight a good fight for Freedom of Choice.  Money talks today, not the constituents.

8 posted on 02/15/2005 8:29:19 AM PST by SheLion (God bless our military members and keep them safe.)
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To: SheLion

If you smoke, when you die, you go to HELL.

That's the deal these days.

Anyone? Anyone? Bueller?


9 posted on 02/15/2005 8:30:26 AM PST by RexBeach
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To: SheLion

In another thread I posted,

"Time for the tea chest to hit the water again."

Enough said.


10 posted on 02/15/2005 8:30:33 AM PST by HMFIC (Fourth Generation American INFIDEL and PROUD OF IT!)
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To: Jay777
I'm a smoker, and I believe you should have the right to smoke. However, I am going to try to quit because Phillip Morris contributes the the ACLU!

Don't get me started about the evil corrupt Phillip Morris.  They talk out of both sides of their mouth.

Switch brands or try rolling your own.

11 posted on 02/15/2005 8:30:34 AM PST by SheLion (God bless our military members and keep them safe.)
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To: HMFIC
"Time for the tea chest to hit the water again."

I can't wait!

12 posted on 02/15/2005 8:31:41 AM PST by SheLion (God bless our military members and keep them safe.)
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To: SheLion

I have a right and a left. I hate the left but I need it for balance.


13 posted on 02/15/2005 8:35:34 AM PST by Conspiracy Guy (Reading is fundamental. Comprehension is optional.)
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To: Conspiracy Guy
I have a right and a left. I hate the left but I need it for balance.


14 posted on 02/15/2005 8:37:04 AM PST by SheLion (God bless our military members and keep them safe.)
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To: SheLion

Cigarette smuggling is becoming increasingly attractive to "narcotraficante" groups out of Mexico. They already have the system intact and now they have a vastly expanded market, not to mention a customer base which they can "interest" in their other wares. Substitute Mexicans for Italians and it's Prohibition all over again.

Idiocy is trying the same solution over and over and expecting different results.


15 posted on 02/15/2005 8:40:15 AM PST by NaughtiusMaximus (Progressives are just liberals with an Earl Scheib paintjob.)
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To: SheLion

Let's say you've just bought a condo, or moved to an apartment. ASH intends to encourage and assist lawsuits by apartment dwellers who object to neighbors smoking in their own apartments.

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Over my dead body!!!!!! I'm just itchin' for a good fight.


16 posted on 02/15/2005 8:40:39 AM PST by Mears ("Call me irresponsible".)
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To: SheLion
As usual, none of the alphabet-soup groups mentioned in the article mention the simple expedient of making all tobacco products illegal.

Why not?

17 posted on 02/15/2005 8:42:07 AM PST by Publius6961
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To: NaughtiusMaximus

Hey ask any libturd and they'll tell you Socialism works! No matter that it's FAILED everywhere else, we just haven't tried it HERE yet!


18 posted on 02/15/2005 8:44:56 AM PST by HMFIC (Fourth Generation American INFIDEL and PROUD OF IT!)
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To: Publius6961

When tax revenues drop low enough, they will.


19 posted on 02/15/2005 8:46:11 AM PST by Wolfie
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To: SheLion

I just received a notice from my usual cig supplier. They are no longer offering cigs and recommended a different company. Their reason was that they were not willing to fight the government to stay in business. They were unwilling to provide their customer lists and realized that they would not be able to afford the court battles. I respect them for that.....

Now that my cheap cigs are no more, I will be considering rolling my own. Do you have some good resources for me? I would need to purchase everything on line, papers, filters, tobacco, etc. I would also need a recommendation of tobacco brands and flavors.


20 posted on 02/15/2005 8:47:20 AM PST by CSM ("I just started shooting," said Gloria Doster, 56. "I was trying to blow his brains out ....")
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