The World Takes on Big Tobacco

CNSNews.com (via GOPUSA) ^ | February 25, 2005 | Nathan Burchfiel

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Well, for what it's worth, I'm glad we haven't ratified this treaty. That's all we need: a global anti-tobacco jihad.

If tobacco is outlawed, only outlaws will have tobacco.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

PING!

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

This globalism's for you!

[Raycpa]

If this was ratified, would it mean that some of the stricter state laws would be replaced ?

[NathanDahlin]

Wait...you don't mean to tell me that tobacco's bad for you!

Thank goodness I have France and Germany to protect me from it! [/Sarcasm]

[EagleUSA]

NOW! -- how many REALLY THINK the Washington government would outlaw/ban cigarettes and other tobacco products???? Shoot the GOLDEN GOOSE ????

Never happen..Washington is so drunk on tax dollars, they are beyond the junkie stage..except when the junkies feed them tax dollars.

[yooper]

"The legally binding treaty is "designed to reduce the devastating health and economic impact of tobacco," according to the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control website."

Baloney kills more people every year than tobacco. The leading cause of death in the US is heart disease. Baloney causes heart disease, and also cancer, due to the preservatives in baloney. Those preservatives are known and documented carcinogens, particularly MSG (monosodium glutamate).

Baloney is an unhealthy lifestyle. Don't swallow baloney. Look out Oscar Mayer.

I've also noted that the fattest baloney waddlers are usually the ones complaining about cigarettes. It's usually the smokers who carry the fat ass waddlers down the aisle in their coffin after they've expired from a lifetime lunch of baloney sandwiches with mayo.

So, in conclusion with respect to this article, I would urge my fellow Freepers to be on the watch for baloney.

[Ursus arctos horribilis]

I am so upset at this news I am almost smoking, guess I just have to fill my pipe with a bowl of Whisky Cavendish courtesy of the Aha Macav Indian reservation.

[microgood]

Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.

C. S. Lewis

[Just A Nobody]

I just lit one myself, courtesy of an "un-named Indian reservation"

[jess35]

Why can't we outlaw fat people?

[SkymanOH]

I'm all for undermining it. With the coming death of liberalism will come the death of anti-tobacco.

[SheLion]

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[SheLion]

If tobacco is outlawed, only outlaws will have tobacco.

[SheLion]

Never happen..Washington is so drunk on tax dollars, they are beyond the junkie stage..except when the junkies feed them tax dollars.

Amen!  The states can't balance their budgets without the taxes smoker's pay on cigarettes.  Can you imagine the state banning tobacco?  Where oh where would they get that big money? heh!

[AwesomePossum]

Great angle!

More people are killed by gruesome birth control (abortion) and STD's each year than cigarettes and baloney combined.......and yet, the UN promotes birth control by abortion AND the lifestyles that cause STD's.

The right hand doesn't know what the left hand is doing.........and these people want to be in charge of the whole world. Kinda' scary.

[Atlas Sneezed]

Big Tabasco?

[EGPWS]

Dr. Thomas Glynn, director of Cancer Science and Trends at the American Cancer Society, said the treaty is not so much about banning smoking as it is about educating people on the health risks of tobacco.

KEEERIST, when will "us little people" realize that this has nothing to do with what is best for us.

Follow the money.

Every time the trail of money will lead to a "for the children" and "what is best for humanity" scenario.

If tobacco were to be ready to smoke from the plant and every one who smoked planted a garden, without the "big business" behind it with the cash, smoking would have gone on the wayside to politicians all along!

All together now....."Follow the money"!

[EGPWS]

The states can't balance their budgets without the taxes smoker's pay on cigarettes.

Sure they can.

They could (gasp) cause the ending of the universe, drastically lower the temperature in he!!, and CUT THEIR BUDGETS!

[EGPWS]

just lit one myself, courtesy of an "un-named Indian reservation"

LoL!

And with little frustration when it comes to the "wampum" required to purchase them, eh?