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Town Hall.com ^ | 11-16-05 | Jacob Sullum

Posted on 11/16/2005 7:05:02 AM PST by SheLion

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1 posted on 11/16/2005 7:05:04 AM PST by SheLion
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2 posted on 11/16/2005 7:05:28 AM PST by SheLion (Trying to make a life in the BLUE state of Maine!)
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We need to start discrimination lawsuits against these pukes.


3 posted on 11/16/2005 7:07:25 AM PST by RandallFlagg (Roll your own cigarettes! You'll save $$$ and smoke less!(Magnetic bumper stickers-click my name)
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Read how much smokers are contributing to their state economy.  And some have the nerve to say smokers are the reason for higher health costs.  Read this and know the truth.

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4 posted on 11/16/2005 7:07:39 AM PST by SheLion (Trying to make a life in the BLUE state of Maine!)
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To: SheLion

"People who object to secondhand smoke are much more likely to be worried about the immediate smell and discomfort."

Does this mean I can now complain about the woman wearing the cheap perfume that stinks to high heaven and gives me headaches?


5 posted on 11/16/2005 7:08:13 AM PST by GeorgiaDawg32 (Islam is a religion of peace and they'll behead 13 year old girls to prove it...)
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To: SheLion

Gotta love Sullum's reasonability.


6 posted on 11/16/2005 7:10:17 AM PST by Gabz
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To: GeorgiaDawg32

Please do!!!!!!


7 posted on 11/16/2005 7:10:52 AM PST by Gabz
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To: GeorgiaDawg32
Does this mean I can now complain about the woman wearing the cheap perfume that stinks to high heaven and gives me headaches?

I wish!  But the anti's don't care about that.  All they want to do is make the smoker's lives as miserable as possible while still using our tax dollars to keep their lives happy and comfortable.  It's enough to make one puke.

8 posted on 11/16/2005 7:11:24 AM PST by SheLion (Trying to make a life in the BLUE state of Maine!)
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To: SheLion

Funny that the socialists who whine and wring their hands over our "loss of rights" vis-a-vis the War on Terror, have no problem taking away the rights of others when it suits them.


9 posted on 11/16/2005 7:11:43 AM PST by visualops (www.visualops.com)
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Funny that the socialists who whine and wring their hands over our "loss of rights" vis-a-vis the War on Terror, have no problem taking away the rights of others when it suits them.

Especially when it's their own home-grown brother who chooses to smoke a legal commodity!

10 posted on 11/16/2005 7:13:13 AM PST by SheLion (Trying to make a life in the BLUE state of Maine!)
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To: SheLion

the real problem - and how things have got so far out of line, is that smokers will carp about being picked on, then go right ahead and reelect those doing the picking.

it is hard to think of an election that the margin couldn't have shifted has smokers voted en masse for their own interest.


11 posted on 11/16/2005 7:14:15 AM PST by camle (keep your mind open and somebody will fill it full of something for you.)
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To: GeorgiaDawg32

THANK YOU!


12 posted on 11/16/2005 7:14:31 AM PST by Woman on Caroline Street (Go sell crazy somewhere else. We're all stocked up here.)
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To: SheLion

Time to move against Channel#5. That garbage always makes me want to urinate ~ then, after we get rid of that stuff, let's prohibit all anti-smoking activists from using internal combustion engines or eating barbequed food.


13 posted on 11/16/2005 7:16:39 AM PST by muawiyah (u)
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To: camle
it is hard to think of an election that the margin couldn't have shifted has smokers voted en masse for their own interest.

This Washington ban was voted on.....and look what happened.........

14 posted on 11/16/2005 7:16:45 AM PST by Gabz
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To: Gabz

yep. it's amazing that people would subsidize their own persecution. but it has happenned over and over again...


15 posted on 11/16/2005 7:18:37 AM PST by camle (keep your mind open and somebody will fill it full of something for you.)
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To: SheLion

The Republic is dead. I would like to personally thank the Freepers that support this socialism. Welcome to your new socialist utopia.


16 posted on 11/16/2005 7:21:44 AM PST by CSM (When laws are written, they apply to ALL...Not just the yucky people you don't like. - HairOfTheDog)
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To: camle

But smokers are outnumbered 4-1 in Washington.

Basically smokers are really subsidizing their own persecution through exise taxes. The promoters of these bans are very highly funded through taxes and grants from such leftwing outfits as the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

Our side soes not have the funding to counter the propaganda. It gets very frustrating whrn you know you have the truth on your side but have no means of getting it in front of the public.


17 posted on 11/16/2005 7:23:12 AM PST by Gabz
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To: SheLion
"the main point is to discourage smoking by making it inconvenient and socially unacceptable"

I think the main reason is really just to punish smokers. If they actually dissuaded smoking, they'd be costing themselves a whole bunch of money.
18 posted on 11/16/2005 7:24:32 AM PST by Pessimist
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To: Gabz

a minority can often prevail if it is viociferous and persistent.


19 posted on 11/16/2005 7:26:23 AM PST by camle (keep your mind open and somebody will fill it full of something for you.)
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Evergreen State ping

FReepmail sionnsar if you want on or off this ping list.

Ping sionnsar if you see a Washington state related thread.

20 posted on 11/16/2005 7:27:37 AM PST by sionnsar (†trad-anglican.faithweb.com† || (To Libs:) You are failing to celebrate MY diversity! || Iran Azadi)
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