Posted on 07/05/2006 10:41:15 AM PDT by neverdem
Poor baby. The smokers are taxpayers, just like you.
But I wonder your problem, watching fireworks, with the likelihood of smelling them, yet complaining about folks smoking cigarettes.........you've got issues.
How many people die of second-hand AIDS?
The DOD has just announced that they are dismantling their nuclear program in favor of the development of the innovative second-hand-smoke bomb.
The new bomb, developed by DARPA in the late 90's, was financed by the revenue generated from the numberous tobacco settlements.
An anonymous Pentagon official stated, "According to all of the data gathered from these lawsuits, second-hand-smoke is the deadliest stuff on the planet. It would be a disservice to national defense not to weaponize it."
That is SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO Good!!!!!!!!!!!
Beacuse one of the driving forces behind the anti-smoking movement is the drug legalization crowd. All they want to do get cigarette smoking to be percieved as the same as doing drugs, then they will switch from being anti smoking to pro drug legalization.
It amazes me that any of us are even here today. If second hand smoke is so bad then we all should have died years ago when cigarettes weren't filtered and more people were smoking. In fact the only place smoking wasn't allowed was in church, but as soon as the sermon was over with they were lighting up on the steps outside.
What we need are people to start calling 911 every time they see somebody lighting up a cigarette. The police and 911 operators may be annoyed..
You might want to rethink this one - tying up 911 lines will punish not so much the police and 911 operators as it will punish those in need of police and ambulance services. I'd hate to see the death of a heart attack victim on someone's conscience when there might be better ways to deal with the issue.
NO, this whining is annoying. Maybe we should tax whining, then raise the legal age to 90 before you are allowed to whine.
Which is an excellent idea. It might provide the impetus to repeal some of these absurd laws.
Interesting question.
Good. You made the right decision.
Excellent!
I think that before long the operators would soon be hanging up on the smoking calls...which would highlight the fact that even the government acknowledges that second hand smoke is nowhere near the threat they hold it out to be. As for the use of deadly force, according to the antis, surgeon general included, second hand smoke is lethal, it merely acts more slowly than a bullet. According to the banners, my smoking in a public park is every bit as much a hazard as my taking my M1 and cranking off a few rounds, not at anyone or anything in particular, but just shooting at random. According to their logic, my second hand smoke might kill someone, and dead is dead...just like a stray bullet might kill someone. If the smoke is potentially fatal to others, why does it matter how long it takes to kill? If a bullet kills in a fraction of a second, is that any more fatal than poisoning someone to death over the course of a week? a month? a year? decades? Is it any worse than embezzling $1 million all at once, or over the course of years? If smoking puts another person's life at risk, should they not be permitted deadly force to defend themselves? I'd like the liberal-logic answer on this, but doubt they would ever address it. Of course it's an absurd notion, but it's the logical conclusion to the path on which we've embarked.....
"It stinks" is the biggest single complaint from non-smokers who aren't yet on the warpath but I would think that the stench that accompanies a fireworks display might mask the smell just a bit.
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Another one for "stinks."
I know exactly how you feel. I was an addict myself.
And now you are addicted to whining.
You have no idea how anyone feels, you just like to whine.
Thanks for the ping Gabz! I was going to ping you, but saw that someone beat me to it. So, I sat back and smoked a cigarette and awaited your ping-a-ling! ;*)
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