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To: seasoned traditionalist
I DON'T SEE YOU COMING OUT AND SUPPORTING A COMPLETE BAN OF ALL TOBACCO PRODUCTS.

Why should I? If you refrain from smoking in public, I would have no interest in banning this. Why does it have to be an either/or proposition?

21 posted on 07/23/2006 5:40:36 AM PDT by Raycpa
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To: Raycpa
If you refrain from smoking in public, I would have no interest in banning this.

First, it was confining smokers to the backs of airplanes, then outright smoking bans. Then it was smoking sections in restaurants, then outright bans. In some places one cannot smoke on the beaches, or in parks. To a vigilante like yourself, every place is "public" there are no private places. You see smoking sections in bars and restaurants as hedonistic dens you are going to eliminate.

As a CPA I'm sure you've checked where the tobacco settlement money has gone, and it hasn't been to health care. The monies have been used as surety for roads, bridges and other public facilities. Woe be the states who are counting on this money coming in year after year after year. I sometimes wish cigarette sales would be banned, just to see how loudly the non-smokers scream as their taxes sky-rocket to pay for the facilities smokers are now funding. Our largess is funding many things but I'm confident that the nannies will be coming after something you enjoy soon. Expect no sympathy from us.

33 posted on 07/23/2006 6:25:18 AM PDT by LSAggie
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