Posted on 08/02/2006 2:28:12 PM PDT by HAL9000
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LITTLE ROCK - Gov. Mike Huckabee, who successfully pushed for a statewide workplace smoking ban earlier this year, predicted Wednesday that cigarettes eventually won't be sold because of their health risks."I think the day will come when we probably won't" sell cigarettes, Huckabee said on his monthly call-in radio show. "If cigarettes were introduced to the marketplace today, they wouldn't be sold. They'd never make it because what we didn't know when they were first created, sold and marketed is just how deadly harmful they were."
Huckabee was responding to a caller's question of why cigarettes are allowed to be sold if they are so harmful. The governor fielded complaints from at least two callers about the state smoking ban, which went into effect July 21.
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No, you won't.
Some people are never happy.
Some people are never happy."
I extend you the common decency of taking you at your word, take me at mine. I will be perfectly content when your lifelong use of a carcinogen results in it's eventual outcome.
Think of me as you struggle through unimaginable pain for that last breath. I will be content, trust me.
You will continue on forever, floating on your cloud of sanctimony, consumed by bitterness that others have lived a life of their own choosing.
You're choking on something much worse than cigarette smoke.
Well, he was responding to criticism of his taxation policy. His policy is no less fascist than an outright ban.
"Sorry, I didn't know I was dealing with a literalist typical of 10 year-olds.
You see, child, I meant that I don't consume poisons. If you still have questions, get a grown up to explain it to you."
Words mean things. When your words are stating one thing and you mean another, then feel free to personally attack another person over your failure to actually type what you mean. That is generally what those that use emotions to set their policies revert to when presented with facts and logic.
Until smoking is eliminated, no fat person who ever so much as smelled a cigarette will have died of fat, only smoke.
Once tobacco is gone, they can pull out the stops and tax the beejeebers out of anyone who gained a little weight when they quit...Not to mention everyone else out there who isn't 'heroin chic'.
Need more revenue? Rework the BMI numbers...piece of cake!
"I extend you the common decency of taking you at your word, take me at mine."
Why, when you are taken at your word, you personally attack someone? Why when you don't type what you really mean? Which is it, should we take you at your word or try to translate your comments to figure out what you really mean?
Like the auto industry??
Yes and then what will state and local governments do to replace all that tobacco tax money they get now. The hypocrisy of all of this is amazing.
Some day we won't have to listen to you either.
Some day we won't have to listen to you either.
Never saw that LOL! But don't spill that latte, get too engrossed in the paper, or mess up the mascara (just a few of the things I HAVE seen people do while driving ( and I won't mention the nosepickers, either!)
Thanks, that is very clear.
Use a zippo. One hand, good in the wind, works every time...
I recall truckloads of untaxed cigarettes from North Carolina ($2.00/carton, then) being stopped on US 301 in Maryland, on their way to New York where the taxes made the price $7.00 per carton. If anything, the incentive for tax evasion is even greater now.
These efforts were not individual deals, but controlled by crime syndicates who could afford to pack a semi-truck with cigarettes in the first place.
not exactly, auto deaths most often come from the misuse of the product either speeding or drunk driving etc. by you or another driver, using your car 20 times a day may increase the risk that you will die in your car, but it is not the car that causes the death
That is the most ridiculous thing I have ever heard!!!
I honestly did not know that. Thank you!
Thanks Joe...I didn't know zippos were that good. I will look into getting one. However, I still say putting lighters back in the vehicles is a good idea. ;*)
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