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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Good morning...and you're welcome!
:-)
As for lighters in a vehicle, I agree, partly because there is no way these new digital phones will hit a tower very far out of town without an amplifier out this way, and if you get in a bind (unlike the old bag phones) you won't be able to call anyone without an amp.
I could hardwire it in, but I use the same signal amplifier with a 12V power supply for a private telephone out at the rig.
I have an old van, from the days when GM got 'religion' or something (1975--maybe they were just cheap that year), and had to wire in a 12 V lighter socket just to run my phone amp.
(Dontcha just love 'progress'?)
And no, I don't yak and drive. Not much traffic to hassle with out here, and plenty of places to pull over.
Are you implying that you WON'T struggle through pain for your last breath?
Must be nice to be a prognosticator.
And no, I don't yak and drive.
Well, not all of us are gifted with multi tasking abilities. ;*)
Not much traffic to hassle with out here,
You got that right!!! I drove 27 miles and the only living thing I saw were about 12 head of cattle. I loved the Dakotas, MT and WY. I was shocked they had all fallen into the socialist state crap. My biggest disappointment was MT who had given into the seat belt and speed limit crap in order to obtain federal funds. Extortion, pure and simple.
Good morning Mama! Looks like another HOT one! ;*)
Why, it's common knowledge that being in the same room with a gun is more harmful than being shot.
The same flawless logic. (/sarc)
Ohhhhh, that is an awesome analogy. Really puts it all in perspective. ;*)
Last time I tried it, I got distracted and dropped my cigarette ash in my coffee, and then spilled that all over the crossword puzzle I was doing. A man's got to know his limitations...(8^D)
My biggest disappointment was MT who had given into the seat belt and speed limit crap in order to obtain federal funds. Extortion, pure and simple.
They have the states up here over that barrel, for certain. The last Mile marker on US 2 going from west to east in Montana is 667. All the money goes for the wealthy folk's roads in the west half, much like funding going to Fargo and Bismarck in ND.
The '4-lane' Highway 2 from Minot west to Williston in ND has become an election year mantra like saving the family farm or peace in our time...lots of talk, but darned little road for the rubber to meet. Maybe if we had elections every year, something would get done, but as it is, when the votes are counted, the promises evaporate.
Sad to see the antismoking crap prevailing here, too. I guess the self-righteous have no bounds.
I took Hwy. 2 from Minot to Grand Forks! IIRC from 2 years ago, roads were being torn up all over the place, but especially in Grand Forks.
Besides, we have only two seasons here, winter and road construction, (unless you use the color system, then there are three...white, green, and brown, then back to white)
Thanks for the pings. Gotta catch-up. Looks like they're coming out of the wood work now, doesn't it?
And this time they didn't bother with amending the Constitution. O brave new world.
Prostitution harms nobody (and hence should itself be legal); putting others' lives at risk is another story. I can't agree that it should be legal to shoot into a crowd as long as you're lucky enough to miss them all.
I don't think it's a matter of Brave New World so much as Dumb A$$ Populace.
:-)
But the legality of prostitution wasn't the question. (Although, IMHO, it falls under the laws of private contract and should be legal)
Should government have the ability to punish a person for a 'crime' before it has been committed just because that person had the potential to commit it?
Isn't it funny how people will cry foul when tobacco and nicotine is taken away but laud the government for telling people to go to jail for smoking marijuana?
If tobacco gives the same high as marijuana, why not smoke tobacco?
It's legal. If you're caught smoking tobacco while driving 15 MPH in a 55 MPH zone, you don't get a DUI.
"Think of me as you struggle through unimaginable pain for that last breath. I will be content, trust me."
Would a prozac help? You seem to need mental help, what with all this hoping people die slow agonizing deaths, and what-not. Wow.
I am content knowing that someday, when I die, I won't have to hear $hit like this anymore.
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