Ark. governor: Day will come when cigarettes no longer sold

Associated Press (excerpt) ^ | August 2, 2006

[383rr]

I hope the anti twits keep up their crusades for the "public good". I intend to profit greatly from the sprawling black market it will inevitably produce.

[elkfersupper]

I will be perfectly content when your lifelong use of a carcinogen results in it's eventual outcome.

Oxygen has killed a whole lot more people than tobacco.

It's corrosive, you know.

Even people wound up as tight as you are about potentially harmful substances can't avoid that.

Think of me as you struggle through unimaginable pain for that last breath. I will be content, trust me.

You must be a congenial dinner companion with an attitude like that.

For the record, I intend to die rather spectacularly, hopefully doing something I really like.

[elkfersupper]

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.I can buy all the cigarettes I want at $1.85 per carton a couple of hundred miles South of here right now.

By the way, Al Quaeda has figured that out already.

[elkfersupper]

Government should have the ability to punish a person for endangering others; whether that fits your category of "punish[ing] a person for a 'crime' before it has been committed" is your call.

Undercover cops are arresting people in bars in VA, NM, and TX because they "might" drive later.

I suppose you like that as well.

I can't wait until they start arresting fat people at those combination gas station / c-store / franchised fast food joints because they "might" eat a Big Mac.

[Smokin' Joe]

By the way, Al Quaeda has figured that out already.

Sure they have. Clandestine funds are harder to track than wire transfers, all they need is some seed money and some contacts established in business somewhere.

Legalizing 'this' or removing taxes from 'that' won't change the fact that there is always something in the underground economy which can be bought low and sold high, be the product legal or not. The more regulation, the more taxation, the better the profit potential, but the greater the risk.

It is one thing if organized crime is just 'bidness'. Insiders can still be turned with promises of protection and immunity.

If, however, there are idealogical barriers against anyone divulging the nature, scope, or mechanics of the network, (such as a common cause--jihad), the network will be much harder to crack.

[SheLion]

My! Your a nasty FReeper, aren't you?!!!

[muir_redwoods]

You want nasty, try spending as much time as I have in a cancer clinic. You meet an enormous number of people who have finally found a way to quit smoking.

But like I said, I am completely content with the eventual outcome of your choices.

[Drew68]

How will the revenues to the gubmint be replaced?

$10 Big Macs.

[muir_redwoods]

And die your own death. Watch a loved one struggle as they die from cancer. Know what your choice means. Realize that denial isn't just a river in Egypt. There are lots easier ways to die than cancer and not many worse.

[SheLion]

You want nasty, try spending as much time as I have in a cancer clinic. You meet an enormous number of people who have finally found a way to quit smoking.

But like I said, I am completely content with the eventual outcome of your choices.

Don't worry Bub.  I've had two major bouts with cancer over the years, and not one of them had to do with smoking.

You want nasty, try spending as much time as I have in a cancer clinic. You meet an enormous number of people who have finally found a way to quit smoking.

But like I said, I am completely content with the eventual outcome of your choices.

Don't worry Bub.  I've had two major bouts with cancer over the years, and not one of them had to do with smoking.

[muir_redwoods]

"Don't worry Bub. I've had two major bouts with cancer over the years, and not one of them had to do with smoking"

Of course not sweetie, I'll convey your findings to my wfe's oncologist

[Know your rights]

Undercover cops are arresting people in bars in VA, NM, and TX because they "might" drive later.

I suppose you like that as well.

You suppose wrong; being drunk (or high) is not in and of itself a danger to anyone else, and hence is none of government's business. Being impaired while driving is a danger to others, and may properly be banned.

[Know your rights]

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?

Alcohol gives a high; should its users go to jail?

It's legal.

The question is whether it should be.

[Sawdring]

With the price of cigarettes, how can you afford to put one out if a non-smoker walks buy?

[Know your rights]

You want nasty, try spending as much time as I have in a cancer clinic. You meet an enormous number of people who have finally found a way to quit smoking.

People die of all sorts of things; shall we ban them all?

[Gabz]

Not all cancers are caused by smoking, a fact I'm sure your wife's oncologist will tell you. Numerous cancers are in fact caused by viruses, HPV and EBV are just two of such viruses.

[takenoprisoner]

"How will the revenues to the gubmint be replaced?
"

From increases upon the sweat of your mine and others brow.

[takenoprisoner]

"If it comes to it, I'll just grow my own in a garden."

You need to talk to some pot growers and learn their fate for growing a natural plant.

[Madame Dufarge]

Watch a loved one struggle as they die from cancer.

I have, and tobacco use wasn't the cause.

Could I see your "death reservation" guaranteeing that you won't die of cancer?

Sanctimony and a undeserved sense of superiority will probably kill you.

[metesky]

The outcome of my choices and the outcome of your choices will eventually be the same, bub.