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Ark. governor: Day will come when cigarettes no longer sold
Associated Press (excerpt) ^ | August 2, 2006

Posted on 08/02/2006 2:28:12 PM PDT by HAL9000

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To: Madame Dufarge; elkfersupper

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.


181 posted on 08/04/2006 6:33:46 PM PDT by 383rr (Those who choose security over liberty deserve neither- GUN CONTROL=SLAVERY)
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To: muir_redwoods
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.

182 posted on 08/04/2006 7:35:42 PM PDT by elkfersupper
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To: Smokin' Joe
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.

183 posted on 08/04/2006 7:42:07 PM PDT by elkfersupper
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To: Know your rights
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.

184 posted on 08/04/2006 7:49:07 PM PDT by elkfersupper
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To: elkfersupper
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.

185 posted on 08/04/2006 8:51:25 PM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly.)
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To: muir_redwoods; CSM
My! Your a nasty FReeper, aren't you?!!!
186 posted on 08/05/2006 8:42:12 AM PDT by SheLion ("If you're legal, you can fly with the Eagle!" - Michael Anthony)
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To: 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.

187 posted on 08/05/2006 8:48:06 AM PDT by muir_redwoods (Free Sirhan Sirhan, after all, the bastard who killed Mary Jo Kopechne is walking around free)
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To: Sybeck1
How will the revenues to the gubmint be replaced?

$10 Big Macs.

188 posted on 08/05/2006 8:49:38 AM PDT by Drew68
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To: Madame Dufarge

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.


189 posted on 08/05/2006 8:51:35 AM PDT by muir_redwoods (Free Sirhan Sirhan, after all, the bastard who killed Mary Jo Kopechne is walking around free)
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To: 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.

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.


190 posted on 08/05/2006 8:53:33 AM PDT by SheLion ("If you're legal, you can fly with the Eagle!" - Michael Anthony)
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To: SheLion
"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

191 posted on 08/05/2006 8:57:56 AM PDT by muir_redwoods (Free Sirhan Sirhan, after all, the bastard who killed Mary Jo Kopechne is walking around free)
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To: elkfersupper
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.

192 posted on 08/05/2006 9:37:05 AM PDT by Know your rights (The modern enlightened liberal doesn't care what you believe as long as you don't really believe it.)
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To: Bogey
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.

193 posted on 08/05/2006 9:39:19 AM PDT by Know your rights (The modern enlightened liberal doesn't care what you believe as long as you don't really believe it.)
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To: BigTex5

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


194 posted on 08/05/2006 9:40:49 AM PDT by Sawdring
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To: 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.

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

195 posted on 08/05/2006 9:41:37 AM PDT by Know your rights (The modern enlightened liberal doesn't care what you believe as long as you don't really believe it.)
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To: muir_redwoods

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.


196 posted on 08/05/2006 9:46:29 AM PDT by Gabz (Taxaholism, the disease you elect to have (TY xcamel))
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To: Sybeck1

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

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


197 posted on 08/05/2006 9:49:04 AM PDT by takenoprisoner (Could mecca be Satan's' throne?)
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To: BigTex5

"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.


198 posted on 08/05/2006 9:50:36 AM PDT by takenoprisoner (Could mecca be Satan's' throne?)
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To: muir_redwoods
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.

199 posted on 08/05/2006 12:22:49 PM PDT by Madame Dufarge
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To: muir_redwoods

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


200 posted on 08/05/2006 12:27:28 PM PDT by metesky ("Brethren, leave us go amongst them." Rev. Capt. Samuel Johnston Clayton - Ward Bond- The Searchers)
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