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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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.
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.
By the way, Al Quaeda has figured that out already.
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.
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.
But like I said, I am completely content with the eventual outcome of your choices.
$10 Big Macs.
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.
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.
Of course not sweetie, I'll convey your findings to my wfe's oncologist
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.
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.
With the price of cigarettes, how can you afford to put one out if a non-smoker walks buy?
People die of all sorts of things; shall we ban them all?
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.
"How will the revenues to the gubmint be replaced?
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From increases upon the sweat of your mine and others brow.
"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.
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.
The outcome of my choices and the outcome of your choices will eventually be the same, bub.
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