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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
Excerpt -
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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To: HAL9000
They didnt know? They did know you fool!! My grandpa in the marines in ww2 called em coffin nails..People always knew..they just took the responsibility for their actions
Cigarettes are good for you ping!
To: HAL9000
Never happen!! Our government is addicted to tobacco taxes.
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posted on
08/02/2006 2:43:11 PM PDT
by
4yearlurker
(12th district Freeper.)
To: HAL9000
"I think the day will come when we probably won't" sell cigarettes sugar, Huckabee said on his monthly call-in radio show. "If cigarettes sugar was introduced to the marketplace today, it wouldn't be sold. It'd never make it because what we didn't know when it was first created, sold and marketed is just how deadly harmful they sugar is." There! I went ahead and fixed it for the year 2100.
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posted on
08/02/2006 2:44:32 PM PDT
by
MamaTexan
(I am NOT a 'legal entity'...nor am I a *person* as created by law!)
To: HAL9000
Day will come when cigarettes no longer soldFree cigarettes? Cool. I may have to take up smoking again.
To: HAL9000
"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."I dunno....I think we should ban politicians....they've been more damaging to my health than cigs ever were.......Let's start a class action, eh?
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posted on
08/02/2006 2:47:27 PM PDT
by
LaineyDee
(Don't mess with Texas wimmen!)
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To: Sybeck1
How will the revenues to the gubmint be replaced?Probably the only reason we are still permitted to smoke in the "designated areas".
To: HAL9000
...cigarettes eventually won't be sold because of their health risks. I see. What's next, hamburgers? Low cut bathing suits? Knives? Automobiles?
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posted on
08/02/2006 2:48:31 PM PDT
by
ElkGroveDan
(California bashers will be called out)
To: weegee
"They have funded the production of tobacco and profited from its sale."
Profited moreso than any other party in the supply chain, including the growers and the tobacco companies themselves. Who gets the biggest payoff from "Big Tobacco?" Why, it's the federal government.
To: RegulatorCountry
And yet still they sued Big Tobacco in a class action lawsuit.
The beast is hungry and the law is a ass.
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posted on
08/02/2006 2:55:57 PM PDT
by
weegee
(Remember "Remember the Maine"? Well in the current war "Remember the Baby Milk Factory")
To: jumpstart1981
How much tobacco does one have to smoke before it impairs driving?
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posted on
08/02/2006 2:57:28 PM PDT
by
weegee
(Remember "Remember the Maine"? Well in the current war "Remember the Baby Milk Factory")
To: jumpstart1981
I personally don't have a problem with legalizing marijuana. I'd much rather see stricter penalties for alcohol related crimes and accidents. I've never met an angry stoner ;)
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posted on
08/02/2006 2:57:38 PM PDT
by
BigTex5
To: jumpstart1981
"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?"
It's almost as funny as how people will cry foul when people go to jail for smoking marijuana, but laud the government for attempting to take tobacco and nicotine away, isn't it, noob? LOL. And, welcome to Free Republic, by the way.
To: HAL9000
And that day will be the birth of a phenominally large black market, one that will rival drug cartels in size and scope.
That would be a very short sighted move.
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posted on
08/02/2006 2:58:23 PM PDT
by
DoughtyOne
(Bring your press credentials to Qana, for the world's most convincing terrorist street theater.)
To: Young Scholar
The Health-Nazi Apparatchiks find your post double-plus-ungood. Report to the Ministry of Truth immediatly so we can airbrush the pipe out from Einstein's mouth. Also, we shall change his name in the History Indoctrination Manuals to Eichmann (we wouldn't want anybody to know he was a JOOOOOOOO, after all).
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posted on
08/02/2006 3:11:26 PM PDT
by
lesser_satan
(EKTHELTHIOR!!!)
To: lesser_satan
Also, we shall change his name in the History Indoctrination Manuals to Eichmann (we wouldn't want anybody to know he was a JOOOOOOOO, after all).Eichmann isn't a Jewish name?
To: HAL9000
Keep talking, Mike..so that all those who even
think you might be Presidental material know exactly what we are in for...
sw
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posted on
08/02/2006 3:19:00 PM PDT
by
spectre
(Spectre's wife)
To: tacticalogic
Like. . .Everything that is not mandatory is forbidden?
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posted on
08/02/2006 3:22:37 PM PDT
by
spectre
(Spectre's wife)
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