Congress poised to regulate tobacco (next week)

TimesDispatch.com ^ | Feb 9, 2007 | PETER HARDIN

[SheLion]

WASHINGTON -- Bipartisan legislation to give the federal Food and Drug Administration regulatory control over tobacco products may be introduced next week.

[SheLion]

Waxman is pond scum. That said, he's no worse than the smokers who assert a divine right to stink up the air I breath. A pox on both their houses.

AH! ANOTHER FREE REPUBLIC ANTI SMOKER!!!

And a POX on YOUR house!  Jerk!

[SheLion]

And you are no better than Waxman either, asserting a divine right to something that does not belong to you alone.

Whee is a bottom feeder.............

And you are no better than Waxman either, asserting a divine right to something that does not belong to you alone.

Whee is a bottom feeder.............

[SheLion]

However, it is becoming increasingly likely that one is likely to drop dead from busybodyism.

[SheLion]

You just don't get it do you? You have smoked for 40 years every place you have gone. Don't you realized you have been imposing your preference to smoke on others who didn't want to? That's what all this non smoking stuff is about.

THEN STAY AWAY FR0M SMOKERS! Simple as that.  Then you won't have any cause to bitch about it!!

[SheLion]

 I am a 66 year old artist who doesn't drink, smoke, gamble,like porn or play scrabble. I have been avoiding smokers ever since I left home at age 17, that would be 1957, when EVERYONE smoked every where. I am NOT a government pawn no matter if you like to think I am. There are lots of us out here like me and you are on the losing end.

Gosh, how wonderful to be so perfect!!  You must be very proud of yourself!

We are on the losing END? I don't THINK so!  Many of us all across the United States are fighting for the rights of the business owner and people like YOU!

Darlene Brennan - The Smoker's Club, Inc. - New England Regional Director
The United Pro Choice Smokers Rights Newsletter - http://www.smokersclubinc.com
Maine Smokers Rights - http://www.geocities.com/shelioness/mainerights.html
mailto:darlene@maine.rr.com - Respect Freedom of Choice!

 I am a 66 year old artist who doesn't drink, smoke, gamble,like porn or play scrabble. I have been avoiding smokers ever since I left home at age 17, that would be 1957, when EVERYONE smoked every where. I am NOT a government pawn no matter if you like to think I am. There are lots of us out here like me and you are on the losing end.

Gosh, how wonderful to be so perfect!!  You must be very proud of yourself!

We are on the losing END? I don't THINK so!  Many of us all across the United States are fighting for the rights of the business owner and people like YOU!

Darlene Brennan - The Smoker's Club, Inc. - New England Regional Director
The United Pro Choice Smokers Rights Newsletter - http://www.smokersclubinc.com
Maine Smokers Rights - http://www.geocities.com/shelioness/mainerights.html
mailto:darlene@maine.rr.com - Respect Freedom of Choice!

[SheLion]

I'll ask this before somebody else does in a more antagonistic obnoxious way: You are 66 and have been exposed to SHS involuntarily for your entire life no matter how much you tried to avoid it. How are you still alive if SHS is as dangerous as Sarin Gas?

Good gravy!  66 and still ALIVE???? Surely, she has been exposed to SHS in all those years and she is still ALIVE?????  Goodness!

[SheLion]

In spite of wanting not to be obnoxious and antagonistic, you were.You just couldn't help it.

Ah! Bash and trash him. Is that the best you can do Ditter?????

[IslandJeff]

If tobacco is such a public health menace, why not just do away with it a la Leaded Gasoline?

Don't answer, because we both know it. The public sector should be scrapped and, maybe, restarted. I speak gingerly.

[azhenfud]

"You know what? I have smoked since I was 16 and these "chemicals" haven't hurt me yet!!!
..........
Because all is well in SheLion Land!!!!"

I hope you're right, Black Knight.

[SheLion]

I hope you're right, Black Knight

I'm always here aren't I?  If I was sick, I sure wouldn't be posting on Free Republic! heh!

[SheLion]

I hope you're right, Black Knight

BLACK KNIGHT?????

This is me.............SHELION!

[azhenfud]

"I'm always here aren't I? If I was sick, I sure wouldn't be posting on Free Republic! heh!"

And I hope you many more postings. However, I smoked for 27 years and this past October have been quit for eight (just counted it up since 2/11's my B-day) and I know from experience smoking isn't good for anyone. Those who think otherwise are only successful in deceiving themselves.

PS. "Black Knight" is the Monty Python character who denies being hurt despite having lost both arms and legs.

[Conservativegreatgrandma]

Thanks for this info. You didn't say what happened in Maine. I'll google it. Gov. Culver says this new tax will bring in and extra $140 million a year and at the same time save lives.

[Conservativegreatgrandma]

Don't get me wrong. I hate smoking. Even if it weren't dangerous, it's obnoxious. Still this tax is also wrong and they're selling the people of Iowa a bill of goods.

Since you're as passionate about it as you are, do you have sources for rolling your own, etc?

[megatherium]

I don't know what Waxman smells like. All I know is that he perfectly exemplifies the old line about politics being show business for ugly people.

[Ditter]

Are you finished?


LOL! You never disappoint!

[WhiteGuy]

Clever pic, but sadly too close to the truth.

[Old Professer]

You miss the point; 3/4 of all the deaths in a given year are the deaths of non-smokers, when did anybody make a fuss over that?

Since the percentage of mortality among smokers pretty much equals the percentage of smokers in the population who die, one might just as easily classify the number of people who eat garlic, or snowboard or wear red garters.

Now, if the percentage of smokers who die could be shown to be higher than those non-smokers who die, an argument would have merit. But no figures exist by which one could make that determination.

The argument for premature death assumes that each of us is alloted a certain number of years and, if we don't make it, something intervened to put us down.

The prologue to Albert Camus' The Plague has a tale of a man so morbidly fearful that he takes to his bed and hires a manservant to attend to his needs and for entertainment the frightened soul counts peas from a full bowl to an empty one then switches bowls and continues until sleep overtakes him.

That was meant, I think, to say that a life unlived, is no life at all.

[EVO X]

Speaking of risk, how much do you drive in an average week?

According to statistics I am likely to be safer driving in a car with second hand smoke than walking to work..

[EVO X]

See post 89