Giuliani backtracks on smoking comment (smoke Nazi)

TCM ^ | 9/19/03 | staff

[pissant]

A day after he implied that Ireland should not follow New York City’s example and pass a ban on smoking in all workplaces, Rudolph Giuliani called Mayor Michael Bloomberg to say that was not what he meant.

Bloomberg said the former mayor told him that he meant that Ireland, which currently has no smoking restrictions, should begin to restrict smoking slowly, rather than all at once.

“He just thought that sometimes you go partways to get there, let people adjust and then go the rest of the way,” Bloomberg said yesterday.

Giuliani said that it made more sense to restrict smoking to certain areas.

[BykrBayb]

You might want to do a little research on what freedom is. Our troops don't sacrifice their lives to save you a little money on your dry cleaning.

[stockstrader]

I've known fat people who can't quit eating either. It's just soooooooooo darn hard!!!

Maybe we can get the government to BAN hamburgers, greasy fries and all fatty foods--or even better,,,

maybe we can get the govt to MANDATE DAILY EXERCISE!!! /s

[Gabz]

The opinion of me held by nanny state lovers is worth about as much as teats on a boar hog.

[GOP_Lady]

That's going to be the next thing -- obesity -- you can see it coming.

[maryz]

Since the only quoted source here is Bloomberg, I'm not sure any credence can be placed in the story one way or the other.

[flashbunny]

"Not nearly as scary as Rudy's take on confiscating cars from folks ACQUITTED of crimes."

Do you have a link for info on that?

[Bonaparte]

"That's right, I do. Can't be playing with a full deck AND smoke."

But you can advocate nanny state totalitarianism and be "playing with a full deck"?

[Gabz]

Oh, I do drink and my husband and I actually did go down to the local Moose Lodge Saturday afternoon and have a couple of beers.......I spent more time helping out in the kitchen than I did drinking...........but the key is responsibility, we went out about 4 and were home before 6:30. No way would I have wanted to be on the road at 10 or 11 that night though. Just like New Year's Eve and Superbowl Sunday, St. Pat's day is amateur day.

[Gabz]

Scary stuff........that.

[pissant]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1801464/posts

[nightlight7]

All smokers want to quit, they just don't all admit it.

That may well be so for those smokers who were duped by the antismoking voodoo "science" (a smokescreen for the extortion racket by pharmaceutical industry and "health" bureaucracies).

Better informed smokers know that people have smoked for over ten thousand years because smoking is good for their health. Tobacco is an ancient medicinal plant, the most potent one and the closest thing to "youth elixir" humans have ever known (virtually all of the "world's oldest" are lifelong smokers, with lean bodies and sharp minds beyond 100 thanks to this ancient "gift of gods").

[TigersEye]

"Let's say somebody is acquitted, and it's one of those acquittals in which the person was guilty, but there is just not quite enough evidence beyond a reasonable doubt," the Mayor (Rudy Giuliani)said. "That might be a situation in which the car would still be forfeited."

Holy moly! So much for due process!?!

[EnquiringMind]

I said that I am happy that in my state restaurants are smoke free. I also said that I don't care about any other smokers' well-being. And I said I was not too smart to start smoking.

Twist that into whatever floats your boat, big guy.

[the_diamond_rough]

This is something I've seen so much since the smoking ban came into effect here in Madistan: The people who support the ban are the "customers" who go to the bars once or twice a year. You may have saved a few bucks on dry-cleaning, but I wonder how many small business owners have been forced to shut their doors due to the smoking ban's effects?

[pissant]

Wothy of its own flashbunny card, IMO

[philman_36]

If you sit in a closed garage with a car engine on and I sit in a bar full of cigarette smoke who comes out alive?

All smokers want to quit, they just don't all admit it.
Choose your own poison.

[Bonaparte]

"Holy moly! So much for due process!"

Since when did Giulliani care about due process? This is the guy who publicly proposed violating NYC election law, just so he could once again be installed as mayor. He's also the guy who has publicly praised Justice Ginzburg's judicial wisdom.

Rudy's political profile includes the following --

He's a gun-grabber
He's pro-homo agenda
He's a tax-and-spender
He's pro-illegal immigrant
He's an adultrous, pro-partial-birth-abortion "catholic"

IOW, he's liberal right down to his bone marrow!

[flashbunny]

let's see, do I classify that position as being on property rights, due process, or civil liberties?

It's becoming clear that Rudy is a huge liberal statist who happens to be pro war and pro tax cuts.

[pissant]

Not so sure he is a huge liberal statist, but I am sure that not being anchored in conservative philosophy gives way too much leeway to drift that direction. This country has drifted to far in that direction, and it needs to start paddling the other way.

[stockstrader]

JulieAnnie believes in an 'all-knowing, all-powerful' government 'KNOWS BEST' philosophy.

If you want to continue (and even accelerate) the trend towards a bigger, more intrusive, more powerful, more controlling govt,,,,

JulieAnnie is JUST THE MAN (oops, I meant PERSON) FOR THE JOB!!