[EnquiringMind]

I am thankful that my state passed strict smoking laws, it helped me quit. All smokers want to quit, they just don't all admit it.

By the way, it is a waste of time for you to bash Rudy for the sake of the so-called "Rudophiles". Nothing is going to change my mind.

p.s. - that Rudy-in-a-dress picture is way past old.

[EternalVigilance]

Nothing is going to change my mind.

That quote, combined with your screen name, defines irony.

[Gabz]

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

Kindly speak for yourself and not others.

[flashbunny]

"I am thankful that my state passed strict smoking laws, it helped me quit. All smokers want to quit, they just don't all admit it."

Those two sentences just defined liberalism.

[dirtboy]

I am thankful that my state passed strict smoking laws, it helped me quit. All smokers want to quit, they just don't all admit it.

Ah, so you get to impose your views on other smokers, eh? You're a natural fit for the Rudy camp.

[PBRSTREETGANG]

I am thankful that my state passed strict smoking laws, it helped me quit. All smokers want to quit, they just don't all admit it.

So the message here is, "Socialism works!"?

[GOP_Lady]

I don't believe that most people will quit because of these laws, simply because you can still step outside to smoke. Many working places have been smoke-free for years and people have been doing this. And, I don't think that if they banned alcohol in public places that people would quit drinking alochol either.

[Bigh4u2]

"I am thankful that my state passed strict smoking laws, it helped me quit."

So you needed the state to pass a law so you could quit?

And you think because you wanted to quit, others do to?

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

No. It's more like....

"I'm just a liberal, but I just don't want to admit it"

[TigersEye]

I am thankful that my state passed strict smoking laws, it helped me quit.

What a weakling. Take responsibility for your own actions.

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

BS. I have no desire to quit.

[stockstrader]

You said, "I am thankful that my state passed strict smoking laws, it helped me quit".

Wow. You've sure got a lot of willpower and self-control!! Very impressive.

Let's hope, then, that the government can ban fatty foods, alcohol, guns, violent movies, loud music, and anything else that could POSSIBLY harm our health.

Yep, with a 'BIG GOVERNMENT KNOWS BEST" philosophy like yours,,,,just think of how much better our lives would be!!! (rolling eyes)

[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").

[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.

[ExpatGator]

Seig Heil!!!

I quit smoking on my own. Someone who needs nanny state coercion to quit smoking is a sheeple. BAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH...

How's the herd?

[No.6]

"I am thankful that my state passed strict smoking laws, it helped me quit. All smokers want to quit, they just don't all admit it. "

As a former smoker, I detest your remarks.

Your opinion is that it's a great idea for Big Government to tell us what to do because after all everyone must really want to quit even if they tell you to your face that they don't?

There are a group of people who think they all know better than us what we want or ought to want in every circumstance of life. Last I checked this forum is dedicated to fighting that philosophy.

I quit because I chose to. Since I'm a conservative, I don't think my opinions ought to be enforced on everyone else.

[eXe]

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

Not all.. there are a few of us who didn't fall in line with the sheeple and actually ENJOY smoking.

Some of us don't even want to quit.. shocking isn't it? Some of us can decide for ourselves what we like and dislike and didnt need nanny Rudy or Bloomburg to tell us how to live.

[MEGoody]

I am thankful that my state passed strict smoking laws, it helped me quit.

So you needed the state to make you do what you wanted to do? And you think everyone else needs the state to do the same for them?

[newguy357]

I am thankful that my state passed strict smoking laws, it helped me quit. All smokers want to quit, they just don't all admit it.

yeea i tink u r on 2 sum thing. i want 2 ecksersize mor butt dont hav the attenshun span. we need guvermunt 2 saive us. thay shude hav law that we must all eckserxize 1 hour every day.

/sarc

You people amaze me. And not in a good way.

[Thumper1960]

Finally, someone admits they're better off having others decide how they should live their life.

It's OK for you, but I prefer to think for myself, live for myself and decide for myself.

For the future, you really ought to get some really good sweat bands for those wrists and ankles--it'll lessen the chafing from those shackles.

[elkfersupper]

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

What?

A more accurate statement is that all non-smokers and former smokers want current smokers to quit, they just won't admit it.

[inneroutlaw]

I am thankful that my state passed strict smoking laws

I would be thankful if the sorry bastards had just raised your taxes to equal the amount of money generated by cigarette sales/taxes and left everyone else alone.

[webheart]

p.s. - that Rudy-in-a-dress picture is way past old.

You can say that all you want, but watch what happens if Rudy gets the nomination: That way past old picture will become the new stock photo that headlines every front-page Rudy story until he loses the general election. The major media uses pictures for their full 1000-word value. If you ever see a picture of Hillary or Nancy or Murtha, they are always shown from slightly below, looking out as if over the left shoulder of the viewer. If you ever see a picture of President Bush on the front page, it shows him from slightly above, giving the impression that he is short. They also like to catch him in the middle of talking, so they can show him with his mouth open, and with a cross expression on his face. And Rudy will always be seen in a dress.