[Gabz]

The tobacco death number is BS.........it is a GIGO computer generated number, thus nothing else in that post is worth paying a danged bit of attention to, is it?

[Eric Blair 2084]

Anybody paying attention knows it is all bogus. That's irrelevant. Quix and his anti-alcohol jihadists don't need to be right. They only need to convince gullible, progressive Democrat part time state legislators that they are right and that their proposal will benefit the "greater good" of society.

Quix might need the actual successful blueprint from the successful Tobacco Control experiment:

Now stop posting here Quix and get to work on straightening up those drinkers. I can't make it any easier for you.

[Quix]

Actually, the statistics were all collected with responsible, solid methodology and analyzed in responsible solid ways.

Of course, those wanting the “freedom” to destroy their own lives early from smoking related diseases and thereby steal comfort and companionship from their loved ones most selfishly—such folks with a death grip on a pathological death wish will be unlikely to ever pay attention to even the most sound and useful statistics.

But I’m not really interested in another smoking-deaths-are-wonderful tirade. I’ve had too many loved ones die horribly with emphysema.

But, hey, if you’re so fond of such things, you could practice ahead of time by breathing through a straw with the inner diameter of a hair.