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S.F. fires up two-pronged attack on smoking
San Francisco Chronicle ^
| 7/16/8
| Heather Knight
Posted on 07/16/2008 7:47:50 AM PDT by SmithL
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To: Gabz
Man, how I hate people that try to save me from the "obvious" risks.
Save me from the UNOBVIOUS risks, not the "obvious ones.
I can see the obvious ones and avoid them myself.
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posted on
07/16/2008 8:50:17 AM PDT
by
Just another Joe
(Warning: FReeping can be addictive and helpful to your mental health)
To: Gabz
“It's government's responsibility to protect people from obvious risks.”
I've seen the same sentiment posted by FReepers. Some people just don't get that whole “Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness” thangy!
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posted on
07/16/2008 8:53:48 AM PDT
by
CSM
(Hey if a small tax increase didn't work, a bigger tax increase should not work even BETTER!)
To: SmithL; Gabz
Many sufferers of full-blown SDS (Smoker Derangement Syndrome) in the comments section after the article.
Soon to be joined by the FR SDSers I imagine.
These neurotics don't have a clue how tiresome yet dangerous they are.
When they die in perfect health, they still won't get it.
To: SmithL
"It's government's responsibility to protect people from obvious risks." But having illegal aliens gunning down innocent citizens is Okey-Dokey.
To: Banjoguy
Oh the the irony that the city of disease-ridden perverts (whose actions helped to ensure the successful spread of AIDS) are so hung up on smoking.
Of course, most of these people don’t mind smoking illegal susbstances and each other.
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posted on
07/16/2008 9:50:42 AM PDT
by
ohioman
To: Madame Dufarge; Gabz
To heck with nanny-state controllers. I'll be in Vegas Sunday with hubby celebrating my birthday and hubby's retirement from 31 years of service in public transportation (yuck, public transportation). I'm going to get hubby a fine cigar to enjoy with his adult beverage with other like-minded adults. Hubby and I refuse to be controlled by control freaks.
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posted on
07/16/2008 10:37:00 AM PDT
by
GOP_Lady
To: Madame Dufarge; Gabz
Why do CONTROL FREAKS such as these refuse to allow even one place where adults can be with like-minded adults? It's their way or nothing else, huh? Well, that's awfully nice and considerate, isn't it? Just the type of people I enjoy and admire.
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posted on
07/16/2008 10:40:00 AM PDT
by
GOP_Lady
To: Chinstrap61a
“Mitch Katz, director of the Department of Public Health,
..”It’s government’s responsibility to protect people from obvious risks.”
How’s it feel to find out you are politically aligned with the San Francisco Director of Public Health? Personally, I’d be ashamed if I were you.
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posted on
07/16/2008 11:04:47 AM PDT
by
CSM
(Hey if a small tax increase didn't work, a bigger tax increase should not work even BETTER!)
To: CSM
"Hows it feel to find out you are politically aligned with the San Francisco Director of Public Health? Personally, Id be ashamed if I were you."I'm fine with me - I don't impose myself on anyone else. I like to drive fast but I never drive fast in residential areas or any other area where I risk someone else. I like to fly light aircraft - but I don't take chances that risk other people's lives and nobody has to fly with me that doesn't want to.
Seems to me that you're the guy that ought to be ashamed: you can't kick a habit that makes you a pariah among educated people and that will eventually kill you.
Too bad.
To: SmithL
Where’s that da@m earthquake they’ve been predicting since the ‘70’s........
To: Chinstrap61a
The uneducated salute you. GFYS.
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posted on
07/16/2008 5:39:25 PM PDT
by
metesky
("Brethren, leave us go amongst them." Rev. Capt. Samuel Johnston Clayton - Ward Bond- The Searchers)
To: CSM
Forgot to ping you, my uneducated friend...
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posted on
07/16/2008 5:41:28 PM PDT
by
metesky
("Brethren, leave us go amongst them." Rev. Capt. Samuel Johnston Clayton - Ward Bond- The Searchers)
To: Chinstrap61a; CSM
I'm fine with me "O wad some Power the giftie gie us -To see oursels as ithers see us!"
To: commonguymd
Seems every smoker that quits develops something. Perhaps people ought not quit.Amen.
You get used to eating ribs every day and you go to salad, your body is going to revolt.
Smokers in my family outlived the non-smokers on the order of two decades.
To: Chinstrap61a
Seems to me that you're the guy that ought to be ashamed: you can't kick a habit that makes you a pariah among educated people and that will eventually kill you. Too bad.See ya' on the road there, Mad Max.
To: Chinstrap61a
you can't kick a habit that makes you a pariah among educated people and that will eventually kill you.
To: Madame Dufarge
"O wad some Power the giftie gie us -To see oursels as ithers see us!"True enough, but it doesn't much matter. We are who we are and life is a finite gift. What we do with that gift, while we have it, is the only real choice we have.
Given that so many of these correspondents seem to be in the mood to throw their lives away (and take us with them), their view of me is inconsequential.
To: elkfersupper
Yes - and as smart as he was, he never knew what a carcinogen was.
We know a good deal more know about smoking than he did - but people like you just keep smoking anyway.
How smart does that make you?
To: Chinstrap61a
How smart does that make you?Smart enough to know what liberty is and that I want more of it instead of less.
You?
To: elkfersupper
You have all of the liberty in the world to annhiliate yourself in any manner that strikes your fancy - including smoking.
You do not have the right to inflict it on anyone else.
Clear enough for you?
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