You are not exactly coming down off the mountain with the tablets with this. Now moveon.org and get back to the dummie funnies.
Posted on 02/24/2009 7:33:52 PM PST by PJ-Comix
One of the big pet peeves of your humble correspondent is when tobacco lawsuit plaintiffs declare that the hazards of smoking cigarettes were kept secret by the tobacco companies and, as a result, they continued smoking thinking that it was safe to do so. Yeah, some "secret" when each and every pack of cigarettes has had the Surgeon General's warning printed on them for over 40 years. My own mother was a regular smoker until that day back in the 60s when the Surgeon General declared smoking to be hazardous to your health. And on that day my mother quit smoking...cold. And yet we continue to have smokers suing the tobacco companies because they claim that they just weren't informed that it could cause cancer and other diseases. Even worse, the newspapers such as the Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel report on such lawsuits without ever mentioning that smoking hazard warnings are all over the place including right on each cigarette pack and in anti-smoking PSA commercials such as you can see in this video (warning: very intense viewing).
(Excerpt) Read more at newsbusters.org ...
PING!
Quit March, 1986.
My liberal brother-in-law was a longtime smoker. He once said "I'm a grown man. I know the risks. It gives me pleasure. I'm going to keep smoking." Fair enough, but at some point he decided to quit, and did. A few months later, around the time of one of the Congressional show hearings for the tobacco companies, he said, "Those damn tobacco companies! They tricked me about the severity of the health risks."
True story.
There are very few people left that do not understand the dangers of smoking.
Long before the Surgeon General’s 1964 report, it was pretty well known that smoking is not particularly conducive to good health.
Cigarette were known as “coffin nails” since the 19th century, and King James I observed in the early 17th century that “smoking is hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, and dangerous to the lungs. “
It was a Big Tobacco conspiracy to keep it all a secret. Even though I smoked thousands of packs of cigarettes I never noticed that Surgeon General’s warning on EACH and EVERY pack of cigarettes. I never did see those anti-smoking PSAs on the tube because I always went to the fridge when they came on. I missed school the day they showed that lung being cut out film. NOT MY FAULT! WAAAAAAAH!!!!!
Let me knock on every piece of wood in the house before typing this....
I have never met anyone who has gotten a disease caused by smoking. I have Grandfathers, sister, cousins and 7 uncles in their 70’s and 80’s who were two pack a day smokers and thousands of friends who have smoked, and nobody has ever gotten sick.
It’s PJ’s article. He wrote it for NB and posted it here.
Dude, somebody need to do a genetic study on your family.
Having said that, I still have the last pack of cigs I bought in Germany - the pack, not the cigs, I smoked them. The health warning says, “CAUTION! IF YOU SMOKE THESE, EVERYONE WITHIN A HUNDRED MILES OF YOU WILL DIE!”
So I sat on the Mall in DC, and smoked the entire pack.
Doesn’t seem to have worked.
Some guy named Darwin already beat them to it.
Yes, actually.
You are not exactly coming down off the mountain with the tablets with this. Now moveon.org and get back to the dummie funnies.
No need to ever apologize to me my FRiend.
BTW, I know what you mean. I gave my sister a $100 bill and told her to buy 4 cartons from the duty free shop on her trip to Cancun.
She forgot until her way home. She bought them in Mexico at the airport.
They have that retarded, obnoxious Latin America warning.
These people live in mud hovels, have no food, they’re shooting people in a drug war at the border, there is garbage piling up so high the rats can’t even reach it without their noses bleeding, the water is so unsanitary it will have tourists alternating between diarrhea and vomiting......
But Marlboro Ultra Lights are the root of all evil.
Go figure.
Wanna know something funny? US Marlboro cigs in Saudi Arabia, by the carton, are about $6
What you and I pay above that in the US is alllllll taxes.
Except over there, there are only two channels on TV. I’ve never been there, but my Dad (great man, my idol and hero, the only one of his brothers who never smoked but his son is rebellious:-) was there on a business trip years ago.
One channel has some guy praying to Allah and the other channel has some guy telling you turn back to the other channel or else.
I’d rather pay $21 per carton at the duty free shop and go watch gratuitous sex and violence on my 52” LCD HDTV. Great country this America. Glad he brought me here.
That’s what I’m gonna do now for half an hour. Good night my man!
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