Obama Creates Thousands of New Jobs

Independent Individualist ^ | 6/15/09 | Reginald Firehammer

[Hank Kerchief]

The jobs are risky, but very lucrative for those willing to take the risks, and require no previous experience or special training. Almost anyone with a driver's license (or at least the ability to drive) can do this job.

How did Obama do it?

What People
Who Don't Smoke
Look Like

A recent Senate vote brought tobacco under the regulation of the FDA. The effort, spearheaded by Sen. Ted Kennedy, D-Mass., in the Senate and Calif. Democrat Henry Waxman in the House (no doubt because of their medical expertise—Kennedy, for example, is considered the government's chief expert on alcohol consumption).

This is very important legislation. It is obvious that tobacco is something a lot of people want to use (which is what the government is counting on), and will continue to use no matter what regulations are put in place, which the government knows perfectly well, but will now be able to increase taxes on and control the distribution of this almost endless revenue producing product.

And it will create two whole new classes of jobs: 1) the army of regulators that will be needed to control tobacco production, distribution, and sales, and 2) the army of tobacco smugglers that this much more profitable version of tobacco (like alcohol during prohibition) will create. Definitely a win-win proposition for employment.

Almost as Good as Global Warming

For the government, the Smoking lies have been almost as good as the Global Warming lies, just not as big. Of all the so-called science proving all the terrible things smoking does, there is no hard-science at all. It is all exactly the same kind of junk-science (surveys and statistics) used to put over the Global Warming scam.

Almost everyone buys it. It's why fools like American Heart Association CEO Nancy Brown can say things like, "The Senate vote is a significant victory for all Americans as we try to reduce the devastating toll tobacco use has inflicted on our communities." When you are driving around your community, keep a sharp eye out for all those heaps of dead bodies and collapsed buildings tobacco is inflicting on your town.

The truth does not matter to these people, especially if they can use their junk science to keep people terrified — don't smoke or you'll die from cancer or heart disease; don't go out in the sun or you'll get skin cancer and die; don't drive without a seat-belt or you'll have an accident and die. Does no one think that perhaps it is not too good for you to be terrified of every blessed thing that exists?

The Smoking Truth

The primary truth is, it would not matter if smoking a cigarette would kill you without fail before nightfall, it is wrong for any government to prevent the production, sale, and use of anything that all individuals involved freely choose to do. There is ultimately only one reason cigarettes (and most other substances) are regulated at all and that is the belief that some people have a right to force other people to do what they think is best for them; and they cannot bear that some people might actually be enjoying their lives without their interference.

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The truth is that hard science, that is real science, does not identify a single confirmed health issue with tobacco, but does find huge numbers of medical benefits. You will not find that in any MSM sources, because they have become an arm of government terrorism force. In fact, however, all the excuses for regulating tobacco are lies. Tobacco is used because people enjoy it. They would not use it if they didn't, and doing something you enjoy is good for you. But there are even greater benefits of smoking—benefits the government and its well-controlled media are intentionally hiding. Among those benefits are the following: Improves and prevents Parkinson's disease. "Reduced MAO B (monoamine oxidase) enzyme (smokers in their 60s have MAO B of nonsmokers in their 20s); also here). Lowering of MAO B is the Holy Grail of life-extension." "Glutathione (chief antioxidant in human body) and catalase (another key antioxidant which neutralizes alcohol damage, cyanide poisoning, etc.) doubled in smokers." In addition to glutathione, which is the body's master antioxidant and metal detoxifier, many other lesser antioxidants and detoxifiers are similarly strengthened. "Nicotine suppresses cell death of neurons (it also promotes vascular growth factor, e.g. growth and branching of capillaries)" Reduces osteo-athritis (up to threefold) Reduces incidence of colorectal cancer in women People who smoke fare better than nonsmokers when exposed to occupational hazards Reduces schizophrenia symptoms Reduces incidence of Alzheimer's and other degenerative diseases Smoking is protective against thyroid cancer Severe gum recession, less of a risk for smokers Children of smokers have lower odds for suffering from allergic rhino-conjunctivitis, allergic asthma, atopic eczema and food allergy Nicotine stops the growth of tuberculosis Smoking prevents a rare skin cancer Smoking reduces the risk of breast cancer Nicotine is therpeutic in treatment of ulcerative colitis

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Documented here:

Smoking is Good for You!

Therapeutic Effects of Smoking and Nicotine

More resources:

Other resources, (Books)

Fundamentals of Statistics

ETS and Second Hand Smoke

OH, and while you enjoy that smoke, be sure to have a nice glass of red wine. "The breadth of [its] benefits is remarkable—cancer prevention, protection of the heart and brain from damage, reducing age-related diseases such as inflammation, reversing diabetes and obesity, and many more."

Smoke, drink, and be merry. You'll be happier and you'll live longer.

—Reginald Firehammer

[Eric Blair 2084]

FWIW, I just like the nicotine that helps with my focus and concentration. I can do without the smoke.

They’ll find an excuse to ban that too. It’s all about the money and control.

[Drango]

Keep telling yourself that the big C, or emphysema, or cardiovascular disease isn’t gonna hit you.

[Eric Blair 2084]

Keep telling yourself that the big C, or emphysema, or cardiovascular disease isn’t gonna hit you.

My wife's best friend died of brain cancer at age 31 a few years ago and never smoked. Left behind a 2 yo daughter. My uncles are all in their 70's and smoked their entire lives. Who died in your family that you blame on smoking?

How did that make you feel, Drango?

[TigersEye]

It doesn't matter if it does. As a smoker there is a 7% chance that I will get lung cancer. If I had never smoked there would be a 3.5% chance I would get lung cancer.

In the meantime I haven't had a cold in over 35 years and I haven't had the flu in over 25 years. I have had no major illnesses, no chronic health problems other than back and neck pain and rarely even use OTC medications for anything. My cholesterol is low my BP is low and my standing heart rate is low.

[TigersEye]

Correction: resting heart rate

[TigersEye]

I suppose I should be bitter and fearful about tobacco. My father contracted lung cancer at the very age I am now. His surgeon removed half of one lung and he was cancer-free for five years. Statistically about 60% or more of patients who pass the five year mark have beaten it for good. It re-metastasized and he died later that year.

I loved him very much and miss him still thirty years later. But I'm not bitter and I'm not afraid of anything.

[antceecee]

The ice cream truck use to sell these when they made the rounds of the neighborhood. Kids would order popsicles and a a pack of Pall Mall or Lucky Strike for Mom or Dad. No note needed.

My Dan has serious health problems from smoking, my sister has to use a breathing machine and I just really can’t get behind this support for smoking posted here.
If you smoke, fine, I will defend your right to do so, BUT don’t try to piss on my leg and tell me it’s raining... smoking is not good for your health.

[antceecee]

My Dan = my Dad - Dan... he is not doing so great... stopped smoking, but having difficult time right now.

[Eric Blair 2084]

That’s the difference between Statists like Drango, Kennedy, Reid and you.

If your Dad were here (and he is because you are) he would tell you that it was his decision as an adult and he died as a free man. He would be pissed if you became a fascist.

Drango’s dead family member (Dad, Mom, gay lover judging by his writings) who he won’t tell us about, if he were a conservative would tell him the same thing.

In any case, try the e-cig. Unbiased testimonial.

[TigersEye]

If your Dad were here ... He would be pissed if you became a fascist.

Oh ho ho ho ho! You have no idea. ;-)

I am going to get an e-cig or two. My main motivation is to yank every cent I can away from the statists now controlling our government.

[Eric Blair 2084]

That’s my motivation too. Plus it is nice to be able to run like I did when I was 23. Well almost.

I want to make it clear to anti tobacco activists that I didn’t quit because the price was too high (thanks to this great country I could afford $100/per pack). I didn’t quit because you kicked me out of bars.

Coercion by the gubmint had nothing to do with it.

I think your Dad sent the e-cig as a gift from Heaven.

These bastards should pay me. I move merchandise :-)

[TigersEye]

And, finally, in the "Some people just refuse to die when they're told to!" department...

UK war veteran becomes oldest man in the world at 113

Despite an apparently blameless life, he attributes his longevity to "cigarettes, whisky and wild, wild women – and a sense of humour".

[metesky]

You’re so freakin’ childish...

[listenhillary]

I haven’t researched this deeply, but I keep hearing pf people that have horrible health problems after they quit smoking cigarettes. I’m not saying it is true, only that I have heard many stories like this.

My sister is one of them. How many more are out there?

I’m currently still smoking natural tobacco cigarettes after a serous fling with e-cigs where I was down to 3 real cigarettes a day.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

Save Us, Sarah!

[Hank Kerchief]

“While I suppose that anyone has the right to kill themselves anyway they want, they can leave me out of it.”

I know you’ll find this hard to believe, but no smoker cares whether you smoke or not, or whether you approve or not. Unlike others, we tend to mind our own business.

Hank

[Hank Kerchief]

“Just like the science that *proves* evolution happened, eh?”

Yes, as a matter of fact. There are three pseudo-sciences used to promote all kinds of leftist, collectivist programs, and most people swallow all three—psychology, evolution, and environmentalism. There is not a scintilla of science in any of them.

Hank

[Hank Kerchief]

“I’ll remember to tell my patients in the hospital dying of emphysema how much good smoking has done them. Ditto the ones dying of lung cancer. I’m sure they will enthusiastically agree with you.”

You have no more business telling people how to live their lives, one way or the other, than their carpenter does, except their carpenter will not be so presumptuous. What do you tell them, what terrible people they were because they smoked?

Do all your patients who smoke have lung cancer? Do all your patients who smoke have emphysema. Do most of them have those things? If smoking causes them, why not?

And what pharmaceutical company is sponsoring you?

Hank

[Hank Kerchief]

“Why aren’t you on my ping list?”

Well, put me on, then. I don’t want to be investigated. I have to maintain my reputation as an unreasonable stubborn individualist.

Hank

[Hank Kerchief]

“This article implies that Bozo created thousands of jobs driving vehicles smuggling tobacco into the US and an army of regulators to enforce the new rules. It would be funny if it wasn’t true.”

It’s not funny, and it is true. Sigh!

Hank