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Utah Sen. Mitt Romney takes aim at e-cigarettes
The Deseret News ^ | June 13, 2019 | Wendy Leonard

Posted on 06/14/2019 12:46:52 PM PDT by Trump20162020

Sen. Mitt Romney with a New Mexico senator on Thursday presented a bill to keep electronic cigarettes and other vaping systems away from educational and child care facilities across the country, saying youth use has reached epidemic levels.

"In my home state of Utah, the use of electronic cigarettes has nearly doubled in the last five years, with young Utahns most likely to be introduced to vaping while they are in school," Romney, R-Utah, said. "By banning the use of electronic cigarettes in schools, we are taking an important step to protect the health of young people in Utah and across the nation."

(Excerpt) Read more at deseretnews.com ...


TOPICS: Government; US: Utah
KEYWORDS: ecigarette; ecigarettes; electroniccigarette; electroniccigarettes; mittromney; mittweasel; nannystate; romney; senate; smoking; vaping
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear
Apparently it's a "gateway" to smoking real tobacco, or something. Same discredited argument used against marijuana, that people were going to smoke pot and then start using cocaine or methamphetamine or whatever.

Let's be real, it's not about vaping, it's about control. They passed smoking bans based purely on questionable science about secondhand smoking. With vaping they don't even have that, and they're still very gung-ho for public spaces bans. It tells me very clearly it was never truly about public health.

21 posted on 06/14/2019 1:06:25 PM PDT by Trump20162020
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To: Trump20162020

Gee, I can see he wanted to get elected to the U.S. Senate
to tackle the REALLY IMPORTANT issues.


22 posted on 06/14/2019 1:07:05 PM PDT by Buckeye McFrog (Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer.)
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To: CJ Wolf
Most ecigs are banned at school anyway.

Vapin' in the boys' room
Vapin' in the boys' room
Now, teacher, don't you fill me up with your rules
But everybody knows that vapin' ain't allowed in school

23 posted on 06/14/2019 1:08:16 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: T. P. Pole
You have the right idea but it isn’t salivation that describes my feelings towards old Mitt


24 posted on 06/14/2019 1:10:07 PM PDT by RightGeek (FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear

It’s the nagging fear that someone out
there may be having a good time.


25 posted on 06/14/2019 1:11:59 PM PDT by sparklite2 (Don't mind me. I'm just a contrarian.)
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To: Trump20162020
Has there ever been a case of someone going from the e's to smokes? It seems like it goes the other way.

You probably know they vape a lot of other things besides nicotine so it must be the delivery system they are after now.

26 posted on 06/14/2019 1:15:56 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (Human beings don't behave rationally. We rationalize our behavior.)
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To: sparklite2
They sure try to suck the joy out of everything so you may be right.

I personally think it is just a power trip for them to boss us around.

27 posted on 06/14/2019 1:17:57 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (Human beings don't behave rationally. We rationalize our behavior.)
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To: Trump20162020

Mitt has his magic underpants in a wad.


28 posted on 06/14/2019 1:18:59 PM PDT by The Toll
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To: Trump20162020

“...nearly doubled...?”

How would he know ?


29 posted on 06/14/2019 1:20:21 PM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks (Baseball players, gangsters and musicians are remembered. But journalists are forgotten.)
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To: Trump20162020

Hey Mittens, howz’ ‘bout marijuana? Gonna’ ban that too?


30 posted on 06/14/2019 1:27:32 PM PDT by laweeks
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To: laweeks

Lets ban him from the Republican Party. Hes no Republican!


31 posted on 06/14/2019 1:29:43 PM PDT by TonytheTiger7777
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To: Trump20162020

The freshman senator needs to sit down


32 posted on 06/14/2019 1:30:19 PM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: TonytheTiger7777

Mr. Mitt Romney, you are officially banned from my Republican Party. Stay away or you will be arrested. You have been warned.


33 posted on 06/14/2019 1:31:00 PM PDT by TonytheTiger7777
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To: Trump20162020

Nannystate c***


34 posted on 06/14/2019 1:33:35 PM PDT by Vaquero ( Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: Trump20162020

Possible war with Iran - RINO MItch sleeps
Evidence of everything Trump has been accused of actually being from the other side - Still sleeping
Item that helps people get off of tobacco thus cutting them off of smoking - Mitch grabs his Book of Mormon and dons his magic pajamas. . .


35 posted on 06/14/2019 1:36:59 PM PDT by AmericanCheeseFood (Fox Shadowbans People On Comments)
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To: RightGeek

Marshal Thibido “The Shootist”

“The day they lay you away, what I’ll do on your grave won’t pass for flowers.”


36 posted on 06/14/2019 1:39:32 PM PDT by Vaquero ( Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: Trump20162020

“They passed smoking bans based purely on questionable science about secondhand smoking.”

Remember all the “this is what your lungs look like” gimmicks?
I remember the one where they told smokers to put their cigs out in a jar half filled with water and when the jar was nearly filled that was what a smokers lungs looked like.

My wife passed away from Interstitial Lung disease. The doctors asked for a limited autopsy and permission to take tissue samples because so little is known about the disease. They offered to go over the autopsy with me whenever I felt like it.
It took two years but I finally talked to them about their findings.
They showed me the report, pictures and all the data. Very interesting.

I took the opportunity to ask the doctor about that old butts in a jar thing. She actually laughed and said it was so much BS it was worthy of a comedy skit.
She said she had performed thousands of autopsies in the past 20+ years and could take all day disproving all the propaganda about smoking.
According to her and one of her associates by the time the autopsy is done TEETH are the best indicator of whether someone was a smoker.


37 posted on 06/14/2019 1:47:57 PM PDT by oldvirginian (Winning isn't everything, it's the ONLY thing)
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To: Trump20162020

Get the F out of here Romney you sanctimonious prick.


38 posted on 06/14/2019 1:52:26 PM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: Mears

I LOATHE ban people.


39 posted on 06/14/2019 1:53:23 PM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: Trump20162020

Mitt! Advocate for every nanny-state idea!


40 posted on 06/14/2019 1:55:58 PM PDT by aMorePerfectUnion
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