'Ban all tobacco' - US health chief

Guardian (UK) ^ | June 4, 2003 | Duncan Campbell

[Cultural Jihad]

Should they ban it?

Who's 'they'? You mean the foreign occupation army which sets their tanks and machinegun nests in front of polling booths across America, and shoots anyone who tries to vote? Them?

[MrLeRoy]

There is nothing inherently immoral about using tobacco products.

Is there anything inherently immoral about using marijuana?

[metesky]

Any legal product can be made illegal, and at that point you have no "freedom" to use it.

Malum Prohibitum Illegal because they say so.

Malum in se Illegal by common sense and the agreement of all, common law.

[Cultural Jihad]

Is there anything inherently immoral about using marijuana?

Also not.

[Wolfie]

I always like to pull out a little history lesson at times like this:

In 1914, Henry Ford published a tract inveighing against a substance that was enjoying a spike in popularity. He gathered testimonials from a host of luminaries, including Booker T. Washington, who said that the drug caused "a blunting of the moral sense," and Thomas Edison, who said it "has a violent action on the nerve centers, producing degeneration of the cells of the brain, which is permanent and uncontrollable. "I will employ no person," Edison concluded, "who smokes cigarettes."

[yankeedame]

I did not know tobacco was a perennial....I've never chopped it till my hands bled unlike Belle Meade Al...

No, smarty pants, I mean the tobacco habit and that kind of stuff. Gee, and here I am trying to be profound and poetic at the same time! (grin)

[jmc813]

If the Federal Government wished to make nicotine a Class 1 drug, would you have a problem with it?

[jmc813]

My mistake, I meant Schedule 1 drug.

[bassmaner]

Is there anything inherently immoral about using marijuana?

Also not.

So, CJ, do you now believe that laws that mandate involuntary anal-rape camp visits, er, jail sentences for people who grow, sell, and possess marijuana be repealed?

[EBUCK]

waaay to much revenue/lobbist dollars going to our government

And none of that money is finding itself in the pockets of state politicians?? Yah-right-bub. This will happen and mainly becuase WOD profits are down.

[Mark17]

As a side note, maybe I should start a tobacco business.........worked for Joe Kennedy.

LOL, he did that too? I thought he was just well, er, ah, just a business man, yeah, a business man. I guess this would work about as well as prohibition too huh?

[robertpaulsen]

"California has led the way. Last year it banned smoking in all areas next to playgrounds or "tot lot" areas."

With marijuana as the only exception.

[wardaddy]

Rocco would agree...although he's big on Budapest as well...lol

[wardaddy]

Amen.

[wardaddy]

I wasn't trying to be smarty pants....i actually thought you meant it was a perennial plant...which surpised me.

I'm from Mississippi, I know a bit more about cotton and soybeans than tobacco.

Sorry.

Btw...you are profound and very poetic;>)

[bassmaner]

With marijuana as the only exception.

Oh, puhhleeze. If anything, your jack-booted federal Drug Warrior heroes are too busy trying to shut down LEGAL medi-pot clinics in California to be bothered with such trivial pursuits.

[FreeRadical]

We have to teach our selves, our kids and our neighbors to hate this UNUSGOV Thugscum type thinking Carmona exhibits and exudes. We are morally obligated to eliminate this kind of MD in jackboots from our government.

[Mr. Mojo]

While we're on cigars...

That Dominican Goddess can roll my double corona any day.

[Protagoras]

These lazy UK journalists have not bothered to figure out the the "US Health Chief" - the Surgeon General, is a cerimonal position with no power.

I guess that makes El Rushbo and the rest lazy too. They were all over Joseyln Elders for years.

[Publius6961]

HA!
I DARE YA!!