Libertarian Party’s Gary Johnson thinks there’s a good case for banning cigarettes

POLITICO ^ | September 15, 2016 | Ben Birnbaum

[Trump20162020]

There had also been an eye-opening moment on the streets of Cleveland during the Republican National Convention, when [Johnson and I had] been walking behind a cigarette-wielding Ohioan. As the smoker’s exhaust wafted in our faces, I remarked offhand that—with the advent of e-cigarettes—I thought there was a good libertarian case for banning regular cigarettes. “I do too,” replied the health-obsessed triathlete, recounting his support for anti-smoking efforts in New Mexico.

[Drango]

WOW...even I don’t think we should ban them. Tax ‘em sure, tax the snot out of them.

[MaxFlint]

Does Gary Johnson and Bill Weld intend to name their new party the RINOtarians?

LINOtarians.

This isn't GOP-lite, this is political correctness. The most important issues to the SJWs who've been pouring into the Libertarian movement since Ron Paul retired are feminism, homosexual rights and open borders. So basically the entire anti-freedom social agenda of the radical left.

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Here we have a man who is clearly not a libertarian using the Libertarian Party as his vehicle.

It's a two-way street, though.

His supporters see Johnson/Weld as a way to "grow the party."

They're only too happy to be used by Gary and Bill because they're also using them.

[MarkL]

Nutball Gary Johnson aside, I'm all for banning cigarettes. I've felt that way ever since the government shake-down known as the "tobacco settlement."

I sent a letter to Philip Morris telling them at the beginning of the shake-down, that they should have responded with, "You know, you're right, we've been bad. So we'll stop selling cigarettes in the USA. And we'll stop buying tobacco in the USA. And we'll stop manufacturing cigarettes in the USA."

That would have put an end to the shake-down so fast, it would have made leftists' collective little heads spin!

Mark

[dinodino]

Uh, banning things is not libertarian. Gary Johnson is a LINO.

[katana]

Sure, let's go ahead and create a black market that would make those caused by Prohibition and the "War on Drugs" look like a flea market stall. Brilliant.

Politics has become a hall of mirrors where the so called Democratic Party is run as an oligarchy of rich Socialists (a contradiction within a contradiction), and the so called Libertarians nominate a Fascist. What next, a Muslim Pope?

[Pearls Before Swine]

It's a two-way street, though.

Yeah, users and usees in both directions. You aren't saying that the party members are more principled? They're just climbing the jungle gym too.

[samtheman]

One of Lenin’s first acts of governance was outlawing smoking on the train carrying him and his staff into Russia in 1917.

Lenin was a Libertarian.

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[arthurus]

Bernie’s guys, anyway.

[Carthego delenda est]

I didn’t mind Johnson as my Gov, but now, every time he opens his mouth I find more and more reason to dislike him.

[Timocrat]

Gary Johnson also wants a carbon tax...

He did some decent things as Governor of New Mexico but he's gone right off the rails with this malarkey. The good news is he's going to draw off a bunch of younger voters who might otherwise vote for hILLary.

[onyx]

[oblomov]

The “libertarians” at #NeverReason will still support him.

[M Kehoe]

I don’t smoke cigarettes, but a case can be made to ban Gary Johnson.

5.56mm

[ozzymandus]

Well good for him. What an idiot.

[pepsi_junkie]

I thought there was a good libertarian case for banning ...

These are words that a real libertarian would never say. All you need to know about Johnson.

[CdMGuy]

This guy makes the late Rodney King (IQ 78) look like a genius.

[higgmeister]

Here we have a man who is clearly not a libertarian using the Libertarian Party as his vehicle.

Channeling Bob Barr.

[Glad2bnuts]

Mexican is the N-word...another fine bit of logic, and Trumps views on immigration are RACIST. This gy is a buffoon.