[farmall]

some people i know thought the tabacco suits were just fine,i told my wife then that i could use the same reasoning to sue the local all you can eat buffet.

now here we go

[Ditter]

The difference as I see it is that I can sit beside the 'all you can eat buffet' all day while other people gorge & I won't gain one single pound. I can't sit beside even one smoker while he puffs with out my asthma kicking in. I'm not worried about the cancer aspect, at least not for me, but asthma occurs within minutes.

[Phantom Lord]

Once again, another giant I TOLD YOU SO for Limbaugh. He, virtually alone, said that fatty food would be target #1 after the nico nazi were sucessful with their tobacco shakedown.

He was right on SUVs too. His ability to predict the future is better than anyone else on the political front.

[vin-one]

I wish I could go and take some of Mr. Williams classes, at George Mason.
Love listening to him on Rush, This man is one of the smartest I have ever heard or read.
The problem is how do we stop the madness.

[motzman]

In the '60s, when the anti-smoking zealots were simply asking for smoking and non-smoking sections on airplanes, no one would have ever anticipated today's tobacco taxes, laws and regulations.

Williams is wrong here; many people knew and railed about the incremental nature of the zealot's assault. These people were dubbed "alarmists", or "reactionaries" or "tobacco executives", and denouced as "evil".

[Wolfie]

Let me know when the mandatory minimums for cigarettes and cheeseburgers kick in. Maybe I'll give a damn.

[mykdsmom]

What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they don't like something to saying that the government should forbid it.

When you go down that road, don't expect freedom to survive very long.

- Thomas Sowell

MKM

[jimt]

Thanks for posting this. Williams, as usual, is brilliant. Now if we could only get him elected President...

[LouD]

CSPI Nazis see...riding instead of walking, as contributing to obesity.

How about when I drive to the gym? Do I get a rebate?

[Fred Mertz]

Walter Williams tells it like it is.

[Just another Joe]

And, as they see it, just as tobacco companies were responsible for people smoking, television manufacturers are responsible for people being couch potatoes, automobile companies are responsible for people riding instead of walking and the food industry is responsible for people eating too much.

We told them so!

[Age of Reason]

The real reason for the attack on smokers is that many people are offended by the tobacco odor.

As I've been saying, the denser the population, the more people lose freedom.

When people are crowded, they step on each other's toes, get in each other's way, and call on the government to mediate and police a compromise.

If you want to remain free, we must reduce the number of people allowed to immigrate here to a fraction of the current numbers.

Right now they're running out of water in New Jersey--the most densely populated state in America. If there weren't so many people in New Jersey, they wouldn't need to ration water. Yet the immigrants keep coming.

[mamelukesabre]

When evaluating morality and lifestyle and things related, I like to look at my grandparents' old fashioned lifestyles as a reference point. I feel very fortunate to have known 2 of my great grandparents, all 4 grandparents and countless great-aunts and great-uncles.

Both of my grandfathers were smokers, drinkers, and had diets that consisted mainly of "meat-n-taters with lots of gravy". Also lots of fried eggs, sausage, and coffee and everything was either salt-and-peppered-and-buttered-to-death, or sugar coated. One died before his 60th birthday of a massive heart attack. The other is still alive and well, has a new wife(the first one died), and will soon turn 90 years old.

I consider this proof that doctors don't know everything. Some thrive on what is considered an unhealthy lifestyle and this is why I am opposed to the current PC thinking on cigarettes and fatty foods. Let the individual decide for themselves what is healthy and what isn't.

[counterrevolutionary]

You know, his point is so good, and then he has to ruin it with his hysterical (and offensive) nonsense about "Nazis."