Florida's Proposed Anti-Smoker Amendment

July 20, 2002 | Max McGarrity

[Max McGarrity]

Sorry if this is in the wrong place--I'm never sure where to post such as this.

The Saturday, July 13, edition of the "Libertarian Perspective" radio broadcast, with "smoking choice" activist Wendy Stone, leader of the movement to defeat Amendment 6 on this Fall's ballot can be heard HERE.

Visit Wendy's website at www.noamendment6.com and get involved to stop this travesty. (FYI, Wendy doesn't smoke, but she believes in freedom, private property rights and invididual liberties.)

[Max McGarrity]

Spread it around. Florida needs our help.

[SheLion]

Hi Max!

You bet! And I hope the FReepers in Florida sees this!

[SheLion]

Hi Max!

You bet! And I hope the FReepers in Florida sees this!

[Just another Joe]

Hey Max, I put this piece of information into one of the local tobacoo related newsletters that kcpopps and I have been collaborating on.
Not the web site or the radio interview, but the Florida amendment #6 thing.

[billhilly]

Yesterday marked the fifteenth month since I have had a cigarette. For about fifty years before that I smoked a pack a day. It was my decision to smoke and my decision to stop. It is called choice...........sorry, I stumbled into another agenda. Watch out for second hand smoke. It could hurt the children. That is, the ones that don't get aborted.

Which behavior is accepted by society?

[Just another Joe]

I just took the world's smallest political quiz.
It confirmed what I've thought for some time.
I'm a conservative with libertarian leanings.

[cajun-jack]

well, i smoke, i know it is bad for me....but i choose to continue to do it....i eat a lot of pork...lot of beef (med rare) i have health AND burial insurance) i'm not a burden to anyone but myself....for anyone that is tired of paying high cig prices and outlandish cig taxes that most state gov'ts are imposing.... www.yessmoke.com 14.95 a carton for marlboro..no tax and free shipping...our "rino" governor here in La. is trying to add 18 cents per pack tax on cig and want a "percentage" tax on gasoline because at "cents per gallon" tax, when the price goes up the state is losing money...(according to him) i don't want to move but i damn sure will...he was on a talk show the other day and i actually got thru...told him exactly what i thought of him and his ideas....why can't these folks keep their hands out of my pocket?

[SheLion]

cajun-jack......most things we eat, drink and/or smoke isn't good for us, according to the anti-everything.

We, too, have our own health insurance and death insurance. We are not a burden on NO body!

I always believed in "live and let live," but when THEY started telling me how I must live my life, I said that's it! So, the war on the smoker I fight!

Thanks, cajun!

[Gabz]

BTT!!!!

[metesky]

Just emailed Wendy Stone's page to my sister and her adult children in FLA.

[Madame Dufarge]

Wendy's website

but smoking in private residences would be banned if they are used to provide commercial childcare, health care, or elder care.

Suppose your elderly parent lives with you and is visited daily by a nurse or CNA. What would prevent the control freaks from defining your home as a place where "commercial elder care" is provided?

What if you've converted your basement or garage into a day care center? Guess you can't smoke in any part of your own home then, right?

[Gabz]

What if you've converted your basement or garage into a day care center? Guess you can't smoke in any part of your own home then, right?

That's EXACTLY what the smoking ban in Delaware says. It got slightly watered down, so now it only applies when the children are present.

[Max McGarrity]

Madame Dufarge, we've just begun to educate Wendy. She has been, like the rest of the public, brainwashed/propagandized into believing the Big Lie about shs. But at least she's willing to learn and is open to the truth. Give us time...it took decades to get to this place, it will take a little while to get back where we should be.

[ivylass]

I have started to do research for my website, www.noamendment6.com, and I have found nothing to indicate incidental exposure to ETS causes an increased risk of anything. I always thought ETS was pure poison. Now, I'm not so sure...

If it's as bad as they say it is, why don't they just make it illegal? Could there be some groups that want to keep it legal and tax the hell out of it? An interesting article on just where those tobacco settlement funds are going...

http://www.newsradio610.com/script/headline_newsmanager.php?id=33193&pagecontent=national1

And we all know, if smoking does go the way of the dodo bird, the legislators are sure to throw up their hands in relief and say, "Boy, I'm glad that's done. We won't be needing that tax revenue anymore!" No, they'll just find some other sin to tax...