Oh so sorry. How about this one? Does this one look more like you?
Posted on 08/12/2002 8:54:20 AM PDT by Gabz
Yes they are. And Representative Stone's comment about breathing clean air is particularly funny for anyone who lives in or has ever visited Northern Delaware - the Chemical Capitol of the World!!!
But beyond the "rights" issue, the legislation itself was flawed just based upon the openning language which includes such doozies as:
WHEREAS, Secondhand smoke has been classified by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) as a known cause of cancer in humans (group a carcinogen);
This was thrown out in Court.
WHEREAS, exposure to secondhand smoke by children leads to decreased lung function, asthma, pneumonia, ear infections, bronchitis and even sudden infant death syndrome;
It MIGHT, there is no definitive proof.
WHEREAS, Delaware has the second highest lung cancer mortality rate in the country;
While this is true, there is no proof it is because of smoking - not one IOTA of proof. As I mentioned, Delawar is considered the Chemical Capitol of the World. additionally we have at least 2 world reknowned Cancer treatment centers here, and finally cancer is generally a disease of aging and Delaware has become a popular retirement area.
But my favorite of the WHEREAS's is :
WHEREAS, Prohibiting smoking in public places and the workplace increases public awareness of the negative health effects of smoking and reduces the social acceptability of smoking and protects children and other nonsmokers;
SPECIFIC proof this legislation is nothing more than pure social engineering.
Did you ever think that great food does not have to eaten in a restaurant. There are lots of great home cooks.
I rarely go out to eat anymore, and it has nothing to do with smoking bans - and my friends all love coming here, smokers and non-smokers. I love to cook and there is never anything BORING about an evening in my house.
I have lots of friends in California enjoying the same pleasures.
Oh so sorry. How about this one? Does this one look more like you?
Slavery laws were around for centuries and debated even longer than that. That didn't make it right.
I'd like to ask the anti smoking police what happens to the eight hundred pound tax gorilla they created if smoking does go away. It's not going to disappear but will have to get it's tax dollar fix somewhere else. Most likely from something that will make the nico nazis pay throught the nose too. How does six dollars for a gallon gas sound to you?
You are SO wrong!
Here's your proof!
Not true. When the anti-smoker organizations came marching into Delaware they were very well funded with millions upon millions of dollars from the pharmaceutical companies and Foundations such as Robert wood Johnson.
One California anti-smoker organization, which gets much funding from these group, sent emails and letters to their memebers in Delaware telling them to contact legislators and the media - but to NOT mention their affilitation with the group.
The smokers in Delaware and everywhere else are people like me, just everyday citizens who try their very best to do what they can with what they have, which is what is in their own pocket. The power of the lies of the anti-smoker groups is such that people who have known me for years actually believed that I was being paid by a tobacco company. I'm a housewife with a 4 year old, and my sole source of income is my husband's salary.
Anti-smokers are very small minority, smaller than the smokers you so like to disdain. Yes there are more non-smokers than smokers, but in general this issue does not even register as a blip on their radar.
It is anti-smokers that are getting the special accommodations, at the expense of the business owners of this nation.
The way I figure it, Teddy has depleated the coffers of old Jack bailing out all the Kennedy kin from one scrape or another with the law.
Well we know old Jack made the family fortune through bootlegging during Prohibition. I figure the reason old Teddy is so on the anti-smoker ban(d) wagon is that he needs to replenish the coffers and is going to further follow in Daddy's footsteps.
He sure IS vile. Not only to look at, but he put a bill in this week to have tobacco regulated by the FDA. He's a pig!
Yeaaaaaaaaa Bring it on, Gabz!!!
I promise you will not be poked. However, the ticket will be one-way as that is all that you will need.
If you think I am kidding then try me, bitch. Anyone who wants to curtail other's rights IS a LIBERAL!!!!
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