Governor touts anti-smoking help line

Boston.com ^ | 7 September 2002 | Francis X. Quinn

[SheLion]

AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) Heralding a new tool in the state's anti-smoking campaign, Gov. Angus King on Friday unveiled a telephone help line designed to help smokers who want to quit.

''Tobacco is an enormous health problem in Maine,'' King told reporters before testing the line at a State House news conference in his office.

[SheLion]

Ok! Here we go. King is an anti smoking anti drinking nut.  He closed the state run liquor stores for HEALTH reasons.  Since when did becoming the Governor of a state make him Head Clergy?

''Tobacco is an enormous health problem in Maine,'' King told reporters before testing the line at a State House news conference in his office.

Tobacco?  I believe OBESITY is a HUGE problem in the state of Maine.  Everywhere I go, I see 8 out of 10 obese people!  How about setting up a help line to help THEM?  And how about spending the Tobacco Settlement money for help for health care for the OBESE?

Details are still to be worked out on a companion program offering discounts on medications and nicotine replacement therapies for qualifying individuals. Discounts are envisioned for nicotine gum and patches and medications such as Zyban, officials said.

Oh sure.  Big Pharm will LOVE this since they are behind the war on the smokers!

Among those joining King at the news conference was Dr. Dora Mills, the state's public health chief.

We ALL know how SHE feels about smoking!  She is behind the bans in restaurants and the health care facilities!

Department of Human Services Announces Smoke-Free Restaurant Bill

King said $2 million was earmarked for the smoking cessation aid program and an advertising campaign.

Where is the rest of the money going since Maine receives $5 million from the Tobacco Settlement money to which WE smokers are paying into 100% with our cigarette taxes! 

According to state officials and anti-smoking activists, tobacco consumption in Maine measured in packs per capital has declined by 17 percent in the last four years.

Oh COURSE! People haven't stopped smoking.  They have found other ways!  How about the Reservation?  How about online sales?  How about rolling their OWN????

Additionally, officials say youth smoking in Maine has declined by 27 percent since 1997.

What a bunch of crap.According to a recent report by the CDC, teen smoking in Maine is unchanged.  So who is lying to who?????

CDC's Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System

Maine adopted a law in 1999 making restaurants smoke-free. Some schools, hospitals and employers have also established anti-smoking policies and the state Corrections Department is described as smoke-free.

Yes we know.  We know all about the Government control in Maine on private businesses.

[SheLion]

[Just another Joe]

tobacco consumption in Maine measured in packs per capita has declined by 17 percent in the last four years.

We know where all those packs went to, don't we?
Either to roll your own, stuff your own, or the internet.

[Little Bill]

In the case of Maine probably New Hampshire.

[SheLion]

We know where all those packs went to, don't we? Either to roll your own, stuff your own, or the internet.

Hell yea! They sure can spew inaccurate, deceitful and dishonest lies to the general public. It's rediculous Joe!

[SheLion]

I will be back! Save my seat!

[Madame Dufarge]

Information is also available to nonsmokers calling the line about others.

"Hello, tobacco police? This is little Timmy, you know the one whose mother makes him clean his room and won't let him watch MTV? Well (sob) my mom smokes, and I was just wondering - won't that kill me and shouldn't you guys do something about that?

Huh?

called the help line ''the last piece of the puzzle, which is treatment,''

Re-education camps

following earlier anti-smoking initiatives that have included media efforts,

demonizing of smokers

community activities

ostracization of smokers

and tobacco tax increases.

robbery of smokers.

[SheLion]

Oh boy, Madame Defarge. I didn't THINK of this! Kids COULD turn in their smoking parents. This is so sick..........

[Gabz]

This is one of the most ridiculous pieces of bunk I have heard in a good while.

As someone declared Delawre PRD (People's Republic of Delaware) I guess we'll be calling Maine PRM.

One of the days............................

[Gabz]

You put it so succinctly what so many of us have understood for a very long time. How others can not see this is beyond me.

It is far beyond just smoking.........

[Max McGarrity]

Information is also available to nonsmokers calling the line about others.

Training the snitches, aren't they?

[Max McGarrity]

...imprisonment of smokers?

[Madame Dufarge]

Scary, ain't it?

Doesn't seem much of a stretch to me for Kevin ConDuctTape, Maine DHS Czar, to push the envelope just that much further, though.

Empire building and all.

[SheLion]

Information is also available to nonsmokers calling the line about others.

Oh my GOD! That line went completely over my head. Isn't this cute! The Republic of Maine. Yup! The Brown Shirts are gearing up. What a pathetic bunch they are!

[Leisler]

"Baby Boomers confront some hapless, asthmatic, emaciated old gin monkey puffing on a waterlogged Pall Mall in the no-smoking section of a deserted restaurant and act like they've just personally won the Battle of Britian. Or they shriek at some octogenarian tart for wearing a tatty old mink stole until she breaks down in tears, and then act like they're Pope Leo I confronting Attila the HUn at the gates of Rome. Since Baby Boomers are animated by such a strong sense of moral outrage, I suggest they stop squandering their resources on defenseless targets and take aim at the big game. Suggestions? The next time you see a carload of teenagers blasting a song about raping your mother wihile guning down a Korean grocer, read them the riot act. Upbraid them for their plangent philistinism. Lambaste them for their insensitivity toward women. Take them to task fo their vulgarity. Once your're done with them, please go after the cell-phone-wielding drug dealer who's annoying everupme else on the subway, the pack of cretins defiling the art museum prominade with their skatebpards, and the twelve rednecks with the Confederate flag draped across the back of the pickup truck. And if any of these punks try smoking in a public place, making sexist remarks or wearing fir, really let them have it."

Joe Queenan.
Balsamic Dreams.

[Madame Dufarge]

Good Queenan quote. Viscious and articulate, I like it.

But he forgot to mention the ones who anonymously post their hate-filled vomitus to Internet Forums. That's the stuff real heroes are made of.

[Leisler]

The whole book just lines Baby Bommers against the wall and shoots them. I liked it. He even caught a few Gen-Xers and did them in for tidyness sake.

[SheLion]

Information is also available to nonsmokers calling the line about others.

Information is also available to nonsmokers calling the line about others.

Information is also available to nonsmokers calling the line about others.

[SheLion]

[Leisler]

http://scrappleface.blogspot.com/


Jailed Parents Imposed Views on Their Own Children

A Minnesota couple has been jailed on suspicion of imposing their own views on their young children. A public school teacher first alerted the division of family services (DFS) which immediately took three children out of the home pending an investigation. The arrest was made as the family left a Sunday morning worship service.

"We found in this home evidence of the worst sort of bigotry," said a spokeswoman for DFS. "Not only were these children receiving explicit instruction in the religion of their parents, to the exclusion of all others, but the parents also imposed a whole range of their own provincial ideas upon the youngsters. These little blank-slate minds were subjected to dogmatic instruction in everything from eating, clothing and hygiene practices, to beliefs about virtue, sin and the existence of God."

The children will continue in public school and will be reared in the Huxley-Freud Group Home, where they will receive intensive post-traumatic stress counseling and instruction from government-approved text books.