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Smokers asked to cough up taxes for Web buys
CNET News.com ^ | February 18, 2005, 3:31 PM PST | Alorie Gilbert

Posted on 02/21/2005 6:46:21 AM PST by Zon

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To: Raycpa
And smokers wonder why the nonsmokers keep tightening the noose.

Smokers had no problem with separated smoking and non-smoking areas. But no, the non-smokers could not accept a compromise that has worked will for all parties involved.

Today, this smoker is fighting back!

People like you did not provide a designated smoking area, so citizens like me can and WILL smoke anywhere that we choose.

If today, we blow our smoke directly into your face, then tough luck. It was your choice.

People like you were unable to demonstrate a mutual respect toward your fellow citizens. Smokers did move outside into the rain and freezing weather, but that was not good enough for you.

This citizen will no longer demonstrate a mutual respect toward non-smokers.

181 posted on 02/21/2005 10:45:08 AM PST by Hunble
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To: Hunble

Nonsmokers are pawns for tax happy Demoncrats.


182 posted on 02/21/2005 10:46:24 AM PST by TheForceOfOne (Social Security – I thought pyramid schemes were illegal!)
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To: Raycpa

Then when the beast doesn't have the revenue to pay the bill, let them default and deal with the collection agencies.

I have to live on a budget, so should they.

Get rid of ALL social and entitlement programs. Those who can't swim will find out what "natural selection" means in the most eloquent way possible.

http://jbs.org


183 posted on 02/21/2005 10:49:52 AM PST by Chef Dajuan (this ain't rocket science, you know. so use your knob! -emeril lagasse)
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To: Hunble

The Mexicans just laughed and understood exactly why I did what I was doing.

Do they know about U.S. smoking bans or just the general complaint about people smoking was what they laughed at?

184 posted on 02/21/2005 10:50:11 AM PST by Zon (Honesty outlives the lie, spin and deception -- It always has -- It always will.)
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To: TheForceOfOne
Sounds like you agree w/ Shakespeare
Hang all the lawyers
Cuz we all know where politicians originate
185 posted on 02/21/2005 10:50:20 AM PST by TheOracleAtLilac
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To: Hunble

Do you have a link to any information at the resort you went to? Do they have any golf courses included?


186 posted on 02/21/2005 10:51:10 AM PST by CSM ("I just started shooting," said Gloria Doster, 56. "I was trying to blow his brains out ....")
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To: Gumption
I miss cheap smokes.

And I dearly miss yesmoke, but as I put in #163:
Most viable 2 choices: quit or roll yer own...I'm a C.O.B. & quit

187 posted on 02/21/2005 10:56:33 AM PST by TheOracleAtLilac
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To: Zon
The Mexicans understood the smoking bans in America, and have learned to exploit it.

Difficult to explain, but this is how it would often happen in the last two weeks:

1) A smoker (usually me) is minding his own business.

2) A non-smoker American gets rude and demand that the cigarette be extinguished....

3) The Mexican boat crew sits back and looks forward to a good show!

4) Words get exchanged and the non-smoker ends up in a large cloud of smoke. Futile request for help from the boat crew, are ignored.

5) The Mexican boat crew gets a $20 tip.

6) Non-smoker American learned a valuable lesson about mutual respect.

188 posted on 02/21/2005 10:59:12 AM PST by Hunble
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To: TheOracleAtLilac
LOL! People are such suckers for lawyer tripe and bleeding heart Demoncrats. Is it any wonder with the explosion of the new media they have been exposed to eating their lies and made to look stupid. Driving these people from office is a steam roller that cannot be stopped. It is only a matter of time before an angle is created to bilk the very people who create these stupid laws of these ill gotten gains. Lawyers are carnivorous and have no problem eating their own kind of like the Democrats are doing now when things don't go so well. Political correctness, gay rights, affirmative action/racism, etc. will soon fade into history as the silent majority raises its voice. After the attack on Pearl Harbor, Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, Commander of the Japanese Fleet, is reported to have said: "I fear we have awoken a sleeping giant.
189 posted on 02/21/2005 11:02:06 AM PST by TheForceOfOne (Social Security – I thought pyramid schemes were illegal!)
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To: TheOracleAtLilac

C.O.B.?


190 posted on 02/21/2005 11:05:00 AM PST by Gumption
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To: CSM
http://www.hotelcozumel.us/english/index.htm

Outstanding hotel, and I will return next year. Each year, my wife and I try out a new hotel in Cozumel, and we finally located one that met our rather subjective criteria.

My wife is crippled but a great scuba diver. Finding a four star hotel with easy boat access, good food and outstanding employees is not easy to find.

Today, I can proudly endorse this hotel! After a four year search, we found "home."

191 posted on 02/21/2005 11:05:32 AM PST by Hunble
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To: forward

Did it ever occur to them that lowering the tobacco tax might have a better effect?

Of course not.....someone might lose their precious pork project and lose campaign contributions.


192 posted on 02/21/2005 11:05:44 AM PST by Gabz (Anti-smoker gnatzies...small minds buzzing in your business..............SWAT'EM)
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To: TheOracleAtLilac
I must assert that my comments do not suggest smoking, over eating, alcohol abuse, etc. is in anyway a proper way to treat your body. What I oppose is the nanny/Orwellian state some choose to endorse. The government and lawyers should not run our lives and I protest this with vigor. Adults should be adults and run your own life. Only a smaller portion of society requires our help like the handicap.
193 posted on 02/21/2005 11:09:36 AM PST by TheForceOfOne (Social Security – I thought pyramid schemes were illegal!)
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To: Gumption

C.O.B = (cheap ol' bastard)


194 posted on 02/21/2005 11:12:00 AM PST by TheOracleAtLilac
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To: Hunble

While I don't condone intentionally blowing smoke in the face of others.........I do understand your reason.


195 posted on 02/21/2005 11:12:29 AM PST by Gabz (Anti-smoker gnatzies...small minds buzzing in your business..............SWAT'EM)
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To: Raycpa

Read this "LAW" comment several times......

BULLSHIP! 55 mph Speed Limit is a LAW...Is it only a law if you get caught??

So I will be following you down the highway to see if you respect the law which must come above your own urge to exceed the limit.



Semper Fi


196 posted on 02/21/2005 11:14:49 AM PST by halfright (9/11 3,000 Americans Murdered...Payback is a bitch)
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To: rockprof

Send the state a letter asking them how much of your money is being spent on Hitlery Clintons 60 person entourage, and tell them if they want more money, she should get rid of them because you don`t believe in supporting sychophants for a psychopath.


197 posted on 02/21/2005 11:14:57 AM PST by Imaverygooddriver (I`m a very good driver and I approve this message.)
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To: CSM

https://www.travel-center.com/hoteles/hoteles.asp?Hotel=0164

Cozumel just opened a world class golf resort. Since I do not play golf, I am not sure if this is the correct link.

However, I do know that Cozumel now has an outstanding golf resort that was opened this year.


198 posted on 02/21/2005 11:15:17 AM PST by Hunble
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To: TheOracleAtLilac
LOL! You're also a quitter.

Good luck you C.O.B.

199 posted on 02/21/2005 11:20:07 AM PST by Gumption
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To: Gabz
While I don't condone intentionally blowing smoke in the face of others.........I do understand your reason.

Smokers are very respectful people and were more than willing to confine themselves to designated smoking areas.

But that was not good enough!

So today, since there are no longer designated smoking areas in much of America, citizens like me can no longer smoke away from others...

Contrary to their desire, non-smokers in America have designated everywhere as a smoking zone.

The concept of separated smoking and non-smoking zones are now null-and-void. It was their choice, and they chose incorrectly.

200 posted on 02/21/2005 11:23:55 AM PST by Hunble
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