Posted on 06/11/2009 1:26:58 PM PDT by nickcarraway
“More American jobs pored down the drain. :(More American jobs pored down the drain. :(”
Don’t worry, I’m sure tobacco farmers and those employed by the industry will be able to find jobs making wind turbines and electric cars-but those will go to the union hacks. Maybe they can grow pot for the liberal kiddies in the Ivy League, somewhere out there, the next BHO is waiting to take his first bong hit.
The govt. already passed some bill with regard to cigs. There are three letters near the bar code, I believe, which are FSC.
The clerk at the store said the cig. makers were having to make them burn in a different way.
Waxman...LOL! Congrats on avoiding addictions. I’ve kicked alcohol (day by day) and am working on nicotine.
Drago doesn’t understand that the government doesn’t have any business nannying citizens if those citizens choose to poison themselves. He may endorse education, intervention or door-to-door testimony so long as it’s on his or a non-government group’s dime.
I recall a little man from Austria who’s anti-smoking campaign developed into a literal horror show that exterminated the retarded, the malformed and the non-”Aryan”. We do not need to encourage the current office-holder down the fascist path...he’s heading there fast enough on his own power.
“This bill sucks as do smokers........”
Just another govt intrusion on personal choice.
You have strange tagline for one who apparently does not mind mining your neighbors wallet.
Well rest assured when they are done with the smokers they will be coming for your wallet.
I am sure that govy will find some choice to tax you on also.
It’s all very logical. If the govt is paying for medical, then they can enforce how you live. No cigs, no fat foods, must wear helmets in cars, no dangerous sports, and ANY OTHER DANGEROUS THING YOU CAN NAME that might impact on THEIR health care system costs. You can see this one coming down the track.
I wonder when the rest of America will realize that they have become slaves
no cars
He believes in freedom of HATESPEECH.
There was overwhelming support from BOTH parties. Only 17 senators said no! That’s an incredible bipartisan vote.
Finally most conservatives and liberals can agree on something: smoking is a poisonous deadly habit—just as the companies are coming out with a candied version of chewing tobacco. God forbid they are actually banned from introducing this poison in yet another seductive form to get kids hooked. To those that think this is about individual freedoms, who pays for 90 per cent of the oxygen bottle refills? And how free is a person tethered to an oxygen bottle in a wheelchair? For one day, gubmint done some good.
That makes me feel so much better...
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