Posted on 06/11/2009 11:23:15 PM PDT by Deagle
Just another example of the Federal takeover of individual rights.
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I believe that it was $7.00 dollars a carton (I should know, my generic cigarettes went from 6.99 to 13.99 a carton (yes, I am a cheap bastard). This is just outrageous! If I can find an underground seller, you bet that I will be there. Of course if I notified you, we would both be in jail - heh...
Went to my Tobacconist for cigars other day. Guy ahead of me plunks down *2* cartons of cigarettes. $100!!!!!!!
I gasped, said when I first started smoking cigs (~'68, quit 20 years ago) I'd get *3* packs of Benson & Hedges for a buck.
There was a scene in Goodfellows, the goons knocked off a semi carrying cigs and the boyz were in the street selling cartons outa the trunk of a car.
How long before hijacking of trucks with the valuable cargo is seen again?
Not long. LOL
Heh...Yes, I’m thinking that I should plan ahead and get a car with a large trunk and large motor...hmmm. Just large enough to outrun all of those environmentally correct police cars...should not be much of a problem...heh...
Great retirement benefits as long as you can evade the PC police... Of course, maybe the people will revolt and that won’t be illegal anymore... Such grand thoughts!
You’re just fantasizing... You may be taxed for those activities, but me - I will be watching and wondering just why you are doing that in the first place!
I do admire your activities though...just not me (too old and too chicken)...
In the meantime, roll your own.
I've seen the new rolling machines and they're not what they used to be. Hell's bells ya can buy 'em to roll cigs with FILTERS, even. Pretty neat I thought, surely the way I'd have gone had I stuck with the habit.
"Just large enough to outrun all of those environmentally correct police cars...should not be much of a problem...heh..."
Don't be silly. Can't outrun a Motorola, Deagle. LOL
Just outsmart 'em, the ik's really quite *thick*.
"Great retirement benefits as long as you can evade the PC police..."
The PC imbeciles are even easier to outfox than the real dolts. And why not, the PC variety's clearly nutz. ;^)
"Of course, maybe the people will revolt and that wont be illegal anymore... Such grand thoughts!"
Yes, grand indeed.
I'll join in your fantasy, if you don't mind. LOL!
Heh... Cool (as some in my generation us to say)...
FRiend, I wouldn't be caught dead doing any of that stuff! I, also, am too old and too chicken!
Heh...Okay - should not be assuming things...
Smokophobia = Ignorance = Death!
Smokers make up well over 10% of the general population - perhaps as much as 30%, according to recent studies. Though smoking was once widely viewed as perfectly normal by all intelligent leaders of society, reactionary smokophobes in this century have waged a bitter campaign of hate against smokers everywhere. In this century, the century of Nazis and nuclear bombs, hypocritical smokophobes have sought to blame smokers for numerous ills. They have persecuted smokers and condemned their lifestyle, and even used to the power of the State to limit smokers' rights, to segregate smokers from non-smokers in many public places, and to persecute service-minded corporations who help smokers meet their smoking needs. The repression has caused great fear and harm to smokers everywhere. Many smokers are afraid to come out of the closet for fear of discrimination. What's next - gas chambers?? The terror must end!
Non-smokers may be in the majority, but they all need to learn to accept diversity and not just tolerate smokers, but embrace them, filled with joy and delight at what makes smokers so unique.
Consider one personal account from one of our founders:
Based on my earliest childhood memories, I guess I've always secretly been a smoker. The first thing I can remember is a barbecue when I was probably one year old. I was fascinated by the flames licking at the chicken, and remember the luscious aroma of the smoke. I inhaled over and over and over. Then came camp fires, trash fires, a grass fire that my brother and I caused - and always that smoke! While other kids were playing with trucks and toy guns, I was out back in the sunlight with my magnifying glass, creating little puffs of smoke from grass blades, chips of wood, ants, grasshoppers, whatever I could find. I was different. I still haven't come out yet. People would be shocked to know that I am - and always have been - a smoker, even though I don't actually use tobacco. The smoker lifestyle is about more than just tobacco use. It's a worldview that non-smokers just can't understand. And it permeates everything about our lives. I like smoke. Does that make me evil? I was born that way. Smoke! It's in my blood, my genes, and certainly all of my clothes. -- J.L. |
Have you hugged a smoker today?
Warning signs of smokophobia:
Of course, ignorance equals death. The enemy is ignorance.
A shining light in the world of safe smoking education is CUSS, the Citizens Union for Safe Smoking. This nonpartisan, objective public service organization is seeking to guide society toward higher consciousness and awareness about smoking, smokophobia, and inhalational education. Your charitable donations are urgently needed. If you care about education, if you care about humanity, if you care about justice, please give all you can to support CUSS.
Millions of smokers have benefited from the positive aspects of smoking without dying a premature death. Look at George Burns and Deng Xiao Ping! It's grossly unfair to blame something as complicated as cancer on a single, simplistic factor like smoking.
The public hysteria about smoking and cancer is due to classic smoke-and-mirrors deception! Note this crucial fact: cancer is not a communicable disease! If you know a smoker with cancer, know that you can sit next to that smoker, shake hands with that smoker, and even kiss that smoker, all without the slightest risk of getting cancer! There is no need to separate smokers from the rest of society, whether they have cancer or not. Yet smokers are being forced to face the stigma of quarantine as major corporations ban smoking except in "designated smoking rooms." Airlines have banned smoking altogether on U.S. flights. What's next, gas chambers? A smokers holocaust?
Even if smokers do suffer from some diseases more than non-smokers, it doesn't mean that smoking causes the disease. The same genetic factors that make some people naturally attracted to smoking can also make them naturally more susceptible to certain diseases, while perhaps being less susceptible to others.
To foster basic human rights in this country, we need to keep the issue of smokers rights in the forefront of the press and the public consciousness. Smokers pride parades, demonstrations, advertisements, rallies, smoke-ins, smoke-outs, etc., all need to happen. Write your Congressman. Act up and speak out! And help us draw attention to media celebrities who will soon speak out on their identity as smokers, in spite of anti-smoking paranoia in Hollywood and all over the nation. Spread the word! Ignorance = death.
Narrow-minded bigots often advocate the policy of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell." It sounds like a nice idea, but in reality it's hopelessly unfair to smokers. The stark reality is that people - especially smokophobes - often can tell who the smokers are. The signs are subtle, but trained smokophobes know what to watch for. Things like:
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