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Free people can freely walk into voting booths and freely vote to tax or restrict cigarettes.
1 posted on 08/25/2016 6:15:31 AM PDT by Drango
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To: Drango

Banning cigarettes will work just as well as banning the sale or manufacture of whiskey did 100 years ago.


2 posted on 08/25/2016 6:18:35 AM PDT by Don Corleone (Oil the gun, eat the cannolis, take it to the mattress.)
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To: Drango

Except for the free people who smoke. Then, when the non-smoking free people vote to tax them, they can experience the tyranny of the majority.

Nothing like true democracy!


3 posted on 08/25/2016 6:19:53 AM PDT by Alas Babylon!
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To: Drango

The answer to everything is more government and higher taxes.

All hail the Nanny State!


4 posted on 08/25/2016 6:23:31 AM PDT by wrench
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To: Drango

Smoking Sucks! 6 States That Need to Change Their Tobacco Laws

Cheat Sheet | Aug 21 '16 | Megan Elliott

Smoking Sucks! Megan Elliott Sucks! 6 States That Need to Change Their Tobacco Laws

Cheat Sheet | Aug 21 '16 | Megan Elliott

Fixed it - Not a smoker myself, but what people do to their own bodies is their business. Smoke free buildings are OK following the "your right to swing your fist ends at my nose" changing to "your right to distribute smelly carcinogens ends at my nose" philosophy, but the sort of mindset that restricts people from smoking in the privacy of their homes or outdoors or tries to tax the behavior out of existence is impinging on personal liberty.

This is the same mindset that bans guns

5 posted on 08/25/2016 6:26:19 AM PDT by from occupied ga (Your government is your most dangerous enemy)
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To: Drango
a blanket prohibition on smoking seems unlikely to happen any time soon.

Correct, not as long as the government stands to lose billions of dollars in taxes every year.

7 posted on 08/25/2016 6:30:16 AM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Socialism is always just one or a thousand or a million more murders away from utopia.)
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To: Drango

People have to keep smoking!

It’s for the KIDS!!!!


8 posted on 08/25/2016 6:31:43 AM PDT by themidnightskulker (And then the thread dies... peacefully, in it's sleep....)
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To: Drango

Kill the Intolerant!

10 posted on 08/25/2016 6:37:04 AM PDT by outofsalt ( If history teaches us anything it's that history rarely teaches us anything)
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To: Drango

Typical commie lib. Her solution to improve the quality of life demands less individual freedom, and greater government control over people’s lives.

Liberalism is a far worse cancer than anything caused by smoking.


11 posted on 08/25/2016 6:40:01 AM PDT by Windflier (Pitchforks and torches ripen on the vine. Left too long, they become black rifles.)
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To: Drango

These totalitarian commie freaks wants you to select your gender, but they don’t want you to smoke? Back-off.


12 posted on 08/25/2016 6:41:30 AM PDT by WKUHilltopper
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To: Drango
Seems to be a lot more politically convenient (and lucrative) to be a tobacco nazi than to target the 50% of the population that's clinically obese.

For a quick check on that anecdotal statistical, visit about any doctor's office or take a stroll around your local hospital.

The hypocrisy is staggering.

15 posted on 08/25/2016 6:45:35 AM PDT by tomkat (.gov = freedom's enemy)
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Georgia: “ the percentage of bars and restaurants permitting smoking has almost doubled due to loopholes in the law” Not so, completely wrong. I live here and haven’t been into a restaurant allowing smoking in many years.


17 posted on 08/25/2016 7:01:17 AM PDT by Uncle Sam 911
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To: Drango

Or maybe snotty Millenial bloggers living in Boston or Brooklyn need to stop trying to tell the people of Kentucky or Georgia what their tobacco laws ought to be.


19 posted on 08/25/2016 7:23:23 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Drango
You'll have to pry my occasional cigar out of my dead gripped hands.

JUST LEAVE PEOPLE ALONE, DAMMIT!

21 posted on 08/25/2016 7:37:21 AM PDT by laweeks
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To: Drango

1. Government (national and state) love smoking; that is the truth.
2. Smoking helps pensions survive
3. Smoking provides politicians a bad buy to blame ills on
4. Smoking as hated by the left is an amazing source of hypocrisy; so many hollywooders and libs smoke
5. Last but not least, smoking, aka, big tobacco, provides our uniparty with massive lobbying funds for reelection and tax revenue

If they hated it, it would be illegal. Next time you see a phony commercial or billboard, point it out to your family members before they get brainwashed.

Heck, breathing in smoke of any kind cannot be good, but, look at the left and BIG MARIJUANA...would it have been brought about if it were bad?


22 posted on 08/25/2016 7:37:51 AM PDT by CincyRichieRich (Fatherless violence is the problem; think about the double meaning.)
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To: Drango

This is one ex-smoker who says “Keep your freakin social engineering to yourself”!


23 posted on 08/25/2016 8:26:19 AM PDT by traderrob6
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To: Drango

Very interesting. All this smoking bann is nothing more then a conditioning for big brother control. Does offer 6 usefull examples to use to peel back this heavy handed save the world social engineering approach brought about though the application (like climate contro)l of pseudo science. If it made a dent in lung cancer which it hasn’t we’d be hearing about it.


25 posted on 08/25/2016 9:08:38 AM PDT by mosesdapoet (My best insights get lost in FR's because of meaningless venting no one reads.)
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To: Drango
The states took the Billions that Big Tobacco paid them years ago for so called 'health and tobacco' related causes and spent it like drunken sailors on shore leave.

Here in Washington there's an IOU to pay back the money hardieharhar

Ed

27 posted on 08/25/2016 10:02:39 AM PDT by husky ed (FOX NEWS ALERT "Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still dead" THIS HAS BEEN A FOX NEWS ALERT)
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To: Drango

Wrangell Alaska last year: Walked into a bar. Ashtrays on the tables and on the bar. Bartender and several customers happily smoking and drinking. Down the street another bar. No smoking.

As it should be.


29 posted on 08/25/2016 10:25:41 AM PDT by Chuckster ("Them Rag Heads just ain't rational" Curly Bartley 1973)
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To: Drango

If you don’t like smoking, don’t do it.

Leave the rest of us alone.


30 posted on 08/25/2016 10:30:42 AM PDT by Arm_Bears (Rope. Tree. Politician/Journalist. Some assembly required.)
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To: Drango

The Moral Police are busy, busy, busy watching YOU!


31 posted on 08/25/2016 10:36:02 AM PDT by Jack Hammer
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