FEATURE-Outcast smokers now U.S. state budget saviors - Boy do they have THIS one right!

IWon.com ^ | February 7, 2003 | Karen Pierog

[SheLion]

[SheLion]

"We need your money to balance the budget, BUT, you can't smoke here and you can't smoke there! We want a SMOKE FREE STATE, but GIVE US YOUR MONEY!"

Sound familiar?

[uncbob]

They ought to prove smoking causes AIDS then the left will love smokers

[SheLion]

They ought to prove smoking causes AIDS then the left will love smokers

Well, Gov Pataki (RINO, NY) signed a bill recently that there will be NO discrimination against gays. So......if your gay today, that's great. BUT MY GAWD, YOU CAN'T SMOKE!

Everyone is getting the red carpet treatment today, except people who smoke. Think about it!

[SheLion]

[Savage Beast]

Rush is right.

Hey, maybe they should legalize heroin, cocaine, and marijuana. And how about prostitution? Have they thought of those cashcows?

[facedown]

The smoking ban movement makes sense as people have an increased understanding of the harm of second-hand smoke, said Bronson Frick, associate director of Americans for Nonsmokers' Rights, a nonprofit organization that promotes smoke-free environments.

Basis?

Hi SheLion!

[dep]

y'know, what puzzles me is why tobacco companies don't print the price on the pack, as in $1.25 plus state, federal, and loacl taxes, so that people will understand just how much of this goes to taxes, and get angry every time they buy cigarettes, other tobacco products, and alcohol.

dep

[SheLion]

Hey, maybe they should legalize heroin, cocaine, and marijuana. And how about prostitution? Have they thought of those cashcows?

LOL! Your so right. But think of the lawmakers that are involved with all that stuff. Do you really think they want to have their names on tax revenues? heh!

[SheLion]

Hey facedown. How are you?

Second hand smoke: when the anti's saw their war on the smokers didn't work, then they started on the non-smokers telling them that OUR smoke was KILLING them. And the stupid general public believes that garbage. ~gag.......

[SheLion]

y'know, what puzzles me is why tobacco companies don't print the price on the pack, as in $1.25 plus state, federal, and loacl taxes, so that people will understand just how much of this goes to taxes, and get angry every time they buy cigarettes, other tobacco products, and alcohol.

Thank God for Free Republic where we can get this truth out there. But it must have something to do with the Tobacco Settlement Money that Big Tobacco has to keep bending over for the Attorney Generals. So, of COURSE they can't print the truth. It's up to us to point this out to everyone.

[HomerG]

Today it is tobacco, but what will it be tomorrow? The number one cause of health problems in America today is obesity. I believe the next victim is going to be meat. I know this does not sound possible now, but once they start their campaign to demonize it, "Meat causes obesity, heart disease and is carcinogenic. People who eat meat in public are a bad examples for our children". It does not matter if Atkins was right and it may be healthier to eat meat than bread. Remember the studies about second hand smoke turned out to be bogus and no one really cares. "Cattle rasied for their beef are destroying the rain forests and their nasty gas is destroying the ozone." Today it is tobacco, tomorrow meat and maybe sometime down the evil white hetrosexual male.

[lewislynn]

They're pariahs in restaurants, outcasts in offices, and taxed to the max on their cigarette habit, but smokers are coming to the rescue of state budgets.

Who're the fools in that picture?

[SheLion]

Today it is tobacco, tomorrow meat and maybe sometime down the evil white hetrosexual male.

I'm sure you have already heard that the white hetrosexual male is OUT! And my Gawd! He will be shot at day break if he's a smoker.

There is always some group out there that has it in for another group. Notice that?

[Tacis]

We can raise the price of cigarettes and the taxes on them as high as we want. THERE IS NO LIMIT!!

Smokers are such slaves to their terrible, deadly addiction that they are powerless to abandon it. When they are so enslaved, there is no price too high for their drug delivery system of choice.

The drug not only enslaves, it also destroys ALL rational thoughts processes. Thus, we see blind rejection of any study suggesting that secondary smoke is bad, hallucinations about equating smoking with freedom, and ad hominem attacks of those trying to help.

Those who question the wisdom of politicians placing so much reliance on the future income stream from oppressing a decreasing number of smokers (they die off at a much quicker rate), need not worry, the money will be there. They are too stupid and addicted to stop. And, it is part of the job of non-smokers who don't want higher taxes, either, to keep them adgitated and, therefore, smoking.

In fact, we can pay for the extra police we need to keep bars smoke free by raising the cigarette tax. Smoking in back, by the dumpsters will still be OK, at least for a while.

[SheLion]

Who're the fools in that picture?

To to mention a few "fools" in Free Republic, the fools in THIS picture are the poor souls who haven't found out yet about rolling their owns, or buying tax free over the Net.

Also, the "poor fools" haven't learned yet that they can jut boycott those places and refuse to spend their money where they aren't wanted. Take New York ie: New Jersey is screaming to the smokers COME SMOKE WITH US! And many New Yorkers are taking the boat. Get it?

[SheLion]

When they are so enslaved, there is no price too high for their drug delivery system of choice.

So! What's YOUR "addiction" of choice? Booze or prescription drugs!

[SheLion]

Your an idiot.

[AlabamaRebel]

I am LIVING (I think) proof that second hand smoke is a scam.

My Mom smoked when she was pregnant with me, smoked while I was a baby, and smoke my whole life while living in her house.

I started smoking at the age of 12, at 41, I am now up to 3 packs a day.

I am a truck driver who keeps the windows up all the time, summer to use the air conditioner, winter to use the heater. The wing window is cracked about a half inch most of the time.

So I probably get 2nd, 3rd and 4th hand smoke. As I stated above, I think I'm still alive (it's hard to tell sometimes).

Not only is my state using the cigarette settlement money for everything but what it is for, they raised our taxes another 75 cents a pack.

Do I care? NO!!!!

I get mine from the reservation at $13.00 a carton.

For those not old enough to remember, it used to say on the side of the packs "Smoking Causes Cancer". You will notice that it no longer says that, because they can't prove it.

Everyone is born with the cancer cell in their body. Now how your own body handles it is an individual thing.

I have known many people who have smoked like I do who never got cancer, and just as many who NEVER smoked who died of cancer.

Seems to me that smoking is only hazardous to non smokers. My advice, everyone start smoking, it may save your life.

[Great Dane]

Seems to me the states are beginning the whining process of, where are we going to get money if smokers quit........ what to do, what to do. I wish they would ban the darn things, then I could pick up a new hobby...... watching the governments squirm as they raised all other taxes by 25-50%.