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

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

[AlabamaRebel]

Call me an idiot!!

But what is WOD?

[SkyRat]

War on Drugs.

[SheLion]

They even want to make it illegal to smoke in your own house. Their reasoning is that if you smoke in your house and your windows are open, the smoke could get outside and poison your nieghbors.

That's a crock! How about neighbors burning grease! That sure is a good whiff!

Fortunately for me, I have one neighbor next door, who could care less, and the rest I am surrounded by potato fields out here in the country.

Yes, three places downtown, who had to invest in very expensive liquor licenses in order to provide the smoking areas.

We also burn with wood heat in huge wood furnaces up here. And you talk about smoke rolling out of everyone's chimneys! Kind of hard to peg second hand smoke from a cigarette up HERE. hehe!

[SheLion]

I used to roll my own, but it took up too much time. With me being a truck driver, I couldn't sit that long.

I understand the time element for you. But you found a great source in which to buy your cigarettes. That works good for you! And not paying into the state coffers is mind blowing. That alone helps me TAKE the time to roll my own. You can bet on it!

[SheLion]

I just wish they'd service me for once instead of vice versa.

OH YOU!

[SheLion]

It's just that unlike you, I wouldn't get down on my knees and take the big stick of of state power into my mouth and suck like ten dollar street whore.

[SheLion]

We need to get the word out more to ALL smokers to but from the net and make their own.

HELL YES, JOE! Let all smokers know that they do NOT have to line the pockets of the state lawmakers. Let them pull the money out of some other poor guy's butt. It's about time, I say!

[SheLion]

"Stan Glantz said it, I believe it, and that settles it!"

ROTFLMAO!

Mr. FATMAN himself. Ain't HE the picture of health!

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

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

Yes they have. Believe it. They're just saving them for a rainy day.

[AlabamaRebel]

See I am an idiot!!!!

:)

[Madame Dufarge]

That's it, nice and orderly.

B-a-a-a-a-a-a-h-h-h-h-h-h.

[auboy]

Add Montgomery, AL to the cities buying the "second-hand" smoke BS. And surrounding towns like Prattville are following like sheep.

I do not smoke cigarettes, only an occasional cigar. I don't like to smell smoke when I'm dining, but most establishments have non-smoking areas that work fairly well. The line the councils are buying/selling is that it's the employees who are subjected to "second-hand" smoke and it's detrimental to their health. One State of Alabama employee was on local TV last week claiming her cancer was due to "second-hand" smoke in her State office environment.

And I thought I was living in Alabama, not some liberal bastion. But then again, Montgomery is the State Capital and it seems that liberals do gravitate to public troughs.

[Savage Beast]

LOL! Astute, Met. Astute.

[metesky]

LOL! Glantz better pray they don't start taxing fat, eh?

Or nerdyness, for that matter.

[Great Dane]

#40....... Yes times sure have changed, we usually go off the highway now, and hit some little town, leave our money there.

[qam1]

Without a doubt, Tommorow (Well by May 2004) it will be meat and junk food

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/839402/posts

[B4Ranch]

There's discussion about taxing the prostitutes in NEVADA!