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Smokers are the scum of the Earth
Boston Globe | 02-26-05 | Letter to the Editor

Posted on 02/26/2005 10:13:36 AM PST by Mears

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To: Mears
Interesting---I wonder if this means state taxes?

Per the Constitution, this is how I read it. That no taxes from one state can be demanded from another state.

The RICO law was shot down, but this Jenkins thingy still hangs out there. But I sure don't understand how anything can trump the Constitution. That is why so much of this is confusing.

81 posted on 02/28/2005 4:04:51 AM PST by SheLion (The America we once knew and loved ........................is gone.)
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To: Mears

Massachooches, commies HQ, More civil liberties taken, and that is why no one should ever be electred or posted to a high office from this cabal of Kennedy Voters.

Ops4 God BLess America!


82 posted on 02/28/2005 12:49:07 PM PST by OPS4 (worth repeating)
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#1 I wouldn't have to throw my cigs out the window if cars came WITH ashtrays!!! New cars have "change bowls" instead.
#2 In 35 years of driving all over the country never had one hit my car.
#3 If they didn't break down why aren't we swimming in the little butts? I mean during the entire last century people must have pitched a zillion butts on the ground, where are they???
#4 The soldier with the cig wouldn't be the same without it.IMHO its because a soldier with a smoke implies a man trying to calm himself with a soothing cigarette(what it does for a smoker in a high stress situation) after a terrible battle. It gives the soldier another demension of vulnerability that otherwise wouldn't be there. Another chapter to the story that picture tells. And I love to perpetuate stereotypes with this observation, but historically we associate strong manly men with smoking(i.e. marlboro man, soldiers, all of hollywoods leading men before the 80's, my daddy:)
#5 something is going to kill me, eventually. I'd rather die of emphyzema than MS or Diabetes or old age in a nursing home. I choose to check out a tad earlier. won't cost any more health care wise(and i have paid in my entire adult life too!!) and i'll suck less off social security!! Plus I'm paying more than my fair share of taxes. win win for all!!


83 posted on 02/28/2005 9:27:42 PM PST by annelizly
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To: SheLion
Wow...great post--and it describes a certain respondent to this thread to an R "T".

Well-done!

84 posted on 03/01/2005 4:16:39 AM PST by A Jovial Cad ("I had no shoes and I complained, until I saw a man who had not feet.")
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To: Ditter
Do you just wander around looking for things to be obtuse about? Or do you practice?
85 posted on 03/01/2005 4:20:17 AM PST by A Jovial Cad ("I had no shoes and I complained, until I saw a man who had not feet.")
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To: annelizly
The soldier with the cig wouldn't be the same without it.IMHO its because a soldier with a smoke implies a man trying to calm himself with a soothing cigarette(what it does for a smoker in a high stress situation) after a terrible battle. It gives the soldier another demension of vulnerability that otherwise wouldn't be there. Another chapter to the story that picture tells. And I love to perpetuate stereotypes with this observation, but historically we associate strong manly men with smoking(i.e. marlboro man, soldiers, all of hollywoods leading men before the 80's, my daddy:)

What would the anti's prefer our soldiers do for relaxation?  Drugs or alcohol???  I think smoking is the best way to go.



86 posted on 03/01/2005 4:36:44 AM PST by SheLion (The America we once knew and loved ........................is gone.)
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To: SheLion

Well that sucker can just call me scum. It's better than being called a sucker.


87 posted on 03/01/2005 4:49:02 AM PST by philman_36
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To: A Jovial Cad

I am not obtuse at all, I am an artist and I am looking at the photograph as a piece of art. You are looking a it as a having a smoke. Who is the simpleton here?


88 posted on 03/01/2005 5:40:19 AM PST by Ditter
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I do believe that the smoking soldiers last worry is dying from emphyzema in their 60's. As they escape a battle with their life by the skin of their teeth.
common sense is so rare anymore. why does smoking or not smoking have to be this big debate. All smokers i know are very curtious as far as making sure they never allow the smoke to go near a nonsmoker, they open windows, never smoke in someone elses house or car. restaraunts and other public places are usually so well ventillated that its a non issue. If a non smoker has to smell the hint of a cigarette shouldn't be a big deal. unless someone is blowing it right at you it shouldn't be a big deal. smokers are willing to compromise, non smokers should be too, cause i cannot see a time when a smoking america lays down and lets the whiners roll over them. Its happened too much as it is, but this will be the equivilant of our boston tea party!


89 posted on 03/02/2005 7:20:28 AM PST by annelizly
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To: Ditter
It would be just as great without the cigarette.

Actually, no, it wouldn't.

90 posted on 03/04/2005 3:54:46 PM PST by WhistlingPastTheGraveyard
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To: WhistlingPastTheGraveyard

Rush Limbaugh smokes cigars. Look where it got him.


91 posted on 03/08/2005 11:54:09 AM PST by NIXON1974
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Self-righteous anti-smoking health Nazis are the scum of the earth.


92 posted on 03/13/2005 12:35:23 PM PST by taskwazen
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