Killing the passive smoking debate

Townhall ^ | 6/29/6 | Michael Fumento

[brownsfan]

"What does it mean, the snout of the camel is in the tent?"

Yes.

They want to "control" smoking, (abolish it). Once that's accomplished, they will be emboldened. Personal freedom is significantly at risk in American right now.

[Froufrou]

Why is it that we can't just let the problem take care of itself? Generation X may smoke, but much less than my generation did, and there are so few places left that permit it there will be a natural decline.

I don't want to see everything made illegal. People fornicate enough as it is. If they're left with no other recreation, than procreation, we're doomed fer shure.

[patton]

this is actually well-written, and scientifically correct.

[brownsfan]

"Why is it that we can't just let the problem take care of itself?"

Because that's how conservatives do things. It's not in the liberal's nature to let things work themselves out. They are smarter than us, so they need to regulate the lives of the little people.

Not always, but most of the time, things manage to work themselves out for the better.

[Gabz]

Nanny State PING

Michael Fumento, once again, gets it !!!!!!!!


This is not about smoking or health ..........it is about controlling what (supposedly) free people choose to do.

[Gabz]

PS. Before all of you non-smokers jump all over this, PLEASE, know that if any of you enjoy an occasional Big Mac (with fries) or Twinkies, or anything else which "do-gooders" deem "unhealthy," YOU, are next!!!

You are, of course, correct....with one little caveat. there is a vast difference between non-smokers and anti-smokers. Most non-smokers, even while enjoying the results, do not support government mandated smoking bans in private businesses. Anti-smokers, OTOH, have decreed all private places are now public places and insist on government mandated bans EVERYWHERE.

[Tokra]

This whole clean air thing is a crock. Our ancestors in England, Europe or where ever spent their darkness hours in smoky huts with only a hole in the roof as a chimney.

And their life expectancy was 45 years. Yeah - what a great life that was.

[neverdem]

How sad that the minority anarchists get their way.

I wish they were anarchists. This is the tactic of nanny statists and police states.

[Just A Nobody]

And I think it's the fault of Liberals that we have to be so p.c. as to allow people to perpetrate their crap on the rest of us.

I disagree. It is the fault of the "Conservatives" that allowed the commies to make us a PC nation which has allowed the commie crap to be perpetrated on the masses with no resistance.

[neverdem]

Remember when quarantine was a viable, medical approach to protecting society from the ravages of communicable disease?

You should be pleasantly surprised here.

'Tough Love' Lessons From a Deadly Epidemic (NYC considers measures to control HIV like TB)

[Froufrou]

Hey, I resist plenty. The PC nation happened under their watch, not ours.

[Cobra64]

I wonder how many people here can recognize the gents in this photo.

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the ping!

[Just A Nobody]

Hey, I resist plenty. The PC nation happened under their watch, not ours.

I understand what you are saying. My point was, where was OUR resistance while they were marching us into this communist utopia?

[Froufrou]

Unfortunately, I think it was the 70's and much of that era was a blur...as they no doubt intended. I heard Shrillary was in Dallas and they booed her because her hair was greasy and she had hairy legs and armpits.

Ewwwww.... <:-O

[ichabod1]

Anyone who comes into contact with even the minutestes particle of cigaret smoke will DIE!

[ichabod1]

About as significant as "An Inconvenient Truth."

[mysterio]

Anyone who breathes air even one time will die. And so will those who don't.

[N. Theknow]

Surgeon General reports have been ludicrous since the Dr. Koop released a ridiculous tome on Aids prevention. All it did was pander to the homosexual lobby with it's "We need more education given to the people about AIDS."

Then every congresscritter and Senator mailed out some flyer on AIDS protection (always use clean needles and here is how to wear a condom) without one word about AIDS prevention.

[ichabod1]

Fumento

Apropos name, that.