They have to do something to counter their own commercials urging smokers to quit or never start.
Lower the nicotine in a cigarette and you will have people smoking more cigarettes to get their nicotine level up to what they require. If you want to have them smoke less....really increase the nicotine. You'll get vomit though.
It doesn't affect them; they don't smoke!
Must be something else, like, they're a bunch of busy-bodies who can't stand to stay out of other people's business!
Well then lets make sure there is no Alcohol in booze....lets make sure there is no paper in toilet paper...come on non smokers, if you don't like it, go somewhere else, I do.
I don't smoke, but I don't like people telling me what to do all the time....so live with it, or move....like to....IRAN would be good....
Make it illegal. Let the blackmarket have the money, defund the government, and if they need to, they can raise taxes on nonsmokers. It's about time nonsmokers started paying their fair share.
liberty_lvr, HarleyLady27 & the like I've been saying for a long time now. God nor my Mama & Papa gave be a Big Brother & I don't need strangers incl the govt to be one or get one for me Now. When I don't want to be around smoke I don't go near it or if I am near it & it bothers me I just LEAVE. It's called taking personal responsibility for my own life/health. I wish these militant anti-smokers/non-smokers would MYODFB.
And @ least countries like Iran & China don't claim their citizens are free & have rights when they either don't or are restricting/repealing them. ; )-
mysterio, You're right. I've been saying for years now that when the militant non-smokers get their way & tobacco is out-lawed altogether or barely raises much tax $ & the taxes of ALL, incl those same militant anti-smokers, have to be raised guess who will be whining & complaining then. Not I b/c I'll say "I told ya so".
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I also warned "back in the day" when folks started suing gun manufacturers & tobacco co's that sooner or later it would keep getting worse & extend to say fast-food, junk-food & candy co's (those were my Actual examps @ the time) - - AND guess what. The fast-food suits have started. On the one hand I like being able to say "I told ya so" but on the other hand in many cases I wish I had been wrong & this is one of those times.
Speaking of my predictions, he is another one samm1148. Back when these tobacco suits started I warned that the states weren't going to use the $ for what they said they were going to which they usually said it was to re-coup/off-set expenses incurred for medical care costs for the dependents of the state like MediCare but instead I've heard a wide variety of uses incl but not ltd to rd work/infrastructure, state parks, schools & a variety of other state services & perks. So once again, unfortunately, I get to say "I TOLD YA SO!".
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On a side note: I know someone that got a wedding invitation once that said:
*Guests are requested not to smoke, wear perfume/cologne, deodorant or hair-spray.* Basically, anything that had an "odor".
LOL, I kid you not.
Needless to say, my friend, who was actually related to the groom, didn't attend the wedding.
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Now if y'all will excuse me, I have to go & feed my "addiction" to College Football : 0 )- The game already started *Eek* & I can hear it from where I'm sitting but can't see it. *Runs to Living Room*
Ping!
Read through the comments so far. I *GASP* actually think that people are starting to see that all the no-smoking BS is just that...BS...and it's actually another step in the process of the Nanny Staters trying to tell us all how to live our lives.
I'm so proud! You guys have made a BIG impact on some of the thinking around here. :)
Obviously, they didn't actually burn any tobacco in order to determine this, because there is nowhere one can do that these days.
It's harder to find a place to smoke that it is to get a building permit for an oil refinery or nuclear power plant.
The study is bogus and the MA Dept. of Public health is all wet.
People smoke cigarettes, not machines. The fact that the cigarette smoking machine owned by the department is able to deliver more nicotine from cigarettes than a few years ago, is irrelevant.
The actual smoker naturally compensates for greater or lesser nicotine delivery by drawing on a cigarette longer or deeper, or shorter and shallower, if he needs more or less nicotine.
The idea that low-tar smokes are less harmful than a Pall Mall is just false.
I'm sorry, but nicotine is NOT that addictive. I just quit smoking a few months ago (I smoked two packs a day) and just stopped. It's a habit, that's all it is.
Mark