[Eric Blair 2084]

More here also from Dr. Michael Siegel:

Senator Enzi to Introduce Alternative to FDA Tobacco Legislation; Bill Far Stronger than FDA Bill; Embarrassment for Major Anti-Smoking Groups

[chief_bigfoot]

Dennis Leary, comic though he may be, has nailed this one already.

From his "No Cure for Cancer" cd. Lyrics provided from http://endor.org/leary/

"There's a guy- I don't know if you've heard about this guy, he's been on the news a lot lately. There's a guy- he's English, I don't think we should hold that against him, but apparently this is just his life's dream because he is going from country to country. He has a senate hearing in this country coming up in a couple of weeks. And this is what he wants to do. He wants to make the warnings on the packs bigger. Yeah! He wants the whole front of the pack to be the warning. Like the problem is we just haven't noticed yet. Right? Like he's going to get his way and all of the sudden smokers around the world are going to be going, "Yeah, Bill, I've got some cigarettes.. HOLY S**T! These things are bad for you! S**t, I thought they were good for you! I thought they had Vitamin C in them and stuff!" You f***ing dolt! Doesn't matter how big the warnings are. You could have cigarettes that were called warnings. You could have cigarrettes that come in a black pack, with a skull and a cross bone on the front, called tumors and smokers would be lined up around the block going, "I can't wait to get my hands on these f***ing things! I bet you get a tumor as soon as you light up! Numm Numm Numm Numm Numm" Doesn't matter how big the warnings are or how much they cost. Keep raising the prices, we'll break into your houses to get the f***ing cigarettes, ok!? They're a drug, we're addicted, ok!? Numm Numm Numm Numm Numm *wheeze*"

"I love to smoke. I smoke seven thousand packs a day, ok. And I am never f***ing quitting! I don't care how many laws they make. What's the law now? You can only smoke in your apartment, under a blanket, with all the lights out? Is that the rule now, huh?! The cops are outside, "We know you have the cigarettes. Come out of the house with the cigarettes above your head." "You'll never get me copper! I'm never coming out, you hear? I got a cigarette machine right here in my bedroom. Yeah!"

I don't know. Personally, I think Billy Martin said it best when he said, "Hey! I can drive!" Because we tried to be nice to you non-smokers. We f***ing tried. Okay? You wanted your own sections in the restaurants. We gave you that, huh. But that wasn't enough for you. Then you wanted the airplanes. We gave you the whole G** d**n plane! You happy now? You own the f***ing plane! I'd like an explanation about that one folks because I will guarantee you if the plane is going down, the first announcement you're gonna hear is, "Folks, this is your Captain speaking. Look, uhm, light 'em up, 'cause we're going down, okay. I got a carton of Camels non-filters, I'll see you on the ground. Take it easy."

The filters the best part. That's where they put the heroine. Only us real good smokers know that f***ing secret. Yeah, we tried to be nice to you non-smokers. We tried. But you just f***ing badger us, you know? You won't leave us alone! You got all your little speeches you're always giving to us. All these little facts that you dig out of a newspaper or pamphlet and you store that little nugget in your little f***ing head, and we light up and you spew 'em out at us, don't ya? I love these little facts. "Well you know. Smoking takes ten years off your life." Well it's the ten worst years, isn't it folks? It's the ones at the end! It's the wheelchair kidney dialysis f***ing years. You can have those years! We don't want 'em, alright!? And I guarantee if I'm still alive, I'll be smoking then. Because you're always telling us, "You know, ever cigarette takes six minutes off your life. If you quit now you can live an extra ten years. If you quit now, you can live an extra twenty years." Hey, I got two words for you, ok. Jim Fix. Remember Jim Fix? The big famous jogging guy? Jogged fifteen miles a day. Did a jogging book. Did a jogging video. Dropped out of a heart attack when? When he was f***ing jogging, that's when! What do you wanna bet it was two smokers who found the body the next morning and went, "Hey! That's Jim Fix, isn't it?" "Wow, what a f***ing tragedy. Come on, lets go buy some butts."

It's always the yogurt sprout eating mother f***ers who get run over buy a bus driven by a guy who smokes three and a half packs a day. "Sorry officer, I didn't see him. I was too busy smoking!"

[George W. Bush]

U.S. Senator Mike Enzi, R-Wyo...

With Republicans like this, the Dims don't even have to try.

We need to place the Stupid Party on suicide watch.

[sergeantdave]

“Creates a cap-and-trade program ...”

Within 20 years this will become a $10 trillion ponzi scheme with 200 million Americans sucking cash from it. It will become as sacred as social security and another third rail of politics. And smoking will increase to half the population, including kindergartners.

[elkfersupper]

I seem to recall that same language-only concerning illicit drugs, sometime during the Nixon administration.

Hmmmmmmmmm.

[DakotaRed]

GOOD! Now, watch as all the anti-smoking groups line up opposing it, as they did in North Dakota in 2003.

Ban tobacco and they lose major funding.

[Hattie]

The Senators have nothing to do.

[DilJective]

He better not find out about those four-wheeled death-traps because I'll end up driving around in a golf cart! /s

Our drug laws have been pretty effective, haven't they? Those were phased in over decades....

[Reagan is King]

And this is a Republican pushing this? No wonder they’re losing elections.

[monday]

He’s an idiot who hasn’t a clue as to how markets work. Socialists always think they can reduce demand by reducing supply. They are so stupid as to be laughable.

[dforest]

Nanny state Republicans, why don’t they mind their own business? We got democrats to worry about this stuff.

[<1/1,000,000th%]

People don’t choose to be smokers, they’re born that way. /sarcasm

[Leatherneck_MT]

First they came with the Dept. of Revenue and the ATF but it was only for the rich so nobody cared.

Then they came for the free use or not of seat belts, but it was for the chilluns, so nobody cared.

Then they came for the Tobacco companies, but tobacco companies were evil, so nobody cared.

Who’s next?

Do we see a trend here?

[EGPWS]

“Tobacco(place any politically correct term here) kills.

Life kills and there is a world full of reasons for dieing that can be taken away via loss of personal freedom.

Some actually promote the idea that living without personal freedom makes life worth living before one dies.

Go figure.

We are all going to die however not all of us are going to live...

[Raycpa]

Why don’t we simply build a fence around the smokers and treat them like lepers?

[aruanan]

Sen. Mike Enzi introduces bill to wipe out tobacco in America in a generation

Okay, so we have less lung cancer and heart disease deaths. But we'll have a continued sky-rocketing of obesity (which smoking in former generations helped to keep under control), as well as all the mental problems that self-medication with nicotine helped to manage. Imagine the costs of obese, diabetic, psychotics who won't die sooner due to lung cancer and heart disease. Imagine all these folks living to draw on their social security or to draw SS disability payments at a time when they otherwise would have been merrily puffing away.

[TASMANIANRED]

What will they ever move the taxes too...

Look out big soda.

[Hoodat]

Wipe out tobacco in America? That will never happen. The government is too addicted to cigarette tax revenues. Besides, the government wants you to smoke so that you die before turning 65.