[Hank Kerchief]

Smoking is good for you, and everyone who believes it isn't believes that for the same reason they believe in global warming--they have swallowed the government lies.

Anti-tobacco is Anti-American!

The leftist nanny-state just cannot bear the fact that some people are actually enjoying their lives doing what they hate.

[netmilsmom]

Wow! Put on your flame suit.

Incoming! (getting the popcorn)

[TribalPrincess2U]

They just like to control people no matter what it is.
Socialism =no freedoms for anyone and eventually, even for the sheeple lefties
but they think it won’t happen to them. LOL

Oh, and how is that “freedom of speech” going for Code Pink in Iran?

[Seruzawa]

There is ultimately only one reason cigarettes (and most other substances) are regulated at all and that is the belief that some people have a right to force other people to do what they think is best for them; and they cannot bear that some people might actually be enjoying their lives without their interference.

Yes and there are plenty of those people on the FR. Here they come now in all their self-righteous fury.

[EGPWS]

Obama Creates Thousands of New Jobs

At the cost of prosperity and personal freedom.

Personally, I would rather be destitute on my own than to blame it on an incompetent leader.

[struggle]

Oh, how I wish you were in my life again, friend.

[max americana]

If lining up at the unemployment line is a job then yes...Obeyme has indeed created “jobs”.

[rawcatslyentist]

>" they cannot bear that some people might actually be enjoying their lives without their interference."

Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Tyranny.

Thank You Satan 1:50

[Bhoy]

Thanks for the post! I was beginning to think I was alone in my defense of my right to make my own choice. You don’t want me to smoke in your house (bar, restaurant), then I won’t. If you don’t want to come to my house (bar, restaurant) because people smoke there, well, don’t. The property owner calls the shots.

Good links. Thanks.

[Hank Kerchief]

PHILOSOPHY PING

(If you want on or off this list please freepmail me.)

If you want to know what the philosophy of this article is, it is the philosophy of individual liberty. Hank

[elkfersupper]

Thank you for posting this.

You are correct, of course.

[BipolarBob]

I don’t smoke. Many smokers are just rude. They want to smoke in your home, car and in your face. Some of course are not like that. When I retire and life is short, I may take it up but not until then. I tell my children. Don’t smoke. Don’t drink and drive. Wear your seatbelt (they saved my life). But when you are old what do you have to fear? Skydive. Parasail. Smoke. Do all the things a youngster should not do because they have their life ahead of them and do not imperil that needlessly.

[Seven plus One]

Freedom, prosperity, and a good smoke. Even after eight years I'm still in Flavor Country. It's the insufferable puritanism that's gaining ground now that pisses me off. It's always been here, but lately anything that gives a little enjoyment is something to be ashamed of. Not a good attitude to impose on a country as large and productive as the United States.

[cranked]

Oh the hilarity.

Another Moron Ping.

[One_American]

I recently ordered my fist electronic cigarette. You get the smoke (actually vapor), with nicotine and flavoring. The nicotine in the juice that is vaporized can be ordered in various concentrations from high (36 mg) to zero and there are many flavors available with more being introduced all the time. Since there is no combustion, there are no tars or carcinogens being ingested. I am sure the government will try to regulate e-cigs soon so get them while you can.

[paul51]

Smoking is good for you.
The world is flat also.

[Kickass Conservative]

Not to change the subject, but I just realized that Henry Waxman is as tall as Edward Kennedy is wide.

The Whale and the Shrimp, running every aspect of your life for your own good.

Let me know when the Useful Idiots among us finally wake up.

[eyedigress]

Little League Baseball has taken one hell of a hit. (no I never did smoke). (LF outfielder who could reach that 200ft fence). The lefties without discipline can kiss my ass. They have ruined the way that sports were funded and how Dad kicks your ass if you smoke a cigarette. Idiots

[Little Ray]

I hope this is sarcasm.

My mother had part of a lung removed because lung cancer; my father is on oxygen for the rest of his for emphyzema.
Smoking is pernicious.

[CottShop]

government controlled ciggs- dictate that ciggs must contain less and less nocotine- causing smokers to be forced into buying more ciggs to meet their nic requirements = more tax money for hte government- dictate the length ciggs can be- again, forcing smokers to have to buy more ciggs to meet their nic requirements = more tax money for government,

Sounds like a mob sydicate takeover of a product they KNOW they can manipulate to force people into buying more than they currently do. What next? Coffee? Caffeine? Chocolate?

[betty boop]

...don't smoke or you'll die from cancer or heart disease; don't go out in the sun or you'll get skin cancer and die; don't drive without a seat-belt or you'll have an accident and die. Does no one think that perhaps it is not too good for you to be terrified of every blessed thing that exists?

LOLOL! It is so true that "The leftist nanny-state just cannot bear the fact that some people are actually enjoying their lives doing what they hate." At the very least, folks who do the things the nanny-staters hate will be made to pay.... Dontcha know the "experts" know better than we do what is "good for us," and will work tirelessly to try to save us from ourselves? Whether we want them to or not?

I just wish these ninnies would get a life.... And stop living vicariously through mine.

To me, there is something morbid about an excessive preoccupation with health. Plus something's got to kill you. You might as well enjoy your life as you see fit while you have it. Plus people who do so tend not to be the ones who nitpick and meddle in the lives of others.

Very interesting essay/post, Hank! Thank you so much for putting it up.