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26% Say Smoking Cigarettes Should Be Outlawed
Rasmussen Reports ^
| June 27, 2010
Posted on 06/28/2010 6:33:19 AM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia
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To: Haiku Guy
I’m not aware of one decision/award that hasn’t been overturned on appeal.
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posted on
06/28/2010 7:43:52 AM PDT
by
Leisler
("Over time they create a legal system that plunders and a moral code that glorifies it." F. Bastiat)
To: Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus
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posted on
06/28/2010 7:46:56 AM PDT
by
Leisler
("Over time they create a legal system that plunders and a moral code that glorifies it." F. Bastiat)
To: Leisler
Just more libertarians seeing boogeymen. I’m sorry, but none of this seems credible to me in the least.
I know a lot (a LOT) of Baptist/evangelical/fundamentalist pastors and laymen. Practically NONE of them have any interest whatsoever in banning alcohol/cigarettes/moral evil du jour, for reasons I stated above in other posts. Cato’s view of religious conservatives seems to be stuck in a late 19th century “Temperance Movement” mindset, though most everybody recognises that it was a huge mistake, and most don’t have any desire to repeat it.
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posted on
06/28/2010 7:59:57 AM PDT
by
Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus
(When fascism came to America, it was wrapped in the Democrat platform and carrying a welfare check.)
To: rightwingintelligentsia
Have these people heard of property rights?
Huh, what’s that? What did I just type?
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posted on
06/28/2010 8:02:44 AM PDT
by
MichiganConservative
(A government big enough to do unto the people you don't like will get to doing unto you soon enough.)
To: Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus
45
posted on
06/28/2010 8:06:05 AM PDT
by
Leisler
("Over time they create a legal system that plunders and a moral code that glorifies it." F. Bastiat)
To: All
I’m a non-smoker; in fact, I hate being around smoking BUT...
what ever happened to the “Land of the Free?”
Where in the US Constitution does the federal gub-mint have the power to make smoking illegal? Where?
Without a legal basis, such as change to the Constitution, 80% of the populace could want to outlaw it but that still doesn’t make it legal.
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posted on
06/28/2010 8:08:31 AM PDT
by
BFM
(CLINTON is and always will be a rapist. Never forget!)
To: Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus
Most religious conservatives I know (myself included), while personally disapproving of things like smoking, drinking, and the like, also realise that the big government that can come in and tell you that you can't drink booze is the same one that can come in and tell you what you can and can't preach in your church.This deserves to be repeated.
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posted on
06/28/2010 8:11:53 AM PDT
by
MichiganConservative
(A government big enough to do unto the people you don't like will get to doing unto you soon enough.)
To: Leisler
Its not about Baptists. Not necessarily, more like, but sooner or later, libertarians find a way to make that application.
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posted on
06/28/2010 8:12:03 AM PDT
by
Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus
(When fascism came to America, it was wrapped in the Democrat platform and carrying a welfare check.)
To: rightwingintelligentsia
Goverment dosen’t dare outlaw tobacco
1) think what it would do to the unemployment numbers
2) ever been around some grouch quiting think of millions having a nicotine fit
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posted on
06/28/2010 8:17:04 AM PDT
by
mouser
(Run the rats out its the only chance we have)
To: Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus
” What’s funny is that, while I’m not sure I’d go all the way to full legalisation, I definitely think we ought to consider decriminalisation (should pot smokers really spend years in jail, right along side the murderers and rapists?)”
It was decriminalized in PRACTICE years ago.
The cops don’t bust people in or out of their home anymore. Not unless they have a pound of it. You cannot show me a pot smoker who has spent even one year in jail.
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posted on
06/28/2010 9:00:02 AM PDT
by
stephenjohnbanker
(Support our Troops, and vote out the RINOS!)
To: Tanniker Smith
that would be an interesting study.
non-smoker here. Pot should not be legalised, smoking should be legalised.
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posted on
06/28/2010 9:54:57 AM PDT
by
BenKenobi
(I want to hear more about Sam! Samwise the stouthearted!)
To: stephenjohnbanker
Does anybody know what happened to the FReeper “She Lion”? She was a hard core smoker who always went ballistic in these smoking threads. She would rant and rave that hell or high water or the gummint wasn’t going to stop her from smoking!
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posted on
06/28/2010 10:06:59 AM PDT
by
RVN Airplane Driver
("To be born into freedom is an accident; to die in freedom is an obligation..)
To: rightwingintelligentsia
Prohibition worked so well. Everything was in good order during that period.
< /sarcasm>
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posted on
06/28/2010 10:10:38 AM PDT
by
GingisK
To: RVN Airplane Driver
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posted on
06/28/2010 10:10:58 AM PDT
by
stephenjohnbanker
(Support our Troops, and vote out the RINOS!)
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