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Tobacco For Eighteen-Year-Olds? What Are Bloomberg’s Priorities?
Last Resistance ^ | April 23, 2013 | Mark Home

Posted on 04/23/2013 12:46:19 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks

For the record, I tend to think that a cigarette ban for minors may be appropriate. While I oppose prohibition for adults, I think it makes sense to say that adults shouldn’t be permitted to entice children into certain unhealthy choices. Of course, if such a prohibition is put in place, it needs to be justified by banning a substance that is clearly dangerous, not just “unhealthy” by some statistic that we know doesn’t apply to all people. If the evidence qualifies tobacco as such a substance, then I can see restricting it from children.

But recent news about a new proposal from the New York City Counsel is making me wonder what on earth Mayor Bloomberg could have been thinking when he tried to unilaterally force his soda-size ban on people.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Editorial; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: New York
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1 posted on 04/23/2013 12:46:19 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
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To: SheLion; Eric Blair 2084; -YYZ-; 31R1O; 383rr; AFreeBird; AGreatPer; Alamo-Girl; Alia; altura; ...

Backwards Bloomie Nanny State PING!


2 posted on 04/23/2013 12:47:43 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Drag Me From Hell!)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

I’d like to see a cap on how much money politicians are allowed to have.


3 posted on 04/23/2013 12:48:24 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (The Amnesty Bill - 800 pages filled with 400 waivers and exemptions for illegal aliens.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

IS NANNY BOY ACTUALLY LOSING IT? AS A LIBERTARIAN, I THINK 18 YEAR OLDS SHOULD BE FREE TO SMOKE AND DRINK (THEY CAN DIE FOR THEIR COUNTRY)—I DON’T SMOKE MYSELF—TRIED IT HERE AND THERE—DON’T REALLY CARE FOR IT, DOES NOTHING TO ME. BUT BLOOMIE BOY HAS REALLY FLIPPED—WHAT IS HE TRYING TO BECOME A LIBERTARIAN?


4 posted on 04/23/2013 12:53:34 PM PDT by brooklyn dave (I hope the FEMA camps are comfortable when they come for me)
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5 posted on 04/23/2013 12:55:03 PM PDT by DJ MacWoW (My faith and politics cannot be separated)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Reminds me of a line in the Tim Wilson comedy song........”You can go to war when your 18......but you can’t buy a beer...”


6 posted on 04/23/2013 12:59:24 PM PDT by MachIV
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
What a health nut!

One word too many.

7 posted on 04/23/2013 1:44:51 PM PDT by ArGee (I wanted to be alone with my thoughts, but they stood me up.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Bloomberg says:

Citizens 18 years of age aren’t mature enough to make an informed judgement call on the purchase of a legal producat but they are mature enough to make an informed judgement call in the voting booth.

Can’t have it both ways, Nanny.


8 posted on 04/23/2013 3:34:06 PM PDT by Iron Munro (Welcome to Obama-Land - EVERYTHING NOT FORBIDDEN IS COMPULSORY)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Yes, this group of people is mature enough and wise enough to get to decide who **I** have to call “President”, but not do decide what to put in their own lungs. [eyeroll]


9 posted on 04/23/2013 4:13:26 PM PDT by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
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To: Still Thinking

Wait! Rereading my last post, I think I may have a case for injunctive relief from second-hand Obama!


10 posted on 04/23/2013 4:16:01 PM PDT by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Kids you can have all the “plan B” you want.

Just don’t wash it down with a big soda or have a cig after sex.


11 posted on 04/23/2013 4:16:18 PM PDT by nascarnation (Baraq's economic policy: trickle up poverty)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

What would the prosecution for minors who use “legalized pot” be then? Or would the drug warriors claim “it can’t be stopped”, therefore no prosecution? Just go after alcohol and tobacco, same as ever in their world.


12 posted on 04/23/2013 7:17:38 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (America 2013 - STUCK ON STUPID)
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To: Iron Munro
Bloomberg says: Citizens 18 years of age aren’t mature enough to make an informed judgement call on the purchase of a legal producat but they are mature enough to make an informed judgement call in the voting booth.

Yet 12 year olds are mature enough to engage in sex, get pregnant, and buy their own morning after pills without consultation or supervision. Right.

13 posted on 04/23/2013 7:18:43 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (America 2013 - STUCK ON STUPID)
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To: a fool in paradise
Yet 12 year olds are mature enough to engage in sex, get pregnant, and buy their own morning after pills without consultation or supervision. Right. Even more absurd!

But Obama says they are children and stay on mom and dad's medical plan until they are 26.

Heck - They got ghetto grandmothers younger than that.


14 posted on 04/23/2013 7:27:16 PM PDT by Iron Munro (Welcome to Obama-Land - EVERYTHING NOT FORBIDDEN IS COMPULSORY)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Thanks for the ping!


15 posted on 04/23/2013 8:48:16 PM PDT by Alamo-Girl
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To: Iron Munro

Smoking cigarettes is the least of our problem with kids. This is not the 1950s.

Now they just play video games all day and abuse prescription painkillers.


16 posted on 04/23/2013 8:50:49 PM PDT by Eric Blair 2084 (I don't always drink beer, but when I do, I prefer to drink a bunch of them. Stay thirsty my FRiends)
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