There is about a 20 year lag in the trends. Please, don't talk stupid.
Posted on 08/25/2016 6:15:31 AM PDT by Drango
JUST LEAVE PEOPLE ALONE, DAMMIT!
1. Government (national and state) love smoking; that is the truth.
2. Smoking helps pensions survive
3. Smoking provides politicians a bad buy to blame ills on
4. Smoking as hated by the left is an amazing source of hypocrisy; so many hollywooders and libs smoke
5. Last but not least, smoking, aka, big tobacco, provides our uniparty with massive lobbying funds for reelection and tax revenue
If they hated it, it would be illegal. Next time you see a phony commercial or billboard, point it out to your family members before they get brainwashed.
Heck, breathing in smoke of any kind cannot be good, but, look at the left and BIG MARIJUANA...would it have been brought about if it were bad?
This is one ex-smoker who says “Keep your freakin social engineering to yourself”!
Unfortunately once we get single-payer, everything you do will become everybody else’s business.
Very interesting. All this smoking bann is nothing more then a conditioning for big brother control. Does offer 6 usefull examples to use to peel back this heavy handed save the world social engineering approach brought about though the application (like climate contro)l of pseudo science. If it made a dent in lung cancer which it hasn’t we’d be hearing about it.
There is about a 20 year lag in the trends. Please, don't talk stupid.
Here in Washington there's an IOU to pay back the money hardieharhar
Ed
“My last cigarette was in March of 1986.
I quit cold turkey and never looked back.”
Good for you. I quit cold turkey myself, in May of 1986. That was my 40th birthday gift to me. Finished my last pack of Pall Malls and tossed it away in a gesture of defiance.
Stopping cold and grinding it out for a couple of weeks is the only way that ever really works.
Wrangell Alaska last year: Walked into a bar. Ashtrays on the tables and on the bar. Bartender and several customers happily smoking and drinking. Down the street another bar. No smoking.
As it should be.
If you don’t like smoking, don’t do it.
Leave the rest of us alone.
The Moral Police are busy, busy, busy watching YOU!
My decision to quit was partially driven by the new Chevy Caprice that the company I worked for had delivered to me that spring. It smelled so good, I couldn’t bring myself to light up in it.
In any case, it took nearly five years before I quit reaching into my shirt pocket for a Winson Light.
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