They're Coming After You

Worldnetdaily/Creators Syndicate, Inc. | 3-6-02 | Walter Williams

[farmall]

some people i know thought the tabacco suits were just fine,i told my wife then that i could use the same reasoning to sue the local all you can eat buffet.

now here we go

[Ditter]

The difference as I see it is that I can sit beside the 'all you can eat buffet' all day while other people gorge & I won't gain one single pound. I can't sit beside even one smoker while he puffs with out my asthma kicking in. I'm not worried about the cancer aspect, at least not for me, but asthma occurs within minutes.

[Phantom Lord]

Once again, another giant I TOLD YOU SO for Limbaugh. He, virtually alone, said that fatty food would be target #1 after the nico nazi were sucessful with their tobacco shakedown.

He was right on SUVs too. His ability to predict the future is better than anyone else on the political front.

[vin-one]

I wish I could go and take some of Mr. Williams classes, at George Mason.
Love listening to him on Rush, This man is one of the smartest I have ever heard or read.
The problem is how do we stop the madness.

[motzman]

In the '60s, when the anti-smoking zealots were simply asking for smoking and non-smoking sections on airplanes, no one would have ever anticipated today's tobacco taxes, laws and regulations.

Williams is wrong here; many people knew and railed about the incremental nature of the zealot's assault. These people were dubbed "alarmists", or "reactionaries" or "tobacco executives", and denouced as "evil".

[SW6906]

Then get up and move. It is a very large country and no one is requiring you to sit beside that person who is smoking - no matter where it is.

And no, I'm not a cigarette smoker.

[Wolfie]

Let me know when the mandatory minimums for cigarettes and cheeseburgers kick in. Maybe I'll give a damn.

[SW6906]

Mandatory minimums? Huh?

[mykdsmom]

What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they don't like something to saying that the government should forbid it.

When you go down that road, don't expect freedom to survive very long.

- Thomas Sowell

MKM

[billbears]

Gee, I wonder what our newly elected senator's stance will be on this < /sarcasm>. It's bad for you, so you don't need it or shouldn't use it. Guns, seatbelts, and coming soon to a tobacco field near you, higher taxes on our state's #1 legal cash crop. May God have mercy on tobacco growers in this state.

[Ditter]

Are you really do dense that you don't get my point?

[uncbob]

Once again, another giant I TOLD YOU SO for Limbaugh. He, virtually alone, said that fatty food would be target #1 after the nico nazi were sucessful with their tobacco shakedown.

Well if you need Rush to tell you that then you aren't too swift

But you ain't gonna see alcohol with all the boozers in congress

[wjcsux]

Bottom line. The government has no business telling us what we can eat, drink or whatever. They have no business telling me I have to wear a seat belt in my car "for my own good". I don't smoke, don't abuse alcohol, don't use drugs, wear my seatbelt, and wear my helmet while riding my motorcycle. I exercise 4-5 times a week, and have a low-fat, low-sodium diet. I make these choices for myself for MY OWN GOOD. I don't need some government pinhead legislating common sense to me.

[SW6906]

No, I'm not dense (thanks for the cheap, personal shot). I get your point about someone else's eating not affecting you like smoking near you kicks in your asthma, I just don't agree with your conclusion that because of that, the government should regulate - if not ban - smoking.

See post #9.

[ravingnutter]

Are you really do dense that you don't get my point?

Well, if you want to start hurling insults...

Are you really so lazy that you can't get up and move away from the smoker?

BTW, I am a smoker, but as a courtesy I do not expose others to my habit, I go outside, even at home.

[Ditter]

Then you have never had asthma.

[jimt]

Thanks for posting this. Williams, as usual, is brilliant. Now if we could only get him elected President...

[farmall]

i'd vote for him

almost if not all his articles i read i agree with

[Gaston]

I can't sit beside even one smoker while he puffs with out my asthma kicking in.

Before all the laws were passed limiting where smoking was permitted you could just tell the smokers of your condition and they would generally snuff them out without protest. But now that the smokers are feeling defensive about their habit most often you get some rude comment about this being the smoking area and to get lost. I know because my daughter is allergic to smoke and I’ve dealt with this issue for 20 years now. I was a smoker until my daughter was born.

It is sad to think that in this country we have replaced manners with laws. If manners were still taught in the home and at school most people would see these laws as unnecessary.

[Ditter]

I do move away, all the time. Then there are times like last night, when I am half way thru dinner (in the non smoking section) when a guy at the table next to me but across that invisable line that denotes the smoking section, desides to light up while perusing his menu. Then he has another after ordering & is still smoking when his food comes so he doesn't put it out while he eats, he lets it sit there & smolder. What do you do, get your food in a box & eat at home? My question, why can't that guy get HIS food in a box & smoke at home? He was the only smoker in the reataurant & he bothered at least 20 people. Thats why smokers are hated.