Posted on 08/23/2002 5:39:18 PM PDT by SheLion
time to go to bed and burn the house down ...
I don't know. Are you holding your cigarette in your hand while holding your chin propped in the same hand? ;^)
Smokers more than make up for their extra cost by dying (their choice-not yours) sooner; collecting less social security and pensions, and less time in nursing homes. The state tax on cigarettes is all gravy. This is all backed up by facts. You should know this if you're going to play with numbers.
How can this be? Especially given that the whole point of the posted article is the opposite and posting smoker after posting smoker has asserted that smoking doesn't harm their health?
I wish the other smokers would stop the denial at least. Smoking is a health hazard.
I'm not trying to impune you, but one of my biggest pet peeves is the smokers that will show up in an area I'm at with my children & then have the gall to start smoking & not be willing to put it out on request.
I don't want to even get into the incidences of rude conduct I've witnessed from nicotine addicts needing a hit.
This is a large part of the reason for the current backlash against smokers now. At least for me. No one here at FR is more in favor of limited gov. than I, but I'm not going thru the rest of my life arguing with nicotine addicts about whether or not they are going to smoke around me & my children. I'm done arguing. You leave or you put it out. MY VOTE! BAN SMOKING!!!!!
All in all, a pretty easy nights work.
Way past my bedtime, Joe.
Your vote supports totalitarianism and a police state.
Not calling you a totalitarian. Just trying to get you to see that if you give the government the ability to ban a legal activity on private property you are just asking for them to control everything that goes on in your home, office, car, etc.
No, but the outlaws are.
Why don't you have the same attitude toward the rest of us that I have for you? Live and let live. Why do you anti's want, so much, to run others lives? Truely, I'm curious about this.
The Japanese eat very little fat and suffer fewer heart attacks than the British or Americans.
The French eat a lot of fat and also suffer fewer heart attacks than the British or Americans.
The Japanese drink very little red wine and suffer fewer heart attacks than the British or Americans.
The Italians drink excessive amounts of red wine and also suffer fewer heart attacks than the British or Americans.
CONCLUSION: Eat and drink what you like. Speaking English is apparently what kills you
Are you saying that if I was in a public park that allowed smoking and you and the ankle biters swept in (or rather hove in, as your sails seem pretty full), that I would have to put out the butt or leave the public park?
Bwahahaha!
Hey, I really like that Pink Floyd song. I might've chosen that name if it had been playing while I was trying to think of my FR name. =^)
You can tell in the first sentence someone writes whether or not he's a nico-Nazi. Why is that? What makes anti-smokers so mean and nasty? Smoking is a RISK, just like many other things people enjoy doing that others consider less than optimal. So what?
By extension, if the mechanism for transmitting the harmful elements into a smoker's body result from LIGHTING CARCINOGENS ON FIRE AND INHALING THEM, I don't want to be around you when you're doing that.
Due to the fact that smokers are far nicer and more interesting than any anti-smoker (as opposed to nonsmoker), I don't want to be around you at any time and I can't imagine any other smokers does either. So stay out of places that permit smoking and we'll all be happy.
Sure, we can discuss other issues of exposure, build-up, etc., but I reject the notion that second-hand smoke is harmless.
Reject it all you want, but you can't prove what you believe. On the other hand, literally decades of experience, a lot of study, and an ordinary amount of common sense proves to me you're wrong.
I also am amazed by the mothers crowing about their failure to stop smoking while pregnant.
Why? Did any of them suffer the dire consequences you seem ready to guarantee? Women have smoked while pregnant for generations and the species has survived quite well. We're the healthiest, longest-lived group in history and we were exposed to the most environmental tobacco smoke.
It sure feels like the attacks on "Big Tobacco" were around long before the Clintons. Their propaganda machine is VERY good. :^/
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