Posted on 04/26/2024 2:05:28 PM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal
I’d been reluctant to say this, but now I think it is time…that the ban on smoking is responsible for all this.
Been downhill ever since. The rats are out in the open. The good people are in hiding. As at Columbia U, where thousands there and elsewhere are staging an American Kristallnacht.
Yes, I know, smoking cigarettes can be hazardous to your health, second-hand smoke included, but back then, before 1995, people had choices. It was live and let live.
I smoke a pipe. Can’t write without a pipe, and please spare me the lectures. Sometimes I join the pipe community on YouTube. We are a special breed.
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People were warned what would happen if they went after cigarettes. I am a nonsmoker, but I don’t care who smokes. That is what freedom is all about.
There are way too many nanny conservatives here.
If someone harasses a smoker, simply reply "Hitler was a non-smoker!" or if someone says "Smoking is bad for you", reply with "So is minding other people's business!"
If someone harasses a smoker, simply reply “Hitler was a non-smoker!”
While Churchill, FDR and Stalin were all smokers.
Hitler was also a vegetarian.
Driving smokers from public places was the first lockdown. I bet the “science” behind the link to lung cancer is about as credible as global warming. Someday soon, expect a report that smoking is good for you.
Hitler had only one ball.
In 1995, California was the first state to enact a statewide smoking ban for restaurants. I worked in NYC when the idea to ban smoking in bars and clubs gained steam, and ultimately passed in 2002. It sparked a citywide debate, with the pro-ban people gaining the upper hand. I mean, how can you defeat leftist-based emotional argument of "I won't die of secondhand smoke and my clothes won't smell"?
And there was much rejoicing. Except...what really happened was a sort-of violation of the Takings clause. What all the anti-smokers et al achieved was the sanctioning of the state to tell commercial property owners what can and can't happen on their property, without compensation.
NY has moved beyond bars, clubs, offices, and public places to outdoors. Other municipalities have enacted similar takings, erm, bans. Nobody fights for commercial property rights anymore. Marx and Engels are laughing in hell.
Second-hand smoke is what economists call an externality - an indirect cost or benefit to an uninvolved third party that arises as an effect of another party's (or parties') activity. Guess what else is an externality? Air pollution, specifically exhaust from motor vehicles. The same folks who complain about the smell of smoke are likely driving cars with an internal combustion engine. This may be only one example of an externality, but the whole environmental movement rests on "the need for government to regulate industry to make the air clean." You can draw a straight line from the “ban smoking indoors” movement to Greta Thunberg.
The whole concept of negative externalities, which worked so swimmingly in the anti-smoking crusade, got weaponized in Covid. When the shots that were granted EUAs rolled out, many people refused to take them. We then saw the pro-shot talking heads brandish anti-smoking arguments - remember "The bottom line: We’re going to protect vaccinated workers from unvaccinated co-workers." Regarding masks, we got Mandatory masking? What smoking bans can teach us
Despite well-documented health consequences of indoor smoking, efforts to ban the behavior were met with intense political resistance and an all-too-familiar civil liberties debate, just as we see today. But science, combined with social and political initiatives that were responsive to public concerns, eventually spurred a large-scale shift in public opinion around smoking bans. From this experience, three lessons can inform how to improve adherence to universal masking -- a life-saving public health measure: 1. Frame masking as a workers' rights issue, 2. Mandates are necessary because they work, and 3. Don't lose sight of the last mile.
I don’t smoke, and I also don’t like smelling like a chimney (or nowadays, like a pot dispensary) after a night at a club or restaurant. But liberty isn’t always clean and antiseptic; second-hand smoke is a cost of freedom.
The anti-smoking campaign that gave the government an inroad into whittling away rights under the guise of public health has continue unabated.
People were less fat when everyone smoked.
Hitler also claimed to be half-Jewish. He claimed a Jewish banker seduced his mother. That made him ineligible to be Hitler.
I’ve always said that liberals want a woman to have the right to control her own body, so she can kill her unborn child, but they don’t want that same woman to be able to smoke herself to death.
I was Just thinking about That Quote!
Thanks
Goebbels was born with a club foot, which would have made him eligible to be euthanized in the T4 Program.
FWIW, I quit smoking cigarettes 3 months ago after smoking for 55 years; it was time, COPD makes breathing difficult. My own fault, I know.
So was Stalin.
I’m old enough to remember the tv commercial jingles: “Winston tastes good like a cigarette should” and “You get a lot to like in a Marlboro”. Does that date me or what?
Well said. I’m dying to taste a cig.
Hitler was also a vegetarian.
and had super gas problem , LOL
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