Maine: Bill closes loophole in smoking law

kennebeck journal ^ | 4-5-05 | CHRIS CHURCHILL

[Raycpa]

Incrementally, smokers become outcasts. They need a makeover and become as polite as cigar smokers.

[gidget7]

Dug in huh? Sorry SheLion, although I do understand. I want out of this socialist stench hole too, (there is a stench much worse than cigg smoke!) But I am not ready to be that far from my son, and the better half isn't ready to retire, or leave his folks.

So for now, I am pretty stuck too.

[gidget7]

"This really has nothing to do with smoking. It has everything to do with agendas and that is to enslave the American people."


It's like the second prohibition, only they fine you left and right, in the form of taxes, and treat you like the scum of the earth for smoking, while elevating degenerative behavior.

[Mears]

I would love to see every SMOKER in the USA start a movement to ban smoking and make it illegal.

Wouldn't it be great to see the lawmakers' and politicians' faces?

We could all gather at some smoke-easies and make the new Al Capones rich. Actually,it sounds like fun,doesn't it?

[Gabz]

Gee... think they could have been LYING???

I don't think it - I KNOW IT

[gidget7]

Actually it does!!

[Cobra64]

I'm with you. Karen and I lived in upstate NY for 15 years and we were really annoyed at Chucky Schumer and the Bride of Sinkman as our Senator. I did not mean to single out just Maine (my sister has a summer home in Maine), but there must be something in the water with ME, VT, NH, CT that makes people too dopey and liberal. I think that's why Karen and I left NY and headed for NC before we caught the liberal-leprocy. LOL.

[Mears]

LOL! I'll get there early and make the coffee!

[armymarinemom]

This place has become a Kafka-esque nightmare

Amen. Never mind the fact that socialism doesn't work, these idiots just keep trying.

[zoyd]

But... Public Safety, Public Safety, Public Safety, Public Safety, Public Safety, Public Safety, Public Safety, Public Safety!!!

It's for the CHILDREN, It's for the CHILDREN, It's for the CHILDREN, It's for the CHILDREN, It's for the CHILDREN!

Employees are more important than employers, Employees are more important than employers, Employees are more important than employers, Employees are more important than employers (who cares about viability or profit?!).

Sigh.

[gidget7]

You can definately add MA to that list!!

[gidget7]

ahhhhhh my only other vice :)

[Gabz]

Is there anyone left in this state that doesn't work for the state?

You might very well be talking about Delaware - that place is REALLY, and I mean REALLY scary anymore. The Governor there almost makes yours look reasonable.

Delaware has a huge surplus and they are talking tax cuts and big state employee raises - yet the Governor wants to double the cigarette tax again.............and has a lot of support for it in the House, which is controlled by Republicans.......Republicans from the northern half of Delaware make Democrats in the southern half look like rightwingnuts.

[Gabz]

Just make the sale of tobacco illegal...........We can all grow our own.

Of course the sale of it commercially will never become illegal because the anti-smokers do not want to pivk up the tax burden paid by those who use tobacco.

(expletive deleted)antis..........

[SheLion]

It would serve them all right, all the states doing this, if we all quit, (even if it's "pseudo" quit) and let them go insane when the money just disappears!! Hey, maybe they'll go after some REAL health threats!! Instead on encouraging and endorsing them.

I'm just really sick and tired of them using the Tobacco Settlement money against us like this.  That money is paid for 100% by the smokers when we pay taxes on cigarettes.

The money was supposed to be used for education and smoking cessation for those that wanted to quit and needed help.

Then, the Boards of Health spawned these Partnerships for a Tobacco Free Everything Coalitions and are using that tax money to control, restrict and abuse those that choose to use a legal commodity.  And I'm sick of it.

When they force a total smoking ban on a state, then I believe that cigarette tax money should stop feeding them.  It's gotten way out of hand and they think we are all sheeple out here and have no idea what is going on.  Well, they have another thought coming.

It would serve them all right, all the states doing this, if we all quit, (even if it's "pseudo" quit) and let them go insane when the money just disappears!! Hey, maybe they'll go after some REAL health threats!! Instead on encouraging and endorsing them.

I'm just really sick and tired of them using the Tobacco Settlement money against us like this.  That money is paid for 100% by the smokers when we pay taxes on cigarettes.

The money was supposed to be used for education and smoking cessation for those that wanted to quit and needed help.

Then, the Boards of Health spawned these Partnerships for a Tobacco Free Everything Coalitions and are using that tax money to control, restrict and abuse those that choose to use a legal commodity.  And I'm sick of it.

When they force a total smoking ban on a state, then I believe that cigarette tax money should stop feeding them.  It's gotten way out of hand and they think we are all sheeple out here and have no idea what is going on.  Well, they have another thought coming.

[SheLion]

I would love to see every SMOKER in the USA start a movement to ban smoking and make it illegal.

Wouldn't it be great to see the lawmakers' and politicians' faces?

We could all gather at some smoke-easies and make the new Al Capones rich. Actually,it sounds like fun,doesn't it?

[SheLion]

It would serve them all right, all the states doing this, if we all quit, (even if it's "pseudo" quit) and let them go insane when the money just disappears!! Hey, maybe they'll go after some REAL health threats!! Instead on encouraging and endorsing them.

That's why I have been rolling my own for the past 4 years.  I don't have to pay all those taxes into the state coffers any longer. 

It would serve them all right, all the states doing this, if we all quit, (even if it's "pseudo" quit) and let them go insane when the money just disappears!! Hey, maybe they'll go after some REAL health threats!! Instead on encouraging and endorsing them.

That's why I have been rolling my own for the past 4 years.  I don't have to pay all those taxes into the state coffers any longer. 

[sweetliberty]

Next, your home.

[Semper Paratus]

I hear that taverns and resteraunts over the border in New Brunswick are having a great year.

Sort of like the boom experienced by Bahamian mariners when the tax against big boats went into effect.

[gidget7]

I know, and the trouble is, if all other smokers did the same thing, they would start transferring the taxes to supplies for making your own.