On 7/4/2016 10:34 AM, trader_4 wrote:
On Sunday, July 3, 2016 at 10:51:38 PM UTC-4, Muggles wrote:
On 7/3/2016 5:46 PM, trader_4 wrote:
On Sunday, July 3, 2016 at 1:15:57 PM UTC-4, Muggles wrote:
On 7/3/2016 8:42 AM, trader_4 wrote:
On Saturday, July 2, 2016 at 5:40:52 PM UTC-4, bob haller wrote:
australia has raised tobacco taxes dramatically. one dollar a pack per year. year one a buck,
year 10 .........10 bucks
i hate the stink, know far too many friends who died from smoking......
I hate the stink from liberals too, how about we tax them like that until
they go away?
geesh ... Liberals just have a different viewpoint.
Liberal smokers STINK just like conservative smokers STINK just like
moderate smokers STINK ....
So, just stay away from us.
Us? So, you smoke?
Only an occasional cigar. I just stand up for the rights of everyone,
including cigarette smokers.
Smoking is not a right.
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Don't you know when you pass by people that that stench turns
peoples stomachs?
Don't you know that if I'm in a private room at a restaurant, where
everyone there agrees it's OK, it doesn't matter, that no one's
stomach is turning?
Your cigar smoke produces secondhand smoke and thirdhand smoke deposits
on everything in that room. Anyone who enters that room after your
group smoking can get sick from the residue left behind.
It's no different than someone spraying the room with toxic waste.
You claim to be an engineer and a smart man, but smart people don't
always care about how their actions affect other people.
The problem is that it's the libs who claim to care about everyone,
1. I'm not a lib, and 2. I don't care about everyone.
I don't know anyone who cares about everyone.
so they force their rules down everyone else's throats. Cigarette bans,
soda size limits, soda taxes, salt shaker bans, etc. If they really
cared, they'd leave us free to choose.
If smokers really cared, they'd quit smoking.
Are you offended by what I've said - that you stink and make people sick
to their stomachs as you pass by if you're a smoker? It's just the
truth. Think about it. Do you want to have that sort of affect on people?
You have that effect on me with every post, should we ban you from posting?
Who is forcing you to respond?
But don't use the heavy hand of govt to
screw us, deny us the right to a cigar dinner at a restaurant in a private
room, and then pretend you're a conservative.
Smoking a cigar at at restaurant while having dinner isn't a right.
So what? Just because you don't think it's right doesn't give you the
right to force your view on me.
I have a right to pursue LIFE granted to me under the Constitution, in
addition to the right of free speech, and in pursuing my Constitutional
rights I will protest smoking.
You're welcome to kill yourself with cigarette's, cigar's, or whatever
you choose to use.
And if you were a conservative, like you claim to be, you'd understand that.
Well, I understand how smoking has affected my health - it's not a
political issue and never has been political. Being a conservative
doesn't remove common sense to reason that if something makes people
sick that it's a good idea to restrict or eliminate the source.
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Maggie