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Smoking-ban bill is back on the table
Mayors call for local control
Intelligencer Journal
May 28, 2008 01:03 EST
By DAVE PIDGEON, Staff

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QUOTE(Shawn @ May 29 2008, 11:25 PM)

Are you now trying to rationalize drinking and driving? Wow.
Later...Shawn


Beth
QUOTE(pml @ Jun 3 2008, 09:47 AM)
No, if cigarettes were ILLEGAL and no longer taxed like marijuana, people would go to the cotner drug dealer or roll their own and stay home BUT the government will never OUTLAW cigarettes because of the huge tax revenue they enjoy from us criminal smokers who simply want to enjoy our very expensive legal product on an outside deck with our cocktails and highly fattening artery clogging food.


Enjoy your cigarette? You smoke because you are adicted and too weak to quit..You can't even quit for a few hours.

If you could, you wouldn't be bitchin about not smoking while you are out getting drunk in some dive.

You have to smoke all the time.

That's a pretty lame excuse for poisoning everyone else.

Sorry but there are other people in the world and they have more sense than to smoke.
Bigby_M
QUOTE(pml @ Jun 3 2008, 10:03 AM)

But Big Mac that would be like me saying that since I am not gay I don;t care about gay rights because they don;t affect me personally. I have always said if I quit smoking I will not become BOBER. My husbadn quit years ago and to this day smoking does not bother him in the least. He truly believes when your time is up it is up and while I am not ultra religious I hear of people missing planes that crash and other people going back in the house to check the iron and being killed in a car crash when if they hadn;t done that one little thing, they would still be alive. I have heard of miracle cures that doctors can not explain and of routine surgery going terribly wrong. I believe you do not die one minute sooner than God wants you to no matter how you live your life.


Yup. You will live just as long. You will just WISH you were dead -- emphysema feels like you are suffocating, lung cancer too, plus throw in that heart attack, open heart surgery, scars from ankle to groin for the grafts, then add hardening of the arteries...

All so you can just keep hangin' on and screamin' for YOUR RIGHTS. Yup. You have the right to make yourself just as sick and miserable as you want to.
AngelFace
QUOTE(pml @ May 28 2008, 10:44 AM)
The point is give them a hand and they want the arm and that means that smoking will be basically illegal and therefore like marijuana and cocaine should not be taxed so the government profits from smokers while also discriminating against them.

AMEN!!!

staysea
QUOTE(staysea @ Jun 3 2008, 09:33 PM)

AMEN!!!



http://www.wgal.com/news/16477955/detail.html

Looks like these guys are dropping the ball again... THIS IS NOT A TOTAL SMOKING BAN!
BARS HOTELS AND CASINOS ARE WORKLPLACES TOO!
NOT TO MENTION THAT LOCAL GOVERNMNETS ARE NOT ALLOWED TO UP THE ANTI BUT PHILLY GETS TO DO WHAT THEY PLEASE...
AGAIN I WOULDN"T HAVE EXPECED ANYTHING LESS THAN A MEAGER WATERED DOWN VERSION A SMOKING BAN FROM OUR WONDERFUL PA LEGISLATORS!
Bober40
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