One thing that should have NEVER been tinkered with is the U.S. Constitutionally protected private property rights! One of the 5 main things the Constitution guarantees is that this nation protect property rights (from smoking bans) and earnings (taken for tobacco control), yet this uneducated government would take away the rights of tobacco companies and privately owned businesses. The smoking ban is an attack and deprives owners of property. These laws are begotten by nothing more than mob-rule influenced by fake studies and false science. The World Health Organization's study showing that SHS may even have a protective effect and not the least harmful was withheld because it didn't promote total control of the population. Need proof? http://web.archive.org/web/2002112820...
Google worlds oldest smokers, you'll find ALL the worlds oldest people are or were smokers! The benefits of smoking tobacco have been common knowledge for centuries, and big pharma knows this and would wipe out the competition. From sharpening mental acuity to maintaining optimal weight, the relatively small risks of smoking have always been outweighed by the substantial improvement to mental and physical health. Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, Tourette's Syndrome, even schizophrenia and cocaine addiction are disorders that are alleviated by tobacco. Tobacco shows promise to prevent colon and prostate cancer and the endorsement for smoking tobacco by the medical establishment is good news for smokers and non-smokers alike. The revelation that tobacco is good for you is trumped by the pharmaceutical industry's plan to substitute the natural and relatively inexpensive tobacco plant with their overpriced and ineffective nicotine substitutions with 98% failure rates for quitting for 1 year or more. Big pharma has spent billions demonizing the pleasure of smoking using social engineering and profits from bans that destroys private businesses. Follow the money! I read an article about a boy that OD'd on Nicorette gum given at school without parental knowledge. So, very quietly, pharmaceutical nicotine is pushed on 12 year old kids. If anyone doubted that the anti-smoking crusade leads back to Johnson & Johnson, the cat is totally out of the bag!
President Obama's child health insurance bill with a 2,200% tax increase, hit one of the poorest minority groups in the entire country, people who have to roll their own cigarettes from bits of tobacco and scraps of paper. If states want to be moral, they would stop this kind of taxation on the poor! The SCHIP bill raised taxes on loose tobacco from $1.0969 a pound to $24.62 a pound!" If everyone stopped smoking, who would they target next? I bet if everyone's property taxes went up 2000% you would hear some major screaming! So where is this money now! What happened to this bill and the money it's raking in?
The Commonwealth and State governments, and the British-Australian Tobacco Company jointly funded the Australian Tobacco Investigation Committee to find areas suitable for good quality tobacco growth during the 1927-28 season. Around 1930, the tobacco industry expanded in North Queensland following government initiatives to combat growing unemployment and boost local economies which were suffering from the effects of a growing world depression. It seems that smoking bans and outrageous taxes greatly enhance economic recessions today. It's too bad our politicians fall for big pharma's propoganda to sell their own brand of nicotine. And didn't Obama promise no new taxes? What a lie! It's all about greed and our government is in on it all the way!
Tinkering with smoking ban
One thing that should have NEVER been tinkered with is the U.S. Constitutionally protected private property rights! One of the 5 main things the Constitution guarantees is that this nation protect property rights (from smoking bans) and earnings (taken for tobacco control), yet this uneducated government would take away the rights of tobacco companies and privately owned businesses. The smoking ban is an attack and deprives owners of property. These laws are begotten by nothing more than mob-rule influenced by fake studies and false science. The World Health Organization's study showing that SHS may even have a protective effect and not the least harmful was withheld because it didn't promote total control of the population. Need proof? http://web.archive.org/web/2002112820...
December 31, 2010 at 1:50 p.m. permalink suggest removal
Ban, tax hurting cigar-shop owners
Google worlds oldest smokers, you'll find ALL the worlds oldest people are or were smokers! The benefits of smoking tobacco have been common knowledge for centuries, and big pharma knows this and would wipe out the competition. From sharpening mental acuity to maintaining optimal weight, the relatively small risks of smoking have always been outweighed by the substantial improvement to mental and physical health. Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, Tourette's Syndrome, even schizophrenia and cocaine addiction are disorders that are alleviated by tobacco. Tobacco shows promise to prevent colon and prostate cancer and the endorsement for smoking tobacco by the medical establishment is good news for smokers and non-smokers alike. The revelation that tobacco is good for you is trumped by the pharmaceutical industry's plan to substitute the natural and relatively inexpensive tobacco plant with their overpriced and ineffective nicotine substitutions with 98% failure rates for quitting for 1 year or more. Big pharma has spent billions demonizing the pleasure of smoking using social engineering and profits from bans that destroys private businesses. Follow the money! I read an article about a boy that OD'd on Nicorette gum given at school without parental knowledge. So, very quietly, pharmaceutical nicotine is pushed on 12 year old kids. If anyone doubted that the anti-smoking crusade leads back to Johnson & Johnson, the cat is totally out of the bag!
September 9, 2009 at 11:39 a.m. permalink suggest removal
Ban, tax hurting cigar-shop owners
President Obama's child health insurance bill with a 2,200% tax increase, hit one of the poorest minority groups in the entire country, people who have to roll their own cigarettes from bits of tobacco and scraps of paper. If states want to be moral, they would stop this kind of taxation on the poor! The SCHIP bill raised taxes on loose tobacco from $1.0969 a pound to $24.62 a pound!" If everyone stopped smoking, who would they target next? I bet if everyone's property taxes went up 2000% you would hear some major screaming! So where is this money now! What happened to this bill and the money it's raking in?
September 9, 2009 at 11:38 a.m. permalink suggest removal
Ban, tax hurting cigar-shop owners
The Commonwealth and State governments, and the British-Australian Tobacco Company jointly funded the Australian Tobacco Investigation Committee to find areas suitable for good quality tobacco growth during the 1927-28 season. Around 1930, the tobacco industry expanded in North Queensland following government initiatives to combat growing unemployment and boost local economies which were suffering from the effects of a growing world depression. It seems that smoking bans and outrageous taxes greatly enhance economic recessions today. It's too bad our politicians fall for big pharma's propoganda to sell their own brand of nicotine. And didn't Obama promise no new taxes? What a lie! It's all about greed and our government is in on it all the way!
September 9, 2009 at 10:38 a.m. permalink suggest removal