01-08-2008, 04:47 AM
The sad reality here is the smoking 'ban' is accompanied by an increase in tax. Want to ban smoking? Outlaw tobacco. Eradicate the crops. Close the manufacturers. Burn the fields. Go after it like you go after Marijuana. And drop the 'taxes'. It's so effing hypocritical.
I do wish there was a total ban on tobacco. My wife smokes, and I wish she wouldn't. She's quit a half a dozen times (and did quit for every baby). She smokes outside or in the garage so the kids don't get it.
Her dad died of emphysema from smoking. She knows she's going to go the same way. But she can't bring herself to quit. It's a horrible way to go- imagine drowning to death. Over the course of four years. Slowly. And knowing that's what is happening.
" Please. If you smoke, find a way to stop. If you know someone who smokes, MAKE them stop."
William F. Buckley Jr., 2007
I do wish there was a total ban on tobacco. My wife smokes, and I wish she wouldn't. She's quit a half a dozen times (and did quit for every baby). She smokes outside or in the garage so the kids don't get it.
Her dad died of emphysema from smoking. She knows she's going to go the same way. But she can't bring herself to quit. It's a horrible way to go- imagine drowning to death. Over the course of four years. Slowly. And knowing that's what is happening.
" Please. If you smoke, find a way to stop. If you know someone who smokes, MAKE them stop."
William F. Buckley Jr., 2007