Comments on: Senate Panel OKs FDA Regulation Of Tobacco

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[gunownerdan]

Regulating marijuana would solve many problems.
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[brianbwb-2009]

I forgot to be specific, I smoke fine Cuban cigars.

By the way, CBS, your Hilton ads taking over my screen I, and probably many others, find extremely annoying, we see the Hilton name enough without push ads disrupting our enjoyment of your otherwise good website. Please switch to a less intrusive and disturbing advertising method...

[brianbwb-2009]

I smoke fine cigars, and blended pipe tobacco, and years ago, I smoked marijuana, unrepentantly and unashamedly, because I enjoy it. I don't smoke in other people's environments, so I only "harm" myself. I don't care what others think of my "habit", and frankly resent anyone else, be it government, or "concerned" anti smoking activists, trying to dictate how I may enjoy my life.

Spend your lobby money helping to stop illegal wars, fixing the education and health care systems, rebuilding and modernizing the roads, bridges, and communications systems, actually do something meaningful with those dollars, rather than wasting all your millions trying to control me, because you will never succeed.

[donnie900]

If not one extreme: The weirdo right wing war on drug / war on terror lunatic. Than the other: The "lets tax everybody's bad habit".

There's no common sense anymore.. Ya see, common sense tells me that if there's a stranger I don't know? Whose smoking? And its a bad habit? I ain't got no right at all to tell that person to stop smoking. Not one iota of a right.

But common sense is gone! Its gone. It got chased away by carpetbagger rhetoric. Carpetbaggers who think they gotta right to take away other people's right to conscience.

[donnie900]

It has to be up to the individual. There are too many substances today. There's tobacco, marijuana, cockane, steriods, alcohol, gambling, and umpteen other things that people have to reconcile for themselves, or all you do is make it worse. Thats all you do.. Ya end up being weird fathers and mothers.

Its like terrorism. You can try to fight it. You can show the shockiest.. aweiest.. most scariest ************ firework show this planet has ever saw. And it ain't gonna do noth'n.. but make it worse. Indeed, it perpetuates itself.

Leave people alone, folks. Let them decide for themselves. Give them their consciences back. Stop living vicariously thru others. Stop being so controlling of others. Worry about yourselves. This century.. this new century will not stand for your old ways. It simply will not.

Saint Thomas Aquinas said it the best: "Git outa de ******* light ************.. it don't need you."

[donnie900]

addiction? *big sigh*.. Addiction is a mysterious thing. Mutual concern isn't bad.. I mean its not bad for other people to tell the people they're concerned about to stop their bad habits. But habits are far more personal than an anecdote or a rhetoric.. or even a law. Ya see, thats the problem with legislating morality. It only advertises bad habits. Its like a perpetual machine that just.. keeps going and going and going.. like diet pills.

You can't stop people from doing bad habits. You have to let them stop themselves. They have to want it. And not just say they want it, to get ya off their backs. They have to really really want it.. Or its never going to go away. In fact, it'll have the opposite effect. And smoking is an excellent example. People who quit for like, a year and then start back up again, do more damage than if they never quit at all.

[luvcomments]

jeepmngr
Will try hard again with the goal of succeeding. Thanks for your shove in that direction, appreciate it. And, of course, I do know how I am helping BB amass the tax money which is why I'm so mad at the hypocrisy....they know how hard it is to quit and how hazardous to people's health it is (smokers and secondhand smoke) yet they still dangle it in front of us....thanks in large part to the lobbyists. Thank you again.

[bobgee_1999]

downtowner97:

Guess what comes out of a cigarette? Carbon monoxide. Guess what is produced when you burn fossil fuels? Carbon momoxide.

With several hundred million registered vehicles on the road in America and only 50 million or so smokers, I'm much more concerned about the foul stench and poison that comes out of a car's rear-end than a smoker's mouth.

The anti-smoking crusade is a bandwagon feelgood movement which allows hate speech, bigotry and discrimination without being politically incorrect. Smoking does, however, suck.

[jeepmanjr]

luvcomments:

Absolutely!! But meanwhile, there are folks who spend waaaay too much money on tobacco products. In other words, YOU are supporting this big brother BS. If no one bought tobacco products, #1: They'd be a Hell of a lot healthier, #2: Big Brother wouldn't have tobacco products to tax. Get it? Guilt does not totally lie with the Gov. They're exploiting what you, and others like you, provide to them. Reach down and grab a hold luvcomments like many before you and help put an end to this nonsense!! Your grandchildren may thank you!! Have a nice day!

[scottyusa]

A little satire
I am 57 and smoked since I was 14. I never, even back then, smoked in front of anyone. When I first started I would go out behind the barn or out in the woods as to not offend anyone. Of course my parents (both smokers) hadn't known of my little excursions. They bought the cigs by the carton and never missed a pack every now and then because they were cheap. Now we always know how many packs should be in that box! In any case, as I grew up I continued not smoking next to people like in airplanes and theaters. My efforts to try and not offend the minority non smokers had gone unnoticed. Now everybody has to do what I have been doing for years and they don't get credit eiher. Go figure