Comments on: Obama Signs Anti-Smoking Bill Into Law

[mje222]

Your candy your chips and your beer will be next.

[erasmus111]

by goodusa June 22, 2009 5:18 PM PDT
OBAMA IS INSANE! Just saw on the news, he is giving AMNESTY TO MILLIONS OF ILLEGALs! Unemployment is at it's highest and this idiot is doing this. This guy is a nut case from the word go, he is damaging this economy left and right.

Actually it isn't him that has damaged the economy. It's Bush and whoever else who allowed the illegal immigrants to enter the country in the first place. They already have your jobs and health care. Because there are so many, to try and hunt them down and deport them now, is going to take billions of dollars. You would be better off to maybe focus on stopping the flow. Stop anymore illegals from coming in.

[mje222]

My dad had the same and never smoked. We do not need the gov to control if we smoke or not. Alot has to do with what line of work your in so go after the nasty jobs pepole have to do!

[gravyboat3000]

by charlie257 June 22, 2009 3:59 PM PDT
His hippopotomus makes him obligated.. professionally.. to lack personal opinion.

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ROTFLMMFAO!!!

Eddie's in rare form.

[saturn05]

I wish instead of wasting taxpayer money on this, we would expect and demand personal responsibility in this matter. I grew up with cigarette ads on TV and in print; my father smoking and even chewed candy gum cigarettes and the hard candy kind. Guess what, I never have smoked. I am real tired of paying for everyone else's personal decisions. If they smoke, they pay higher insurance premiums or whatever, but I do not want my money to go to education about the sins of smoking. In this day and age if people, including kids don't know cigarettes can kill yourself and others, no amount of money is going to make a difference.

[debinok1]

"A Gallup poll released in conjunction with the bill finding found that a majority of Americans oppose the new law. Fifty-two percent said they oppose the legislation"

It was in the article. Did you bother to read it or just glance at the headline.

[fred-mertz]

Reading the comments of those who are complaining about Obama being "like Mao-Tse Tung", or being a "socialist", or whatever else they think will make people hate him as much as they apparently do, just because he signed a bill to allow the FDA to regulate an incredibly addictive drug which has killed more Americans than every war we have ever fought, the only response I can think of is: *********, those imbeciles are just so full of shiiiiiiiiiiiite!

[mje222]

Your candy your chips and your beer will be next.

[jrmnw1]

I'm really surprised that anybody thinks this is a bad thing. My dad is 61 yrs old and is on oxygen 100% of the time, has COPD/emphysema, can barely walk through a grocery store without keeling over, and he still smokes a pack a day. He started smoking when he was 13 and only quit once for 6 months. It seems silly that he still smokes, even though he admits that his health problems are the result of smoking for most of his life.

Tobacco is marketed to teenagers, because a rational thinking adult is not stupid enough to pick up such a nasty habit. Once they're hooked, tobacco companies have a customer for life. This is not a case of government making choices for citizens, but a case of the people fighting the power of companies who market a deadly product. Regulations are introduced in best practice to protect consumers, and in this case to keep young people from becoming consumers of this dangerous product, and to inform consumers of ingredients added to it.

What is the benefit of this product? Can anybody name just one true benefit? We can justify the existence of most products, but this is one that doesn't make sense. There is no defense for such a product, nor the advertising tactics of the companies that market it.

I can't wait until the Republicans are out of money to pay their bloggers. I'm tired of reading the comments left by these morons.

[mje222]

My dad had the same and never smoked. We do not need the gov to control if we smoke or not. Alot has to do with what line of work your in so go after the nasty jobs pepole have to do!

[ladypirate2]

jrmnw1: I am a republican and a Christian and a conservative, too, but I'm just as anti-smoking as you are! Don't class all of us republicans with the idiots in this blog!

[-Lawyers-Guns-n-Money-]

What's up, Stu? It appears I'll be heading out in the next day or two. I'll try to check in once I get to where I'm going.

[phwtb]

Quote: "A Gallup poll released in conjunction with the bill finding found that a majority of Americans oppose the new law. Fifty-two percent said they oppose the legislation while 46 percent support it..."

Since when does the majority NOT rule?

Welcome to Communism 101.

[jrmnw1]

I saw a poll where 70% supported it. Don't ever trust a poll, because it's all in the way the subject is presented.