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motorhead
Fat, drunk and stupid is no way to go through life
The govenor of Hawaii just signed into law a bill that wood raise the minimum agr to smoke to 21.
I hate cigarettes. I despise the smell of cigarettes and hate being around smoke. But this is another example of government overstepping its bounds. How can you ask an 18 year old to go out and fight and die for our country, but he can't smoke a friggin' cigarette.
Selfishly, the less I'm around smoke, the happier I am, but this a very slippery slope we are heading down.
I hate cigarettes. I despise the smell of cigarettes and hate being around smoke. But this is another example of government overstepping its bounds. How can you ask an 18 year old to go out and fight and die for our country, but he can't smoke a friggin' cigarette.
Selfishly, the less I'm around smoke, the happier I am, but this a very slippery slope we are heading down.
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I even hate sitting at a stop light and smelling the smoke coming from the driver in front of me going through my cars a/c system!
Agreed, this is over stepping bounds.
Smoking is banned in Detroit strip clubs, except in special smoking areas. But the rule is regularly ignored. Who would believe that laws would be disregarded in Detroit strip clubs?
I don't smoke. Never have.
It doesn't bother me much that a girl I'm sitting with does either.
I know the governments tax the hell out of cigarettes, but people still buy them like crazy. They make a ton of money off of the taxes. I often find it funny that they run all these public service announcements about the effects of smoking and pass all kinds of laws as to where and when people can smoke.
But if everyone up and quit buying inch cigarettes tomorrow, they'd be FUCKED because where would they close the huge financial hole of money coming in from smokers?
It's so hypocritical. We want you to stop, but we need the money from your "habit".
Tomorrow - Whoppers
Next week - strip clubs
motor,
BTW, that same 18 year old getting shot at can't even have a beer!
I bet some people would want the age lowered if they thought after death, they would come back and live another life. Imagine what a pain it wold be having laws against you drinking smoking, etc because we live in a woosy society that is prudish and doesn't have common sense? It'll likely happen in your next life unless you're reborn overseas.
I think this is a good way to think to put yourselves into other shoes. What if you had to live life over again with all these age laws?
As far as Obama and others politicking after recent shootings, if they practice what they preach, they should ban all firearms from people and body guards in their vicinity to create. completely gun free zone and see how well that works for them. Not even the police old be allowed to have firearms near whomever thinks gun free zones work to protect those inside. Idiots in my opinion unless you have armed guards preventing entry to the gun free zone.
http://youtu.be/iPKTQkkK3YM
They continue to tax the hell out of cigarettes even while they try to make them illegal. What do you think they'll come after for their tax revenue if they succeed in banning smoking. Whether you smoke or not be aware that while they continue to seek revenue eventually they will tax something you like while they tell you how bad it is for you while trying to get you to not do it or quit using it. Then it will be on to the next thing that they deem evil.