sisboombaa

Jack and Jill when up a hill to fetch a pail of water,
Jack fell down and broke his crown,
Now that was kind of frisky,
If water made him fall like that I think I'll stick to whisky.

Many many years ago prohibition was passed with terrible results; so bad it was repealed. Now they are leading up to doing it again with cigarettes. Will we ever learn? It's doubtful. I have a brain storm, let's tell, (no, force) everyone how to live. The good side is it gives government something to tax, and the black markets get rich. But society will lose as it strengthens a divisional public. Let's outlaw cigarettes. It will be fun. V**e for prohibition again; this time cigarettes. The churches will back it again as they think they know the best. I'm not against religion or the belief in God, just the churches. Jesus said you will never find God in a church, or if he didn't he should have. What the heck, I'll say it.

Canuckus Deploracus Loc: North of the wall

Agreed...

Things have gotten a bit out of control when it comes to smoking...

America 1 Loc: South Miami

Go through cancer treatment you may have another view.
Watched my dad die from smoking cigarettes.
On 12/25, pretty much took the fun out of that day.

RT friend Loc: Kangaroo valley NSW Australia

Cranking up tobacco is best achieved with smoke and mirrors used as phony social statements, it's not something anyone can share anymore, it took enormous campaigns to overcome the businesses making profits from smoking, nobody deserves a habit that screws them over for no reason, some smokers live a long time most don't the smokers cough is revolting.

Canuckus Deploracus Loc: North of the wall

Sorry to hear it...

Hope he is at peace...

I quit when the baby came... No conscious decision... Just lost the urge...

I have lost a grandparent and an uncle to lung cancer....

lpnmajor Loc: Arkansas

It's an example of institutionalizing. The "stamp out smoking" campaign began as a way to break the power of "big tobacco", which was successful, then morphed into a way for the Federal Government to get it's claws into every State and every corner of every State, by tying non smoking policies to funding.

Government labs spent a great deal of time gathering "evidence" of the evils of tobacco, doing a lot of junk science and cute "show and tell" episodes for Congress ( probably using puppets to keep them from drifting off ). The various cancer societies realized that the anti-smoking agenda was a gold mine, as did the Congress and State Legislatures, which justified huge "sin taxes" on tobacco by citing the junk science previously mentioned.

Local, State and the Federal Government, brings in 100's of billions annually with the tobacco sin taxes, and uses 1/10 of 1% of those proceeds for the purposes stated as the "reason" for the tax. The States taxes were for various projects, like my own State citing a need to build a State wide level one trauma system. My State has the exact same trauma system it had 10 years ago, when it doubled it's tobacco sin tax. The Federal money will get you a list of "support" and a c**pon for nicotine patches, which is all you'll get, even though the huge tobacco sin tax was supposed to compensate the health insurance industry for tobacco related illnesses severe drain on it's resources AND provide treatment for those addicted to tobacco.

Smoking is bad, because the Government says it is. The next "anti" pogrom, to further increase revenues, will be the campaign against fat people. The over weight person who also drinks and smokes...............is thoroughly f*cked.

America 1 Loc: South Miami

One way or another, yeah.

sisboombaa

Yep. Sooner or later we all die regardless of what we do or not do. I'm on borrowed time and when I die the local, state and federal governments will take a big financial hit due to my lack of paying taxes. I'll probably be replaced with an i*****l i*******t that doesn't pay taxes. I think it is what the governments want. At least it appears that way as it is the direction the governments are taking.

TrueAmerican

But my friend it is a PERSONAL choice, make it illegal under the age of 18 (which is already in place the kids can't buy them) but they still smoke them, educate people to the harms of cigarettes but inevitably they should be allowed to make their own choice, no matter how stupid their choice is !!!!!!

Wonttakeitanymore

Don’t quote the Bible unless u have scripture to back it up!

America 1 Loc: South Miami

Did not say it shouldn't be a personal choice.
Possibly should be a requirement to visit a radiation treatment center.
And watch oncology treatment before purchasing tobacco products.

Wonttakeitanymore

We are all on borrowed time, but are invincible till the Lord takes us home! Make sure u are right with God and the rest is just watching and waiting! God bless

okie don

3 score +10.
4 score if lucky.
That's Biblical.

I hit 4 score so yes,
" borrowed time"😁

Wonttakeitanymore

Where in the Bible?

okie don

Believe me it's there.
Don't recall where.