Come on, Obama! This is just one big PR campaign and you know it. Everything else in our government is messed up so here is a softball you can hit out of the park. It's also a big con. The worst part of the con is that you smoke, hypocrite!
First the states double and triple the price of cigarettes so that those who cannot afford it have to quit. Once more people have quit (involuntarily) than those who had the willpower to do so on their own, that combined amount should outnumber the people who still smoke, thus swaying public opinion toward any anti-smoking measure that is proposed.
Those of us that have smoked for years are fully aware of the harmful and addictive effects of cigarettes--that's why we keep smoking them! There are very few things better that a stiff drink and a drag on a sweet cancer stick. Even better is a pull on the cigar (which is not part of the new regulations), the clove cigs that get you kind of high (not included), or the dip (ditto).
For years we've been kept in the dark about the additives in cigarettes, and we didn't care. We don't care what's in our processed food. We don't care what hormones are in our meats. We don't care what is in the air we breathe, what's in our
water, what chemicals are used on our fruits and vegetables, what's leaking from our nuclear power plants, what mining and forestry mills are doing to our streams and rivers, etc., etc.So why trying to affect some thing that we actually care about, Barack? What's up with that. We all know that every day, before you give one of your speeches that you insist on giving EVERY DAY, you take a few drags of Marlboro Lights to take the edge off. So why can't we take the edge off, too?
And by the way, now that the nicotine will be reduced so that they taste like Canadian cigarettes, you have effectively created a black market (no pun there) for today's stronger smokes. People will be loading up on them and selling them for the next year for plenty of money.
And what the hell is so bad about the additives that you want to allow the FDA, which can't even keep our food or our drugs safe, to regulate cigarettes? What link now?
http://quitsmoking.about.com/cs/nicotineinhaler/a/cigingredients.htm
Oh..ah...alright, even if all that shit were true, which is in doubt, that doesn't change any of the other dangers mentioned earlier. Another thing is that living in any major city is like smoking 2-3 packs a day because of the air pollution. Now if you live in an area with clean air and smoked a pack a day, you're doing better than most. Air, water, and food pollution deserves your attention and your pen. But lets face it, the industries that control those things are just not the soft targets that the cigarette smokers are. They can fight back.
"It is a law that will save American lives," Obama said. Hmm. We can think of a few more ways to save American lives...campaign promise...troops...ring any bells?
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