Even Commies are free to smoke…
Adding injury to insult, the latest is a government mandate that cigarettes be made with “Fire Safe” paper (FSC). How is this done? By adding CARPET GLUE. Holy shit!
“The Harvard School of Health reported that when comparing FSC cigarettes versus regular cigarettes, the FSC cigarettes produced 13.9% more naphthalene and 11.4% more carbon monoxide than regular cigarettes. Naphthalene is commonly found in mothballs, and exposure in high amounts can result in headache, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, malaise, confusion, anemia, jaundice, convulsions, and coma. Therefore, it has been proven that FSC cigarettes contain higher levels of chemicals that are harmful to smokers.” (Bold print from Harvard)
“We’re from the government and we’re here to help you.” Help you do what, die sooner? They’re doing a pretty good job of it, paid by lobbyist to keep the public ignorant about the dangers of Genetically Modified Organisms, High Fructose Corn Syrup, nuclear power plants and industrial farming. Now the government, this time on the payroll of power companies, wants farmers to put waste from coal-fired plant smoke-scrubbers on their fields. Not knowing what else to do with the mountains of stuff, why not sell it, and who cares if it’s full of mercury, arsenic, lead and other heavy metals we’ll be ingesting in our food. Hey, it worked to get rid of toxic fluoride from aluminum smelters; just put it in our drinking water and toothpaste. Voila! Problem solved.
I don’t know how much more public safety we can survive…and we wonder why cancer is ten times more prevalent now than when two-thirds of us smoked. Oh well, it makes a great scapegoat. It isn’t that simple though. Smoking is undeniably unhealthful but recent findings show that stopping leads to sugar-craving, weight-gain and diabetes, all significantly more damaging to most people’s health than puffing on a cigarette.
Aren’t we lucky to have the best government money can buy! I’ll be a Chief Petitioner on a statewide initiative this year to get money completely out of politics in Oregon. Please consider it carefully.
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I also agree with the smoking bans, to an extent. The caveat is always “my rights end where yours begin” which is essentially saying that if I am bothered by someone smoking, they shouldn’t be smoking. This makes sense in places like restaurants (remember the smoking and nonsmoking sections that were only separated by a 4-foot tall barrier?) but not so much in the open air. Heck – sometimes when I’m driving I can smell someone smoking AHEAD of me on the highway driving @ 70 MPH! That said, I fully support people’s right to smoke. I don’t smoke, but my father did and it killed him. I support the right to smoke just as I support my right to eat a cheeseburger or go skydiving. Everyone that thinks it’s cool and fun to jump on the antismoking bandwagon, just wait until your wonderful government deems your activities as unhealthy and starts taxing/banning them.