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by Pete Gatti
on Sun Sep 20, 2009 7:19 pm |
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seabooty wrote:
In this day and age, the only people who are still smoking are the hard core smokers who have tried everything and can't quit.
In this day and age? What makes 'this day and age' different from the previous 'day and age?' I'd say in 'this day and age' we're being relentlessly propagandized by a bunch of nanny control freaks filling their pockets with smokers' money.
I've enjoyed smoking all my life, going on 54 years and I'm not going to let a bunch of thugs bully me into submission. Their ideal of a proper lifestyle stinks to high heaven.
My crop is hanging in the shed curing and it is tax free. So what am I going to do with all the money I saved, you can bet your booty I'm not going to spend at places that support this anti-smoking lunacy. |
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by seabooty
on Sun Sep 20, 2009 9:58 pm |
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When I wrote that about the ones who can't quit, I almost added "and the ones who don't want to quit". But I didn't, BIG mistake. You are right, there are people who don't want to quit, I need to quit but I don't WANT to. I need to quit because there are a lot of downsides to smoking, expense, burns, broncitis, and that nagging urge to get away from any place I'm forced to go but can't smoke, which is almost everywhere now. We used to go out to eat 2 or 3 times a week, not any more. I really really enjoy a smoke after dinner. You could relax smoke a cig and enjoy yourself. That pleasure is gone now in public.
However, I don't want to quit and I resent to the nth degree anyone telling me how to live my life. Smoking is a legal personal choice. The only reason there are wars is because of people who can't let other people live the way they choose to. The my way or the highway gang. I'm not out on the beaches crusading to close the Florida beaches down because I don't believe anyone should take the chance of getting skin cancer from the sun. Imagine when there are huge hordes of people protesting beach goers, and closing the beaches in the name of "health". Florida would fold since getting skin cancer causing sun is their number one source of income. Do you think all the sun lovers would like that? Making a legal activity off limits because it's bad for your health.
Anyway the part of my post about the reasons for not quiting was not the point, you all missed the whole point of my post. It was to call attention to the stupidity of these rediculous taxes. What the consequinces are down the line. And the fact that the higher-ups seem oblivious to the fact of the economic impact. |
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by Pete Gatti
on Mon Sep 21, 2009 1:40 am |
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seabooty wrote:
Anyway the part of my post about the reasons for not quiting was not the point, you all missed the whole point of my post. It was to call attention to the stupidity of these rediculous taxes. What the consequinces are down the line. And the fact that the higher-ups seem oblivious to the fact of the economic impact.
I did not miss the point of your post, I agree with all of it except for the one comment.
As for the higher-ups, I don't underestimate them. It is much easier to gain power when a society is in peril. That's when people start looking for a savior and guess who's gonna save them with "free" social handouts. |
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by libertarian99
on Tue Sep 22, 2009 11:10 pm |
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seabooty wrote: Anyway the part of my post about the reasons for not quiting was not the point, you all missed the whole point of my post. It was to call attention to the stupidity of these rediculous taxes. What the consequinces are down the line. And the fact that the higher-ups seem oblivious to the fact of the economic impact. |
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