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4. The fat could counter argue that they have to pay for the knee replacements for the joggers

Wed Feb 19, 2014, 08:35 PM

Feb 2014

If freedom only impacted the user, it'd be one thing. Second hand smoke impacts everyone. It's like drunk driving -- it impacts the non-user.

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Hasn't the time come to outlaw the sale of tobacco products? [View all] OmahaBlueDog Feb 2014 OP

Prohibition has worked so well in the past (and present). FiveGoodMen Feb 2014 #1

We've outlawed other cancer causing, hazardous products - like asbestos OmahaBlueDog Feb 2014 #3

I'm still trying to kick smoking asbestos REP Feb 2014 #12

Yeah that's a hard one mindwalker_i Feb 2014 #17

Hell, I still get a reduction in house insurance for having it. Eleanors38 Feb 2014 #73

E-cigs contain nicotine. Gravitycollapse Feb 2014 #13

Coffee contains caffeine. So what. former9thward Feb 2014 #85

Nicotine is not a carcinogen Major Nikon Feb 2014 #88

Some studies suggest it is. Gravitycollapse Feb 2014 #91

Please cite the statistics showing how many people have become addicted to asbestos. WillowTree Feb 2014 #53

Asbestos was used in some cigarette filters in the 60s OmahaBlueDog Feb 2014 #92

Just can't get enough of the banning, can you? We banned one thing, so let's ban some more! WillowTree Feb 2014 #143

nicotine doesn't cause cancer riverwalker Feb 2014 #57

Nicotine doesn't cause cancer. Spider Jerusalem Feb 2014 #69

There's no market for asbestos. Fantastic Anarchist Feb 2014 #126

No. Travis_0004 Feb 2014 #2

The fat could counter argue that they have to pay for the knee replacements for the joggers OmahaBlueDog Feb 2014 #4

Car exhaust impacts people who don't drive mokawanis Feb 2014 #8

I don't want to ban alcohol, but I'd love to see overservers taken to task OmahaBlueDog Feb 2014 #44

I don't want to ban alcohol, but I'd love to see overservers taken to task OmahaBlueDog Feb 2014 #45

Smoking is banned businesses in most states Travis_0004 Feb 2014 #10

Great post! nt raccoon Feb 2014 #103

Does early death of smokers equal TexasProgresive Feb 2014 #56

*That* is an interesting point. n/t Fantastic Anarchist Feb 2014 #127

Smokers' younger deaths improve Social Security's and Medicare's actuarial strength Recursion Feb 2014 #70

Tobacco is a plant, want to arrest people for growing that too? The Straight Story Feb 2014 #5

I'm a chain smoker and I vote yes. I wish they had been illegal in 1982 DebJ Feb 2014 #6

Sorry, that's not how ADD works. TroglodyteScholar Feb 2014 #108

I don't think the poster suggested "ADD" was transient etherealtruth Feb 2014 #136

Thanks. DebJ Feb 2014 #140

Why in the world would you interpret that I am implying cigarettes DebJ Feb 2014 #139

Eh, never mind I guess TroglodyteScholar Feb 2014 #142

Okay. But I now have all of the symptoms DebJ Feb 2014 #144

From NIH: DebJ Feb 2014 #141

Let me explain it this way: DebJ Feb 2014 #138

Isn't it time others minded their own tucking business? Earth_First Feb 2014 #7

It's high time. LuvNewcastle Feb 2014 #24

+1000 nomorenomore08 Feb 2014 #68

No. (I don't use any tobacco products) Throd Feb 2014 #9

No..and I don't smoke tobacco.. Upton Feb 2014 #11

By the same arguments we could outlaw Yo_Mama Feb 2014 #16

Control freaks...every society is full of them. Upton Feb 2014 #23

Yes, it does seem to be the human condition Yo_Mama Feb 2014 #133

Are you sure vaping is safer madokie Feb 2014 #14

What did you read was in the ingredient list of e-cigarette vapor? Demit Feb 2014 #19

Here's a link madokie Feb 2014 #20

No - making a bunch of people into criminals Yo_Mama Feb 2014 #15

Yes edhopper Feb 2014 #18

Add to that that there is now a smoke-free way to fulfill a nicotine addiction OmahaBlueDog Feb 2014 #37

What about chewing tobacco? n/t hughee99 Feb 2014 #21

I say we ban pot first. OilemFirchen Feb 2014 #22

And you have no bad, unhealthy habits? MineralMan Feb 2014 #25

I was a pack a day smoker once OmahaBlueDog Feb 2014 #39

Should we have thrown you in jail for it? Comrade Grumpy Feb 2014 #116

It was legal OmahaBlueDog Feb 2014 #119

Has CVS also decided to stop selling alcohol? Jenoch Feb 2014 #26

Does CVS sell alcohol? hughee99 Feb 2014 #64

I live in Minnesota and the the CVS stores here do not Jenoch Feb 2014 #65

They sell it in my state. former9thward Feb 2014 #86

That would be CVS' call. OmahaBlueDog Feb 2014 #95

Some states have weird laws about alcohol. former9thward Feb 2014 #97

No. Blue_In_AK Feb 2014 #27

Regulations that limit where people can smoke and protect the health of those who don't smoke Agnosticsherbet Feb 2014 #30

Your own words Politicalboi Feb 2014 #60

It wouldn't bother me, but it would never be done for economic reasons. Agnosticsherbet Feb 2014 #28

CVS didn't outlaw anything. cthulu2016 Feb 2014 #29

umm, no... Niceguy1 Feb 2014 #31

Guns are the only social problem that banning will completely cure hack89 Feb 2014 #32

Oddly, the Constitution allow the possesion of firearms and the state-controlled sale of alcohol OmahaBlueDog Feb 2014 #41

no and if we did it wouldn't work. People would go back to growing their own tobacco liberal_at_heart Feb 2014 #33

No. Adults' choices are their own business. n/t MadrasT Feb 2014 #34

Nope, it is time to grow up and accept other people's choices with their bodies. TheKentuckian Feb 2014 #35

You Mean a Trade Off for other Vices? KoKo Feb 2014 #36

I've never agreed with the increased healthcare cost argument madville Feb 2014 #38

Smoking leads to very expensive problems OmahaBlueDog Feb 2014 #43

And smokers will have lower costs in other areas madville Feb 2014 #46

actually I think it is pretty much a wash. Warren Stupidity Feb 2014 #54

NO Way yeoman6987 Feb 2014 #59

Then lets make fast food and restaurants illegal. former9thward Feb 2014 #87

I can choose to eat a salad at McDonalds OmahaBlueDog Feb 2014 #93

I said all restaurants -- not just fast food. former9thward Feb 2014 #96

Sure, right along with booze seveneyes Feb 2014 #40

Fucking stupid idea. backscatter712 Feb 2014 #42

Why? LostOne4Ever Feb 2014 #47

Yes, as a 1-1/2 pack a day smoker, RebelOne Feb 2014 #48

So you see no problems beyond your own inability to control yourself? Egalitarian Thug Feb 2014 #67

LOL, not a deep thinker I see! nt Logical Feb 2014 #89

Nope. Not until I kick the habit. Armstead Feb 2014 #49

Demolition Man here we come... Lost_Count Feb 2014 #50

+1 Gemini Cat Feb 2014 #75

no. that would be stupid. nt. Warren Stupidity Feb 2014 #51

Yep, because we know prohibition works, right? Th1onein Feb 2014 #52

I'm a former smoker and I say emphatically no! WillowTree Feb 2014 #55

No. I don't Smoke Tobacco, but Don't Want to Take Away Yours AndyTiedye Feb 2014 #58

Prohibition is a failed public policy. nt TeamPooka Feb 2014 #61

Yeah, let's add to the non functional drug war! Warpy Feb 2014 #62

not banned at casinos in the South greymattermom Feb 2014 #63

What will it take to get the lesson through your heads? n/t Egalitarian Thug Feb 2014 #66

Yes, because we must service that greatest of addictions: Eleanors38 Feb 2014 #71

States' budgets would not thank you. WinkyDink Feb 2014 #72

Lol TransitJohn Feb 2014 #74

We've tried that with other controlled substances. Didn't work. Squinch Feb 2014 #76

Jail them. Jail them all! jberryhill Feb 2014 #77

But I like and have always liked Omaha Bllue Dog... fadedrose Feb 2014 #84

I'll be thrown in DU jail at some point OmahaBlueDog Feb 2014 #122

No thanks. Bloomberg democrats freak me out. nt. NCTraveler Feb 2014 #78

No, what we are doing now is about right. nt bemildred Feb 2014 #79

No. It's not the government's place to outlaw everything ladjf Feb 2014 #80

No. giftedgirl77 Feb 2014 #81

Hell no, they ain't hurting me sorefeet Feb 2014 #82

No fadedrose Feb 2014 #83

Yes Boom Sound 416 Feb 2014 #90

yes in a sense marions ghost Feb 2014 #94

Wow... You just took nanny state to the next level up from OP... Lost_Count Feb 2014 #102

I watched my mother die marions ghost Feb 2014 #104

I'll stick with my original description... Lost_Count Feb 2014 #110

Spoken like the addicted marions ghost Feb 2014 #111

Adorable... Lost_Count Feb 2014 #112

"free choice" marions ghost Feb 2014 #115

I think you missed the bit where "you are only doing this for the children" Lost_Count Feb 2014 #117

Ok to repeat marions ghost Feb 2014 #120

Lots of things equal death... Lost_Count Feb 2014 #121

finale marions ghost Feb 2014 #137

This message was self-deleted by its author marions ghost Feb 2014 #134

No Puzzledtraveller Feb 2014 #98

That would cost more lives than it saved. Lizzie Poppet Feb 2014 #99

Pass me the KamaAina Feb 2014 #100

Butter? OmahaBlueDog Feb 2014 #123

Furikake KamaAina Feb 2014 #124

I think the internal combustion engine should be outlawed but fat chance. Lint Head Feb 2014 #101

Are you joking? MicaelS Feb 2014 #105

Cannabis = marions ghost Feb 2014 #109

Wtf JJChambers Feb 2014 #106

And create a black market that would increase organized crime and couldn't be taxed? TroglodyteScholar Feb 2014 #107

No. dipsydoodle Feb 2014 #113

No aint_no_life_nowhere Feb 2014 #114

if you have a dream to make pot legal you damn well better not ban cigs first dembotoz Feb 2014 #118

Um, no. Fantastic Anarchist Feb 2014 #125

Troll. WilliamPitt Feb 2014 #128

Making smoking socially unacceptable has done a better job than Prohibition ever would Hekate Feb 2014 #129

Prohibition is a very bad idea meow2u3 Feb 2014 #130

no. i am generally against telling adults what to do with their bodies. La Lioness Priyanka Feb 2014 #131

Nah, let them smoke themselves to the grave amuse bouche Feb 2014 #132

No, but it's time to ban advertising them. Donald Ian Rankin Feb 2014 #135