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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
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