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WillowTree

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55. I'm a former smoker and I say emphatically no!

Wed Feb 19, 2014, 10:49 PM

Feb 2014

By the way, I'm enthusiastically opposed to you getting to make any other choices for me, too.

Run your own life, why doncha, and let the rest of us run ours.

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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