Jennings? death prompts smokers to quit

[randym431]

Why is it, with smoking known to cause many cancers, they are still sold legally?
Of all the things our government thinks they should protect us from (video game violence, sex on TV, seat belts laws, etc) smoking and death and huge medical costs (that we all end up paying) seems to make them turn their head and look the other way.
Smoking should be illegal. Period.
If not, then let me drive without my seat belt. Let me drive as fast as I want to. Let me go anywhere I want, nude. And let me beat the hell our of the neighbors when they get on my nerves.

 

[Bateluer]

Because the govt makes killer profit on tobacco sales. Duh

 

[Blayze]

Personally I think they should be banned in everything but a persons home.

 

[ruffilb]

Originally posted by: Bateluer
Because the govt makes killer profit on tobacco sales. Duh

 

[stan394]

clinton's heart surgery prompted a lot of middle-aged men to go checkup their hearts as well

 

[KK]

Government shouldn't protect the stupid, let nature take its course.

 

[imported_Mike]

The death of a news icon and all of a sudden people realize they're harming their health daily? :roll:

 

[Ricemarine]

Becauuse Tobacco is one of the main industries today.

Banning it would...

1)Cause an uprage
2)Lose tax dollars for the government
3)Make smokers take those smoke free patches and crap

Overall, even with drug education in schools, people still do drugs.
So let the idiots die first, cause they know their consequences, they are just waiting for it.

 

[Excelsior]

Originally posted by: CheapArse
The death of a news icon and all of a sudden people realize they're harming their health daily? :roll:

:laugh:

 

[Vic]

Originally posted by: randym431
Why is it, with smoking known to cause many cancers, they are still sold legally?
Of all the things our government thinks they should protect us from (video game violence, sex on TV, seat belts laws, etc) smoking and death and huge medical costs (that we all end up paying) seems to make them turn their head and look the other way.
Smoking should be illegal. Period.
If not, then let me drive without my seat belt. Let me drive as fast as I want to. Let me go anywhere I want, nude. And let me beat the hell our of the neighbors when they get on my nerves.

You're an idiot. Go take your whining crybaby nose-in-your-neighbors-asses nanny state puritarian authoritarian bullsh!t elsewhere. IMO your stupidity should be illegal. Period.

People die all the time. Someday, you will too. NOTHING can or will prevent it. It WILL happen. If people choose to harm themselves (and only themselves) it's none of your fscking business. Government thinks they should protect us because idiots like you think we need protection. YOU are the cause. Without idiots like you, the rest of us would be free.

 

[Vic]

Originally posted by: Bateluer
Because the govt makes killer profit on tobacco sales. Duh

Yes, govt. makes more from cigarettes than the tobacco companies do, and now has tremendous incentive to keep that revenue stream flowing. Thank the idiots who thought that giving govt. such a large revenue source would lead to a reduction in smoking.

Originally posted by: KK
Government shouldn't protect the stupid, let nature take its course.

Absolutely. No one should be protected from themselves, only from other people.

Originally posted by: CheapArse
The death of a news icon and all of a sudden people realize they're harming their health daily? :roll:

Probably not. One of the media's favorite amusements is to convince itself of just how powerful and influential it is, and then brag about it (with their boasts as "news").

 

[chuckywang]

Banning smoking would create more problems than it solves. Just look at how prohibition turned out.

 

[So]

Why the hell SHOULD cigarettes be banned?

No, seriously. I can understand regulations to make it clear that smoking is VERY bad for your health.

I can see banning cigarettes in publicly owned venues. Whatever.

But banning cigarettes in PRIVATELY OWNED resteraunts and bars? WTF? These places already had non smoking sections. Banning it, only further erodes the tenuous idea that the store owner has any say in what goes on in his shop.

And banning them from people's homes? Double WTF! Who are YOU to say what others can or can't do with their lives (to be fair, they shouldn't get free healthcare from the gov't either).

 

[imported_Mike]

Originally posted by: CheapArse
The death of a news icon and all of a sudden people realize they're harming their health daily? :roll:

Probably not. One of the media's favorite amusements is to convince itself of just how powerful and influential it is, and then brag about it (with their boasts as "news").

Yea I don't believe for a second there was a huge amount of people around the country that quit just becuase Jennings died. Even if just a few people quit becuase Jennings died? I mean come on, why do some smokers have this "not going to happen" to me mentality?

Its their choice, not many debate that fact anymore, but I don't think I could completely respect someone that willfully chose to harm themselves on a daily basis.

 

[crisscross]

Well doesn't smoking harm the environment? that should be good enough reason to ban it.

 

[So]

Originally posted by: crisscross
Well doesn't smoking harm the environment? that should be good enough reason to ban it.

Um...WTF?

No, it doesn't harm the environment. It's not petrolium, and the volume of smoke put out by the human race each year is surely dwarfed by forestfire.

Cigarette != Car.

 

[chiwawa626]

Originally posted by: So

Originally posted by: crisscross
Well doesn't smoking harm the environment? that should be good enough reason to ban it.

Um...WTF?

No, it doesn't harm the environment. It's not petrolium, and the volume of smoke put out by the human race each year is surely dwarfed by forestfire.

Cigarette != Car.

Cigarette butts are all over the place, that and thick smoke, it may not harm the greater environment, but sure does fvck with my habitat.

 

[EyeMNathan]

Banning something outright usually does little to solve a problem. As someone said, look at prohibition in the 30s.

People get killed everyday over coke, heroin, and so on, on top of the deaths caused by drug abuse. Do we want people being killed over tobacco?

If the "War On Drugs" were to end, and restrictions eased, the drug-related violent deaths would drop to virtually nothing, though admittedly substance abuse rates would go up.

 

[So]

Originally posted by: chiwawa626

Originally posted by: So

Originally posted by: crisscross
Well doesn't smoking harm the environment? that should be good enough reason to ban it.

Um...WTF?

No, it doesn't harm the environment. It's not petrolium, and the volume of smoke put out by the human race each year is surely dwarfed by forestfire.

Cigarette != Car.

Cigarette butts are all over the place, that and thick smoke, it may not harm the greater environment, but sure does fvck with my habitat.

Which is why we have fines for littering that should be ENFORCED.

What about gum? There's nasty ass gum stuck all the FVCK over sidewalks.

Look, I'm not a smoker, nor can I see the appeal of nasty smelling cancer sticks, but banning cigs is just silly, theres no rational reason to protect people from their own poor choices.

 

[alexjohnson16]

Originally posted by: chiwawa626

Originally posted by: So

Originally posted by: crisscross
Well doesn't smoking harm the environment? that should be good enough reason to ban it.

Um...WTF?

No, it doesn't harm the environment. It's not petrolium, and the volume of smoke put out by the human race each year is surely dwarfed by forestfire.

Cigarette != Car.

Cigarette butts are all over the place, that and thick smoke, it may not harm the greater environment, but sure does fvck with my habitat.

So maybe we should quit manufacturing anything, because there's tons of other kinds of crap laying around, so lets kill it at the cause.