tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post1685123624595251139..comments2023-10-24T09:06:30.200-04:00Comments on No More Mister Nice Blog: WE'D NEVER BE ABLE TO RESTRICT SMOKING IF WE LEARNED ABOUT ITS DANGERS TODAYSteve M.http://www.blogger.com/profile/11963290427258439242noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-13220348248151863762016-07-19T11:34:59.437-04:002016-07-19T11:34:59.437-04:00@Mike Lumish:
No smoking in elevators, planes or a...@Mike Lumish:<br />No smoking in elevators, planes or any form of public transit.<br />No smoking in restaurants or in bars (in many cities)<br />No smoking in any public buildings.<br />No smoking in indoor concert halls, arenas, etc.<br />No smoking within X feet of an office or apartment building (often 50').<br /><br /> Of those, banning smoking in transit, restaurants and bars has been the most helpful at reducing smoke exposure for people who have no choice in the matter (employees). To be clear, these smoking restrictions are good for us as a society. Individuals are free to choose to smoke in their own homes or cars and on outdoor public spaces like roads, sidewalks and parks.<br /> The advent of vaping has the potential to eliminate secondhand smoke in public without restricting the ability to use nicotine. (Secondhand nicotine is a thing, but not a carcinogenic public menace.)<br /> Although cigarette taxes are frequently debated, the costs that have actually been added over the last 20 years are a (sometimes sizable) tobacco surcharge on insurance premiums and increased taxes on non-cigarette tobacco products often viewed as 'ethnic' or related to drug culture (flavored cigars, rolling papers, etc.)<br /><br />The OP is suggesting that if we were to discover smoking's health hazards today then any proposed restriction as listed above would be compared to the persecution of Christians in roman antiquity and opposed with religious fervor. That does indeed sound like the right's response to climate reality.<br /><br />Chris Wolfehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11247630943891521469noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-70185542143573953452016-07-17T17:45:58.151-04:002016-07-17T17:45:58.151-04:00When did we restrict smoking?
I was under the imp...When did we restrict smoking?<br /><br />I was under the impression that one could walk into any store in the country to pick up a pack, and that they cost about as much (adjusted for CPI) as they did twenty years ago when I had my last drag.Mike Lumishhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14083545582415707582noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-42692640084445724332016-07-16T21:55:48.780-04:002016-07-16T21:55:48.780-04:00OK feud t.h how bout this instead? See the turds,T...OK feud t.h how bout this instead? See the turds,Trump Pence are sad. Trump Pence,Trump Pence. Trump Pence are sad. Though their words are simple and few, listen, listen, they're calling to you.Trump Pence a baghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15642450407091868911noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-41232960808844914032016-07-16T21:53:59.232-04:002016-07-16T21:53:59.232-04:00OK feud t.h how bout this instead? See the turds,T...OK feud t.h how bout this instead? See the turds,Trump Pence are sad. Trump Pence,Trump Pence. Trump Pence are sad. Though their words are simple and few, listen, listen, they're calling to you.Trump Pence a baghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15642450407091868911noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-39473960507815548442016-07-16T20:10:16.435-04:002016-07-16T20:10:16.435-04:00“...If we were fighting this battle now, smoking w...“...If we were fighting this battle now, smoking would be mandatory for hosts on Fox. There'd be story after story on Fox about non-smokers dying of cancer and heart disease, and about smokers living to advanced ages. Tobacco companies would provide lavish funding for pseudoscience meant to demonstrate smoking's health benefits….”<br /><br />Umm — that actually sounds pretty close to how they actually *did* handle the science of tobacco’s dangers.Frank Blissetthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13425341330882506950noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-40738307753525403802016-07-14T17:50:28.632-04:002016-07-14T17:50:28.632-04:00EL, IMO it came down to choosing Gingrich would me...EL, IMO it came down to choosing Gingrich would mean a loose cannon at VP candidate (I know...) plus having to put up with interminable wives shots <br /><br />(Three wives men, <br />Three wives men, <br />They joined to go after the White House gig, <br />Remind me again which one is the pig, <br />Three wives men...), <br /><br />or choosing Christie meaning a paranoid attack dog but with David Samson's guilty plea coming, interminable Bridge-Gate questions and speculation over Christie being indicted are inevitable,<br /><br />or the Stupid Sack of Hammers I'm With who seems tight with the Two Corinthians crowd plus isn't likely to be indicted AFATCT.<br /><br />I'm kicking myself for this: there's ALMOST ALWAYS a GOP governor on the GOP ticket in recent years, yes no? Feud Turgidsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05379322096770703017noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-13909513584693261142016-07-14T17:36:15.690-04:002016-07-14T17:36:15.690-04:00Recall the name of Charlie Pierce's book: Idio...Recall the name of Charlie Pierce's book: Idiot America.<br /><br />http://www.idoc.co/files/683058f7cb3c5f335d-0.jpg<br /><br />The writing inside is so good, so perversely beautiful in describing idiotic cruelty after idiotic horror after idiotic tragedy, it's a shame there's no simultaneously less cheesy-looking while more apt title. Feud Turgidsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05379322096770703017noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-56712679024783924842016-07-14T16:43:21.991-04:002016-07-14T16:43:21.991-04:00So Trump picked an idiot so he wont look really st...So Trump picked an idiot so he wont look really stupid by comparison? Why else would he pick a fool like Pence? He does not add a thing to Trump and the people in Indiana are so thankful. Like most of Trumps moved really dumb. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14006984334289913006noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-59641621215169836212016-07-14T16:25:28.279-04:002016-07-14T16:25:28.279-04:00Conservatism kills, too!
Just look at the states ...Conservatism kills, too!<br /><br />Just look at the states which didn't expand Medicaid even though the Fed's were going to pay for the first few years!<br /><br />Conservatism is about as lethal as smoking.<br />Victorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06609452382111686086noreply@blogger.com