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I never thought of smoking as being a liberal/conservative issue as far as who does it. I do believe liberals are more anti-smoking. Conservatives don't like anything that stops corporations from making money even if it damages peoples' health. It seems to me that conservatives won't try to protect the public from bad choices but then seem to enjoy punishing people for making those bad choices. Is that any way to be?

So its bad for everyone to smoke but our grand exualted emporer palpatine ming the merciless obama SCREW LIBERAL DOOFIEHEADS

Its not his smoking habit I'm worried about, its his coke habit.

As far as 'conservatives are okay with smoking because yada yada yada", it ain't true. There are quite a few of us like myself who would like nothing better than to see this drug banned outright.

Smokers out there could care less if some of us have severe allergies and asthma that are set off by breathing their second hand smoke.

Your choice to kill yourself with cigarettes unfortunately collides with MY right to NOT get cancer, severe sinusitis, and asthma attacks. When there's a drug out there that harms people who innocently walk into its fumes, it needs to be banned.

wonder if this will affect his national healthcare policy?

anon - what about a machine that sucks the life out of a woman's womb? should those be banned also?

i've smoked a half pack of cigs a day for 40 years - and have had no lung illnesses whatsoever - he can smoke if he'd like, he'd just better extend the same "rights" to other people.

and why on earth would you go where you could be harmed by the fumes? are you daft? even our children know not to come outside where we enjoy a puff or two!

LMBFTO! i smoke and you're the one with asthma! how ironic~~!

Does he mean the kind of steely calm that allows the messiah to articulate his well-reasoned answers so eloquently when he has to ad lib an answer to a question? I uh uh well... spread the wealth!

... and the anti-smoking Gestapo shows up.


I have asthma, chronic sinus infections, and I am allergic to cigarette smoke.


That being said, if you want to smoke, I won't stop you. I won't let you smoke in my house or my car, but outside or in a bar? Knock yourself out.



As far as the liberal / conservative false dichotomy posted above: Liberals are more anti-smoking because they're totalitarian. This is just more liberal do-as-I-say-not-as-I-do hypocrisy.

Leave The One alone. The Liberal press doesn't define all liberals, and the same liberal press just said the other day that conservatives are smarter than liberals. So, chill.

At least The One, My Messiah, isn't clinging to guns-n-religion. Ha!

Damn. You guys are as bad as the libs who put down Messiah Palin all the time.

Maybe he can take the stop smoking drug Chantix. I take it and it does seem to work. maybe he needs to smoke more so he can create more jobs forthe tobbaco industry. we might even his face on a pack of smokes or his own brand of smokes.....Obamaretts.

Naqamel:

As far as the liberal / conservative false dichotomy posted above: Liberals are more anti-smoking because they're totalitarian. This is just more liberal do-as-I-say-not-as-I-do hypocrisy.

Totalitarian? You mean in the same way you guys think masturbation is evil and even banned dildos in Alabama and restricted the amount that can be purchased in TX? You mean in the same way you people force religion down the throats of kids in school and elsewhere? You mean in the same way you condemn those who are gay and try and keep them from getting married? You mean in the same way you oppose all tax-funded programs unless it suits your own purpose?

While you do bring up a good point, may I just remind you that the lunatic fringe exists on both sides and not all conservatives and not all liberals are out to snatch people's freedoms away. Most of us mind our own business and don't give a rats arse about people's little habits.

If ALL liberals truly hated freedom as some of you radicals say, then why do liberals exercise that freedom all the time? Or do you just think we're out to get YOU?

virgomonkey;

I agree with you completely that both sides have their lunatic fringe. There's an important difference though:

The Conservative loonies live on compound in Idaho and Texas, and pretty much just want to be left alone.

The Liberal loonies are finalizing the list of Cabinet appointments.

Some self-centered anonymous moron said:

>>Smokers out there could care less if some of us have severe allergies and asthma that are set off by breathing their second hand smoke.

I enjoy tobacco use, or in my case abuse; and make no apologies for it.
Others run around with cat or dog dander on their clothing making innocent allergic sick; in fact over 2000 people unexpectedly die every year due to anaphylactic shock thanks to 2nd hand animal dander.

Cigarette Taxes Are Fueling Terrorism

"Going back to 1993, counterfeit cigarette stamps were found in the apartment of the first World Trade Center bombers."

What They Won't Tell You: Smoking Has Health Benefits

""A review of 61 studies suggests that smokers have a 60% lower risk of Parkinson's disease." Sixty percent! That is pretty damned significant, no? "Parkinsons is a nerve disease aggravated by dopamine shortages. Smokers have about 40% less of the enzyme that breaks down dopamine, so they have more dopamine."

Posted by: virgomonkey "If ALL liberals truly hated freedom as some of you radicals say, then why do liberals exercise that freedom all the time? "

Point here is (most) liberals exercise their freedom, but you're freedom is contingent on their tolerance. Don't like smokers? Ban smoking on private property. 4th Amendment? We don't need no stinkin' Amendment!

Has anyone checked the news lately? According to the Wall Street Journal, and the World Health Organization. No significant risk.

http://www.smokingaloud.com/badscience.html

This issue could be looked at in a similar light to AGW, in that there is money in showing it is harmful, and criticism in showing it is not.

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-wellbeing/health-news/passive-smoking-is-there-convincing-evidence-that-its-harmful-476472.html

I read a story the other day and can't find it now. The statistics showing the harm of smoking are skewed just like with human caused global warming.

I don't advocate either way, but I would prefer to not have lies shoved down my throat until I am forced to say it is the truth.

I'm allergic to olives. Where's my ban? Someone needs to round up every one of those roly-poly one-eyed f*ckers and protect me.

I'm allergic to Homosexuals. Ban all Gays who still can not marry in CA.

The fact that Democratic Party Voters demanded a ban on Gay marriage in the state of CA is priceless.

It's always priceless when irony is lost on tender young folks like yoda.

You start off by saying you don't see this as a conservative/liberal issue, and then go on to frame it as a conservative/liberal issue. Complete and utter failure.

The fact remains that there exists a double standard in the treatment of Obama versus the treatment of anyone else.

Ask yourself, honestly, what if McCain was an admitted smoker and former (or current?) cocaine/marijuana abuser, and Obama was not.

It would have been screamed from the hilltops by frothing lunatics to this day.

But if Obama does it, he's honest. He's brave. Give him a break.

Another twist: Bush is a recovering alcoholic (got on the wagon what, 30 plus years ago?) and there was an unconfirmed rumor that he used cocaine. Vilified by libs as unfit.

Obama is an admitted drug user in his youth and smokes. Libs say he should be forgiven his youthful indiscretions and now say that we should cut him a break for his nicotine habit as well.

Double standard anyone?

"When there's a drug out there that harms people who innocently walk into its fumes, it needs to be banned." -- Anonymous

It's a good job you said "drug" otherwise I'd think you were attempting to outlaw motor vehicles.

You know, there's an Asian brand of cigarettes called Hope:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/jsteph/536881668/

Maybe Philip Morris will come out with Hope cigarettes for the American market. They could have a picture of Obama on the pack.

I am trying to remember who was the last President who openly smoked in the White House. The most recent one that comes to mind is FDR with his cigarette holder. At the time it made him look debonair. Anyone trying it today would invite comparisons to Burgess Meredith playing the Penguin on Batman.
The pictures of Obama smoking make him look like a one man Rat pack.

"Steely calm . . ."? Funny! That's a good one! You seem to have mistaken deer-in-the-headlights ignorance for courage, there, doofus. First time Ackkkkk-maaaaaaa-deeeeeee-neeeeeeee-jahd calls his bluff, we're out of the Middle East, having turned over complete control to Iran and its buds, al-Qaeda (with sincere apologies from the United States for ever having bothered them; if we could bring Saddam back from the dead, along with his beautiful progeny, Oday and Qusay, I'm sure our new President would try -- lots of "We're sorry!"'s there, too).

Be ready for Jimmah Carter II (though it's looking more and more like BJ Clinton III, these days, isn't it?).

mcenanly - it is somewhat reminiscent of seeing one on a harley...or in a volkswagen...

And as the old antidrug ad used to say WHY DO YOU THINK THEY CALL IT DOPE?

President Obama doesn't smoke anymore.

You're grabbing at straws wiht this one.

Yoda, Obama is not the President and if he is not smoking, he must have gone back to the blow.

his stature is so small and gaunt that i think he might be hiv positive - who knows maybe the blow he did i.v.? i sure hate speculating on things that may or may not be true...

BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHA!

and THAT is how rumors are started.