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Re: Trying to understand
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Thu, 16 Mar 2000 20:55:00 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Bill Farkas writes: Look at tobacco. It started
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> warning labels, then "no smoking" areas in buildings and planes, then no
> smoking at all in certain buildings or planes and now lawsuits. It doesn't
> stop, as long as liberals think they can control your behavior and squeeze a
> buck out of it. Now they're talking about taxing fatty foods(!) - oh, because
> they care. Puh-lease, all they care about is manipulation and money.
At the same time, though, the supposition of courtesy is inadequate against
the average smoker in my experience--sufficiently so that "no smoking" areas
in restaurants seem to me a good idea. I don't think it's necessary to ban
smoking at the federal level, but some measure of "enforced politeness," if
only on the level of individual business, doesn't strike me as inappropriate.
Fatty foods, on the other hand, are another matter!! Who was the chief
zealot on that crusade? I have the impression that it was primarily one
individual, but I may be incorrect. Let me know, if you recall.
> Every penny we give away in taxes is lost freedom.
Mildly-ObRef: Guvvamint do take a bite, don't she?
Dave!
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| (...) As a non-smoker, I agree. Yet if a private property owner wants to have only smokers in his establishment, that should be up to him. (...) I think it was from the FDA, not an individual. I hear these things on the radio news while I'm driving (...) (25 years ago, 16-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) these (...) it? (...) a (...) of (...) the (...) on (...) killed (...) No need to be so smug. For one, we lose the liberty of choosing what to do with the additional money we are required to shell out - regardless of how small the amount. (...) (25 years ago, 16-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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