« previous next »
Pages: [1]   Go Down

Author Topic: What Sort of BS is This?  (Read 2167 times)

0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic.

Offline Revolution

  • It's a Hoagie not a
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 6945
  • Reputation: +504/-426
  • 8/20/50 - 3/8/12 Love you, Pop
What Sort of BS is This?
« on: November 12, 2010, 11:03:32 AM »
Quote
Washington (CNN) -- The federal government unveiled new proposed regulations Wednesday mandating "bolder health warnings" on cigarette advertisements and packages, according to a news release from the Department of Health and Human Services.

The proposed requirements, characterized as the biggest change in tobacco health warnings in 25 years, include "nine new larger and more noticeable textual warning statements and color graphic images depicting the negative health consequences of smoking," the release stated.
http://www.cnn.com/2010/HEALTH/11/10/cigarette.warnings/index.html?hpt=T2

This really pisses me off. What gives them the right? Why would they do this?!?

This is EXACTLY the reason I hate a leftist/prohibitionist. If you like something, they can snatch it away. No explanation needed, but if THEY like it, you must ask no questions. It's a good thing. After all....THEY know what's best, right?

I've an idea. Why don't we just put an Islamic terrorist on the front of Camel packs all around the nation. See how much damn support that gets.


 :censored:
Logged

:usflag: :salutearmy: :saluteaf: :saluteusmc: :salutenavy: :taps:
THANK YOU for what you do!

Quote from: vesta111 on December 11, 2012, 12:00:18 PM
soon as you find your manhood all else falls into place.

Quote from: Greg Gutfeld
If Ft. Hood was "workplace violence," then the Hindenburg was an air show.

Guns do not kill people. Rotting, festering, disgusting, grimy, evil, un-reparable souls kill people.

Quote
I don't know if sand glows in the dark, but we're gonna find out.

3x PROUD Facebook Felon!!

Offline DumbAss Tanker

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 28493
  • Reputation: +1710/-151
Re: What Sort of BS is This?
« Reply #1 on: November 12, 2010, 11:28:41 AM »
Just more stupid crap.  If anything, it will only make smoking cooler to teenagers who already think they're bulletproof and going to live forever.
Logged
Go and tell the Spartans, O traveler passing by
That here, obedient to their law, we lie.

Anything worth shooting once is worth shooting at least twice.

Offline Revolution

  • It's a Hoagie not a
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 6945
  • Reputation: +504/-426
  • 8/20/50 - 3/8/12 Love you, Pop
Re: What Sort of BS is This?
« Reply #2 on: November 12, 2010, 12:19:58 PM »
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Q7kUFS-0XQ[/youtube]

My point starts at about 1:00. Who freakin' knew a bit done 17 years ago would be AMPLIFIED!! I believe he also touched on this smoking issue at the beginning of the act.
Logged

:usflag: :salutearmy: :saluteaf: :saluteusmc: :salutenavy: :taps:
THANK YOU for what you do!

Quote from: vesta111 on December 11, 2012, 12:00:18 PM
soon as you find your manhood all else falls into place.

Quote from: Greg Gutfeld
If Ft. Hood was "workplace violence," then the Hindenburg was an air show.

Guns do not kill people. Rotting, festering, disgusting, grimy, evil, un-reparable souls kill people.

Quote
I don't know if sand glows in the dark, but we're gonna find out.

3x PROUD Facebook Felon!!

Offline Karin

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 17752
  • Reputation: +1895/-81
Re: What Sort of BS is This?
« Reply #3 on: November 12, 2010, 01:04:35 PM »
Someone on another forum spoke up and said that some bright entrepeneur would make a bundle selling attractive, sexy cigarette cases.  They used to be in style, they'll come back in again. 
Logged

Offline Duke Nukum

  • Assistant Chair of the Committee on Neighborhood Services
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 8015
  • Reputation: +561/-202
  • O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!'
Re: What Sort of BS is This?
« Reply #4 on: November 12, 2010, 01:08:53 PM »
At the same time they doing this stupid crap in an attempt to get people to quit smoking, they are talking about banning the e-cigarette, which has actually helped a lot of people quit smoking.  I'm not sure how many but I think it is in the tens of thousands.
Logged
“A man who has been through bitter experiences and travelled far enjoys even his sufferings after a time”
― Homer, The Odyssey

Offline Karin

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 17752
  • Reputation: +1895/-81
Re: What Sort of BS is This?
« Reply #5 on: November 12, 2010, 01:46:41 PM »
Hey Duke--do you have a link or something?  Who is "they?"  Uh, I'm invested here, personally. 
Logged

Offline IassaFTots

  • In WTF-istan, I am considered a
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 13972
  • Reputation: +770/-274
  • Oh well, I wasn't using my civil liberties anyway.
Re: What Sort of BS is This?
« Reply #6 on: November 12, 2010, 01:50:47 PM »
Quote from: Karin on November 12, 2010, 01:46:41 PM
Hey Duke--do you have a link or something?  Who is "they?"  Uh, I'm invested here, personally. 

Karin, I don't have any links, but a buddy of mine who uses them, mentioned the same thing.  She said something about the FDA and ALA wanting to ban them.  But I hadn't heard anything else.
Logged
R.I.P. LC and Crockspot.  Miss you guys.

The infinite is possible at zombocom.  www.zombo.com

"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy." ~ Martin Luther King
 
“Political Correctness is about turning a blind eye to painful reality because your comfortable feelings are more important to you than saving lives and providing quality of life to people who work their ass off to be productive and are a benefit to this great American Dream"  ~Ted Nugent

Offline Karin

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 17752
  • Reputation: +1895/-81
Re: What Sort of BS is This?
« Reply #7 on: November 12, 2010, 01:53:40 PM »
Nevermind, don't need a link, there's an ecig forum.  NYS assembly has already passed the ban, we have to focus on the senators now.  Many of whose elections are still up in the air.   

These mother****ers just want the taxes that come from a $15 pack of real ones. 
Logged

Offline Duke Nukum

  • Assistant Chair of the Committee on Neighborhood Services
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 8015
  • Reputation: +561/-202
  • O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!'
Re: What Sort of BS is This?
« Reply #8 on: November 12, 2010, 01:55:17 PM »
Quote from: Karin on November 12, 2010, 01:46:41 PM
Hey Duke--do you have a link or something?  Who is "they?"  Uh, I'm invested here, personally. 

FDA is talking about banning it:  http://smoking-quit.info/fda-warned-about-the-dangers-of-banning-the-e-cigarette
Logged
“A man who has been through bitter experiences and travelled far enjoys even his sufferings after a time”
― Homer, The Odyssey

Offline Karin

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 17752
  • Reputation: +1895/-81
Re: What Sort of BS is This?
« Reply #9 on: November 12, 2010, 02:39:24 PM »
Thanks for the link, Duke.  Looks like the battle has been heating and waging for awhile.  It never hit my radar screen until I started using them.  I wrote this to my newly elected state senator-R:

Dear Ms. Ritchie,
Congratulations, and I voted for you.  I hope you listen to us as we New Yorkers fight to get out from under the thumb of state government and arrogant Assemblymen.
I am urging you to not support A9529, which prohibits the sale of electronic vaporing devices, commonly used as a substitute for cigarettes.  As they contain the same amount of nicotine as Nicorderm patches (legal) and are not sold to minors, I find this government overreach and intrusion unaccepatable and intolerable. 

Many people feel the Assemblymen are doing this to force people back to regular, deadly cigarettes, in order to extract the criminally high taxes. This is so outrageously immoral I can't believe it. 

Why does the government have to insert itself into every aspect of our lives?  Maybe if they stopped acting as nanny, we could balance the NY budget. 

Thank you for listening.
Logged

Offline Eupher

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 24894
  • Reputation: +2835/-1828
  • U.S. Army, Retired
Re: What Sort of BS is This?
« Reply #10 on: November 12, 2010, 05:44:23 PM »
FDA is playing the ol' political game.

They don't have the cajones to outright ban cigarettes (due to all those wonderful taxes that are collected), and they absolutely can't stand a device that keeps the ol' government in tax receipts, so they whitewash the problem and put more stupid warnings on cigarette packs.

Like that is really going to dissuade someone from smoking.  :whatever:

FDA, like all government bureaucracies, is subject to politics and cronyism.

That is all.
Logged
Adams E2 Euphonium, built in 2017
Boosey & Co. Imperial Euphonium, built in 1941
Edwards B454 bass trombone, built 2012
Bach Stradivarius 42OG tenor trombone, built 1992
Kanstul 33-T BBb tuba, built 2011
Fender Precision Bass Guitar, built ?
Mouthpiece data provided on request.

Offline Carl

  • Global Moderator
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 19838
  • Reputation: +1618/-100
Re: What Sort of BS is This?
« Reply #11 on: November 12, 2010, 05:53:18 PM »
I smoked for a couple of decades and finally quit in 2003.
There was not one day I didn`t know or understand how bad they were for me.
You don`t need a package to tell you that...what a waste of tax dollars to be coming up with this stuff given our current fiscal issues.
Logged

Offline true_blood

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 6221
  • Reputation: +652/-817
Re: What Sort of BS is This?
« Reply #12 on: November 12, 2010, 06:48:19 PM »
Maybe the imposter in the White Mosque will stop smoking now? ::)
Logged
Pages: [1]   Go Up
« previous next »