Tobacco companies deceiving voters

Kingfish · **Posted:** Fri Oct 27, 2006 3:05 pm

Bag-Headed Jason Wrote:

up next: banning of BO, over-cologning, babies being changed.

WHY DO YOU HATE OPA!??

Hegel · **Posted:** Fri Oct 27, 2006 3:10 pm

Old Kingfish Lee Wrote:

IT WASN"T CANCER. There are a hundred known poisons recognized by the FDA in a cigerette. It ain't good for you, bub.

Wait. You did see that I said you hadn't said cancer, right? I saw the second hand smoke and assumed you said "died of cancer". I apologized.

T/t/ Q\_/enteh · **Joined:** Sat Sep 24, 2005 9:31 pm **Posts:** 283

Moxie Wrote:

Jim Beam Wrote:

At least big tobacco still has Europe and Asia, where they don't have any concept of an indoor smoking ban. It seems only in the UK and Ireland they give a shit, every other country doesn't care.

You better double-check your company's research, holmes.

2-3 ultra light heaters a day here. If I'm boozing, tack on five more.

Where do you live? I know my company is looking at Russia, China, India, and Latin America as emerging markets because their legislation doesn't give a shit, They are more easily moved by funding, so they would think twice before inhibiting anything related to smoking.

HaqDiesel · **Posted:** Fri Oct 27, 2006 3:14 pm

Borg166 Wrote:

I just finished filling out my absentee ballot right now and realized after finishing it that there was something wrong with one of the issues. Basically, there are two so-called "anti-smoking" issues you can vote on, but only one of them actually bans smoking in public places. The other issue was funded by tobacco companies and basically keeps smoke in restaurants and many public places and overturns smoke-free laws already in place. However, you wouldn't know it based on how the issue was worded on the ballot.

It pisses me off because I really cared about getting smoke out of public places and the tobacco companies tricked me into voting for a pro-smoking issue on the ballot. Check out the news report below and see for yourself how fucked up this is.

http://www.smokefreeohio.org/oh/NBCNightlyNews.wmv

sucker!

T/t/ Q\_/enteh · **Joined:** Sat Sep 24, 2005 9:31 pm **Posts:** 283

These are counrties where half the population already smoke, whereas in North America the smoking rate has dropped to between 25-27%.

Also, tobacco advertising is still allowed, so it will much easier to target the younger demographic than it is here. North America has already been eastablished, most of big tobbacco is moving their aggressive marketing elsewhere. When was the last time you've even SEEN a tobacco ad besides the few allowed to advertise on billboards and specialty mags? It's already well established that North America is a dead horse. TIme to make the developing countries get hooked.

T/t/ Q\_/enteh · **Joined:** Sat Sep 24, 2005 9:31 pm **Posts:** 283

i traveled to Europe and Asia roughly 20 times since the beginning of the year, they have implemented some sort of smoking ban, but no one cares. And smoking is still allowed in almost every bar in Germany, Russia, Italy, Greece, India, Malaysia, Japan, The Netherlands, and several Eastern Bloc countries. Actually you could say the only countries where they DONT allow it is in the UK, Ireland, and Scotland. Everwhere else is still stuck in 1955.

posthumus · **Joined:** Tue Oct 26, 2004 2:17 am **Posts:** 589

Hooray for you nonsmokers in big cities that think your air is harmless. "I'll breathe better when you stop smoking.. and when China goes back to riding bikes"

Hooray for old people dying before they hit ninety. 'They were still so young and full of... phlem."

Listen I hate it when people smoke around kids. Why, I don't know, kids suck as much as anybody but it still bothers me. But when a diesease carrying ogre of thirty five belches at me with Subway breath that I should put out one of my five cigerettes 'cause I'm poisoning his air" and that he can't enjoy his super chemo latte I get pissed. Fuck that. Get out of my elevator and use the stairs fuckwad!

Cotton · **Joined:** Mon Oct 25, 2004 6:12 pm **Posts:** 17155

so this debate has moved pretty much entirely to bars now, right?

robotboy · **Posted:** Fri Oct 27, 2006 4:35 pm

thank god posthumus saved this thread

Prince of Darkness · **Joined:** Mon Oct 25, 2004 11:41 am **Posts:** 11048

O.k. except for posthumus, this was a pretty boring thread.

This weekend i'm going to try and keep a tally of people who leave the shows i'm playing to go smoke and then return. Not during my set of course.

That's another pisser as a musician.

MontyTheMongoose · **Posted:** Fri Oct 27, 2006 8:42 pm

HaqDiesel Wrote:

Borg166 Wrote:

I just finished filling out my absentee ballot right now and realized after finishing it that there was something wrong with one of the issues. Basically, there are two so-called "anti-smoking" issues you can vote on, but only one of them actually bans smoking in public places. The other issue was funded by tobacco companies and basically keeps smoke in restaurants and many public places and overturns smoke-free laws already in place. However, you wouldn't know it based on how the issue was worded on the ballot.

It pisses me off because I really cared about getting smoke out of public places and the tobacco companies tricked me into voting for a pro-smoking issue on the ballot. Check out the news report below and see for yourself how fucked up this is.

http://www.smokefreeohio.org/oh/NBCNightlyNews.wmv

sucker!

I was waiting for this post, but I was sure that the author would be either Elvis fu, Chase, or Belial.

But, thank you, Haq. Thanks.

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