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      <![CDATA[The new Tobacco Prohibition<br>
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 I would like to take the time to tell the entire community about a falsehood so big that everyone who believes in freedom should be appauled. <br>
 This falsehood is so big it resonates from historical fact forward to this day.
        
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      <![CDATA[When I pay$4.50 for a pack, I'm getting fifty cents worth of tobacco;  the rest is tax. Now CO sales tax is applied to the plainly usurious tobacco tax.
        
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      <![CDATA[I am one of 7 children all now adults. Both our parents smoked as did our grandparents.
        
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      <![CDATA[Well said Delqio. I do not know how Ethan can honestly say that, "the state should not be allowed to interfere with our free will, particularly as it pertains to the personal choice to smoke."
        
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      <![CDATA[Well Ethan, look on the bright side; you caused a rocking little pandemonium  here. i think Jimmy Urine said it best when he said “…That's what I call entertainment.
        
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      <![CDATA[::::EDIT::::::::<br>
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I apologize for my terrible grammer and spelling on that last one, I am tired, here it is properly written. <br>
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Courtney, my comment was not aimed to attack or offend you.
        
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      <![CDATA[Courtney, my comment was not aimed to attack or offend you. I was simply trying to make a point-- just because your a medical student doesn't mean your the only one well educated on the issue.
        
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      <![CDATA[I am sorry but I am a non smoker who is allergic to cigarette smoke. No one has the right to make me sick and miserable just for wanting to go out to dinner.
        
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      <![CDATA[Ethan- don't you dare call me arrogant. I made the comment that I am a medical student to explain my relative expertise on the matter of smoking related illness.
        
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      <![CDATA[Thank you groundhog, was that so hard? The premise of the article is simply to convey how americans are taking less part in thier own government.
        
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      <![CDATA[Damned Indy site. I had this big post but lost it.
        
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      <![CDATA[Ok everybody, time for me to come in. Yes I'm the "child, young man, idiot" that wrote this.
        
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      <![CDATA[Hey Pokey:  You're a windbag! Maybe you were able to become long-winded after you extricated yourself from your horrible childhood environs...
        
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      <![CDATA[After reading that article I felt like I just read a junior high school position paper. Where did the Indy find this guy?
        
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      <![CDATA[As to your question about me giving up rights. If the government can show that it is for the benefit of the majority and that it does not put the minority at risk I am willing to give up many "rights".
        
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      <![CDATA[I actually don't have any thing in a twist; and an existential conversation is not what this is. This is a civics discussion. I really understand where you all are coming from and I agree with you on a lot of points.
        
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      <![CDATA[_Bex<br>
Right on! i especially liked your last point about giving up rights in the name of safety.
        
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      <![CDATA[Courtney the Brave:<br>
oooh, someone has her "Brave" little panties in a twist. (lol) what's the matter Toots?
        
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      <![CDATA[You know what I do if I'm driving and see someone within close proximity to me swerving as if intoxicated? I get off the road.<br>
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But that's quite a different issue then a few people smoking in a bar or restaurant.
        
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      <![CDATA[I didn't miss the point by the way. I just disagree that the point is freedom of business.
        
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      <![CDATA[Bex- This is not a freedom of business issue, it is about the health of people. I don't object to smoking because it stinks, I think that is actually not that bad of a smell, I object because it causes disease.
        
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      <![CDATA[First they came for the Jews, and I didn't object because I'm not jewish. Then they came for the Catholics, and I didn't object because I'm not Catholic.
        
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      <![CDATA[courtney the brave: <br>
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You're throwing the word "right" around like you know what it means. It is also the RIGHT of the business owner to run HIS OR HER (read: NOT the government's) private business as he or she pleases.
        
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      <![CDATA[Oh and Little Birdie. Yes I am going to die, but I would like to do what I can to make the time I have worthwhile.
        
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    <pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2009 09:48:57 -0600</pubDate>
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      <![CDATA[I have to disagree with the argument that the government is encroaching on the civil liberties of businesses and smokers in general. The role of the government is to protect the safety of the masses and by regulating smoking the government is doing its job.
        
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    <pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2009 09:44:36 -0600</pubDate>
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