Remember the War on B I G Tobacco?

[JoeBlam]

Which was just another word-game on an industry comprised of thousands of small tobacco growers, algore being one of them. Yep algore was still growing the leaf long after sobbing that it had killed his own sister. So what happened to that "war"?

Was it won? lost? a tie? Could the fact that Adolf Hussein is still a heavy smoker have anything to do with it? Now that we're buying his Kools, maybe he couldn't resist the urge and was terrified of more pics with a cig hangin outta his blue lips. Not that I begrudge anybody a smoke if they want one. We Cons don't have knee-jerk impulses to ban everything we don't care for like the lefties.

On a personal note, I stopped smoking 8 years ago today.

 

[Oddball]

It's still ongoing.

Boiking levied a new federal tax on cigars....Several states have been jacking up the taxes on cigarettes, to try and fund their addiction to the political crack of profligate spending on pet projects.

 

[AmyNation]

Tobacco companies lied about their products causing cancer.

 

[JoeBlam]

Tobacco companies lied about their products causing cancer.

Did they "lie" or demand better science from the government? We know certain products are bad for us....I knew what I was doing when I drank beer, smoked cigarettes, ate eggs and bacon, used pesticides, rode motorcycles, etc etc. So far so good for me but if I've killed myself, I accept the blame and ain't suing anybody about it.

 

[AmyNation]

They lied.

 

[JoeBlam]

They lied.

Obama was born in Kenya.

 

[Oddball]

Tobacco companies lied about their products causing cancer.

Tobacco use doesn't cause cancer...If it were a directly causal agent, even casual smokers would get the affliction.

Nonetheless, that's no excuse for the obscene taxes and the nanny state imposing its will upon private business owners.