Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/04/06
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]One hopes. Jack C. Herron 8118 E. 20th St. Tucson, AZ 85710 520 885-6933 ----- Original Message ----- From: "B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net> To: "'Leica Users Group'" <lug@leica-users.org> Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 2004 4:12 PM Subject: RE: [Leica] a new one > God or Brian will strike me down for falling for this...but I really > can't help myself: > > The only reason that the sale and distribution of tobacco products - the > carrier of a drug as addictive as heroin - is legal in this country is > that the tobacco companies have spent literally billions on totally > false advertising and on buying politicians. > > Sooner or later we will come to our senses, pay every tobacco farmer > precisely what he or she is now making from growing tobacco to grow > alternative crops or grow nothing, we will pay all tobacco company > workers - not executives - their current weekly pay until they retire - > and we will outlaw the, import, export, sale and distribution of tobacco > products. > > Ah, you say, but prohibition was tried and didn't work. Right. But how > many smoker would continue to smoke if they had to pay cocaine-like > prices for cigarettes, and couldn't smoke them anywhere except in their > homes with the shades drawn - in other words, if they could only smoke > between waking and leaving for work, and after returning from work? > Virtually no one. And that would be the end of the entire smoking > controversy. > > As to people having sex with other people who are diseased. With rare > exception, most people don't knowingly have sex with people with > diseases. As to eating fats, yah, people will do that and people will > ruin their health. But there is a big difference - normal eating is > essential for life; but there is no such thing as normal smoking. > > Face it - people who smoke are drug addicts. And unless you favor the > legalization of all currently illegal narcotic substances, you're being > a hypocrite to whine about smoker's rights and the 'persecution' of > smokers. > > End of diatribe. > > Last word I will write on this subject. > > B. D. > > > -----Original Message----- > From: lug-bounces+bdcolen=earthlink.net@leica-users.org > [mailto:lug-bounces+bdcolen=earthlink.net@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of > Sam > Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 2004 5:38 PM > To: Leica Users Group > Subject: Re: [Leica] a new one > > > NYC has become insanely non-smoking. I have a friend who was given a > ticket for smoking outdoors, above-ground on property owned by the > subway system. I haven't smoked in 25 years, and that's my choice, but I > > hate when busy-bodies legislate their will to the masses because they > think they are too stupid to think for themselves. To my mind, we are > going to drop dead from something, and if you want it so, it might as > well be from smoking. What I hate even more is when you make a statement > > like I just have, and some sneaky b*stard says "It's not fair for > smokers to cause health insurance rates to increase." These are the > same people who support the right to eat anything you want and have sex > with partners who have incurable, communicable sexual diseases. Foolish > driving, eating lard out of the can, and sex with diseased partners all > raise health insurance rates. And what kind of morons would allow their > lives to be led by insurances companies? Storm their offices, apprehend > their personnel and tie them up in the public square for children to > throw rotten things at. > > All while documenting the events with the fine Leica camera system on > b&w, of course. > > Sam S > > > Philippe Orlent wrote: > > >Good one :). But in fact it's one of the many smokers in Antwerp, > >Belgium, in one of those pubs, like there are so many in town: smoking > >is still allowed almost everywhere. This pub -caf? as we call it- is > >called "Den Engel" (the angel) and is next to the town hall. It has > >remained unchanged the last 50 years or so. At the end of the day, > >around 5 PM, town officials stroll in and have one of those wonderful > >Belgian beers and talk about the fatiguing day they had. > >--- > > > > > >>From: "Douglas M. Sharp" <DouglasMSharp@netscape.net> > >>Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org> > >>Date: Tue, 06 Apr 2004 19:24:19 +0200 > >>To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org> > >>Subject: Re: [Leica] a new one > >> > >>Is that the last Irish smoker, emigrated to the UK ? > >>Very nice pub shot - looks like a pub I used to go to in the East End > >>of London, just off East India Dock Road. Douglas > >> > >>philippe.orlent@ldv.be schrieb: > >> > >> > >> > >>>cheers: > >>> > >>>http://www.leica-gallery.net/phorlent/image-63837.html > >>> > >>>Comments as always very welcome, > >>>Philippe A. Orlent > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >> > >>_______________________________________________ > >>Leica Users Group. > >>See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > >> > >> > >> > > > > > >_______________________________________________ > >Leica Users Group. > >See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information