Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/04/11
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Funny, my doctor told me I'm getting too much quinine from my gin and tonics. Sam S Jeffery Smith wrote: >No, I'm a fan of small government. But raising taxes twenty-fold on >cigarettes only makes smokers both addicted AND poorer. I know there are >folks who really love to smoke, and banning cigarettes would certainly >offend them. My older brother says that he would rather be dead than not >smoke, as did my father (who died of pulmonary fibrosis). I think I >would have stopped smoking earlier had cigarettes been illegal. Adding >them to the ranks of illegal would be a drop in the bucket compared to >the number of medications that cannot be taken without a prescription. >Like quinine, which now requires a prescription. Why? Are they afraid >that I will self-cure leg cramps, or self-cure malaria? Or take it just >because it tastes so good? :-) > >Jeffery Smith >New Orleans, LA > > >-----Original Message----- >From: lug-bounces+jls=runbox.com@leica-users.org >[mailto:lug-bounces+jls=runbox.com@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of Sam >Sent: Sunday, April 11, 2004 3:27 PM >To: Leica Users Group >Subject: Re: [Leica] a new one OT alert... > >And here I was thinking you might be one of those who want every form of > >potential harm banned but wail to high heaven about the Patriot Act >which was, of course, enacted to protect us all. As you imply, the >government knows best. > >Sam S > > >Jeffery Smith wrote: > > > >>Now, non-smokers are not the only ones who oppose smoking, so those who >>favor legislating against smoking include some smokers, who may be VERY >>self-indulgent jackasses. We cannot assume that all smokers *favor* the >>addiction. When I was a smoker, I would have welcomed making tobacco >>illegal, as it would have been too inconvenient and too "verboten" to >>continue. Between the years of 1968 and 1979, I must have quit smoking >>100 or more times, and only the last time worked. I smoked for about 15 >>years, and disliked just about everything associated with it. But >>addictive substances can make even the most God-like moralists like >> >> >Rush > > >>Limbaugh act....in unflattering ways. ;-) >> >>Jeffery Smith >>New Orleans, LA >> >> >>-----Original Message----- >>You didn't parse the message the way I intended. The 'self-indulgent, >>imposing jackass' I spoke of are those who would legislate smoking. >> >> >Now, > > >>I don't know you and you hide behind a screen name, but allow me to >>suggest that if you ingest pornography on the Internet you have one >> >> >hell > > >>of a nerve worrying about whether your clothes stink. >> >>Sam S >> >> >>_______________________________________________ >>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 > > > >