If there are bars and restaurants where you can't smoke, there should be
bars and restaurants where you CAN smoke...that's the American
Way...Equality. The government would go broke making booze and smokes
illeagal, the hypocritical, bastards. It ain't none of their business how we
anesthesize ourselves in the first place.
Meanwhile, just remember, (especially my fellow Canadians), while you none
smoking, tea-totaling, HealthNazis are lying in a hospital bed dying of
nothing, we gas guzzling butt burning, liquor drinkers paid for your bloody
health care with all the #$%^ing taxes., while you were out there jogging,
screwing up city traffic with yer bicycles, and turning our bars into money
losing day care centers where all the proper folk can go hear their
favourite tribute bands.

bob

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kevin" <oddsmusic@comcast.net>
To: <audities@smoe.org>
Sent: Saturday, June 07, 2003 11:27 PM
Subject: Re: Got a light?


>
>
> ok, this is the last i'll comment on this on-list...any future
> discussions about it I will take off-list and continue in personal
> one-on-one emails....but for the record:
>
>
> > >It's *not* in their best economic interest to do this, so you won't
> > >convince them to do it on their own.  Hence, gov't intervention is
> > >necessary in this type of situation.
> >
> > There's a word for that philosopy: Socialism, or taken to its extreme,
> > Communism.
>
> what are you talking about?  It is neither.  I'm not saying the State
> should take over running a bar/club.  I'm not saying the Government
> should invoke eminent domain and seize this property.  I'm saying the
> state should step in from a health care perspective and prevent people
> from smoking and, subsequently, harming other individuals in concert
> venues/bars/clubs.
>
> By your definition, the fact that the FDA mandates what drugs can and
> can't be sold in the USA is equal to "socialism, or taken to its
> extreme, communism."  If Pfizer has a drug that they know doesn't really
> work, but yet they make money from it, why is it in their best economic
> interest to stop selling it?  Its not...you need the gov't to step in
> and set things straight for the good of its people.  Just like in the
> case of smoking in bars.
>
>
> > Government intervention into whether a business allows a
> > legal activity to take place on its premises is rarely necessary.
>
> gee, you'd have fit in perfectly with that Waco crowd.
>
>