A bit of anti-tax victory for smokers and their impending tumors . . .
Missouri keeps tobacco tax as the lowest in the nation
While I'm happy about the anti-tax message this vote might encourage . . . The victory really just costs Missouri in the long run when victims of the Big Tobacco Industry end up in hospital emergency rooms and taking up indigent care cash while coughing up blood.
Long story short . . .
SMOKING CIGARETTES KILLS PEOPLE OVER TIME AND THE ANTI-TAX PROP B VOTE MIGHT JUST ENCOURAGE THE STUPID CONSUMPTION OF THESE COFFIN NAILS!!!
Please don't give me that "liberty" B.S., because in this instance the argument is only in service of lung cancer according to science.
The anti-tax, anti-Obamacare Teabaggers are the first ones at the trough when their smoking related diseases burden out health care system.
ReplyDeleteTea-party = leeches.
Fast Food and Alcohol is good. Smoking bad.
ReplyDeleteStupid, fucking stupid. And I smoke.
ReplyDeleteMissouri also needs to offer cigarettes with food stamps and welfare recipients.
ReplyDeleteIsn't everybody looking forward to Ruckus tomorrow night? Between Mary's gloating and Yael's pouting over Prop B it's gonna be a hoot.
ReplyDeleteMore good news.
ReplyDeleteVicious antismoker and former Surgeon General Richard Carmona (D) was defeated in Arizona for a Senate seat by Jeff Flake (R). Jeff Flake was a regular member of Ron Paul’s congressional Liberty Caucus. That’s a two-fer.
In case you don’t recall the name Carmona perhaps this will fill in the blanks. As per Richard Carmona:
There is No Risk-Free Level of Exposure to Secondhand Smoke.
The U.S. Surgeon General has concluded that breathing even a little secondhand smoke poses a risk to your health.
In earlier testimony before the U.S. Congress, Carmona stated that he would not object to a ban on all tobacco products “if Congress chose to go that way.” The Bush Administration distanced itself from this statement.
May he console himself over this humiliating defeat by taking a long nature walk out into the Arizona desert with a leaky water canteen.
Of course smoking is bad for you/others. When are you all going to figure out that smokers don't give a shit? Save your studies.
ReplyDeleteSmokers die younger. Don't take up as much in social services. It's a balance.
ReplyDeleteIt wasnt about cigarettes or smoking or liberty or political parties. People are fed up with high taxes and they werent going to pass a tax increase regardless of what it was for.
ReplyDeleteSmoke Dope lets pass that. Smoke cigarettes bad deal.
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