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DeepModem Mom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-08-07 03:41 PM Original message |
Smoking Rates Level Off After Steep Decline: "Bush administration AWOL regarding tobacco control." |
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kestrel91316 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-08-07 03:44 PM Response to Original message |
1. This is because Bush and Cheney and friends all own lots of |
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truthisfreedom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-08-07 03:46 PM Response to Original message |
2. I've wondered why we haven't heard from Pickles on this subject... |
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NYVet (822 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-08-07 04:00 PM Response to Original message |
3. I wasn't aware that the government had to force people to stop smoking. |
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NekoChris (242 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-08-07 04:37 PM Response to Reply #3 |
6. Every time.. |
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bjb (97 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-08-07 05:18 PM Response to Reply #6 |
12. Vehicles |
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LanternWaste (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-08-07 05:27 PM Response to Reply #12 |
14. I don't think that the sole purpose of automobile exhaust... |
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AZ Criminal JD (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-08-07 07:44 PM Response to Reply #14 |
17. A by-product which kills far more than smoking |
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NekoChris (242 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-09-07 11:07 AM Response to Reply #17 |
32. Wow, that's stupid. |
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LanternWaste (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-09-07 04:54 PM Response to Reply #17 |
37. I smoke because I'm addicted to it, Not because I enjoy. |
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ozu (203 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-08-07 05:23 PM Response to Reply #6 |
13. yeah |
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NekoChris (242 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-09-07 11:20 AM Response to Reply #13 |
34. Way to skew the point |
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Beerboy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-09-07 10:46 AM Response to Reply #6 |
31. Very passionately stated. n/t. |
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Psephos (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-09-07 09:34 PM Response to Reply #6 |
39. Translation: freedom is great, unless it means freedom to do something I don't like n/t |
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pdefalla (133 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-08-07 04:48 PM Response to Reply #3 |
8. Govt. Forcing us to Quit? |
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NYVet (822 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-09-07 09:22 AM Response to Reply #8 |
27. Honestly, I am closer to Libertarians on the smoking issue. |
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Beerboy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-09-07 10:43 AM Response to Reply #3 |
30. Yes, it's someone's free choice to smoke, |
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glowing (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-08-07 04:21 PM Response to Original message |
4. I would say that the last 7 years have lead to a lot of people who |
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DeepModem Mom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-08-07 04:32 PM Response to Reply #4 |
5. Thanks for your post, glowing. Interesting point about stress -- and wise advice for teens. nt |
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glowing (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-08-07 04:52 PM Response to Reply #5 |
10. Wish I had listened to the adults back then... my gateway drug into |
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One_Life_To_Give (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-08-07 04:40 PM Response to Original message |
7. No one dares show that ads that work |
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Kolesar (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-08-07 05:14 PM Response to Reply #7 |
11. There is this perky girl who narrates a commercial on my favorite alternative rock station |
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danhan (59 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-08-07 04:48 PM Response to Original message |
9. No Guts |
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ElboRuum (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-08-07 05:35 PM Response to Original message |
15. Not sure that the cause is government. |
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onehandle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-08-07 05:36 PM Response to Original message |
16. Depression, stress, and lack of Republican action. |
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AZ Criminal JD (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-08-07 07:50 PM Response to Reply #16 |
18. People have smoked under every President |
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onehandle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-08-07 08:35 PM Response to Reply #18 |
19. The Democrats were coming down hard on tobacco at the end of the last Clinton's term. |
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JerseygirlCT (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-08-07 08:49 PM Response to Original message |
20. I cannot believe the number of teens I've seen smoking lately |
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danhan (59 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-08-07 09:28 PM Response to Reply #20 |
21. I wish someone would have |
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JerseygirlCT (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-08-07 09:35 PM Response to Reply #21 |
22. Congratulations! |
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Fed_Up_Grammy (923 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-08-07 10:05 PM Response to Reply #22 |
24. Duplicate |
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Fed_Up_Grammy (923 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-08-07 10:07 PM Response to Reply #22 |
25. He's been smoking for 60 years and is still healthy ? |
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Mojorabbit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-09-07 12:06 AM Response to Reply #25 |
26. A lot of it is genes |
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JerseygirlCT (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-09-07 04:04 PM Response to Reply #26 |
36. I worry about my mother, breathing all that second-hand stuff |
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JerseygirlCT (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-09-07 04:04 PM Response to Reply #25 |
35. Well, basically healthy |
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JBoy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-08-07 09:42 PM Response to Original message |
23. Anytime you can get "Bush" and "AWOL" |
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Zorra (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-09-07 10:30 AM Response to Original message |
28. Another major victory for Bu*h, all republicans, and the tobacco lobbyists |
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Beerboy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-09-07 10:35 AM Response to Original message |
29. Well, there's always this... |
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gauguin57 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-09-07 11:07 AM Response to Original message |
33. It's cuz Laura Bush is a "secret smoker" ... well, not secret, since the WH press corps knows ... |
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SoCalDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-09-07 05:37 PM Response to Original message |
38. Maybe smokers love the "childrennnnn" enough to fund their health care |
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