The Nanny State supporters of Tobacco Prohibition have won yet another round against personal liberty and freedom. This, after just having succeeded in getting the single largest tax increase ever passed in America.This is an issue of personal freedom, and any other argument is nothing more than a red herring.
So just will be your lord and master now? Well, you guessed it! A bunch of know it all elites that take phony science as the real thing. Not to be placated with real science their true intentions become all to clear.
I find it nothing less than hypocritical that so many Tea Party supporters think nothing of taxing those people that they don’t find to be politically correct… Read on…
WASHINGTON – The Senate struck a historic blow against smoking in America Thursday, voting overwhelmingly to give regulators new power to limit nicotine in the cigarettes that kill nearly a half-million people a year, to drastically curtail ads that glorify tobacco and to ban flavored products aimed at spreading the habit to young people.
President Barack Obama, who has spoken of his own struggle to quit smoking, said he was eager to sign the legislation after minor differences with a House version are worked out — and the House planned a vote for Friday. Cigarette foes said the measure would not only cut deaths but reduce the $100 billion in annual health care costs linked to tobacco.
Fierce opposition by the industry and tobacco-state lawmakers had prevented passage for years, along with veto threats by the George W. Bush White House. In the end, the nation’s biggest tobacco company supported the measure, though rivals suggested that was because it could lock in Philip Morris’ share of the market.
When will this stop? The never ending onslaught of interference in private lives by the government?
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