hardware array turned second hand smoke...the story?

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In general, if you don't like what others do, either learn
to deal with it, or buy a one-room shanty in the middle of
Montana.


> One interesting note from the book:  did you know that the tobacco companies were big contributors to the "Drug Free America"
> campaign?  Kind of got burned by their own fire, didn't they?


How do you figure?  Big Tobacco supports the "Drug Free America" campaign
so that when the "Drug Free America" campaign is a complete success and
it becomes absolutely IMPOSSIBLE for one to obtain marijuana, cocaine,
heroin and every other controlled substance in America, the crack addicts
will then have NO CHOICE but to use LOTS of tobacco to get the same buzz
that they used to get from crack.  :)

Also, IIRC, Big Tobacco put $$ into the "tumor causing, teeth staining"
blah blah blah bullshit ads to "prevent teens from starting smoking."
Guess what?  After the ad campaign teen smoking increased substantially.
Big surprise, huh?  One thing that Big Tobacco is NOT is stooopid, folks.

And no, I'm not a smoker, but I just don't agree with this smokers == lepers
mentality that seems to be on the rise.

As Reverend Rock put it:

Aries:   You're gonna die.
Leo:     You're gonna die.
Virgo:   You're gonna die.
Gemini:  You're gonna die.  Twice.



* On Sun, Feb 11, 2001 at 08:41:42PM -0700, Vaughn Treude wrote:
> Hello all:
>     I was groaning every time I saw this thread.  Not that I'm a smoker (except for the occasional cigar) but how  off topic can you
> get?   But I definitely appreciated Brian's take on this!  :-)
> 
> P. S.  At the risk of being a hypocrite, I'll include just this one more off-topic tidbit.  (Sorry, can't help myself!)  If you can
> find it (the liberal commie media has tended to ignore it), I highly recommend the book "For Your Own Good- The Tyranny of Public
> Health", by Jacob Sullum.  Sullum is himself a non-smoker, but like me he's a little worried about where all this "health nazi" stuff
> is leading . . .
> One interesting note from the book:  did you know that the tobacco companies were big contributors to the "Drug Free America"
> campaign?  Kind of got burned by their own fire, didn't they?
> 
> Vaughn Treude
> A.K.A. "Crazy anarcho-capitalist fanatic"
> 
> Brian Cluff wrote:
> 
> > Lemme guess how this applies to this list...........
> >
> > People will roll their own cigarettes and give them out to people for free.
> > Then some else will come along and see that these hand rolled cigarettes
> > aren't rolled quite right, so they will give the origional guy a tip so that
> > he can start rolling better cigarettes.
> > After sevral people give them suggestions they are now rolling a better more
> > stable cigarette that everyone is enjoying more and they tend not to fall
> > apart as much as some other guys cigarrettes, who will remain name less...
> > we'll just refer to him as MS.  He won't listen to anyone and thinks he
> > rolls the best ones around, even though they tend to fall apart when you
> > want them the most.
> >     Even though MS can't seem to roll his correctly at all he goes around
> > and buys up all the good tobacco in town so that everyone else can't have it
> > and either throws it away, or blends it wil his own discusting mix....
> >
> > Am I close?
> >
> > Brian Cluff
> 
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