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Let your money cast your vote.

I have no facts whatsoever to back this up, but I believe the states have found a cash cow with the tobacco industry and they are milking it for all it is worth. No one has banned the sale of tobacco because the tobacco industry is paying the states a lot of money. The government only cares about your health when they find a way to make money with it.
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Originally posted by Alphonse:
Let your money cast your vote.

I have no facts whatsoever to back this up, but I believe the states have found a cash cow with the tobacco industry and they are milking it for all it is worth. No one has banned the sale of tobacco because the tobacco industry is paying the states a lot of money. The government only cares about your health when they find a way to make money with it.


What Alphonse says here holds a lot of merit... I could care less, one way or another, but the $$$$ will end up ruling any legislation on the subject.

I actually saw several of our power hitter politicians from "other" states who said the lost revenue was much higher than they thought it would be when they put the NO SMOKING in any building into place.

And I think that the rest of the states will do a study on the states who enacted these laws and back out slowly on the matter.
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Originally posted by Sassy Kims:
The federal government gets 39 cents per pack...Alabama gets 42 cents per pack. Alabama cities get between 2 and 20 cents per pack. That's almost a dollar a pack for taxes...they ain't gonna slaughter that cash cow anytime soon.


Yep, it is all about MONEY... ALL of it... and the states that DID vote the smoking ban into law, is starting their 'regret' stage already! THEY WANT THE MONEY!!!
As far as bars and restraunts it should be up to the owner to choose. I smoke but normally don't in a restraunt choosing to wait til I get through eating and go outside. As for a bar? The little that I go I will smoke and if it gets to where you can't then all thats going to do is cause alot of drunks to be standing outside teed off about not being able to smoke inside. Muscle Shoals police will have a field day arresting them all for public drunkeness.

Don't smoke? Don't go into the restraunts and bars that allow it.

Whats next? No alchohol in the bars? No fried food in the restraunts? How about the cakes and cookies and ice cream? Think this doesn't affect the health of those around them? What about the children, theirs or otherwise, influenced by the sight of these people eating all this junk, not worried about obesity, high cholesterol, and heart disease?

I thought this was a free country? Bars already have an age requirement for entering their smoking establishment. Why wouldn't that work for restraunts?

The smokers are already the ones burdened by high takes on tobacco products. Its about time the same taxes should be placed on junk food and candy!
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What Alphonse says here holds a lot of merit... I could care less, one way or another, but the $$$$ will end up ruling any legislation on the subject.

I actually saw several of our power hitter politicians from "other" states who said the lost revenue was much higher than they thought it would be when they put the NO SMOKING in any building into place.

And I think that the rest of the states will do a study on the states who enacted these laws and back out slowly on the matter.

Well, as usual KS you already said what I thought. I wonder why Councilwoman Pickens is making THIS her cause for the City of Florence, when this is the LEAST of our problems. I forgot the guys name (you know the dog and oldzhiemers) but he gets up at every Florence City council meeting (now remember folks, the ol dog REFUSED to pay Comonopoly increase LAST time and I don't get the broadcast, which by the way could be linked to the City of Florence web site with a little effort and website intelligence) BUT I am sick of it and think this is something that should just old plain be left alone. I am a former smoker, quit when I married Missy Dog (****, if that was all it took I am one lucky dog) because she hated it. Rambling like the ol dog will, but if you want to SMOKE: SMOKE EM IF YOU GOT EM! THE DOG
If there's one thing we don't have enough of...it's government involvement in our private lives. Big Grin I'm sure a restaurant/bar owner will do what is best for their business without help from the government.
If they are so concerned about your health, they would ban the sale of tobacco. As Sassy said earlier...they ain't gonna slaughter that cash cow anytime soon.
Just for the record, I smoked for 27 years and quit cold turkey last year. There is not a day goes by that I don't want a cigarette. But, I refuse to give in to that addiction again.

I say all that to say that I don't think that the government should say that people can't smoke in an establishment where you can either get up and leave, or not go into at all, if you don't want to. If non-smokers don't want to be around smoke, let them go to the restaurants where there is no smoking. Let the smokers congregate where smoking is ok. And let the bar/restaurant owner decide which way they want it to be....it's their property.

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