Quoted from CICERO

My friends 90 year old grandmother smoked for 50 years, grew up poor during the Great Depression, and raised her children on her own while her husband fought in WWII - and is still alive.  Only if she didn't smoke, she could live to 180.

Some people's drive to control people drive them to insanity.  Box has arrived.

If you've studied toxicology reports on known poisons when tested on mice, you'd know that the results
will often show something like:
70% of test subjects die in 4 hours...
82% die in 8 hours...
97% die in 24 hours...
and occasionally 1% will still be alive 1 week later.
In a test of this type, grandma would be the 1%.  

Just wondering... do you reject the results of tobacco health effects in the same way that
you reject other science?

Quoted from Box A Rox

If you've studied toxicology reports on known poisons when tested on mice, you'd know that the results
will often show something like:
70% of test subjects die in 4 hours...
82% die in 8 hours...
97% die in 24 hours...
and occasionally 1% will still be alive 1 week later.
In a test of this type, grandma would be the 1%.  

Just wondering... do you reject the results of tobacco health effects in the same way that
you reject other science?

No, I reject science be used to force people to change their personal behavior because it's in the best interest of the state.  Science is fine, it's when authoritarians like you who use it to make personal choices for everybody is when science is dangerous.

Quoted from senders

so if you wanted an abortion you wouldn't expect the tax payers to subsidize it?

EXACTLY!!!
How bout paying unemployment/food stamps/section 8 for all of those slugs who don't wanna git off their a$$ and work?
How bout paying for 'addicted gamblers'.....and nys wants more casinos!!!
How bout paying for alcoholics....alcohol is still legal....yes?
We, the taxpayers, pay people to run these tax paid 'addiction' programs.

But we still promote gambling....lotto/racetrack/casinos.
And we still allow the sale of all alcohol products.

Ya just can't make this crap up!!
And the dimwit sheople fall for it!!!

Democrats urge Wal-Mart to quit tobacco.

Quoted Text

“We write to urge Walmart, as the number one retailer of cigarettes in the country, to stop
selling tobacco products in all of its stores,” the senators said. “We recognize the legality of
selling and profiting from tobacco products; however, Walmart’s position as the nation’s largest
retailer of any kind puts your company in a unique position to contribute to the health and
well-being of all Americans.”

http://images.politico.com/global/2014/02/14/letter_to_walmart.html

This should be a business decision and not a political agenda. I would be happy if these
politicians were to encourage Wal-Mart to sell more MADE IN AMERICA products instead, since that
has huge benefits for the American economy.

Quoted from joebxr

This should be a business decision and not a political agenda. I would be happy if these
politicians were to encourage Wal-Mart to sell more MADE IN AMERICA products instead, since that
has huge benefits for the American economy.

Great idea!

it should be a social agenda....just because there are no cigarettes doesn't mean humans will be healthy....

they find alternative 'addictions'.....legal or illegal.....

walmart ONLY serves a 'special' populace in all it's decadent stores.....so those democrats who 'care' should be shopping
there like herds of cattle....only....THEY DON'T.....but they purport to know what is best for the 'special' population and it's
access to sh!t...I mean stuff that walmart sells as high quality....

'OH, PLEASE, Mr. Politician tell me how to fix myself.'

GET OFF MY BACK

again, not defending/selling/supporting smoking, but the 1%ers will STILL be smoking with their 'access' to tobacco and
special health care that only they can afford.....

P.S. I don't even care if folks with food stamps buy alcohol/cigarettes or sh!t!!!!!! in the end humans CHOOSE. If not it's
disrespect for the human all under the guise of 'self do-gooders'.

States Ask Pharmacies to Stop Selling Tobacco

Quoted Text

“More than two dozen attorneys general sent letters on Sunday to five of the country’s largest
retailers, encouraging them to stop selling tobacco products in stores that also have pharmacies,
which would follow the example CVS Caremark set with its announcement earlier this year that it
would stop selling such products in its drugstores,” the New York Times reports.

“The letters were sent to Rite Aid, Walgreen, Kroger, Safeway and Walmart, five companies that
are among the biggest pharmacy retailers in the country.”

“The letters do not mention any potential legal action if stores decline to institute a ban; they
simply urge the retailers to follow CVS’s lead.

NY Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03.....obacco-products.html

Quoted from Box A Rox

Swimming pools and bicycles, kill and injure more people than guns.

Does'nt the public realize the Gov't wants us healthy by quitting smoking.   Take that $10 a pack and put it in your local State supported casino(s) created more and more for your gambling pleasure.   Thereby you can prop up the horse industry and pension support for state employees.   With a heatlhtier populace you can live longer to gamble and cut expenses for the ins. co. which will equal more profit for them while maintaining the high premiums.   NYS got out of cigarette stocks years ago so they have no interest in their sales.