Comments on: Up in smoke http://www.saysuncle.com/2006/12/07/up_in_smoke/ Remember, I do this to entertain me... not you. Mon, 13 Feb 2012 04:17:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: JustinB http://www.saysuncle.com/2006/12/07/up_in_smoke/comment-page-1/#comment-153144 JustinB Thu, 07 Dec 2006 23:25:02 +0000 http://www.saysuncle.com/archives/2006/12/07/up_in_smoke/#comment-153144 Are you still not smoking SU? My last puff was07/18/2006 at 11:30pm...I still crave the damn things. Damnit...when will they make flying cars and safe cigarettes!!! :) Are you still not smoking SU? My last puff was07/18/2006 at 11:30pm…I still crave the damn things. Damnit…when will they make flying cars and safe cigarettes!!! :)

]]> By: Standard Mischief http://www.saysuncle.com/2006/12/07/up_in_smoke/comment-page-1/#comment-153124 Standard Mischief Thu, 07 Dec 2006 19:19:15 +0000 http://www.saysuncle.com/archives/2006/12/07/up_in_smoke/#comment-153124 Yup, it's just a "legal" way to steal money from people who smoke and transfer the cash to lawyer pockets and state coffers where it was treated just like pork. What, you didn't notice the spike in death-stick prices right after the verdict? And we all know that the Fast Food industry and the Firearms Manufactures were next in line, right? The funny part was when RJR bought Kraft to diversify their revenue stream. Then the trans-fat lawsuit legal threats came. Guess what? Kraft makes junk food too. Yup, it’s just a “legal” way to steal money from people who smoke and transfer the cash to lawyer pockets and state coffers where it was treated just like pork.

What, you didn’t notice the spike in death-stick prices right after the verdict?

And we all know that the Fast Food industry and the Firearms Manufactures were next in line, right?

The funny part was when RJR bought Kraft to diversify their revenue stream. Then the trans-fat lawsuit legal threats came. Guess what? Kraft makes junk food too.

]]> By: straightarrow http://www.saysuncle.com/2006/12/07/up_in_smoke/comment-page-1/#comment-153112 straightarrow Thu, 07 Dec 2006 18:05:46 +0000 http://www.saysuncle.com/archives/2006/12/07/up_in_smoke/#comment-153112 Bob has 20/20 vision. Want to hear screaming and see nationalized industry? Let the tobacco marketers stop all domestic sales. Bob has 20/20 vision. Want to hear screaming and see nationalized industry? Let the tobacco marketers stop all domestic sales.

]]> By: BobG http://www.saysuncle.com/2006/12/07/up_in_smoke/comment-page-1/#comment-153109 BobG Thu, 07 Dec 2006 17:53:11 +0000 http://www.saysuncle.com/archives/2006/12/07/up_in_smoke/#comment-153109 Have any states really used the money on stop-smoking programs? Besides token gestures, I mean? I think it was just a matter of somebody hamstrung a large industry, and all the jackals and hyenas jumped in to get their fill. Have any states really used the money on stop-smoking programs? Besides token gestures, I mean?
I think it was just a matter of somebody hamstrung a large industry, and all the jackals and hyenas jumped in to get their fill.

]]> By: tgirsch http://www.saysuncle.com/2006/12/07/up_in_smoke/comment-page-1/#comment-153108 tgirsch Thu, 07 Dec 2006 17:50:53 +0000 http://www.saysuncle.com/archives/2006/12/07/up_in_smoke/#comment-153108 My wife used to work for a state-funded stop-smoking program until May of 2006, one of two or three competing such programs in the area. So it seems that the state is spending money on stop-smoking programs. Maybe a negligible fraction of $1.3bn, but money nonetheless. My wife used to work for a state-funded stop-smoking program until May of 2006, one of two or three competing such programs in the area. So it seems that the state is spending money on stop-smoking programs. Maybe a negligible fraction of $1.3bn, but money nonetheless.

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