Hypocracy in Action
This following story should make people stop and think.However it won't. Rather some people will stand and applaud this new intrusion on our personal freedoms. The claim of it is in the interests of public health will lead the way as advocates come out of the wood work. Although if one would just look at who will be holloring your stomache should turn . The ones who scream about loosing their civil rights under the Patriot act are all in favor of taking away and subjugateing others to second class status.
If it is not bad enough that Smokers have been forced to go outside in rain, snow, and gosh awful heat as of late. No longer allowed to smoke in many resturants and bars. There are even places that are limiting whether or not you can smoke in the privacy of your own home. Now this proposal from cedrtain activists comes.
Today: July 25, 2005 at 2:31:17 PDT
Bill Pushed to Stop Drivers From Smoking
By JEFF LINKOUS
ASSOCIATED PRESS
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) -
Ashtrays have been disappearing in cars like fins on Cadillacs, and so could smoking while driving in New Jersey, under a measure introduced in the Legislature.
Although the measure faces long odds, it still has smokers incensed and arguing it's a Big Brother intrusion that threatens to take away one of the few places they can enjoy their habit.
"The day a politician wants to tell me I can't smoke in my car, that's the day he takes over my lease payments," said John Cito, a financial planner from Hackensack with a taste for $20 cigars.
Those cigars, pipes and cigarettes would become no-nos for drivers. Offenders would be stung with a fine of up to $250, under the measure, whose sponsor said it's designed more to improve highway safety than protect health.
Some states, including New Jersey, have considered putting the brakes on smoking while children are in the car. But none have gone for an outright ban on smoking while driving, according to Washington, D.C.-based Action on Smoking and Health, the country's oldest anti-tobacco organization.
Smokers, feeling like easy targets, say enough already. They argue they've been forced outside office buildings, run off the grounds of public facilities, and asked to pony up more in per-pack excise taxes when states feel a budget squeeze.
"With smoking, it's becoming increasingly fashionable to target legislation or prohibitions," said George Koodray, a member of the Metropolitan Cigar Society, a 100-strong group that meets in Paterson for dinner and a smoke.
Assemblyman John McKeon, a tobacco opponent whose father died of emphysema, sponsored the legislation. He cites a AAA-sponsored study on driver distractions in which the automobile association found that of 32,000 accidents linked to distraction, 1 percent were related to smoking.
The measure, co-sponsored by Assemblywoman Lorretta Weinberg, a fellow Democrat, was introduced last month just before lawmakers' summer break. It faces some improbable odds for passing.
Some lawmakers may fear the bill is frivolous compared with more pressing issues like taxes, said political analyst David Rebovich.
And there's this to consider: Traffic safety groups acknowledge motorists now widely ignore the state's year-old law against using hand-held cell phones, so why would smoking be any different?
Mitchell Sklar, of the New Jersey State Association of Chiefs of Police, said police departments may balk at enforcing such a law. "In general, we'd rather not try to incrementally look at every single behavior and make those a violation," he said.
What will these self rightouse morons try to push on the public next? We can't have any more authority given to police and the government in the name of national security but we can sure violate the rights of smokers by over taxing them and limiting even more where they can smoke.
A certain person i know of who I will not name because he would cry if it be known his liberal hypocracy he holds dear. Claims that his personal liberties are being taken away from him due to the Patriot act. The fact he is obnoxiouse, not funny and overbearing in his attitude on all topics ranging from Sports to the War in Iraq. He finds that the smell of smoke is offensive. He bemoans constantly when I go down the elevator 6 floors and then outside to lite up. "I can smell it on you and it sickens me. I can't stand the smell. Don't you know smoking is bad?" This is a daily argument that I win as I reply its legal buddy. His support for medicinal marijuanna is amazing seeing how it is harder on the lungs and body then a filtered cigarette. This man is a tyical hypocrite on this and gun control topics. Argueing that smoking should be outl;awed period and guns too. Only criminals should have guns in his mind and all criminals smoke cigarettes.
Useing his illogical approach to things government should not be involved in anything unless it supports his views. Hypocracy in action
If it is not bad enough that Smokers have been forced to go outside in rain, snow, and gosh awful heat as of late. No longer allowed to smoke in many resturants and bars. There are even places that are limiting whether or not you can smoke in the privacy of your own home. Now this proposal from cedrtain activists comes.
Today: July 25, 2005 at 2:31:17 PDT
Bill Pushed to Stop Drivers From Smoking
By JEFF LINKOUS
ASSOCIATED PRESS
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) -
Ashtrays have been disappearing in cars like fins on Cadillacs, and so could smoking while driving in New Jersey, under a measure introduced in the Legislature.
Although the measure faces long odds, it still has smokers incensed and arguing it's a Big Brother intrusion that threatens to take away one of the few places they can enjoy their habit.
"The day a politician wants to tell me I can't smoke in my car, that's the day he takes over my lease payments," said John Cito, a financial planner from Hackensack with a taste for $20 cigars.
Those cigars, pipes and cigarettes would become no-nos for drivers. Offenders would be stung with a fine of up to $250, under the measure, whose sponsor said it's designed more to improve highway safety than protect health.
Some states, including New Jersey, have considered putting the brakes on smoking while children are in the car. But none have gone for an outright ban on smoking while driving, according to Washington, D.C.-based Action on Smoking and Health, the country's oldest anti-tobacco organization.
Smokers, feeling like easy targets, say enough already. They argue they've been forced outside office buildings, run off the grounds of public facilities, and asked to pony up more in per-pack excise taxes when states feel a budget squeeze.
"With smoking, it's becoming increasingly fashionable to target legislation or prohibitions," said George Koodray, a member of the Metropolitan Cigar Society, a 100-strong group that meets in Paterson for dinner and a smoke.
Assemblyman John McKeon, a tobacco opponent whose father died of emphysema, sponsored the legislation. He cites a AAA-sponsored study on driver distractions in which the automobile association found that of 32,000 accidents linked to distraction, 1 percent were related to smoking.
The measure, co-sponsored by Assemblywoman Lorretta Weinberg, a fellow Democrat, was introduced last month just before lawmakers' summer break. It faces some improbable odds for passing.
Some lawmakers may fear the bill is frivolous compared with more pressing issues like taxes, said political analyst David Rebovich.
And there's this to consider: Traffic safety groups acknowledge motorists now widely ignore the state's year-old law against using hand-held cell phones, so why would smoking be any different?
Mitchell Sklar, of the New Jersey State Association of Chiefs of Police, said police departments may balk at enforcing such a law. "In general, we'd rather not try to incrementally look at every single behavior and make those a violation," he said.
What will these self rightouse morons try to push on the public next? We can't have any more authority given to police and the government in the name of national security but we can sure violate the rights of smokers by over taxing them and limiting even more where they can smoke.
A certain person i know of who I will not name because he would cry if it be known his liberal hypocracy he holds dear. Claims that his personal liberties are being taken away from him due to the Patriot act. The fact he is obnoxiouse, not funny and overbearing in his attitude on all topics ranging from Sports to the War in Iraq. He finds that the smell of smoke is offensive. He bemoans constantly when I go down the elevator 6 floors and then outside to lite up. "I can smell it on you and it sickens me. I can't stand the smell. Don't you know smoking is bad?" This is a daily argument that I win as I reply its legal buddy. His support for medicinal marijuanna is amazing seeing how it is harder on the lungs and body then a filtered cigarette. This man is a tyical hypocrite on this and gun control topics. Argueing that smoking should be outl;awed period and guns too. Only criminals should have guns in his mind and all criminals smoke cigarettes.
Useing his illogical approach to things government should not be involved in anything unless it supports his views. Hypocracy in action
