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The Irony Of It All
Brad Hollerbach

How To Beat The Upcoming Smoking Ban

Posted Friday, April 1, 2011, at 12:00 AM

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  • Let's not be hoodwinked into voting for this ban which is nothing more than an effort, with outside money from lobbyist to control what we can do in Cape. Tuesday a bunch of people who have never gone to a bar and will never go into a bar will decide what we can do in a bar so that Johnson and Johnson can make money selling smoking cessation products. They make millions every time they get one of these bans against citizens rightsvoted in.

    Make no mistake the Robert Woods Johnson Foundation, which donated the big monay through the ACS is a lobbying arm of Johnson and Johnson!

    -- Posted by riverdog on Fri, Apr 1, 2011, at 1:00 PM
  • J&J has boxed the compass on this issue. Either use Nicorette to appease the habit, or use BandAids to bind the wounds after that beating-that-comes-in-a-can is unleashed on the audacious smokers.

    Robert Woods Johnson, you magnificent boystard! I read your book!!

    -- Posted by Just_Wondering1 on Fri, Apr 1, 2011, at 1:20 PM
  • yes finally. um where do i begin. i have been looking for a place to vote for opposing smoking ban. i am considered a tourist n i have brought five different friends down to cape to play in thee billiard center tournies on friday nights about a half a dozen times, not to mention with many acquintances. all of us enjoy thee smoking enviro at the establishment. when we get done we enjoy the nightlife. we have even stayed overnight a couple of times at the super 8. so u have my vote and if u tell us where to vote, u might have dozens. thank u for ur time. i dont know if im even making a difference emailing u or not so please help.

    -- Posted by shortcircuit on Fri, Apr 1, 2011, at 7:55 PM
  • shortcircuit

    i reckon you have to be a resident of the City of Cape to vote .

    -- Posted by Bloody.. on Fri, Apr 1, 2011, at 9:34 PM

    Good one, Bloody. But that never was an obstacle to CACGs icon, ACORN:

    http://www.platteinstitute.org/blog/blog_detail.asp?id=102

    -- Posted by mntvernon on Sat, Apr 2, 2011, at 1:53 AM
  • The restrictive smoking ban was voted down in Cape for the following reasons;

    1) A person's business that they have put their life and money is not a "public place" and the goverment should be very careful about puting restrictions on a legal activity on you private property.

    2) This was in no way a "local effort". The campaign was waged with corporate money from a lobbying group attempting to sell their products with the goverment's help. It was run from their PR agency in the East. Their first two spokespersons were not residents of Cape and when that was pointed out they "dissappeared".

    3) citizens are very tired of goverment interference with their daily lives and the gradual erosion of their rights. While it's undoubtly true that "the right to smoke" is not specifically mentioned in the constitution, it would have been ludicrous to propose since tobacco was used for currency at that time and was the country's largest export. Like it or not,we still have the FREEDOM to smoke in this country!

    4) All the claims about second-hand smoke are bogus and the "studies" are paid for by BIG PHARMA. OSHA says that second-hand smoke has 1000 TIMES less carcinagens than their LOWEST standards.

    -- Posted by riverdog on Thu, Apr 7, 2011, at 11:34 AM