BURR: They labeled it as candy. Candy! Even though it’s not candy flavored. They said it was candy.

They labeled it as a president. President! Even though it’s a turd. In 2000 They said it was a president.

http://gradeburr.com/rating/richard-burr-healthcare

Weak, weak, WEAK comparison. Quit defending tobacco, you look fing stupid. Cigarettes when taken as prescribed will kill you. Fact. Cigarettes are carcinogenic. Fact. Neither can be said for hamburgers and hamburgers do not even have nearly the addictive characteristics of cigarettes. You look like a reich-winger comparing abortion to murder.

Actually, your post strike me as analogous to the anti-abortion (aka. pro-criminalizing-abortion) argument. There must be better answers than criminalizing behavior for something that has inflexible demand.

Well I’m smoking now. I had quit for nearly two years and started smoking again last year. I’ve quit for a year. I’ve quit for six weeks, and three months more times than I count.(I used to list quitting smoking, dying my hair, and changing addresses as “hobbies”.) The relative ease or difficulty of quitting was different each time, and I’ve used most methods. I won’t use the lollipop because I think it’s a terrible idea for the reasons that have been pointed out here.

Smoking is a nasty, dangerous habit. No argument there. But nicotine is a phenomenal drug. It is the only drug that is both a stimulant and a depressant. From a pharmaceutical point of view, it is a very useful drug in many ways. There is a reason why smoking is more prevalent among people who suffer with depression and mental illness. The last time I started smoking again I was in excruciating psychological agony, and quite frankly suffering from the effects of drugs I had been prescribed.

For the smoker, smoking can be the lesser of two evils.

Not marketed to kids – and I’m sure no kid will see the commercial ?

Not marketed to kids – and no kid seeing the commercial will think to avail themselves of this product ?

Weird. I can not name a single friend, family member, or professional colleague that smokes. Afterall it is 2009…No wonder they have to recruit…

My stepdaughter and most of her friends are smokers. My son, thank FSM, never has been but a lot of his friends (college age) smoke. Two guys who work for me smoke and neither of them entertains the idea of quitting.

I don’t know about that. You ever been down wind of someone drinking an old cup-o-french vanilla or hazelnut?

Weird. I can not name a single friend, family member, or professional colleague that smokes. Afterall it is 2009…No wonder they have to recruit…

Do you have a reading comprehension problem?

This post is about tobacco “candy” blatantly being marketed to children, not about banning it completely.

Doodlebug Shayne Says:

Smokers already pay more money for health insurance and life insurance. That’s why we stayed in the union and gave union benefits to employess. A smaller group with two employees that smoked was going to kill us.

In some states this is true, but in many the state prevents that type of medical underwriting for health insurance. Back in the ‘08 campaign the biggest thing that scared teh crap out of me regarding McCain’s health care “Plan” was he basically wanted to circumvent state sovereignty by allowing people to buy health insurance accross state lines, which would have been miserable.

Just like how all the credit card companies are in Wilmington, DE… your health insurance company would set up shop in the least consumer friendly city in the US.

I don’t pretend to know diddles about life insurance though. Having worked at Northwestern Mutual in their Health Insurance department, Life insurance salesmen all strike me as creepy shysty scam artists.

Dr. Hussein Matt Says:
In moderation, Big Mac and Whoppers are perfectly fine for you and have no adverse effects.

Matt, I don’t want to get crossways with you but these kids are not eating the junk food in moderation. We have an obesity problem that may be greater than the smoking problem in this country.

My son’s girlfriend, god bless her. Has started gaining weight since she left home for school and we try to get her to eat a healthy meal here at the house before she leaves with the other kids to do something but they would rather stop at mcdonalds……she also quit smoking.

It’s not just one problem, it’s all tied in together.

If all they are eating is fast food it is just as bad for their health as smoking is all I’m saying. There is no moderation where young people are concerned.