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RB TexLa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-20-07 12:48 PM
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Sorry fellow smokers, I'm selling you out. I have a plan, millions $$$ upon millions
My Plan

1) I'll become a lobbyist for the private prison industry

2) I'll invest everything I have in the private prison industry

3) Using the money from the private prison industry, I will get congress to pass and whoever the president is to sign a bill into law prohibiting tobacco from the United States with the following penalties: Possession 20 years no parole no probation no time off, Possession in view of children 30 years no parole no probation no time off, Sale or attempted sale 50 years no parole no probation no time off. To prevent overcrowding all tobacco offenders will be housed in contracted prisons, contracts I will secure for my lobbyist clients all the while reinvesting as much of my excessive lobbyist fees into the private prison industry as I can. Contracts for miles and miles of prisons.

4) Retire to a nice beach house in the Caribbean with a nice deck and ashtray for watching the sunset.
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LakeSamish706 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-20-07 12:52 PM
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1. I guess a question would have to be; Why the obsession with baning...
tobacco all of a sudden? It would seem to me that it is in one's interest (health wise) not to smoke, but it is also a decision that each person must make, sorta like drinking alcohol...
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jgraz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-20-07 12:54 PM
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2. If you can figure out a way for you to smoke without everyone around you smoking..
:shrug:
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LakeSamish706 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-20-07 12:59 PM
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4. I agree with you on that.... No one has the right to leave there second hand...
smoke out there for any of the rest of us to have to breath... So if you smoke, be responsible and considerate of others... I am a reformed smoker, and quitting was probably the most difficult thing that I have ever done in my life. A two pack a day habit for 20 years... ugh... And we reformed smokers are usually a smokers night mare.... I hate the smell of second hand smoke... But on the other hand I hate when someones rights are effected as well.
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Clark2008 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-20-07 01:11 PM
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8. Can non-smoking nazis take a pill for being obnoxious?
Then we'll talk.
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jgraz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-20-07 01:29 PM
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10. Oh sorry, you're right. Asking you to stop giving us cancer
is EXACTLY the same as sending Jews to the gas chambers.






Oh yeah: :eyes: :eyes: :eyes: :eyes: :eyes: :eyes: :eyes: :eyes: :eyes: :eyes: :eyes: :eyes: :eyes: :eyes:
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Dr.Phool Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-20-07 12:58 PM
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3. Will we be allowed to smoke in prison?
If not, you'll have the mother of all riots on your hands.
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RB TexLa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-20-07 01:00 PM
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5. No, I guess they will just have to hire more guards. There are some overruns to be expected when

pricing these contracts.
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Dr.Phool Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-20-07 01:03 PM
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6. When the riot starts, I'll be looking for you!
I hope you look good in a tutu fashioned out of a towel!

:evilgrin:
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RB TexLa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-20-07 01:09 PM
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7. You're forgetting part 4 of the plan. Me Caribbean sunsets margaritas smokes
:evilgrin:
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Beerboy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-20-07 01:33 PM
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11. Smoking is banned in prison w/ extreme prejudice,
Edited on Tue Nov-20-07 01:33 PM by Beerboy
as it should be outside prison walls. Why should the Prison be the most honorable Institution of society?
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Beerboy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-20-07 01:28 PM
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9. I'm not opposed to the eventual plan,
but the smokers should be plucked clean of all their worldly assets before serving their time.
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SheWhoMustBeObeyed Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-20-07 02:56 PM
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12. With a shell ashtray
That's how I want to picture you. With a shell for an ashtray. Yeah. :smoke:
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