The Tobacco Inquisition

Now everyone remembers the Spanish Inquisition. If not, please do a search on Google or Wikipedia to familiarize yourself to the massive injustice on a population from the annals of history. Well during these days there have been many Inquisitions of sorts against factions of our own populace. One of the ones that gets me is the one against Tobacco.

Now i am not a smoker, but i was in the past. So i can see this topic from both sides. It is true that it is not good for your health, and if sickness does set in, it can put a burden on the Health care System. But it is ultimately a persons right to smoke. Now i know i will get the argument that is the theme of everyone that is anti smoking. It is that second hand smoke kills, it is more dangerous than firsthand smoke, so we need to do away with smoking. I personally have a hard time believing that idea. You mean to tell me that it more dangerous to be around diluted smoke in the air than it is to directly putting smoke into your body. Now if you are in a 10' by 10' closed room with 10 chain smokers for decades without being able to leave, then it would be dangerous.

But there is a continuous infringement on smokers and tobacco company's. Now remember back a few years ago when there was a big lawsuit on Tobacco company's by the US and the states. The states won money that was supposed to go toward Anti-smoking campaigns. Now in my own corrupt state, South Carolina, they only used somewhere around 30% of the money for what it was supposed to go for. Where they spent the rest, only the corrupt ones know. This happened in almost every state involved. Now what happened after they misappropriated all the blood money. They sued again. Now they are talking of raising the taxes on cigarettes to basically further bleed the smokers dry.

Now they are trying to ban smoking in restaurants and bars. I have a MAJOR problem with this. It is not the governments job to do this. Once again i feel the government is tightening the noose around the neck of liberty. This is another slippery slope that we must stop while we can. It is up to property owners to decide whether to allow smoking on their property, whether it be a bar, restaurant, home, etc. If an owner wants to allow it, ITS HIS/HER RIGHT. If the business suffers because of that decision, once again it is the owners decision.

It is time to stop this governments over bearing tendencies while we can.

How long before they turn their corrupt hand to strangle other rights of ours.

Its time to take a stand America, before the America we love will disappear.

Viva Liberty!