BIG GOVERNMENT ADVERTISING, WHERE DO THEY DRAW THE LINE?

[AQUAMAN]

Today I witnessed the fact that cigarette packages of the near future, will have half the pack, pasted with Government sponsored and paid for advertising of a "danger picture" of people and perhaps their "cancerous innerds", whom have died of cancer. The pictures on the pack will be of a gross nature, to turn people away from the horrible effects of tobacco on the human body. WELL, is that all we get? I mean, can't we outlaw McD kid's meal toys? Sorry, already been done. How about surgeon general warnings pasted on the sides of the pack? Sorry, already been done. How about outlawing cig. TV advertisements? Sorry, already been done. The list of liberties being abused, spotlighted with taxpayer dollars, and liberties altogether canceled, is already here, and increasing at alarming rates, imho. I don't think to date, anyone has proven that tobacco in itself, alone, creates any cancers, except maybe for chewers. A LOT of the secret ingredients unknown to the public are mixed in the product, and it evolves into a partial-tobacco product now, wouldn't you agree? Just like food coloring, or putting animals on steroids, so we get the meat and so forth faster to market. So, where does the line get drawn? I'm not saying cigs. are good or bad, I'm just asking, where does the intrusion into the American rights to smoke, drink, eat, anything we want that is FDA approved and legal end? Methinks this just goes a tad bit too far! And again, thanks Mr. Prez., it comes from a progressively liberal socialist marxist type party, that is already way over the top where finance, business, insurance, rights of the individual, are daily on the cutting block for our good. Instead of cutting government waste, taxing the masses must go up, I mean way up more, cause they don't know how to create anything positive, just spend till there's no more paper and ink and dies to print with. Sometimes when I wake up I truly wonder, am I still in America, or some foreign dictatorship that presumes to be all-knowing and all-protective of us dumb taxpayers? Cause they alone, are in the know, and surely they alone KNOW what is best for us, not ourselves. But they can't even balance a budget since when? Can't enforce our border laws? Can't fix our roads and bridge infrastructure system? Can't defend the nation against terrorists and missles being fired in our own backyard? Can't take care of the elderly and disabled? Can't get the deficit spending under control? Can't win a war in what, how many years? But they do have the time and can-do attitude to govern our personal liberties to the grave! Here's what I say, Uncle Sam, No Drama Obama, you have enough tragedies and comedies on your plate in front of you, resolve them first, don't pick and choose what you want to, get all your homework done, now, and leave the public alone to decide how we run our private lives, wake up and take the running of the nation seriously, and bring us forward, not backward in time and progress.

[Max]

Don't hold back Aqua, tell us what you really think!

By the way, I don't disagree with anything you said.

[AQUAMAN]

Check Max! Now get out there tu de shooting range, where de smel of gunfire is sooooothing! 10-4?

[Max]

"Check Max! Now get out there tu de shooting range, where de smel of gunfire is sooooothing! 10-4?"

10-4 Aqua! I try to get to the range every couple of days. We went out today. It was a great day for it, as it usually is.

[AQUAMAN]

BTW, I don't disagree with any DOGS you have in stock, in fact, I just love them from far away! Nice GS pups. But, I always did love Rin-tin-tin, and so many other famous pups, like Bullet too.

[XLFD]

You know he's serious when he fits it all in one paragraph.

You're wearing your sunglasses today, Aq:

[AQUAMAN]

I remember They Live, the TV series, didn't last real long, but was an important work of art and futurism.

[Dave]

If people don't know that smoking is bad for them by this point, screw'em, they aint ever gonna figure it out.

[Mary A.]

Wow, nice post. I don't smoke. Dabbled a little in college, but never got hooked, thank God. I know from being married to a smoker for forty years who has smoked since age 12 that these photos aren't going to do the trick. This truly is a waste of taxpayers' money. Funny thing is, Obama smokes, but hides it from the public. Ain't that the pot calling the kettle black!

[Edie Lindsey]

Smoking is under attack, yes, but just wait and see what they do about double cheeseburgers when they consider obesity a disease and take over our health care. You thought carbon credits were just plain silly, wait til you have to track carbohydrate credits.

[AQUAMAN]

Sorry for the sugar coating on this thread, just got my goat yesterday, and I had a bad day to boot. And YES, good observation Mary, I have seen the Prez. with a cancer stick in his mouth too. Just goes to show the extreme hypocrisy that these politicians exhibit daily.

[AQUAMAN]

Just wondered, is this HIGH hypocrisy from any elected official now legal? Esp. when we see it on dvd/video of our own Prez.? And to be an accepted way to make new federal law, advertisements, judgements, then elected to high authority? Sorry, Methinks not! JMO This is a sorry event on the American Way of LIFE! And without any objections, or complaint, will continue, as in the present and recent past of this historic Republic!

[XLFD]

I don't want to contribute to your elevated blood pressure, Aquaman, but here is a list of the proposed warning labels for cigarette packs: http://www.flickr.com/photos/fdaphotos/collections/72157625232230587/

Here's the link to the FDA's page on this topic, which also directs you to this page, but explains what's going on: http://www.fda.gov/ForConsumers/ConsumerUpdates/ucm233258.htm

It'll only get worse if we don't dismiss the takeover of health care by the government. I don't smoke and annoyingly try to get those people who do smoke to stop, but this is an unwarranted attack on a totally legal industry whose main purpose is to make a profit.