tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38893560.post794959109827920156..comments2023-10-08T12:11:52.993+13:00Comments on New Zealand Conservative: Another self apponted spokesman for what New Zealanders wantLucia Mariahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10485990994973953860noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38893560.post-67574220132456971592010-01-30T17:01:41.519+13:002010-01-30T17:01:41.519+13:00"KG, can you please quantify how many obese b..."KG, can you please quantify how many obese beneficiaries are getting taxpayer funded stomach staples?"<br /><br />I don't need to leftrightout--I was talking about an attitude, not a quantity.KGhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01940428991630766942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38893560.post-34441327399049442782010-01-30T10:01:51.270+13:002010-01-30T10:01:51.270+13:00Leftrightout my friend, Tobacco has a history of f...Leftrightout my friend, Tobacco has a history of five hundred years use in the Western World.<br /><br />Clearly if it had just been discovered we would not allow its sale but given its long role in our culture it will require a cultural shift to remove it and doing this by legislation will just introduce a lot more problems than it will solve. <br /><br />The exact same arguments apply to alcohol which has an even longer pedigree going back to the stone age perhaps.<br /><br />Marijuana on the other hand does not have the same cultural pedigree and therefore keeping it illicit will not allow it to gain that history. <br /><br />In any case there is no way tobacco accounts for 14% of the deaths in New Zealand - that is just hyperbole and intellectually dishonest which is an anathema to me. <br /><br />My father a heavy smoker also died at sixty-five - of bone cancer nothing to do with smoking as far as anyone can tell and it is highly unlikely that there is any correlation.<br /><br />If we want to eliminate tobacco use from our society <b>lying about it</b> and making laws based on faulty premises is exactly the wrong way to go about it.<br /><br />We all lose if legislation is made this way.Andreihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04536593172412406428noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38893560.post-11840847622316746792010-01-30T09:34:37.837+13:002010-01-30T09:34:37.837+13:00"so 14% of all deaths are caused by smoking &..."so 14% of all deaths are caused by smoking "<br /><br />What's the % of deaths caused by marijuana? Are you goung to join the campaign to legalise it? Or are you just pissed because tobacco is your drug of choice?<br /><br />KG, can you please quantify how many obese beneficiaries are getting taxpayer funded stomach staples?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38893560.post-50688528607179111552010-01-29T20:51:53.090+13:002010-01-29T20:51:53.090+13:00I'm always amused when the purse-lipped zealot...I'm always amused when the purse-lipped zealots carry on about how much my habit "costs the taxpayer".<br />Funny, they never use the same argument about some obese beneficiary getting a stomach-stapling operation..KGhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01940428991630766942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38893560.post-56273295211275278132010-01-29T16:24:08.669+13:002010-01-29T16:24:08.669+13:00I agree.
And, my Dad died of smoking related lung...I agree.<br /><br />And, my Dad died of smoking related lung cancer when he was aged 65/66 (he never really knew how old he was exactly).Lucia Mariahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10485990994973953860noreply@blogger.com