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DOJ has been heavily promoting it as set of laws (and amendments to existing laws) for fighting crime.

But these criminals* are terrorists! Every housewife is terrified that her philandering husband will hire one of the terrorists. Every parent is terrified that little johnny will come in contact with the terrorists. Every child is terriried that their parents might fall victim to this terrorism.

FEMA was merged with DHS (Department of Humungous Size) to fight these terrorists.

Alas, these terrorists, who kill half a million Americans every year, are part of a corporation and are therefore exempt from all US laws.

-mcgrew

*Just so you don't have to click that particular link to understand what is being said here, it is to an old journal about prostitutes.

But you don't see George Bush launching cruise missile attacks at the headquarters of RJ Reynolds.

Ah, right... They make massive political donations, and buy gobs of advertising.

Phillip Morris makes Eclipse cigs http://www.eclipse.rjrt.com/RJR/dtc_certify.jsp?br and=ECL&from_Jeeves=true I used to smoke them but they are so hard to find, the Longs drugs stores and 7-11's never have them in stock. When they are in stock I always buy a carton because they are so hard to find.

It is a different sensation "smoking" vaporized nicotine, but worth it as you don't have to deal with the carcinigins that exist in burning tabacco.

Whatever discomfort you experience during an airline flight is small retribution for the choking, gagging, and wretching you and your fellow smokers inflicted on your non-addict fellow passengers before the airline smoking law was imposed.

Well, I smoke, and I agree, it does suck. However, I never made anybody choke or gag on an airplane before any law was passed; hell, I've never even been on an airplane. If I was, though, I'd like very much to be able to have a cigarette, or smoke my pipe even.

The plane is already pressurized; if they created a separate chamber, couldn't that make it so the non-smoking section has different air than the smoking section? You could charge the smokers more money to defray the cost of the construction, much like they're charging people $30 a pop for net access to pay for the satellite equipment and such. And there are cigarettes that don't produce much smell or smoke at all; Eclipse http://www.eclipse.rjrt.com/, for instance.

Eh, screw it. I'll just pop the window open and hang my head out. It'll be fine.

Go ahead, but don't complain when your taxes increase.

From Ecplise

It's funny how they claim "it may reduce risk. How do we know?" and how they have done "probably the most extensive testing commercial testing" and it "may reduce the risk of cancer, chronical bronchitis and possibly emphysema."

At my local 7-11 even:

Eclipse Cigarettes by RJ Reynolds

You light it like a normal cigarette, but what you're actually lighting is a graphite rod that burns slowly and provides heat. Then then you inhale it heats up a packet of tobbaco which releases nicotine and water vapor but that's about it. (It works like a vaporizer)

No smoke, just water vapor and a different taste, and all that sweet sweet nicotine! :)

They currently have a very similar product on the market called Eclipse. Sounds like basically the same idea, except no battery, you 'light' a heating element at the end which in turn draws hot air over the tobacco, releasing the nicotine, but not much of the tar.

I'm a smoker of Eclipse cigarettes. While I've quit and started smoking twice in my life, I've found recently that these cigarettes do not inhibit my life at all. They are essentially smokeless cigarettes, the smoke that is produced is odorless (smells like burnt paper) and doesn't come off in thick rings from the end of the cigarette as I smoke it.

Generally speaking, innovations made in producing a 'healthy cigarette' usually involve a lot of cost, but these cigarettes are usually sold at the same price as Marborlo Lights. They also come in menthol.

With 80% less additives, I think I'll stick to these unless the new battery-powered cigarettes actually end up cheaper.

If someone wants to smoke and give themselves lung cancer, that's not my problem and I really don't care unless ... they try to get the government to use my tax money to pay for their health care.

Hi Mr. Anti-Smoking. Could you please direct me to where smokers can opt out of Medicare/Medicaid taxes? Most smokers won't ever need to be treated for lung cancer, and would probably rather keep that money taken from each paycheck. Even with your biased research, the best you can do is say 1/3 of smokers will die a 'smoking related' death (Burn deaths? Give me a break). In the meantime, smokers pay taxes too. I'd be willing to wager that the 2/3 who never get a 'smoking related' disease easily pay for the treatment of smokers who do. As a matter of fact, with all the state taxes lumped on cigarettes, I can guarantee they do. So your precious tax money is safe from the smokers. Quite the opposite, our tax money is probably bankrolling your shitty ass state economy. I understand that my opinion is not a popular one, but it's based on fact, not theTruth.

Oh what a little ad money can do....