Well Louis, you’re the one who supports forcing your personal ideologies on the rest of society, even if it means embracing totalitarianism. (Which in essence, may I remind you, is a betrayal of the ideas of personal liberty our nation was founded upon.)

You may want to give that fact some thought.

(And what a great song, I write music myself, have been since I was a kid. We formed a band and got fairly popular back in the ’70′s, played with Steppenwolf and a few others through the years. My little cousin started out with Anthony Smith and Pam Tillis, and is now the drummer for Luke Bryan, carrying on the family musical tradition. Interesting that so many creative people enjoy smoking!)

Thanks for sharing all this, I will keep the info handy, and with your permission will share the article with others, it’s one of the best I’ve seen.

http://www.davehitt.com/nov02/nicotine.html

I recognise the fact that Louis is an extremist and it is doubtful that any amount of logic, reason, or proof will sway him. However, when such nonsense is paraded before the people unanswered and unaddressed, that silence is their ally, leaving them free to continue their campaigns of half truths and, most likely in the end, outright lies.

As one who understands the fragile nature of genuine liberty (as well as one who, like yourself, appreciates and loves that liberty), I feel an obligation to take a stand for the truth at every opportunity.

Smoking may be “just a habit”, or perhaps a hobby. The world will not end nor continue based upon the people’s ability to smoke. But in the events we see around us, it is becoming much more than that. It is yet another symbol of the personal choice and the individual freedom which marked the times that made America great. It is a thumbed nose to the idea of dictatorship, a swift kick up the rear to any established authority which would seek to expand it’s control beyond it’s rightful boundaries.

Though I never had the honour of serving in the military, I have had many family members who did. One uncle drove a tank in Patton’s Third Army. Word was out regarding Hitler’s abject hatred of smoking. Our boys blew smoke all the way into the heart of Berlin, then right up the Fuhrer’s butt, so to speak. Their smokes became a personal gesture of defiance against the totalitarian regime of the Nazis. As I look around me today, I see the “right” to smoke becoming a reflection of liberty once again, as more and more Americans wake up and view those cities, towns, and counties which refuse to jump on the PC bandwagon as bastions of the principles of freedom.

Thanks so much for the support, as long as there are enough out here like you and I and so many other insightful posters as we see here, we can hope and pray there will never be another Third Reich, especially in this wonderful nation which was born of the very breath and essence of freedom.