HELLO -

the twenty-five percent of our USA population (and the 40% in my state, KY)

who have NOT yet quit smoking

- after 30 years of extreme pressure to do so -

ARE PROBABLY NOT GOING TO QUIT.

Are YOU ready for FULL PROHIBITION of tobacco,

WITH BOOTLEGGING, and THE MAFIA????

AND HUGE CRASH OF OUR ENTIRE ECONOMY, AS IN THE GREAT DEPRESSION?

Even if you don't smoke, and don't like it yourself,

Do we REALLY want to go THERE???

Did it WORK with ALCOHOL?

I think this is the direction we are moving, unless SOMEthing

SOMEHOW changes this direction. I want to help CHANGE IT.



As a start, I have a proposal.

Remember "The Great American Smokeout"? I propose we institute



'The Great American Smoke IN'.



Once a year, everyone who still enjoys smoking should

go to their favorite 'No Smoking' restaurant, store, etc.

AND LIGHT UP - ALL AT ONCE.



There are currently about 265 million (my est.) people in this country. If about 1/4 of them smoke, and IF about 1/2 of those participate, this means that there would be about 33,000,000 people lighting up,

all across this great 'free' country, in 'no smoking' areas.



If only 10% participate, that would still be 6.5 MILLION SMOKERS.

That should be MORE THAN enough! There might be some small price to pay by a few of us who do this. The ordinances are mostly misdemeanor, and fines. But I'll bet that if almost 33 million people do this all at once, there aren't nearly enough police anywhere to get more than a few of us. ALSO, EITHER DO THIS WHERE THE OWNER APPROVES, or make sure the restaurant or business is owned by a nico-nazi. Sometimes there are HUGE fines on businesses for smoking violations - kill 2 birds with one stone!



I propose we do this annually on World Smoker's Day - Oct 11 & 12, AND

Independence Day, - July 4th.

I hope this would serve as a reminder that a whole lot of folks died to give us a FREE Country.



Or, perhaps, to speed things up - let's

ALSO have a SMOKE-IN on the 4th day of EVERY MONTH?

If you think this is a good idea, FORWARD & POST this PAGE EVERYWHERE.



The purpose of the Smoke-Ins will be to raise awareness for all that



smokers are NOT going away.



Our country's freedoms are being torpedoed at a really scary rate,

and the RESULTS will be VERY UNDESIRABLE for ALL.



I HOPE NO-ONE really wants

the whole '1920s alcohol style' prohibition, bootlegging, & mafia.



If YOU'VE had ENOUGH too, HELP get people THINKING about this!



I personally would uphold the right of anyone who owns a business to prohibit smoking therein - so long as I am not FORCED to patronize it. BUT, those who own businesses who WANT to allow smoking SHOULD BE ALLOWED TO DO SO, so long as NO ONE is FORCED to patronize that business. This would let all have choices. Those who don't want smoke in their work environment would (of course) choose to work where there is no smoking. Those who want to smoke would also have choices, and could choose to patronize, and work at, businesses where smoking is allowed.



THIS would be FREEDOM.

What we HAVE NOW is NOT.



Whether or not you are a 'smoke hater',

this is a PROPERTY RIGHTS issue!



Please join me, and others in helping to PRESERVE

our AMERICAN HERITAGE.



If you have opinions or information to contribute to this subject, I will try to add it to this Weblog. I am on the road a lot with our show dogs Hosanna Afghan Hounds, so please be patient if my reply is slow at times.



Use the email links below to send information, or ask to receive it. Information I'd especially like to add here are studies and links to the economic impacts of smoking bans (if any studies have been done), and personal stories of effects on you and your family. Especially, tell me what have you cut out of your budget to pay the extortionist cigarette taxes? WHO has really been paying YOUR cig. taxes?

