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Feb. 22nd, 2007
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Feb. 22nd, 2007 07:35 pmI don't know if this is an indictment of Kentucky, or America's addiction to tobacco products, or the inability of some people to exist without having the wrong kind of government intervention, i.e., make us safe from the whole world and do it stupidly and expensively, or what. Or maybe I just don't get it.
Following an incident where a woman fell asleep while smoking and set her own nightgown on fire, Kentucky wants to legislate "fire-safe" cigarettes.
I had never heard of this before, but Kentucky isn't even the first state to consider this. New York made them mandatory in 2004.
Um, guys...? I understand where your heads are at. Fire safety is very important.
But it apparently has not occured to you that [a] you can't make them completely fire-safe -- no burnee, no smokee -- and [b] you are trying to make a safer addictive carcinogen.
So. What addiction can't you break? Mine's Pepsi. And potato chips. And the internet.
Following an incident where a woman fell asleep while smoking and set her own nightgown on fire, Kentucky wants to legislate "fire-safe" cigarettes.
I had never heard of this before, but Kentucky isn't even the first state to consider this. New York made them mandatory in 2004.
Um, guys...? I understand where your heads are at. Fire safety is very important.
But it apparently has not occured to you that [a] you can't make them completely fire-safe -- no burnee, no smokee -- and [b] you are trying to make a safer addictive carcinogen.
So. What addiction can't you break? Mine's Pepsi. And potato chips. And the internet.