Stunningly STUPID: Representative Steve Buyer believes smoking lettuce is the same as smoking cigarettes.| The Daily Show With Jon Stewart | Mon - Thurs 11p / 10c | |||
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Here a longer clip of the same from C-SPAN:
Maybe Steve Buyer has a been smoking of some lettuce himself? Hey Steve? How about sharing some of that good stuff with the rest of us!
... and THEN I went to Buyer's site and read this:
BUYER PROMOTES BETTER PUBLIC HEALTH POLICY;
Washington, D.C.—The House of Representatives today passed the Senate Amendment to H.R. 1256, the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act, which gives the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) authority to regulate tobacco products. The FDA is already an over-stressed and under-resourced federal agency which will now be burdened with responsibilities that goes against its core mission—ensuring the safety of our nation’s food, drugs, and medical devices—to regulate an inherently risky product. Congressman Steve Buyer’s (IN-04) mission is to improve the nation’s public health, and he believes there is better policy to help smokers quit than the Senate Amendment to H.R. 1256.
I feel SO much safer knowing that Steve Buyer is out there fighting for our safety.
...Was he right? About the lettuce?
ReplyDeleteWell, actually, in the problems he outlined (Cancer, heart disease, and respiratory problems) he was right - you WOULD have similar problems. Now, in terms of the 'good stuff' - doubtful. Lettuce obviously wouldn't have whatever it is in tobacco that makes people keep smoking it (though I couldn't profess to know, in that I find smoking repulsive).
His point about the FDA? Yeah, it's overburdened and trying to sink its roots into nooks and crannies whenever it can. And when it tries regulating something that is already known to be dangerous - cigarettes - then it means your money is being spent insuring the 'safety' of a product that is KNOWN to be dangerous. How stupid can you get?!
And in the real world that most people don't like thinking about, the increased price on ciarettes as a result of the regulation would inflate the prices of legal smokes. So smokers get their cheaper cigs from elsewhere with less regulation - and the LEGAL distributors suffer, through no fault but the government's.
So yeah, what's up with Steve? Must be smoking lettuce or something.
Hello Anon,
ReplyDeleteYep. Smoking the Afghan Iceberg!
My full reply turned into a post in itself, which can be found here:
http://dreadtomatoaddiction.blogspot.com/2010/03/smoking-lettuce-redux.html