AS I SEE IT...

Ban Coffee!!! Caffeine is addictive...

Why just ban tobacco?


Coffee, Caffeine & Fitness
http://www.topendsports.com/nutrition/coffee.htm

The buzz about caffeine - health aspects of coffee.
http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1041/is_n5_v73/ai_16873712

Is Caffeine a Drug of Dependence?
http://psychiatrictimes.com/p010247.html

Hell no, I'm not kidding. Caffeine is a dangerous drug, and just as dangerous as nicotine, and alcohol.

http://www.globalchange.com/drugs/TAD-Chapter%204.htm

I am tired of being ridculed, mocked, harassed, and generally treated like a second class citizen because I am a smoker. And there certainly Smoking Police everywhere

So where are the hard right, do-gooding crusaders, who support damn near outlawing the use of tobacco products, when it comes to coffee, tea, and chocolate - well, where are they?

Why just a campaign against drunk driving? Alcohol is a definite health risk. So, once again, where are the people who want to ban smoking, when it comes to alcohol consumption? Huh? Well, where are they?

Righteous Hypocrits, and Group Dynamics

(Waxing poetic about smoking bans, and what I think about the people involved)

So, tell me,
Oh, self-appointed righteous guardians of moral behaviors,
What would you have me do?
I'm outnumbered and surrounded,
By so many, just like you, who
Tell other people what they should do.

Freedom, Liberty, and Justice for all
Oh, I see, of these
Long held great American truths
Only apply to me
Conditionally,
Based upon your point of view.

You're not my Country's President
Nor have any of you been
Elected to Congress or Senate
Yet, there you all stand,
As the Moral Dictators in majority
Telling me what I can, and can't do.

Collect your millions of dollar donations
File your non-profit Corporate Status with the IRS
Form your Political Action Committees
Peddle your influence on Capital Hill
Support the politians that will sponsor your bills
Dicate to me just what you would have me do.

Hide in your outside sheds
Chew bunches of fresh breath mint gum
Tell lies to family, friends, and co-workers too
Be politically correct in all that you do
By sheer vocal numbers, deny my right
To be different from you

Count your filthy lucre
Misuse your power, influence, and control
Pass your tyrannical laws
So much more is wrong in this world, than
Any of you bother to possibly see
Blinded by your own misdirected sense of what matters

Just let me sit here in peace, and quite
Smoke gently creating clouds about my head
My burnt offerings, so to speak
Of profits made
Of taxes paid
Faint memories of a time rush to my head

When I could have just told all of you to drop dead!