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Posted: 2/14/2006 6:56:53 AM EDT

wsbradio.com/news/021406safersmokes3a.html

Lawmaker Look at 'Safer' Cigarettes
(WSB Radio State Capitol Bureau) -- A public hearing will be held this morning at the State Capitol on a bill to require safer cigarettes in Georgia.

The Senate Agriculture and Consumer Affairs Committee meets at 9 a.m. to take up Senate Bill 487 by Senator Don Balfour (R-Snellville).

It would require the sale of special cigarettes that contain a safety feature and don't stay lit if they're not puffed.

"It basically puts rings in a cigarette and you have to puff it to keep it going," he says.

Balfour says 5000 people die each year from smoking related fires, usually falling asleep with a lit cigarette .

"If they're not smoking the cigarette (it) will go out at three different points in time which will save a bunch of lives," he says.

Balfour says currently New York and California have such a law.

What will they protect us from next?????

And the guy who proposed this is a so-called REPUBLICAN.

Posted: 2/14/2006 7:28:55 AM EDT

[#1]

I love how they can WASTE time and MONEY on Steroid use in BaseBall, and safer "Foreproof" cigarettes, but cant do anything about our Southern Border

Posted: 2/14/2006 7:46:45 AM EDT

[#2]

Quoted:
I love how they can WASTE time and MONEY on Steroid use in BaseBall, and safer "Foreproof" cigarettes, but cant do anything about our Southern Border

Just remember, they get paid the same whether they work on real issues or non-issues.

Posted: 2/14/2006 9:15:35 AM EDT

[#3]

Quoted:
bestsmileys.com/smoking/1.gif

wsbradio.com/news/021406safersmokes3a.html

Lawmaker Look at 'Safer' Cigarettes
(WSB Radio State Capitol Bureau) -- A public hearing will be held this morning at the State Capitol on a bill to require safer cigarettes in Georgia.

The Senate Agriculture and Consumer Affairs Committee meets at 9 a.m. to take up Senate Bill 487 by Senator Don Balfour (R-Snellville).

It would require the sale of special cigarettes that contain a safety feature and don't stay lit if they're not puffed.

"It basically puts rings in a cigarette and you have to puff it to keep it going," he says. bestsmileys.com/smoking/7.gif

Balfour says 5000 people die each year from smoking related fires, usually falling asleep with a lit cigarette .

"If they're not smoking the cigarette (it) will go out at three different points in time which will save a bunch of lives," he says.

Balfour says currently New York and California have such a law.

What will they protect us from next????? And the guy who proposed this is a so-called REPUBLICAN.

Sounds like I need to make a phone call

Posted: 2/14/2006 1:21:02 PM EDT

[#4]

Quoted:
Quoted:
bestsmileys.com/smoking/1.gif

wsbradio.com/news/021406safersmokes3a.html

Lawmaker Look at 'Safer' Cigarettes
(WSB Radio State Capitol Bureau) -- A public hearing will be held this morning at the State Capitol on a bill to require safer cigarettes in Georgia.

The Senate Agriculture and Consumer Affairs Committee meets at 9 a.m. to take up Senate Bill 487 by Senator Don Balfour (R-Snellville).

It would require the sale of special cigarettes that contain a safety feature and don't stay lit if they're not puffed.

"It basically puts rings in a cigarette and you have to puff it to keep it going," he says. bestsmileys.com/smoking/7.gif

Balfour says 5000 people die each year from smoking related fires, usually falling asleep with a lit cigarette .

"If they're not smoking the cigarette (it) will go out at three different points in time which will save a bunch of lives," he says.

Balfour says currently New York and California have such a law.

What will they protect us from next????? And the guy who proposed this is a so-called REPUBLICAN.

Sounds like I need to make a phone call

Ask him if he likes his job.

Posted: 2/14/2006 1:31:27 PM EDT

[#5]

And of course that idiot John Oxendine is pushing this too.

What a buncha tools.

And I am a non-smoker, hate it.

Need to send an email as well...

Posted: 2/14/2006 1:53:05 PM EDT

[#6]

The original anti-smoking Nazi

Suprised?
Don't be - here is a Nazi anti-smoking ad

More info here

Posted: 2/14/2006 2:42:44 PM EDT

[#7]

My dick is more Republican than that RINO. The bastard's worse than Barnes!! He signed the state-wide ban on smoking in privately owned establishments too. POS!

Posted: 2/14/2006 3:50:31 PM EDT

[#8]

Ah, the government knows whats best.....

Posted: 2/14/2006 4:09:47 PM EDT

[#9]

The agenda: Pass the law.

Law will increase price of cigarettes in GA.

Increased price designed to deter smoking.

This is essentially another cigarette tax. Nothing more, nothing less.

Another take. Ban certain kinds of products, and mandate certain safety features. Sounds familiar. Pretty soon, smokers will need forms, letters from doctors, and licenses.

The end result is tobacco is illegal.

Illegal tobacco will be sold on the black market, causing a rise in organized crime. Violence that goes along with it will be used as a reason to ban guns. It's happened before. It WILL happen again.

Posted: 2/14/2006 4:28:02 PM EDT

[#10]

Damn, you guys are really scaring me now.

Posted: 2/14/2006 4:31:31 PM EDT

[#11]

How about letting stupid drunks die from falling asleep on the couch with a lit cigarette.

Posted: 2/14/2006 4:33:49 PM EDT

[#12]

Republicans have never believed in personal liberties. No surprise to me at all.

Posted: 2/14/2006 5:40:47 PM EDT

[#13]

$5 says that the flame-retardent chemical causes cancer.

Posted: 2/14/2006 5:44:53 PM EDT

[#14]

Quoted:
How about letting stupid drunks die from falling asleep on the couch with a lit cigarette.

Gotta go with this one...

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