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RUSH: Darrell in Elkton, Virginia, you\u2019re next on the EIB Network. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Thanks for taking my call, Rush.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You bet.<\/p>\n

CALLER: How you doing today?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Thank you.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I was looking at the USA Today and they had an article in there about the FDA requiring the cigarette companies to put these graphic images on there.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I saw those yesterday.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I\u2019m wondering whether this can stop, you know, what\u2019s next, a car crash on a beer bottle or… you know where I\u2019m going with this? What\u2019s your take on that?<\/p>\n

RUSH: I think it\u2019s just the natural extension of people who are consistently unhappy and will be unhappy until they have forced everybody to start living life as they want them to.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Exactly.<\/p>\n

RUSH: And I think it\u2019s people that are miserable in their own lives, they can\u2019t find anything to do to make them happy, so they have to involve themselves in everybody else\u2019s life and share their own misery so they can have some kind of comfort in life. These new warning labels depict graphic pictures of sickness, illness, and so forth that are ostensibly tied to smoking. What they don\u2019t understand, we\u2019re talking an addiction here. You can put all of the rotgut pictures you want on a pack of cigarettes and somebody who is addicted to three packs a day of them it\u2019s not gonna quit because of it. So it\u2019s just proselytizing, it\u2019s preaching.<\/p>\n

Intellectually, what is wrong with these people is, the tax revenue from the sale of cigarettes in this country is funding children\u2019s health programs. It\u2019s the number one tax that pays for children\u2019s health care programs. So on the one hand, they need the tax revenue to pay for the health care. They need the tax revenue, period, whatever it was for. On the other hand what exactly are they trying to do here? Do they actually want these people to quit smoking? There\u2019s an easy way to do that. You ban it. If this stuff is as deadly as they claim, how in the world can they morally leave it on the market? If tobacco kills and does all this stuff to everybody, if there are no exemptions, if they can prove that everybody who is going to smoke a cigar, a cigarette, a pipe, or what have you, of course none of this happens if you smoke marijuana. Understand there\u2019s not a warning necessary if you smoke marijuana. But tobacco, all these warnings, all these horrible things. <\/p>\n

Well, what are they actually trying to accomplish here? The idea that if you quit — and they can\u2019t prove this stuff universally causes all these things. If they could, it would be immoral not to ban the product. Here you have the United States profiting from the death of its citizens, allowing the corporations to sell and market a product that kills their customers, if all of this were true universally, if there were no exceptions, then it would be immoral not to ban this stuff. The problem is people who have never smoked get lung cancer, and some people who have smoked all their lives don\u2019t. Every time I get talking about this people think I\u2019m making excuses for Big Tobacco. I\u2019m not. I really come down on the side of freedom. Somebody wants to smoke a cigarette, if they want to get sick, fine and dandy. <\/p>\n

Now, the retort is, “Well, yeah, let \u2019em pay for their own health care.” Let\u2019s not go down that road. Once you start going down that road then everybody\u2019s behavior is gonna be subject to some central authority. We\u2019re headed there now. You can\u2019t do this because the cost is gonna impact society here and unless you can pay for it yourself… we\u2019re going down, well, we\u2019re already halfway down the slippery slope with this stuff. My point is they don\u2019t want to ban cigarettes. They don\u2019t want to ban smoking. They want to tax the hell out of them, but they\u2019ve reached a point where they\u2019ve created such a black market in certain states here that they are losing revenue to fund all these precious programs. All this is just a continuing opportunity for these people to preach and to eventually establish the premise that they know best how you should live, you don\u2019t, and they are going to tell you how. <\/p>\n

It\u2019s a vehicle or a gateway for them to assume control over other aspects of your life. Because, folks, to me it\u2019s Realville and common sense. I\u2019ve seen these proposed packages of cigarettes with warnings. If it\u2019s that bad ban the product. But they don\u2019t. They can\u2019t afford to. So there\u2019s something other than safety. They\u2019re really not concerned about you getting cancer. They\u2019re really not concerned with you staying healthy. There\u2019s something totally opposite of that which is the motivation for this. And that is, their effort to assume as much control over the way you live your life as possible, to attach as much stigma to the things that you do in your life that they don\u2019t think you should do to shame you into not doing or to get you to allow them to control it under whatever pretense. But who are they? <\/p>\n

Why in the world do we assume that a bunch of loco weeds in Washington understand how to make a car more than highly trained specialists and professionals in that business. Why do we assume that Barack Obama knows more about drilling for oil than Rex Tillerson at ExxonMobil? Why do we assume that Rex Tillerson at ExxonMobil is out to screw you via ExxonMobil? And Barack Obama is out to protect you from Rex Tillerson, when did we get started with this? Well, we got started with it because government, liberals need villains, they need enemies in order to distract you and find others to blame for the problems they cause. <\/p>\n

Barack Obama wouldn\u2019t know an oil drill if he saw one. He would barely know what to do with an oil rig if they had his helicopter land on one. He wouldn\u2019t have the slightest idea and the sad thing is that nobody in his regime knows anything about anything in the private sector. They\u2019re a bunch of theoreticians in the faculty lounge sitting around speculating what all of us ought to be doing and how we ought to be living and where we ought to be living and what we ought to be doing. Bunch of arrogant condescension going on from people who could not bring a single product or service in this country to market to save their lives. And somehow we invest in them this all-knowing, all-encompassing ability to regulate those who do. <\/p>\n

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