their own survey<\/a> on this. We have it at RushLimbaugh.com. We put it up periodically. My mom smoked and look at me.<\/p>\nCALLER: My parents smoked as well, but —<\/p>\n
RUSH: My mom smoked in the car. I think if a kid says, ‘Mommy, mommy! Can I go out and smoke?\u2019 Most parents say no. The sensitivity today probably is high enough that people aren\u2019t going to do it anyway. We already can\u2019t smoke outdoors. In New York you can\u2019t smoke a cigarette in Central Park, not legally. Central Park! You can\u2019t smoke at Yankee Stadium. You can\u2019t smoke at Shea Stadium. You can\u2019t smoke anywhere. Here\u2019s the thing. Because, as I said very clearly, very articulately in the first half hour of the program, if you\u2019re going to tax this product in order to support health care for the precious little children, you better be able to let the product that\u2019s being taxed be used. If you\u2019re going to ban cigarette smoking everywhere and then still charge all these exorbitant taxes, you are not going to generate the money that you want.<\/p>\n
See, you are proving my point. You probably don\u2019t smoke, and so it\u2019s okay to raise taxes on people that do, and it\u2019s okay to tell people who are smoking that they shouldn\u2019t be, especially around their kids. If it stayed in cars, fine, but it won\u2019t. They\u2019ll take it elsewhere. Your own private property. They already tell you if it rains too much in your backyard, and you have a flood, you can\u2019t mow the grass anymore, you have a wetland with home to all kinds of critters out there that didn\u2019t show up and didn\u2019t live there until the rain fell. This is a big bugaboo with me. I hate the holier-than-thou among us who think that everything they do in life is right, and so everybody\u2019s gotta emulate them. ‘You smoke? Ew! Ew! You are subhuman. I must make you stop.\u2019 Leave me alone! Leave me alone. You want to go out and live a dull, boring, pristine life that\u2019s not going to get you any significant longer years of life than my life is going to give me, you go right ahead, but don\u2019t impose it on me. By the way, my kids are my kids, and they\u2019re not yours, and they\u2019re not the state\u2019s, and it\u2019s my job to raise \u2019em, and if I goof it up, tough toenails. At some point the kids have to be become adults anyway. Lots of kids have grown up with rotten parents and have gone on to live very successful lives. Happens every day. Most parents are bad at it anyway. There\u2019s no school that you go to.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: Jim in Roseburg, Oregon, welcome, sir, and welcome to the EIB Network as well.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Rush.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Yeah.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Mega 17-year, ex-tobacco-rep, conservative-teacher dittos.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Well, thank you, sir.<\/p>\n
CALLER: I owe you an apology. I had a knee-jerk, liberal reaction to your smoking comments with parents smoking in the car, and I clearly fell off the wagon.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Why? What was your reaction?<\/p>\n
CALLER: Well, I am a smoker, and I smoke to control my MS pain, and I\u2019m back on the 12-step Rush recovery program.<\/p>\n
RUSH: You mean you were mad at what I said?<\/p>\n
CALLER: No, no, no, no. I wasn\u2019t mad, but I do have to admit that when I do see a parent pulled over at a convenience store dumping their ashtray out for somebody else to pick up, smoking with the windows up, it does tick me off. But, I realized, you know… You know, I had that fleeting liberal thought, and I\u2019m back on the program.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Okay. So you got a little bit irritated with me. To refresh people\u2019s memories and to inform those who weren\u2019t here, a New York City councilman going to pass a resolution or present a resolution for passage that would not allow parents to smoke in their cars if the kids are in the car. I thought the political correct crowd\u2019s going to love this. Everything is ‘for the children,\u2019 and I to this audience loud and clear, ‘You better be careful of this for two reasons. A, you let them into your private property, your car, and tell you what you can and can\u2019t do there, it isn\u2019t going to stop with smoking. You aren\u2019t going to be able to listen to the radio down the road. You\u2019re not going to be able to use your cell phone.\u2019 Well, you can\u2019t use your cell phone with your hand in a lot of states now. You let \u2019em into your car, then you\u2019re going to let \u2019em into your house, and if you have kids in the house, you can\u2019t smoke in there — and once they get into your house, folks, then they can start telling you anything they want about your house. They don\u2019t like the paint that you\u2019re using. They don\u2019t like the lightbulbs that you\u2019re using. They don\u2019t like the hardwood floor or the upholstery that you\u2019re using. Maybe it\u2019s not flammable retardant enough. Who knows?<\/p>\n
The idea that they run around and see some parent smoking in a car with the windows up or cracked a little with kids in there, too bad! You know, if this product is so bad, ban it! But instead, what are they doing? And this is the second thing I want to tell \u2019em that they better figure out real quick. If they are going to fund health care insurance programs ‘for the children\u2019 with tobacco products, they\u2019d better make sure the products can be used. Otherwise people aren\u2019t going to buy \u2019em, and when they don\u2019t buy the products there\u2019s no tax revenue and then the health care program for ‘the wittwle children\u2019 runs short of money, and guess who\u2019s going to come next in line for taxes? You! They\u2019re not going to shut the program down; they\u2019re going to come to you. Now, you can\u2019t sit here and start condemning this product as deadly secondhand smoke is deadly — which it isn\u2019t! It may be uncomfortable. You may not like it. Some people may be allergic, but it doesn\u2019t kill anybody. There are no studies that say it does, and those who purport to say it are as big a hoax as global warming is. The World Health Organization did a big study and suppressed it, but we have it at RushLimbaugh.com. But that\u2019s not the point. The point is if they\u2019re going to raise all this hell about how horrible and deadly this product is, and at the same time tax the sale to fund their precious little government operations, they better make sure people can use the product. You see the conundrum here, or the dilemma? If they really believed all this, they would ban it! If this stuff is so deadly, why, they would ban it. They don\u2019t dare because their government operations depend too much on the revenue from this stuff, and they\u2019re going to kill that goose by eliminating places where these products can be used. They\u2019re going to make… They can\u2019t have it both ways on this and it\u2019s going to come to a head at some point, sooner rather than later.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: We have a nine-year-old from Acton, Massachusetts, that\u2019s joining us. Her name is Lily. It\u2019s pleasure to have you with us, Lily.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Hi, Rush.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Hi.<\/p>\n
CALLER: I think that the liberals should tell people when and where they should smoke, because if they\u2019re smoking in the car with their kids, the kids can get sick and that\u2019s what happened to my mom when she was little. She used to be riding in a car with her friends, and one of them would be smoking, and she\u2019d get sick, and also I think that people shouldn\u2019t be smoking.<\/p>\n
RUSH: What kind of sick, Lily?<\/p>\n
CALLER: She\u2019d throw up and she wouldn\u2019t feel good and —<\/p>\n
RUSH: How long did it last?<\/p>\n
CALLER: It lasted as long as there was smoking.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Okay, now, what did you say at the beginning about liberals?<\/p>\n
CALLER: Liberals should say when and where you smoke, because —<\/p>\n
RUSH: Thank you, Mr. Snerdley. (Laughing.) Liberals should say where you can and can\u2019t smoke. Lilly, I\u2019m going to be as blatantly honest with you here as I can. If smoking makes somebody sick, then whoever is smoking shouldn\u2019t do it. I\u2019m not suggesting that it\u2019s okay to smoke in the car with the windows up or down, with kids — that\u2019s not my point. My point is that the government has no business dictating that degree of our behavior, because if you let them start doing it in that way, they\u2019re going to eventually tell your mommy how she can raise you. They\u2019re going to tell you if she\u2019s being too mean, too cruel, too nice, or what have you. It\u2019s a dangerous path to go down. I can\u2019t believe that if somebody actually was made sick in the presence of smoke, that the smoker would continue, especially a parent. A parent ought not, in that circumstance, continue anyway. I don\u2019t know how often it happens anyway. I don\u2019t see that many people smoke in their cars anymore, but regardless, the government, Lily, this is crucial, the government is not the solution to that family, or that problem. Wait \u2019til the government starts telling you what dolls you can and can\u2019t play with. Do you have a Barbie doll?<\/p>\n
CALLER: Only one.<\/p>\n
RUSH: So what if someday the government decided that the Barbie doll you have is just inappropriate for you and that you shouldn\u2019t have it and they penalize your mother for letting you have it, should the liberals be able to do that?<\/p>\n
CALLER: No. Definitely no.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Okay, good. Well, then we have reached a teachable moment here. In my mind, that\u2019s possible if we allow them into our cars. I think families ought to decide this themselves. Parents need to be responsible. It\u2019s not the government\u2019s job to make them responsible. I understand you don\u2019t want to be around people who smoke, right?<\/p>\n
CALLER: Hm-hm.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Does your mom smoke in the car?<\/p>\n
CALLER: No. Nobody in my family smokes because my mom doesn\u2019t want anybody smoking.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Cool. Cool. Everything is fine, then. No complaints. Don\u2019t start saying the liberals need to be telling people what they can and can\u2019t do, Llly, please, please.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: Also, you know, Lily, if you\u2019re still out there, I goofed up on one thing. Barbie dolls are part of the Mattel recall, because there\u2019s lead in there. So Lily, don\u2019t lick Barbie. Don\u2019t lick your Barbie doll. Any of you kids out there with Barbies, don\u2019t lick \u2019em because they may have lead in the paint or whatever, in the manufacturing process. So I\u2019m happy to be able to perform this public service. That was a young future patriot calling this program to get guidance, and I should have had that knowledge at my fingertips but didn\u2019t.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: San Bernardino California. Michael, I\u2019m glad you called. Welcome.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Yeah, it\u2019s funny because, uh, I think, uh, here, er, your last caller exposed something about, quote, ‘liberals,\u2019 end quote, that you may not intended to be exposed. Here I was thinking I was so brilliant, uh, that I was going to take down your argument about smoking in cars, and it really only took a nine-year-old to do it.<\/p>\n
RUSH: She didn\u2019t take down an argument at all.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Oh, you — you had said — you\u2019d gone on for several minutes about how could this be harmful, it\u2019s not harmful, and then a nine-year-old explained to you that the obvious —<\/p>\n
RUSH: No. I specified. By harmful, there is a bunch of misinformation out there. ‘Harmful\u2019 as in causes death. Secondhand smoke does not cause death. I acknowledged earlier it makes some people sick. They have allergies to it, and they shouldn\u2019t have to be around it. You\u2019re missing my whole point. The point is that the government has no business telling people how they can live their lives, and they\u2019re way too into it as it is. I think we\u2019ve already lost the battle.<\/p>\n
CALLER: It — it — uh — Obviously. Let\u2019s just take that argument not even a full step but just a microstep further. Let\u2019s legalize drugs. Let\u2019s legalize all forms of poison. Let\u2019s legalize explosives. Let\u2019s legalize anything, if the government —<\/p>\n
RUSH: That\u2019s not the answer. No. No, no. You\u2019re going overboard. The logical thing to do based on everything we\u2019re told about tobacco, is to ban it as well. If we not going to be able to have cigarettes smoked in cars with little kids because it\u2019s going to kill \u2019em and make \u2019em sick, what the hell business does the government have allowing the product to be sold?<\/p>\n
CALLER: Well, I think the argument is — is as follows. Look, you want to make yourself sick? You want to poison yourself? Go right ahead, but we\u2019re not going to allow you I had to it to people that can\u2019t defend themselves like children.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Or waiters, or waitresses, or people that you might have in your house.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Right.<\/p>\n
RUSH: So, you see, the point is that we can structure —<\/p>\n
CALLER: No, no. No, no. Wait. There\u2019s no law against smoking in your own house.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Oh, they\u2019ve tried to do in a couple of counties in Maryland, and it\u2019s next if you let \u2019em into the car! Damn right it is. There\u2019s no question.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Only… Now we\u2019re back to my original point, that really only a paranoid right-winger would see a liberal plot in this.<\/p>\n
RUSH: (Laughs.)<\/p>\n
CALLER: Some things are obviously sensible, some things are not, and no one is suggesting in any real way or has it ever come close to being a reality.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Wrong. I am suggesting it and you\u2019re blind to it. It is not ‘paranoia\u2019 when evidence already exists of the trend.<\/p>\n
CALLER: It… The… You… You\u2019re not honestly, seriously suggesting that there is a trend to ban smoking within private homes.<\/p>\n
RUSH: I\u2019m telling you it\u2019s coming. It\u2019s been tried. It would have succeeded in Maryland were it not for an outrage. Montgomery County, Maryland —<\/p>\n
CALLER: I — I —<\/p>\n
RUSH: Now, listen to this, Michael. In Montgomery County, Maryland, a little ninny neighbor claimed in her locked house with the windows down, she could smell somebody\u2019s cigarette smoke a hundred yards away who was also in their house. So a city councilman said, ‘Well, we can\u2019t have this! That\u2019s disruptive,\u2019 and they tried to ban smoking in the house.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Okay. You\u2019re talking about one place, one person, making one complaint. I wouldn\u2019t call that a trend.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Well, Michael, this is how liberalism spreads. Once they start this stuff, it never goes away. Like gay marriage is going to happen in this country.<\/p>\n
CALLER: What I\u2019m saying is… What I\u2019m saying is when you see it quote, ‘spreading,\u2019 end quote, that is right-wing paranoia. (Chuckles.)<\/p>\n
RUSH: No, it\u2019s not right-wing paranoia. It\u2019s stopping it. It\u2019s making sure it doesn\u2019t grow. It\u2019s making sure that these powers, these liberal ninnies, nannies and do-gooders, do not get foothold and traction in trying to tell everybody else how to live, including in their own homes. In New York, for crying out loud, you have to ban trans-fat at the grocery store as well! You are blind if you don\u2019t see what\u2019s happening here, and the fact that you\u2019re not concerned if means you probably think that these people doing this have ‘the public interest, the highest standards of public interests at heart,\u2019 and they don\u2019t. It\u2019s about control. They can\u2019t leave people alone. You gave me a Libertarian definition a moment ago. They don\u2019t believe in that. They\u2019re not going to sit there and let people do what they want to do in their homes. They\u2019re trying to change everything about the way people live, what kind of cars they drive, pressuring them into buying these little hybrids and stuff. It\u2019s been going a long time, and it would have advanced a lot sooner had it not been for the effectiveness of me and this program.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: Alexandria, Virginia is next. This is Sharon. Hi.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Hi, Rush. This is Sharon.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Yes.<\/p>\n
CALLER: I hate to remind you and your audience of this, but the government came into our cars in the Sixties when the seat belt debate was going on. I was in high school, and I was in college when this was debated, and my father — we were raised in Kansas — was totally against it, because he said, ‘The first time you let the government into your car, it\u2019s going to be keep going.\u2019 The next thing that happened was the air bags, and I remember that debated in Congress. The auto companies\u2019 scientists came back, technologists came back and said air bags were not yet ready for cars. So what happens? Children are terribly crippled and injured. There was even one child in Texas that was beheaded by an air bag. So the next thing we get car seats, and we put those kids in the back seat, where mom and dad can\u2019t hear them. The first thing that happens when the child gets in a car, unusually, is that they fall asleep. Out of sight, out of mind.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Thank God!<\/p>\n
CALLER: You are then driving to work, and all of a sudden, you forget the child\u2019s in the car, and they are left in cars dying, in temperatures of 150 degrees. I am sick of the Nazis. I\u2019m tired of the fat Nazis, the car Nazis, the tobacco Nazis, the ethanol Nazis, the food Nazis, the environmentalist Nazis, the speech Nazis, and the alcohol Nazis. I\u2019m sick of them. Get out of our lives and stay out of our lives!<\/p>\n
RUSH: Well, but, see, they think you don\u2019t know how to live your life right.<\/p>\n
CALLER: I do know how to live my life, and I\u2019ve had a rough year, and this conversation today has really taken me right over the edge!<\/p>\n
RUSH: Oh, gee. I\u2019m sorry.<\/p>\n
CALLER: I am so sick of all of it! They have no right to be in our business, on that personal a level, and you are also right that once they get into our cars and they can dictate what we do in our cars, the next thing will come, our homes, and that will happen.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Haven\u2019t there been places in the country that have tried to ban or stagger the times people could barbecue outside because of the effect on ‘global warming\u2019?<\/p>\n
CALLER: Yes.<\/p>\n
RUSH: In large cities. They tried that in Los Angeles some years ago, and I don\u2019t know if it ever became law or what have you. I know it\u2019s pervasive, and everybody thinks that the things behind it that motivates it is the ‘good intentions\u2019 and the big hearts of the public safety concerns these people have, and while many of the underlings in that group of people probably do have the best of intentions, the people behind all this are aiming for control, for the government to be able to tell people they can and can\u2019t do it, to condition people to accept permission from the government for what they do. It\u2019s all about control, and it\u2019s all about keeping people dependent. It\u2019s about keeping people from growing up and becoming adults, able to handle their own lives and deal with their own problems so that the liberals that run the government, the Democrats that run the government, can be there to step in when people slip, which most people do. I know. It\u2019s hideous. I don\u2019t know where it stops, but it\u2019s going to be a constant thing we fight and battle against on this program.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Rush, you keep battling it. Don\u2019t stop.<\/p>\n
RUSH: I won\u2019t.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Thank you, Rush.<\/p>\n
RUSH: It\u2019s in my nature to oppose this kind of thing. It really is. Sharon, I appreciate that.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: Now, you think that there\u2019s nothing going on out there. Get this. This is from the UK: ‘Call to Ban Cars Near Schools to Tackle Obesity — Car exclusion zones should be set up around schools to help tackle obesity and climate change, a report suggested today. The Institute for European Environmental Policy (IEEP),\u2019 Or Eeep! ‘research found that banning vehicles from roads near schools could help reverse the dramatic decline in walking seen in the UK in recent decades. Leaving the car at home would benefit children and their parents,\u2019 and would also cut down on global warming. So, in other words, you can only drive so close to the school. You\u2019re going to park your car in a government-approved place, then you let the obese kids out and they trundle into school, reducing the obesity problem, saving global warming — and who could oppose this? Why it\u2019s for the wittle childwren! It\u2019s just one plan. We\u2019re all trying to help here.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Ellen in Knightstown, Indiana, welcome to the program.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Rush, I know you don\u2019t mean to, but you\u2019re coming between me and my grandchildren with this foodstuff, and I hope you will think about it and talk about it tomorrow. I\u2019m trying to get my children to stop eating junk food — not just junk food, junk!<\/p>\n
RUSH: Wait, wait, wait, wait. Grandchildren, or children, which is it?<\/p>\n
CALLER: Both, but mostly my grandchildren, because when I grew up, we ate food out of the garden. It was a treat to go to the root beer stand, and now the kids are living on Cokes and Diet Cokes — which has even worse because it has aspartame in it!<\/p>\n
RUSH: (Snort.)<\/p>\n
CALLER: They\u2019re eating potato chips and French fries, and that\u2019s — that\u2019s what they\u2019re living on, Rush!<\/p>\n
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RUSH: Ellen? Ellen, you\u2019re a grandmother. I cannot believe you think this is new. When I grew up in my little town, we grew up on a place calls Wimpy\u2019s, which is a burger joint. It was like Mel\u2019s Drive-In in American Graffiti, and then we got our first McDonald\u2019s. We had potato chips. We had barbecues in the backyard. Hamburgers! They may not have been from Wimpy\u2019s and McDonald\u2019s, but they were…hamburgers! We had mustard and mayonnaise. We had onions.<\/line><\/p>\n
CALLER: Okay, Rush.<\/p>\n
RUSH: And we drank Coke!<\/p>\n
CALLER: But, Rush, are you denying that Medicare and Medicaid is our biggest problem in this country and the government is making all of us that want to live healthy lifestyles, put food into our bodies instead of junk, that —<\/p>\n
RUSH: Wait a minute. The government\u2019s not forcing your grandkids to go to McDonald\u2019s, and they\u2019re not forcing your grandkids to pick up the Lay\u2019s Wavy Potato Chips at the local hotspot.<\/p>\n
CALLER: All I\u2019m saying, Rush, is it\u2019s coming across that it doesn\u2019t make any difference what you eat, saturated fat, smoke, whatever. You don\u2019t mean to but that\u2019s the way it\u2019s coming across I know because I\u2019m having this debate with my 26-year-old grandson who says, ‘Grandma, they haven\u2019t proven these things hurt you.\u2019 (Gags.) Rush, we\u2019re not eating the same as we used to.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Wait a minute. Did I hear you right? You are debating a 26-year-old adult?<\/p>\n
CALLER: Yes.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Who\u2019s your grandson?<\/p>\n
CALLER: Yes.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Over what he should and shouldn\u2019t eat?<\/p>\n
CALLER: Yes. Because —<\/p>\n
RUSH: When are you going to let him grow up? This is not my fault!<\/p>\n
CALLER: Okay. The point I\u2019m making is does it make a difference in our health, what we put in our bodies? If we put the wrong things in our car, does it make a difference in how it runs?<\/p>\n
RUSH: Well, of course, but everything is proportion. People say cigarettes kill you, but it might take 50 years.<\/p>\n
CALLER: (Gags.) Rush, all I\u2019m —<\/p>\n
RUSH: An auto accident can take care of it instantly. We\u2019re losing proportion on it. Potato chips are not going to kill people. The idea that this is —<\/p>\n
CALLER: It is when that\u2019s all they\u2019re eating. They\u2019re not eating vegetables! They\u2019re not eating fruits!<\/p>\n
RUSH: Okay, then give \u2019em a can of V8 and have them drink that and they\u2019ll get their vegetables!<\/p>\n
CALLER: All I\u2019m saying —<\/p>\n
RUSH: If it\u2019s about nutrients, just get them a can of V8! Get them some bloody Marys made with V8.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Bring that part across, too, because you\u2019re making it sound as though I\u2019m exaggerating everything, that it\u2019s said not all that important what you eat, and it comes across as though that\u2019s the side you\u2019re on.<\/p>\n
RUSH: In the big scheme of things, it isn\u2019t. There are really a lot of pressing problems in this country like taxes, the war on terror, and I\u2019m being deadly serious here. We are so affluent that we have time to get ourselves roiled up in all this angst.<\/p>\n
CALLER: And what about Medicare and Medicaid? Isn\u2019t everybody on prescription drugs now? Isn\u2019t that what we\u2019re upset about, because the government is making us pay for people whether they\u2019re healthy or they\u2019re not healthy?<\/p>\n
RUSH: Okay! So this is where it comes down to.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Yes!<\/p>\n
RUSH: The stress on the health care system because of what people eat.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Yes! Exactly!<\/p>\n
RUSH: They\u2019re making themselves obese so forth.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Why should people who —<\/p>\n
RUSH: Well, see, that\u2019s the wrong solution.<\/p>\n
CALLER: — educate themselves…? I agree with you, and I\u2019m telling my —<\/p>\n
RUSH: The solution to this is not changing diet dramatically like this. The solution to Medicare and Medicaid… I don\u2019t think that what people eating each and every day are contributing to the kind of illnesses that end up on Medicaid. Medicaid is for the poor. Medicare is for the seasoned citizens, and when you get seasoned citizen status, and the odds that you\u2019re going to get sick from anything go up simply because of the law of averages. Look, Ellen, I will talk about this in greater detail tomorrow.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: RUSH: Headline from the Honolulu Star-Bulletin, from May 29th: ‘Homes, Next Target for Smoking Ban — An effort this fall will urge multiunit buildings to adopt a smoke-free policy.\u2019<\/p>\n
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