{"id":37067,"date":"2010-12-14T01:01:01","date_gmt":"2011-05-19T00:15:18","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-05-19T00:15:18","modified_gmt":"2011-05-19T00:15:18","slug":"nannies_set_their_sights_on_e_cigs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2010\/12\/14\/nannies_set_their_sights_on_e_cigs\/","title":{"rendered":"Nannies Set Their Sights on E-Cigs"},"content":{"rendered":"
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RUSH: ‘Five years after Washington residents voted to ban smoking cigarettes, cigars and pipes in public places, King County wants to add one more thing to the list: Electronic cigarettes.\u2019 Wait until you hear why. ‘The 2006 state law banned smoking in bars and restaurants on the basis that secondhand smoke causes cancer and other diseases.\u2019 Secondhand. It doesn\u2019t. That\u2019s not to say it doesn\u2019t make people uncomfortable. Of course I think it\u2019s largely in people\u2019s minds, but I don\u2019t even want to go there because I\u2019m not gonna win that argument with people. You get it in your head that somebody\u2019s smoking a cigarette 25 or 30 feet away from makes you feel bad I\u2019m not gonna be able to talk you out of it. I\u2019m not a shrink. <\/p>\n

So secondhand smoke. They gonna get rid of all cigarettes, all pipes, all the cigars in public places. ‘But King County\u2019s rationale for adding e-cigarettes … is a little different.\u2019 The e-cigarettes ‘from which users inhale vaporized nicotine, don\u2019t emit smoke.\u2019 They produce water vapor. It doesn\u2019t smell. It\u2019s combustion free. There\u2019s no flame. There\u2019s no fire. There\u2019s no tobacco. Nothing is burning. There\u2019s just a liquid in the nicotine cartridge that screws onto the battery. The battery is what looks like the cigarette. When you inhale, the battery powers the atomizer inside the cartridge and that turns the liquefied nicotine into a water vapor that looks just like smoke. They come in all kinds of different flavors depending on from where you buy them, and they\u2019re no different than nicotine gum or the nicotine patch. <\/p>\n

It\u2019s a way for people to quit smoking tobacco. They ought to be hailed. They should be hailed and applauded by these people on the left who are so insistent that we stay safe and stay alive and don\u2019t die. It\u2019s like Michelle Obama cares so much about what your kids eat that YOU cannot be allowed to make the decision. ‘We can\u2019t leave such important matters up to the parents,\u2019 she said. Well, same thing here. Public health officials in the state of Washington say that e-cigs are ‘so similar to the real thing that they make tobacco enforcement difficult and often prompt smokers to think it\u2019s OK to light up in public. And that leads to secondhand smoke,\u2019 which means we gotta ban e-cigs. Let me translate this for you.<\/p>\n

A guy lights up an e-cig in public place. A cigarette smoker is so stupid and so idiotic, he says, ‘Whoa, maybe you can smoke here!\u2019 and brings out his real cigarette and lights up. People start dying left and right because there\u2019s secondhand smoke, where there otherwise wouldn\u2019t be. So we\u2019ve got to ban e-cigs because they look too real. Yes, the e-cig user is a conspirator to a crime, in essence, that doesn\u2019t exist. You know, I use these things occasionally and I\u2019ve had some funny experiences with them. Last year I was judging the Miss America Pageant out in Las Vegas, and I loved getting on the elevator with all the other judges and some of the Miss America Pageant officials and pulling the thing out of my breast pocket, my jacket pocket, and start puffing.<\/p>\n

You could hear some people muttering. I\u2019d always be in the in front of the elevator with everybody behind me. You could hear the gasps, hear the whispers. ‘He\u2019s smoking a cigarette! What do we do? He\u2019s smoking a cigarette! Oh, my God, what do we do? He can\u2019t smoke. It\u2019s elevator!\u2019 I hear all this and I keep puffing away, and I turn around and I say, ‘Did you see me light it?\u2019 I pulled it out of my pocket. ‘Here, let me show you. It\u2019s an e-cig, it\u2019s just water vapor,\u2019 and I blow some very near somebody\u2019s face. (sniff, sniff) ‘Oh, I don\u2019t even smell it.\u2019 ‘That\u2019s right it\u2019s not a cigarette,\u2019 and I let \u2019em in on the gag. ‘I just love pulling the thing out in an elevator and freaking people out like I just did you,\u2019 and they all start laughing like they\u2019re in on the joke. <\/p>\n

I will do this in a restaurant, much to the chagrin of Kathryn simply because (laughing) she knows I\u2019m taunting people. (interruption) No, nobody else fired up. No, nobody else fired up. In fact, nobody… Well, this past September I was out in Hawaii on the Big Island, and after shooting an episode of The Haney Project — by the way, we\u2019ve got six of those in the can now, and there are eight. We\u2019ve got two to go. The last portion of the last episode was shot Saturday in Hilton Head at a great, great place, Palmetto Golf Club. Not Hilton Head Island. It was about 54 degrees and raining all day long, and it was a great day. This is gonna be great.<\/p>\n

If you watch every episode (it starts January 11th, a half hour show) — we have eight episodes and we\u2019ve got six in the can — I\u2019ve been improving through the episodes. Oh, it\u2019s fun. People are gonna be shocked and they\u2019re gonna be mad that I\u2019m getting better. But, anyway, back to the story. After shooting an episode in Hawaii on the Big Island (we shot it at a Four Seasons course there), the after-round interview with me and the producer and Hank Haney and some of my guys on the shoot (my friends George Brett and Mike Hartley, they all were interviewed about my game and so forth). We finished all that, and we went to the bar — a great outdoor bar, great Four Seasons bar on the Big Island — and I whipped out my e-cig, and I started smoking it. <\/p>\n

For ten minutes, total freedom, and then the general manager came up. He was very sheepish, embarrassed, but he had to do his job. ‘Mr. Limbaugh, I — I — I — I — I know you\u2019re aware that there\u2019s no smoking allowed in public here, and there are people eating over there,\u2019 and there were people eating about 20 yards away, outside. I looked at him and I said, ‘It\u2019s not a cigarette,\u2019 and I unscrewed the nicotine cartridge and I showed him the battery. These people think it\u2019s cigarette because the end of it lights up. It looks like a cigarette at the end when you take a puff on it. It\u2019s actually the battery indicator. When it flashes three times, the battery\u2019s dead. So I said, ‘It\u2019s just water vapor,\u2019 and I explained and I exhaled some water vapor near him so he could smell it.<\/p>\n

There wasn\u2019t any smell. He said, ‘Ohhhh, that\u2019s fine! Okay, fine.\u2019 So I continue to smoke. He came back a short while later and said, ‘Mr. Limbaugh, we\u2019re still getting some customer complaints.\u2019 <\/p>\n

I said, ‘Why?\u2019 <\/p>\n

‘Well, one woman says you look like you\u2019re enjoying yourself so much and it could be setting a bad example for the children that are here with their parents. You\u2019re looking like you really enjoy it, and it might be tempting children to want to smoke.\u2019<\/p>\n

I said, ‘Who said this?\u2019 <\/p>\n

‘Oh, Mr. Limbaugh, I — I — I don\u2019t want to say. It\u2019s one of our female patrons.\u2019 <\/p>\n

So I said, ‘Well, I\u2019ll keep that in my mind. I\u2019ll keep that in my mind,\u2019 and I put it down for a while and started looking around. ‘Cause, you know, I have been trained now over these many years. I can spot those who are staring daggers to me. So I did. I let some time go by. I did not look at the crowd gathered after the general manager left. In fact, I looked a little ticked off as part of the act so that whoever it was that was complaining would feel good. ‘Ah, we succeeded! Limbaugh\u2019s ticked off.\u2019 So after about ten more minutes, I started looking around, and I found two or three really good suspects who it could have been. I found two or three. You recognize a genuine smile, you recognize a smug stare, and you recognize daggers. You just do. It\u2019s a matter of learned security procedure. <\/p>\n

So when I thought I had figured out these top three (they were in different areas) I picked it back up and took a puff facing each direction. Just to let them know that their happiness was temporary, and the GM never showed up, didn\u2019t come back or anything, and then we left I guess another half hour later. We were there an hour and a half so we left about a half hour after that. And of course all my buddies, there\u2019s nine of us there, and they\u2019re all in on the joke. I even gave one to Hartley. Hartley started puffing on one, so that ticked \u2019em off even more. I just know that did it. I didn\u2019t see it, nobody came up and said so, but I just know it. Folks, it\u2019s just me. You know, these nannies, these people who want to butt their noses into my life. I wasn\u2019t hurting these people, I wasn\u2019t harming anybody, I was minding my own business.<\/p>\n

But they had to go and get the management and insert themselves into my affairs. Fine. You do that, I\u2019m gonna behave a certain way. Now, if I was breaking the law, if it was a cigarette, I woulda never lit it up in the first place. We all know you can\u2019t smoke in public. I don\u2019t smoke cigarettes anyway. I would not have lit one — or lighted one, whatever the correct way to say it. But here we are now in King County, Washington, they\u2019re gonna ban these things all because it might send a signal to real smokers that they can light up, and that will create secondhand smoke. Co-conspirators to a crime not taking place. King County: The place in Washington where you steal as many votes as you need if you\u2019re a Democrat, where they have more votes than voters, but don\u2019t dare light an e-cig. <\/p>\n

It\u2019s like everybody is all bent out of shape over that Jets coach, that Jets coach who tripped the Dolphins player. By the way, he\u2019s been suspended for the rest of the season and fined $25,000, which is a big number for him. An assistant coach at most will make a hundred thousand dollars in the NFL, at most. So that $25,000 fine is a big hit for that guy. He\u2019s not a player. Everybody is just outraged. ‘Oh, how could this happen? This is horrible!\u2019 Nobody gets as outraged over voter fraud or ACORN or anything else. So now this. So life is what it is, folks, and you gotta take moments like this and make them as much fun as you can, and there\u2019s no more fun than just taunting the left. I mean, just hoisting them on their own petard. I just love it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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