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Politics : Support the French! Viva Democracy! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: zonder who wrote (2673)	8/25/2003 12:53:04 PM
From: average joe	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 7834

Yes zonder, I suppose you have done an indepth study of French cuisine just like that one you did on the Masons. I'm not very impressed with your Jeane Calment. "Action on Smoking Second Hand and Other Legal Experiments August 4 -- A.S.S.H.O.L.E president Dr. John Banzmoke today announced the smoke-related death of the world's oldest person, Jeanne Calment of France, who was 122. "It serves her right," says Banzmoke in a speech given this morning at the National Press Club in Washington. "If you smoke, you are going to die. Period. And this just goes to prove it once again." "Golly, she should have known better at her age," he added. Banzmoke said he hoped to use the occasion of the woman's death to call for new legislation banning the sale of cigarettes to minors under the age of 18 and to adults over the age of 17. "We have to legislate both ends of the life cycle," he said. "And this is the only way we can do it." Banzmoke, who was joined at the lectern by his colleagues and mentors Dr. C. Evera Krook and Congressman Henry Wackoman, said that the fact that the woman was a smoker and lived a long life does not mean their statistics are a fraud. "On the contrary," he continued, "it proves our point all the more effectively. Because if you can get away with smoking for a whole century like this damn woman did, that only goes to show how important it is to pass our legislation." Dr. Krook added that this incident shows conclusively that all deaths are smoke related deaths. Rep. Wackoman promised to introduce the bill in September. "I think that making the sale of cigarettes a capital offense is a bit too much for now. But later we will do that. Otherwise, with modern medicine always making advances, we might end up waiting a century for all the other smokers to die, too." forces.org