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Monday, August 18, 2008

North Dakota Government Aims Tobacco Settlement At Tobacco Prohibition Movement

North Dakota’s health bureaucracies are doling out the pound of flesh the trial lawyers chopped out of the tobacco industry to the tobacco prohibitionists who are going to use it to run preachy, marginally effective public service campaigns to get people to stop using tobacco.

This is a preview of what will happen on a much grander scale if the initiated measure to create a permanent fund out of North Dakota’s tobacco settlement money gets passed.

I call these anti-tobacco hordes “prohibitionists” as a reference to the alcohol prohibitionists, but I actually think these modern day Carrie Nations are worse.  They’ve not only figured out how to be more effective, in a more subtle and pervasive way, than Carrie Nation ever was they’ve also figured out how to get other people to fund their meddling.

Comments

Vicki Voldal Rosenau is the tobacco prevention coordinator in Valley City.

She has the typical MO of nannystaters who write letters to the editor, masquerading as concerned citizens and never identifying themselves as lazy, greedy bureaucrats living off of taxpayers!

Kevin on August 18, 2008 at 07:18 pm

These people believe that it is moral to force a soul to their will.

likwidshoe on August 18, 2008 at 09:02 pm
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These are being distributed according to the current law, right, the one the Legislature passed back in the ‘90s? It had 10 percent of so dedicated to “health” issues, including anti-tobacco efforts, so while annoying, it’s nothing new or particularly expansive. Just annoying.

Rick "Carolina" Jameson on August 19, 2008 at 04:58 am
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