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« Reply #30 on: June 16, 2009, 01:51:57 PM » |
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It's not rocket science. Google progressive prohibition.
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« Reply #31 on: June 16, 2009, 01:57:44 PM » |
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so you're specifically looking for sources that for your preconceived ideas?
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« Reply #32 on: June 16, 2009, 02:15:30 PM » |
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If I'm defending my position, isn't that the point.
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« Reply #33 on: June 16, 2009, 02:24:17 PM » |
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No not really If you're discussing the prohibition movement in the US and you then limit your search to "progressive prohibition" you are deliberately elimination any other groups (no matter how large or small) that were involved in the movement.
My own searches show that the Progressive prohibition movement was vastly dwarfed by the religious based temperance movements
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« Reply #34 on: June 16, 2009, 02:34:42 PM » |
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My original knowledge on the subject was as a result of a History channel program a while back (years). I believe it was on Woodrow Wilson. They brought up the fact about progressives pushing through prohibition.
BTW, these progressives and religious based movements I believe are largely one in the same.
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« Reply #35 on: June 16, 2009, 04:27:08 PM » |
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The simple expedient of Googling <prohibition causes> reveals many scholarly works on the subject.
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« Reply #36 on: June 17, 2009, 05:21:40 AM » |
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Did I miss the memo where a time machine brought us all back to a time before government took any interest in the safety of our food and drugs? You mean like in the 1920s when they banned the sale of the drug "alcohol" for the good of the people? After all, no one needs that dangerous additive in their scotch or vodka. From the article linked in the OP: The Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act, as it is called, stops short of empowering the F.D.A. to outlaw smoking or ban nicotine |
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« Reply #37 on: June 17, 2009, 06:26:37 AM » |
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For now.....
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« Reply #38 on: June 17, 2009, 06:59:11 AM » |
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Sure, and if some right-winger suggested that kind of slippery slope about any other Obama administration policy you would be one of the first to dismiss it.
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« Reply #39 on: June 17, 2009, 07:03:35 AM » |
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It depends on what it is.
And this is not a partisan issue. I lived for years in a red state that continually worked to chip away at tobacco. It was taxed more, regulated more, etc.
This is a nationwide trend and it is getting insane.
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« Reply #40 on: June 17, 2009, 07:07:33 AM » |
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Slippery slopes or not, and regardless of the mix of political ideologies involved in pushing for Prohibition, it is indisputable that the pressure for the most draconian, restrictive and intrusive anti-smoking fanaticism comes almost exclusively from the political left.
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« Reply #41 on: June 17, 2009, 07:17:39 AM » |
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And of course, the way you have phrased that makes it impossible to dispute because its meaning is completely subjective and the goalposts are moveable at will.
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« Reply #42 on: June 17, 2009, 10:05:21 AM » |
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San Francisco - the bastion of anti-smoking legislation and right-wing politics! LOL  |
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« Reply #43 on: June 17, 2009, 10:09:13 AM » |
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As if San Francisco is the only place in the world with sweeping bans on smoking in public places?
Apparently your still haven't managed to dislodge your head from inside your ass.
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« Reply #44 on: June 17, 2009, 10:17:01 AM » |
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Apparently your still haven't managed to dislodge your head from inside your ass. ....and you still haven't learned to type. LOL |
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