(10-26-2019, 11:04 PM)flsprtsgod Wrote:

(10-26-2019, 07:23 PM)mikesez Wrote: Help me understand what you mean.
The number of people who smoke in this state and in this country is down, is it not?
Sounds like the tax worked.
No one ever said that the tax would eliminate tobacco use.

And what happens to the funds that the vice tax provides once the number of participants declines?

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(10-26-2019, 08:50 PM)copycat Wrote: Because the industrial military complex was directly responsible for the melting of the icecaps during the last global thaw?

At what point can this discussion ever become centered?  I grew up on a a farm at one of the highest points in Meigs County Ohio.  There was an exposed boulder that was my sanctuary.  Upon this boulder there are numerous ocean fossils.  No man existed when these were placed upon that rock.  Can any of you climate change extremest explain this to me?  By the same token, we continue to cut down trees, pave roads, put up concrete and buildings.  Can any of you climate change deniers explain to how this does not affect our environment?  My God why do we continue to let the extreme views and opinions define the scope of the discussion?

You do know that we have more trees today globally than we did 100 years ago, yes? That all that cutting and paving and concrete didn't reduce the trees on Earth a bit?