Bill Gates and Michael Bloomberg want you to stop smoking

Microsoft founder Bill Gates and New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg are pooling their piles of money and pouring $375 million into a global effort to cut smoking.

The billionaire philanthropists, who have a combined worth of more than $70 billion, said Wednesday that the money from their foundations will go toward efforts in developing countries where tobacco use is highest. There are more than 1 billion smokers worldwide.

I have a better idea of what they could do with that money. How about help their own fellow Americans out who are about to lose their homes or maybe give money to school districts that are having problems? What about the people of flood ravaged Iowa or the stragglers still left over from Katrina? That $375 million can go along way doing something more important than fighting the “global smoking” problem.

These two have nothing else better to do? Who the “F” do these freaks think they are? First of all I don’t smoke, my dad did and it was disgusting to breathe everyday. But, if people want to smoke let them smoke. I think this country has done enough with smoking bans at work and in public places. Smoking can cause Cancer, but it doesn’t mean that you are guaranteed to get Cancer. You can get Cancer from anything nowadays. Hell, they are finding out cell phones can cause Cancer. The sun can cause Cancer. I love to sit in it and suck in all those Cancer rays and get a nice glowing tan. I LOVE IT! You know what? I really don’t give a shit about what causes Cancer.

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5 Responses to “Bill Gates and Michael Bloomberg want you to stop smoking”

Francis Says:
July 24th, 2008 at 1:20 pm
Smoking cigarettes is not a right, it is just a personal habit. Many court decisions have made this clear.

Your freedom to smoke is unquestioned so long as you do not impose your habit on others without their consent. You are free to smoke in private just as you can pick your nose, fart, masturbate or spit, in the privacy of your own home. This does NOT give you some “right” to compel others to put up with your personal behavior in their presence.

The problem is that some smokers imagine that their dirty personal habit must be endured by unconsenting others. The morality of smoking where it affects others is like the morality of rape - it is indulgence of a personal desire that affects others without their consent.

Smoking in public isn’t just dirty, like spitting in public. It is an act of assault.

Nobody in Western society smoked until walter Raleigh brought tobacco to Europe 400 years ago. We will all be better off when this social aberration is history. If Gates and Bloomberg can hasten the day, more power to them.
Roger Says:
July 24th, 2008 at 3:25 pm
I agree with Francis. We have rights and freedoms as long as they don’t infringe on the right’s of others.

If I go to a bar or restaurant and have to suck down second hand smoke then my rights are being infringed upon. I have the right to not get cancer from these people who engage in this disgusting habit.

Smokers need to stop complaining and shut the hell up. Just because you feel that your own life is worthless and don’t care if you have a hole cut in your throat and and an oxygen tank strapped to your back, don’t bring the rest of us down with you. You Assholes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
John Says:
July 25th, 2008 at 2:09 pm
Courts have not decided that smoking is not a right. They have decided that smoking in public areas is not a right.

Equating second hand smoke with rape and assault is being a little bit hysterical, Francis.

If you go to a bar that has decided to allow its patrons to smoke and you disagree with this, you have the right to leave the bar. Unfortunately, our nanny staters have decided to ban smoking in all bars in some places. People go to bars to consume alcoholic beverages which are essentially poisonous to our systems. Smoking is no different. I can see the argument for no smoking in an eating establishment, but I still think it should be up to the owner of the restaurant.

And yes, this is a retarded use of millions of dollars by Bill Gates.
Mike Says:
July 28th, 2008 at 3:57 pm
You don’t even need courts to see the truth in what John says here.

Private property? Owner’s rules. Don’t like it? Get the hell out, or convince the owner to change the policy. Just don’t come around with your cops and your guns and your social engineering.
Tamra Says:
December 18th, 2008 at 6:17 am
Just stopped by, nice blog!