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Gato Moteado

(9,850 posts) Mon Dec 16, 2013, 01:07 PM Dec 2013

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help me bury a right wing nut on another forum....looking for quotes by GOP politicians claiming....

....that tobacco smoke does not cause cancer.

any help would be greatly appreciated.

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help me bury a right wing nut on another forum....looking for quotes by GOP politicians claiming.... (Original Post) Gato Moteado Dec 2013 OP

This may help. JaneyVee Dec 2013 #1

Gotta go with the classics jberryhill Dec 2013 #2

This is interesting... SummerSnow Dec 2013 #3

Here, try this link Capt. Obvious Dec 2013 #4

lemme help you help the OP and go a step further: Raine1967 Dec 2013 #6

LOL Capt. Obvious Dec 2013 #7

Good one! calimary Dec 2013 #8

i have heard that it isnt so much the tobacco but all the additives that go into it leftyohiolib Dec 2013 #5

Don't forget Bib Dole shilling for big tobacco... msanthrope Dec 2013 #9

thanks for all the links, folks! Gato Moteado Dec 2013 #10

The current Speaker of the House passed out tobacco checks on the floor of the House Bandit Dec 2013 #11

JaneyVee

(19,877 posts)

1. This may help.

Reply to Gato Moteado (Original post)

Mon Dec 16, 2013, 01:10 PM

Dec 2013

2nd paragraph: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Heartland_Institute

And this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Heartland_Institute#Smoking

jberryhill

(62,444 posts)

2. Gotta go with the classics

Reply to Gato Moteado (Original post)

Mon Dec 16, 2013, 01:18 PM

Dec 2013

SummerSnow

(12,608 posts)

3. This is interesting...

Reply to Gato Moteado (Original post)

Mon Dec 16, 2013, 01:18 PM

Dec 2013

http://www.propublica.org/article/congressman-who-compared-cigarettes-lettuce-becomes-rj-reynolds-lobbyist

Capt. Obvious

(9,002 posts)

4. Here, try this link

Reply to Gato Moteado (Original post)

Mon Dec 16, 2013, 01:22 PM

Dec 2013

https://www.google.com/

Raine1967

(11,589 posts)

6. lemme help you help the OP and go a step further:

Reply to Capt. Obvious (Reply #4)

Mon Dec 16, 2013, 01:52 PM

Dec 2013

http://bit.ly/1heqVjl

Capt. Obvious

(9,002 posts)

7. LOL

Reply to Raine1967 (Reply #6)

Mon Dec 16, 2013, 01:54 PM

Dec 2013

That was fun

calimary

(81,139 posts)

8. Good one!

Reply to Raine1967 (Reply #6)

Mon Dec 16, 2013, 01:54 PM

Dec 2013

leftyohiolib

(5,917 posts)

5. i have heard that it isnt so much the tobacco but all the additives that go into it

Reply to Gato Moteado (Original post)

Mon Dec 16, 2013, 01:28 PM

Dec 2013

but why argue with a right winger about this tell him to smoke up, the more the merrier

msanthrope

(37,549 posts)

9. Don't forget Bib Dole shilling for big tobacco...

Reply to Gato Moteado (Original post)

Mon Dec 16, 2013, 02:03 PM

Dec 2013

http://www.nytimes.com/1996/07/03/us/dole-criticizes-role-of-press-and-foes-in-tobacco-debate.html

Gato Moteado

(9,850 posts)

10. thanks for all the links, folks!

Reply to Gato Moteado (Original post)

Mon Dec 16, 2013, 02:28 PM

Dec 2013

i had previously found the rep steve buyer quotes, but that wasn't good enough for the partisan GOPers in the forum, because he was no longer a rep. i seem to remember GOP politicians siding with tobacco industry execs when they appeared before congress saying that cigs don't cause cancer.

Bandit

(21,475 posts)

11. The current Speaker of the House passed out tobacco checks on the floor of the House

Reply to Gato Moteado (Reply #10)

Mon Dec 16, 2013, 02:45 PM

Dec 2013

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