[Lancaster Online]

[dee]

Ahhh yes. Why should she pay cigarette taxes when an innocent child could die of TB? The insanity?!?! I always agree with her stance on welfare, but to deny a child who did nothing wrong (for example - have children before being able to afford it, start a disgusting habit anyone with a brain knows will kill you and make you full of ugly wrinkles, etc) vaccinations and basic health care is just morally wrong. Who should they tax to pay for CHIP Paula? Homeowners? Homosexuals? Speeders? Cocaine addicts? Nah, smokers is just fine with me, and apparently with the millions of other PA voters. Majority rules, sorry about your luck smokers.

[A1]

and make you full of ugly wrinkles, etc)

Just when can I expect that to happen? It never hurts to be prepared.

[dee]

Just when can I expect that to happen? It never hurts to be prepared.

Being witty and making me laugh out loud on a regular makes you immune to wrinkles, so you are good.

[A1]

Being witty and making me laugh out loud on a regular makes you immune to wrinkles, so you are good.

Thanks. I'll cancel my appointment with Dr. Funk.

[twinmom]

Is there no one else in this county who writes letters to the editor?!

[A1]

Is there no one else in this county who writes letters to the editor?!

I think they're all going to the Post under the name of anonymous.

[justplainjoe]

why not do what others have done...grow your own.

[dee]

Is there no one else in this county who writes letters to the editor?!

Years ago, I worked for the paper and at that time there was a man who wrote letters all the time and the guys in that dept. would pass around his letters every time they came in and it was a big joke. Most of his didn't make it to press, but ones that did were still the most anyone had written. Every time I read one of her LTE, I have a chuckle thinking of my old friends at that paper laughing at her expense. "Hey guys, come look, another letter from Paula Luciano! I wonder if she wrote today to tell us about something she likes, or something that makes her happy"

Thanks. I'll cancel my appointment with Dr. Funk.

Dr. Funk? Girl, go global, its all about Dr. Daniel Serrano now!

This post has been edited by dee: 23 June 2008 - 02:41 PM

[pml]

I will say no one is more surprised than me that my letters are getting published except for the fact that I have found in the past when you respond to a letter and the topic is relevant, you get published especially when taking the opposite view. I have written several letters on the healthcare issue that never see the light of day. I do think it is important for people who do not agree with the government running private businesses to speak their mind and since most smokers have taken the stance of cowards, those of us unafraid to stand up for ourselves have a duty to speak up. By the way I am 43 and consistentaly get mistaken for someon in their thirties so I don;t know if it is the cigs or the wine but so far I do not look my age. I think the title of the letter says it all. Paranoia. I know since my cousin got skin cancer her kids are nuts about slathering on sunscreen to the point whear their legs are actually bright white. It is beyond ridiculous.

[podunk]

Tell your cousin to investigate the ingredients in sunscreen and then tell us what caused the skin cancer.

[pml]

Well the doctors say the sun caused the cancer but she was lucky because she had the easiest form to treat, the basil cell. It is kind of like I believe years from now they will say that while all the smoking cessation drugs stopped you from smoking, now they have just done some kind of study or other that says nicorette gum causes mouth cancer or something crazy like birth control causing breast cancer and blood clots. Everything causes something. I look good with a tan so oh well. God will take me when he wants me. I feel I have very little choice in the matter. I jsut wish everyone else would come to that conclusion.

[Michael Jordan]

I think they're all going to the Post under the name of anonymous.

Hilarious.... not often do I laugh out loud at internet postings, but this is a good one.

[Hope]

I think they're all going to the Post under the name of anonymous.

And I thought only their contributors were permitted to do that.

[Buttercup]

Ahhh yes. Why should she pay cigarette taxes when an innocent child could die of TB? The insanity?!?! I always agree with her stance on welfare, but to deny a child who did nothing wrong (for example - have children before being able to afford it, start a disgusting habit anyone with a brain knows will kill you and make you full of ugly wrinkles, etc) vaccinations and basic health care is just morally wrong. Who should they tax to pay for CHIP Paula? Homeowners? Homosexuals? Speeders? Cocaine addicts? Nah, smokers is just fine with me, and apparently with the millions of other PA voters. Majority rules, sorry about your luck smokers.

Even though I'm a smoker myself, I have to agree with Dee. I do not believe that as a smoker I should have the "right" to impose my awful habit onto someone else. I do not mind that most of the area restaurants have become non-smoking, I can wait until I'm outside to "light up." If I'm in a public place and want to smoke, I make sure that I stand away from others so that they do not get my second hand smoke unwittingly.



Yes I know that smoking is a terrible filthy habit and it is just as well with me that the exorbitant prices I "choose" to pay for cigarettes go to help children who need it. It is my choice to smoke, and I don't believe that gives me the right to endanger a non-smoker's health.