Smoking and "Doomsday"

I was in a thread the other day about a subject that has little or nothing to do with this, but a person mentioned that maybe the new smoking bans everywhere is a sign that there really will be that doomsday scenario in 2012. I thougth his/her random thought deserved a thread of it's own. The general thought process is that if we really do need to live in bunkers who wants nicotine fitting freak outs going on in the middle of the chaos, or if we have to repopulate the world, who wants nasty smokers doing it.

Now at first I didn't give this much thought, but then I heard a story on my local news this morning that said they are putting an all out smoking ban on the April ballot. This is to include casinos. Let me say, in my city we are a big casino town, with 5 river boat casinos in one county alone and the people who go there are cigar, cigarette smoking, drinking folks. I can't imagine banning smoking from the boats.

Here's the deal, the government makes a ton of money off of smokers and drinkers. It's called the sin tax, it pays for all kinds of things, why on earth does the government want to ban something that is so profitable for them? If they ban smoking everywhere, people will just get frustrated and quit, now where is all that sin tax money going to come from? Or they will get frustrated and not frequent businesses that ban smoking as often as they normally would. Now you have a decrease in profits for these businesses which = less taxes they shell out or they go out of business which = no taxes from them at all.

I just don't get it. Why is the government spending so much time trying to force us to quit something that makes them such a great deal of money? And really in my part of the country this just started happening within the last year and a half. It is a little bit frightening. Could it relate to a doomsday? Who knows. Just wanted to throw this out there and see what y'all thought.

Later, peace and chicken grease,
Cowgirl

I'm sorry, but this theory is just ridiculous.

First of all, there is no way there would be enough bunkers for all of us.

And even if there were, smokers would just be forced not to smoke in there. (Even tho i have a feeling in the government bunkers the officials would be allowed )

Besides, all these smoking bans don't really make anyone stop smoking. They're just inconvenient for smokers, but i haven't seen many people stop because of them.

And for this same reason, the government doesn't really lose any money, since smoking is not going to stop because of this inconvenience.


Smoking bans do NOT proove Planet X (or anything related to 2012) exists!

The only thing this "theory" prooves, is that when people believe something, they start seeing it everywhere.

[edit on 10-1-2008 by deezee]