Republicans claim to oppose abortion but they do not opposing smoking and big tobacco?

Question

See Yahoo! story about 100,000 second hand smoke deaths in China. My mother in law died from second hand smoke because her husband smoked, she did not smoke. Don't tell me that it doesn't happen. How can the religious right close their eyes to Republican corruption, support of the tobacco business, thousands of deaths for the freedom of Iraq which has laws to execute any Moslim that converts to Christianity?

I think Christians should try to be more Christ like than to be political, hateful and divisive. Polictics is the opposite of Christianity. Division and hatred vs. love of Christ and each other.

Answer 1

Abortion is just a vote getting issue for the republican party. Right wingers get abortions almost as much as left wingers, they just don't like to tell you about their dirty little secret. As an example, Giuliani supposedly has donated to Planned parent hood three times in the last 10 years, but when you look at the amount he donated, it appears that he paid for three different abortions.

The tobacco issue revolves around the fact that the tobacco industry donates allot of money to the republican's campaign funds.

Answer 2

It does happen - you spend your life in a small room watching tv with a husband who smokes, you get lung cancer too. It happened to my grandmother.

All we're suggesting is that if your exposure to second hand smoke consisted of tending bar two nights a week in a tavern that allowed smoking, to defray your grad school tuition, and you get cancer 40 years later, it's a bit over the top to be suing the tavern and the tobacco companies.

We're also saying that people of all ages are bombarded with anti-smoking messages and have been since the early 1970s - I watched TV then and I swear every other commercial break there was that wolf who couldn't blow the pigs' door down because he was smoking. People see "smoking kills you" - at the expense of the taxpayers and the tobacco companies themselves - more often than they see a lizard selling car insurance.

So we also say that given that bombardment of anti-smoking messages, if you chose to lit up anyway, and down the road you get lung cancer, it's over the top for you to be suing the tobacco companies.

Might as well hit yourself over the head with a baseball bat and sue Hillerich & Bradsby.

Answer 3

Same reason Libertarians want to end the death penalty. Abortion and the death penalty are legalized murder. Republicans and Libertarians agree on Tobacco though, the government should not impose on your freedom. Don't like smoke? then get out. I am a non smoker and I can't stand it, so I leave. Woooptedooo no legislation required. Cultural standards stipulate where you can and can not smoke, not the government. You give up tobacco and prohibition will be back, then they will ban trans fat (my dad died of a heart attack), excessive sugar, car driving ( the leading cause of death), guns, pest control products, swimming pools, toxic gases, chemicals, airplanes, trains, wild animals, and anything else that causes death. People die, they are going to anyway. We shouldn't legislate against anything that does not bring instant death (smoking). Get over it and quit getting into everyones bussines. FACT CHECK 6% OF IRAQ WAS CHRISTIAN BEFORE THE INVATION AND STILL IS!!!!!

Answer 4

I do not mean to offend you or your mother's memory but smoking and being exposed to second hand smoke is a choice. I do not know the details of her situation but most people are exposed to smoke by force but rather by choice. A fetus that is aborted has no say in its abortion. The mother decides whether or not to get an abortion. The innocent fetus has no choice. I hope you can understand, that their is a difference.

Answer 5

Seems like somebody is putting words in other's mouths.

I think smoking is awful, but it is a choice people make with their OWN bodies.

If abortion was a choice by people's OWN bodies, the fetus would make the decision, and since it is to young to speak for itself, you must preserve it's life.

However, corruption has invaded BOTH parties, and if you don't see that you are plain ignorant. It is a problem we all must deal with.

Answer 6

There is no doubt that smoking can kill, it's a choice an adult makes for themselves.
There is no doubt that abortion kills, It's a choice that an adult makes for a baby.

Smoking kills..but not reliably..
Abortion kills almost every time on the first try...

416,000 smoking related deaths each year.
1,300,000+ abortion deaths each year.
not even in the same arena...

I do not support smoking either.

Answer 7

It is called free will. People can chose to smoke or not smoke, they can chose to be with smokers or away from them. Babies killed in abortions have no say in the process. They are at the mercy or lack of mercy from others. Do you get the difference?

Answer 8

First of all, not all Republicans are anti-abortion. Second, not all Republicans are Christian. Third, not all anti-abortion activists are Republican. Forth, not all Christians are Republican. Generalizations are the mark of fuzzy thinking.

Sorry about your mother-in-law.

Answer 9

Babies are innocent adults who smoke aren't. Tobbacco makes over a billion dollars a year in the US so if people wanta somke let them.

Answer 10

Sorry to hear about your mother-in-law, but she did "choose" to be around her husband who smoked, who "chose" to smoke.

Baby's killed inside the womb have no choice whatsoever.