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	<title>Comments on: Smoking should not be growth industry</title>
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		<title>By: Nelly</title>
		<link>http://blogs.kansas.com/weblog/2008/05/smoking-should-not-be-growth-industry/#comment-368537</link>
		<dc:creator>Nelly</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Jun 2008 10:32:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<link>http://blogs.kansas.com/weblog/2008/05/smoking-should-not-be-growth-industry/#comment-368532</link>
		<dc:creator>Mura</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Jun 2008 10:27:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<link>http://blogs.kansas.com/weblog/2008/05/smoking-should-not-be-growth-industry/#comment-368529</link>
		<dc:creator>Haree</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Jun 2008 10:17:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<link>http://blogs.kansas.com/weblog/2008/05/smoking-should-not-be-growth-industry/#comment-368510</link>
		<dc:creator>Arnie</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Jun 2008 08:00:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>By: Haree</title>
		<link>http://blogs.kansas.com/weblog/2008/05/smoking-should-not-be-growth-industry/#comment-368508</link>
		<dc:creator>Haree</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Jun 2008 07:58:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>By: Bill</title>
		<link>http://blogs.kansas.com/weblog/2008/05/smoking-should-not-be-growth-industry/#comment-368505</link>
		<dc:creator>Bill</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Jun 2008 07:56:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>By: Jane</title>
		<link>http://blogs.kansas.com/weblog/2008/05/smoking-should-not-be-growth-industry/#comment-368484</link>
		<dc:creator>Jane</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Jun 2008 06:20:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>By: Arnie</title>
		<link>http://blogs.kansas.com/weblog/2008/05/smoking-should-not-be-growth-industry/#comment-368478</link>
		<dc:creator>Arnie</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Jun 2008 06:19:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>By: Hero</title>
		<link>http://blogs.kansas.com/weblog/2008/05/smoking-should-not-be-growth-industry/#comment-368477</link>
		<dc:creator>Hero</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Jun 2008 06:16:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>By: Tifany</title>
		<link>http://blogs.kansas.com/weblog/2008/05/smoking-should-not-be-growth-industry/#comment-368456</link>
		<dc:creator>Tifany</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Jun 2008 04:32:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>By: Dominic</title>
		<link>http://blogs.kansas.com/weblog/2008/05/smoking-should-not-be-growth-industry/#comment-368452</link>
		<dc:creator>Dominic</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Jun 2008 04:31:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>By: Rokko</title>
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		<dc:creator>Rokko</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Jun 2008 04:29:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hello admin,  nice site you have! 9c4779</p>
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		<title>By: Mura</title>
		<link>http://blogs.kansas.com/weblog/2008/05/smoking-should-not-be-growth-industry/#comment-368402</link>
		<dc:creator>Mura</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Jun 2008 02:43:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>By: Heel</title>
		<link>http://blogs.kansas.com/weblog/2008/05/smoking-should-not-be-growth-industry/#comment-368400</link>
		<dc:creator>Heel</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Jun 2008 02:41:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>It&#039;s a very good site !! Very nice work, admin :) Good luck ! 9c4779</description>
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		<title>By: Arnie</title>
		<link>http://blogs.kansas.com/weblog/2008/05/smoking-should-not-be-growth-industry/#comment-368374</link>
		<dc:creator>Arnie</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Jun 2008 00:49:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Good work, webmaster! Nice site! 9c4779</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Good work, webmaster! Nice site! 9c4779</p>
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		<title>By: Funkie</title>
		<link>http://blogs.kansas.com/weblog/2008/05/smoking-should-not-be-growth-industry/#comment-368371</link>
		<dc:creator>Funkie</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Jun 2008 00:47:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Very nice design ;) Good work,webmaster! 9c4779</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Very nice design ;) Good work,webmaster! 9c4779</p>
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		<title>By: Damn</title>
		<link>http://blogs.kansas.com/weblog/2008/05/smoking-should-not-be-growth-industry/#comment-368368</link>
		<dc:creator>Damn</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Jun 2008 00:46:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Very good site, greate content !! 9c4779</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Very good site, greate content !! 9c4779</p>
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		<title>By: smoking related illnesses</title>
		<link>http://blogs.kansas.com/weblog/2008/05/smoking-should-not-be-growth-industry/#comment-363389</link>
		<dc:creator>smoking related illnesses</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jun 2008 09:50:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] At least that??s what seems to have happened, judging from a new Kansas Department of Health and Envhttp://blogs.kansas.com/weblog/2008/05/smoking-should-not-be-growth-industry/Quit or die, says specialist Khaleej TimesDUBAI ?? Over 25 per cent of total deaths in men are [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] At least that??s what seems to have happened, judging from a new Kansas Department of Health and Envhttp://blogs.kansas.com/weblog/2008/05/smoking-should-not-be-growth-industry/Quit or die, says specialist Khaleej TimesDUBAI ?? Over 25 per cent of total deaths in men are [...]</p>
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		<title>By: Mary_Caruso</title>
		<link>http://blogs.kansas.com/weblog/2008/05/smoking-should-not-be-growth-industry/#comment-360277</link>
		<dc:creator>Mary_Caruso</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 May 2008 12:06:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&quot;Well, if the state robbers tax the sin, they should celebrate the fact there are more sinners.&quot;

Just think of how much money it would SAVE the taxpayers if everyone quit smoking by not having to treat smoking related illness.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;Well, if the state robbers tax the sin, they should celebrate the fact there are more sinners.&#8221;</p>
<p>Just think of how much money it would SAVE the taxpayers if everyone quit smoking by not having to treat smoking related illness.</p>
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		<title>By: Mary_Caruso</title>
		<link>http://blogs.kansas.com/weblog/2008/05/smoking-should-not-be-growth-industry/#comment-360276</link>
		<dc:creator>Mary_Caruso</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 May 2008 12:03:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>They didn&#039;t add the fact that in Kansas alone over $900 million is spent on taking care of people who have smoking realted illness...only $200 million goes for Medicaid recipients.
It costs so much to take care of these people in the final days of their lives it&#039;s crazy...and the death they suffer is long, tedious, and horrible.
I never met anyone dying from emphysemia who didn&#039;t think the biggest mistake in their life was to start smoking. Young people are not in touch with their own mortality...and by the time a person becomes aware of the devastation cigarettes cause to their health, it&#039;s often too late.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>They didn&#8217;t add the fact that in Kansas alone over $900 million is spent on taking care of people who have smoking realted illness&#8230;only $200 million goes for Medicaid recipients.<br />
It costs so much to take care of these people in the final days of their lives it&#8217;s crazy&#8230;and the death they suffer is long, tedious, and horrible.<br />
I never met anyone dying from emphysemia who didn&#8217;t think the biggest mistake in their life was to start smoking. Young people are not in touch with their own mortality&#8230;and by the time a person becomes aware of the devastation cigarettes cause to their health, it&#8217;s often too late.</p>
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		<title>By: Kev</title>
		<link>http://blogs.kansas.com/weblog/2008/05/smoking-should-not-be-growth-industry/#comment-360259</link>
		<dc:creator>Kev</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 May 2008 10:23:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&quot;&quot;&quot; have to respectfully disagree, TomP.

Certainly, smoking isn’t illegal, so people do have the right to smoke still.&quot;&quot;&quot;

Taking a .357 Magnum and placing it against your head and pulling the trigger is not illegal either. And even if it was, well, so what? Doing that would actually be better than taking up smoking. It is much faster and less painful then laying in bed as cancer eats your organs little by little as you suffocate on your own vomit because you can&#039;t breathe anymore.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;&#8221;" have to respectfully disagree, TomP.</p>
<p>Certainly, smoking isn’t illegal, so people do have the right to smoke still.&#8221;"&#8221;</p>
<p>Taking a .357 Magnum and placing it against your head and pulling the trigger is not illegal either. And even if it was, well, so what? Doing that would actually be better than taking up smoking. It is much faster and less painful then laying in bed as cancer eats your organs little by little as you suffocate on your own vomit because you can&#8217;t breathe anymore.</p>
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		<title>By: Kev</title>
		<link>http://blogs.kansas.com/weblog/2008/05/smoking-should-not-be-growth-industry/#comment-360258</link>
		<dc:creator>Kev</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 May 2008 10:19:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>If the percentage of people in Kansas who SMOKE cigarettes is going up, my guess would be that the average IQ in Kansas would be GOING down. They kind of run inversely to each other because nobody but a dumb ass would take up smoking cigarettes these days. But it would be a good thing for the country since few of them will live to collect Social Security, it will leave more for the 80% of us who are smart enough not to kill ourselves!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If the percentage of people in Kansas who SMOKE cigarettes is going up, my guess would be that the average IQ in Kansas would be GOING down. They kind of run inversely to each other because nobody but a dumb ass would take up smoking cigarettes these days. But it would be a good thing for the country since few of them will live to collect Social Security, it will leave more for the 80% of us who are smart enough not to kill ourselves!</p>
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		<title>By: SolDevVB</title>
		<link>http://blogs.kansas.com/weblog/2008/05/smoking-should-not-be-growth-industry/#comment-359820</link>
		<dc:creator>SolDevVB</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 May 2008 18:34:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;i&gt;Kids taking poison should be none-of-my business.&lt;/i&gt;

Unless it is your kid, you&#039;re damn right. Stay out of other people&#039;s lives.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><i>Kids taking poison should be none-of-my business.</i></p>
<p>Unless it is your kid, you&#8217;re damn right. Stay out of other people&#8217;s lives.</p>
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		<title>By: darkanonm</title>
		<link>http://blogs.kansas.com/weblog/2008/05/smoking-should-not-be-growth-industry/#comment-359797</link>
		<dc:creator>darkanonm</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 May 2008 17:51:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Well, if the state robbers tax the sin, they should celebrate the fact there are more sinners.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Well, if the state robbers tax the sin, they should celebrate the fact there are more sinners.</p>
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		<title>By: CapnAmerica</title>
		<link>http://blogs.kansas.com/weblog/2008/05/smoking-should-not-be-growth-industry/#comment-359790</link>
		<dc:creator>CapnAmerica</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 May 2008 17:33:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Okay, right, Sol.

Kids taking poison should be none-of-my business.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Okay, right, Sol.</p>
<p>Kids taking poison should be none-of-my business.</p>
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