He also wrote an op-ed about waiting until the evidence is in on this cigarette thing before we pass these tax laws.
You might think this was written in the 50's. Or maybe even, giving old Mike the benefit of the doubt, the early 80's or something.
Nope. 2000.
http://web.archive.org/web/2001041508534...smoke.html
Mike Pence Wrote:In the coming weeks, Americans are going to be treated with the worst kind of Washington-speak regarding the tobacco legislation currently being considered by the Congress and Attorney Generals from forty different states. We will hear about the scourge of tobacco and the resultant premature deaths. We will hear about how this phalanx of government elates has suddenly grown a conscience after decades of subsidizing the product which, we are now told, "kills millions of Americans each year".
Time for a quick reality check. Despite the hysteria from the political class and the media, smoking doesn't kill.
You might think this was written in the 50's. Or maybe even, giving old Mike the benefit of the doubt, the early 80's or something.
Nope. 2000.
http://web.archive.org/web/2001041508534...smoke.html
"There remain four irreducible objections to religious faith: that it wholly misrepresents the origins of man and the cosmos, that because of this original error it manages to combine the maximum servility with the maximum of solipsism, that it is both the result and the cause of dangerous sexual repression, and that it is ultimately grounded on wish-thinking." ~Christopher Hitchens, god is not Great
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