Today I would like to focus on our society…..things been done in our name…..things that we should keep an eye on…….closely……..there could be more afoot than there seems.

We have all heard the one liner of the “nanny state”…..you know where the state makes all your decisions for you…..we have railed against it because….well we are Americans, the rugged individualists that we are……..but slowly we are becoming just that……we are told about what we are allowed to eat…..or drink…..,and especially what we are to smoke.

I know smoking is a disgusting habit and it can cause health problems or death…..but we know that….why?  It is written on EVERY pack we buy and has been for decades….but yet we are not smart enough to make the decision on our own…..we need the society to protect us from ourselves…..

Full disclosure…..I smoke….like it or not….it is NOT your decision…it is mine….and if one does not like my habit then stay the Hell away from me!  Or learn to hold your breath while I smoke.

Recently there was a chain, CVS (I believe), that decided not to any longer sell tobacco products……cool it is there decision……but it looks like it is not going to be there decision any longer……

A bipartisan group of attorneys general has a message for America’s major retailers: It’s time to stop selling cigarettes. The group yesterday sent letters to five big retailers—Walmart, Kroger, Rite Aid, Safeway, and Walgreen—urging them to follow CVS’s lead and pull tobacco products from the shelves entirely, NPR reports. Ohio’s Mike DeWine and New York’s Eric Schneiderman led the charge of attorneys general from 28 states, including Arizona and Illinois. “There is a contradiction in having these dangerous and devastating tobacco products on the shelves of a retail chain that services health care needs,” they wrote. They noted that at least 480,000 Americans died from tobacco-related disease in 2013, and tobacco use drains the US of $289 billion annually in productivity and health-care costs. The letter didn’t threaten legal action, but an insider tells the New York Times that reform or litigation may follow if stores don’t play ball. No word from the stores yet, but none of them showed interest in following CVS’s lead last month. Walgreen said only that it had a program to help people quit smoking, and Kroger said its adult customers had a right to choose their own products. (See how CVS’s move could affect smoking rates.)

If this is successful what is next?  Your beer could be looking at a similar attack…….and we know that gun ownership will not be as much fun without a brew to get with them……will Americans just look the other way in this case or will they decide that enough is enough?