Board of Aldermen 04-09-2019 Page 11
| sent a brief e-mail to you all just yesterday so | don’t know if you had a chance to look at it, but from a site,
Tobacco Free Kids, the total of tobacco in New Hampshire the following information was put out.
7.8% of our high school New Hampshire kids smoke. 23.8% just under 24% of our New Hampshire high
school kids are using E-Cigarettes. The number of cancer deaths in New Hampshire attributable to
smoking, 27%. Kids now under 18 and alive here who will ultimately die prematurely from smoking,
22,000. Then getting to the money end of it, health care costs in New Hampshire directly caused by
smoking - $729 million dollars and that was reported to be an annual figure. From a February 11, 2019
FDA report, | am quoting, “The epidemic use of E-Cigarettes among children is one of the biggest public
health challenges currently facing the FDA. Additionally while E-Cigarettes might be a successful tool to
help currently addicted smokers quit, the sale of these devices just cannot come at the expense of
addicting a generation of kids to nicotine”. So | thank you and | close with saying we have the responsibility
to make some good decisions for our young people.
Tom Alciere Good evening my name is Tom Alciere, | live at 28 Mobile Drive in Hudson. | was briefly a
State a Representative from here in Nashua and those of you who don’t remember my opponent in the
Libertarian Primary has already spoken here today. On 24 May 1979 Governor Hugh Gallen signed Hate
Crime Legislation here in New Hampshire. Hate Crime Legislation, Raising the Drinking Age from 18 to 20
when | was 19. Those of you who remember my brief tenure in the NH Legislature saw just how grateful |
was If it’s all about saving lives by hiring gun toting goons in bullet proof vests who intimidate people into
living a healthier lifestyle, you don’t win if the targets of the legislation to whom it is totally unacceptable,
spend every waking hour for the rest of their lives like a merciless chess player looking for every possible
opportunity to make you wish you hadn't; such as the time | spotted an opportunity to run for New
Hampshire Legislature.
| don’t know how you can pledge allegiance to a Republic With Liberty And Justice For All; Liberty is an
unalienable right which by definition preempts the rule of law when the two things conflict with each other.
And then from Hate Crime Legislation against people just because it is easier to pick on people under 21
then it is to pick on people older than 21. | mean I’ve heard all the excuses, oh sure, drinking during
pregnancy harms the baby so let’s impose this on men under 21 and not on pregnant women over 21. The
same thing is true of smoking cigarettes. It harms the baby, so let’s impose this on men under 21 and not
on pregnant women over 21, because it’s not as easy to pick on people over 21. And there are Libertarian
chess moves that would do better. There is a State Law forcing businesses to hire smokers. It is illegal to
discriminate against applicants that smoke. That denies jobs to people like the gentlemen that my son —
when he’s out looking for a job it’s not fair that they should pass him over in favor of some smoker if they,
they shouldn’t have to. Non-smokers deserve a job more, they won’t drive up the cost of the company
group health plan as high and companies can save money, they’ll have an incentive to give jobs to people
who deserve jobs instead of giving them to smokers.
On 14 February 1997 in Manchester, a smoker got into a taxi, it’s illegal to smoke in taxis in Manchester
and that’s beside the point because the owner of that car said there is no smoking allowed in that car.
That’s the property right; the smoker would have none of that and the cab driver wound up drawing a Glock
9 Millimeter, fired 8 shots and extinguished the smoker and wound up going to prison for second degree
murder as if the cab driver was the one doing something wrong. That has to stop, people have to be able
to defend themselves against the smokers. Just like the time the Turkish Air Force shot down a Russian
Jet Liner that was on its way to bomb Syria cutting through a corner of Turkish Air Space, that’s how they
defend their air space. That’s how non-smokers can defend air space too.
If a smoker and a non-smoker both need a lung transplant, why should the non-smoker who has never
smoked in their life wind up dying so that that lung transplant can go to a smoker that deliberately
destroyed his or her lungs. There are Libertarian chess moves that can make smoking history instead of
using unprovoked violence to try to intimidate people into living a healthier lifestyle.
Bobbie Bagley Good evening, I’m Bobbie Bagley, | work at 18 Mulberry Street. | don’t live in Nashua but |
spend a great deal of time in Nashua and | have quite a bit of family that lives here as well. A couple of
