House Republican On Tobacco Debate: "Smoke Your Lettuce"
Rep. Steve Buyer (R-IN) on the House floor this morning during debate on regulating tobacco products: "Too often we should be careful about being cute here on the House floor. So cute means the reference with regard to lettuce. So I'll follow your logic. Do you realize if you were to take that lettuce, dry it, and roll it, and smoke it. And you go ahead and you smoke your lettuce. Do you realize that you are going to end up with similar problems than if you were smoking tobaccco. It's not the nicotine that kills. It's the smoke that kills. So It's the inhalation of the smoke. That's what causes and is responsible for the pandemic of cancers, of heart disease, respiratory disease, and other disease. It's the smoke." (via C-SPAN)
