Posted on 07/21/2006 3:15:06 PM PDT by SheLion
ahh poor baby........
I never said risk should be a factor in oputlawing an avtivity. And I certainly don't think cigarettes should be outlawed.
I have no beef. I'm sure there are smokers who have lived into their 90s, but not very many. Generally when elderly folks are asked how they lived so long, you don't hear "I smoked a pack a day."
Thank you. That's a reasonable position to take.
Well, I would lay a bet that smokers still live longer then an OBESE person!
I cannot believe I'm reading this on a conservative website.
Believe it.
"I beg to differ..........the numbers of smoking bans and other nanny state iniatives that fail on a regular basis does not get widespread media coverage - but believe me, they are occurring.
Denial is such a tough habit to break
Alabama"
Ummmmm...Yes, I believe this is exactly what we're so upset over; the fact that fascist freaks have taken over our country and hijacked our freedom.
"People who fill others' breathing air with noxious cigarette smoke are totally selfcentered and selfish."
Excuse me?!! If you have ever had a BBQ in your back yard, lit a camp fire, had a fire in your home fireplace, or if you currently drive a car you need to back off.
"You ignore the point that no one - not children or adults or elderly - are ever choosing to find themselves in these smoke-filled places. You create them.
You blow off anyone who points out the obnoxiousness of befouling human spaces.
This is no different that leaving your excrement in public places because that's convenient and what you like to do and feel you should have that right because it's not outlawed by the Constitution.
Love for your fellow man and ethics are apparently not part of your upbringing or repertoire. "Obnoxious" comes from the word that means "poisonous."
The callousness of your response speaks for itself and makes my point.
Quid est demonstrandum."
I suggest that you promptly return home to your sealed plastic, steril bubble.
"People who fill others' breathing air with noxious cigarette smoke are totally selfcentered and selfish."
Excuse me?!! If you have ever had a BBQ in your back yard, lit a camp fire, had a fire in your home fireplace, or if you currently drive a car you need to back off.
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What an illogical comparison! Do you carry a live, smoking BBQ with you into the public places you enter every day and accost your fellow citizens with it at every turn and find that nobody minds? The only way there might be a comparison to a BBQ would be if it was normal to carry a live BBQ into all the public places you visit every day and everybody was cool with that.
Having a BBQ in a private home is optional and choosable or not; walking into a wall of cigarette smoke in public is not.
"I suggest that you promptly return home to your sealed plastic, steril bubble."
I suggest that you promptly stop smoking in public places so that the rest of us don't have to flee home.
If you would have that common courtesy of realizing you don't have the right to walk around in a public forum as a human cigarette smoke generator, it would not come to government being involved.
"I suggest that you promptly stop smoking in public places so that the rest of us don't have to flee home.
If you would have that common courtesy of realizing you don't have the right to walk around in a public forum as a human cigarette smoke generator, it would not come to government being involved."
I suggest that you stop driving your car so that my family and I can leave our houses without being assaulted by your carcinogen spewing box of metal. What gives you the right to think you can expose us to these dangerous, life threatening substances? If you would just stop being such a selfish, immoral person and not drive, carpool, use public transportation, or get off your lazy arse and ride a bike, maybe we would not have to flee the streets every time we see you coming!
PS: I don’t ever want to see you BBQ’ing, having a camp fire. Also, I better not see one whiff of smoke coming from that chimney of yours!
I don't understand the significance of your name...you do not see anything clearly, you are blind to the real issues and from the tone of your posts you sound like a bitter, intolerant person. Get a life please, and leave us freedom loving Americans alone!
"What an illogical comparison! Do you carry a live, smoking BBQ with you into the public places you enter every day and accost your fellow citizens with it at every turn and find that nobody minds? The only way there might be a comparison to a BBQ would be if it was normal to carry a live BBQ into all the public places you visit every day and everybody was cool with that.
Having a BBQ in a private home is optional and choosable or not; walking into a wall of cigarette smoke in public is not."
No, it is not an illogical comparison at all. If you have a BBQ in your back yard you are exposing others, who might not wish to be exposed, to smoke. The smoke from your BBQ or house fire wafts thorough your neighborhood for others to breathe in. These things also produce much more smoke then a cigarette. [Your] views and ideas are illogical hun...wake up and see the reality!
Why would you subnit to that? I love my wife but if she said I was going to be giving samples of bodily fluids to some weenie and it was going to make her $20 a month, she would learn that devotion has its limits. I would never do something like that to her either.
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