Posted on 09/10/2006 7:02:08 AM PDT by SheLion
Very little of our discretionary money goes for eating out anymore; so many places have banned smoking, it just isn't the same.
I don't like eating an expensive dinner with little children running around, I like going out where I can enjoy excellent food, a good bar, and freedom to smoke, or not as I choose.
No wonder the restaurants where they ban smoking are going broke. Sometimes Hub and I like to go out on a "date" together, and we aren't looking for family atmosphere or nanny restrictions, we are looking for a place where reasonable adults can enjoy adult company.
The smoke-nannys are going to have to face the people someday. But first, smokers are going to have to quit apologizing and feeling guilty for enjoying an adult habit that funds a lot of government programs.
The lying sacks that promote this health-nazi propaganda can just eat my ... dust.
This quagmire is quite parallel to the DEA going after marijuana.
Why can't conservatives band together to stop the Nanny State?
I think more people are coming out of the ether over this issue.
The Smoking Jihadis are metastasizing into other areas, spreading hysteria through junk science and catering to the worst impulses in human nature.
Carving people out, demonizing them and taxing them into oblivion - hateful and dangerous behavior by hateful and dangerous people.
The national symbol should be a sheep.
I'm all in favor of banning them from public places.
Without a doubt!
The RWJF and Big Pharm tried hard to put a huge guilt trip on smokers. When that didn't work, now they are telling non-smoking friends and family that smokers are killing them with the second hand smoke.
This is all BS! Big Pharm just wants smokers to stop so they will buy the very expensive stop smoking DRUGS!
I'm tired of it. I'm tired of them trying to put a guilt trip on me, and I'm tired of all the lies and propaganda against smokers.
And I am sick to death of hearing all the private businesses that are closing and the wait staff losing their jobs just because of this reform school smoking ban.
It's time for this to STOP!
The national symbol should be a sheep.
Yep! I have noticed more private businesses taking the anti's to court over the smoking bans. And it's about time.
I guess California and Maine were the scapegoats. When the rest of the US saw what is happening to CA and ME, it woke the rest of the country up!
LOL
Actually Rush read a report from the WHO a year or more ago about second hand smoke not being a health risk.
Yep. You stay home. Is that too much to ask? You're the one with the drug addiction, not me. It's your problem, not mine.
-ccm
Only a drug addict would equate his habit with a natural physiological process.
-ccm
I said before, I don't give a damn about the science, "junk" or otherwise. It's simply a disgusting, selfish, and offensive habit that irritates practically all non-smokers and ruins any evening out.
When you blow smoke into a non-smoker's airspace, it's as offensive as if I lit a stink bomb under your chair or heaped a pile of feces on your dinner table. Should I be allowed to do this to you in a restaurant under the rubric of "individual rights"?
Your whiny, insulting posts are unpleasant and disgusting. I'm all in favor of banning them from public places.
You're quite free not to read them. Unfortunately, I am not free to avoid breathing. Keep your smoke out of my air.
-ccm
There, all fixed.
If you've discovered a way to own air, please FRepmail me.
We can make a fortune.
Make that "FReepmail".
Sticky key.
Right. Here is an excerpt of what Rush said: "The World Health Organization actually did a study on secondhand smoke which showed that it doesn't even make people sick, much less kill them. Now, it makes people uncomfortable. ..... but it doesn't kill."
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