Posted on 05/26/2013 10:46:26 AM PDT by DogByte6RER
1915: Anti-Smoking Sign, Zion, Illinois
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You do understand that actually very few smokers get “ cancer, cardiac, etc” right? Don’t want to smell it? Buy a bubble and live in it, Oh and sell your car too, because I dont want to smell those fumes either.
No, when I (while recovering from knee surgery) have to back track from my place at the check out counter because the smell is so offensive, it becomes my problem.
http://www.smokersnews.net/king-james-i-and-tobacco/
Read about King James I. Personally, I don’t care. My concern was for this man’s lot in life. Although he was in work clothes, he didn’t look poor. He just smelled really bad. There are people on this board who cannot discuss anything rationally. They are overly sensitive. Are they all smokers?
I know a few ex-smokers that think they are just so much better than those that chose to keep smoking, but I think it’s just a deep personality problem. Most of them are normal.
1911? Check out King James I’s attitude.
http://www.smokersnews.net/king-james-i-and-tobacco/
Amazingly modern, I’d say.
This man smelled BAD to YOU - I have found that anyone who whines about it is, at heart, an anti-smoker and the ones who do whine/complain the most about the “bad” smell are all former smokers.
As to me being overly sensitive, you couldn’t be further from the truth - I have just learned that people with that type of attitude are the first to applaud when another smoking ban (aka attack on freedom) is put into effect. You mentioned employees who smoke outside, did you institute the no-smoking policy on your own, or did you wait for the nannies in government to do it for you?
Shortly after Delaware banned smoking in State buildings a woman walked into my building, which was clearly marked with signs it was a building of private businesses, thinking she was entering the Attorney General’s office. Instead of listening to my explanation of where the AGs office was, she went into a tirade about me smoking in a state building. No amount of explanation would appease her and I asked her to leave - she did and came back with a Capitol police officer demanding he give me a ticket. When she refused to pay attention to his explanation it was a private business and she needed to leave, he finally turned to me and asked if I wished to press charges for trespassing. I chose not to because I actually felt sorry for her. She was so adamant in her stance that she was blind too reality. That is how I see anti-smokers, they are so blinded by their zealotry they can not see reality.
Thank you
Why on earth would you celebrate that? You realize that 90% of all new smokers are teenagers? Is your addiction so strong you wish it on others?
As to more people smoking...don't let the truth hit you in the rear.
http://www.gallup.com/poll/156833/one-five-adults-smoke-tied-time-low.aspx
I’ve known those kind, I just don’t hang out with them, and as you say, most are normal.
OMG - you have got to be kidding?
Why would anyone in their right mind answer such a question? Look at the numbers and the dates - and don’t let the truth hit you in the rear.
You better plan on eating a late lunch or an early dinner in my favorite establishment if you wish to sit in the smoking permitted area. I feel sorry for the tourists who don’t realize making a reservation on the weekends is really a good idea - regardless of which side you prefer for dining.
Zion was also the home of the famous “House of David” semi pro baseball team any pics of them ?
That was interesting....’thanks for posting the link....
Ping
I miss people expressing themselves in direct passionate language
You are making a lot of assumptions about me when you don’t know me at all. I’ve tried to be gentle in trying to explain the situation, but you have chosen to ignore me. I submit this this man would smell bad to ANYONE. But, I’ll probably never see him again. I just feel sorry for people who do not realize how they affect those around them.
People who are smokers do not smell it on themselves, or on other smokers. I know that because I was a smoker 50 years ago and grew up in a house full of smokers. But after you are no longer a smoker, the stench is awful and quite noticeable.
As I mentioned, I quit after the first Surgeon General’s report in 1963. Since then, I have never nagged anyone about their smoking. I have worked in offices where you could cut the smoke in the air with a knife. As a business owner, I’ve put up with (without complaint) employees who took smoke breaks constantly, leaving their work for other people to finish. (I’m sure that they wondered why raises for them were not forthcoming too often and that nobody fought to keep them when they decided to resign.) I even put up with a smoking employee who is now dead and who used to preach to his co-workers that “smokers are more efficient than non-smokers” and should be paid more (his reasoning was so obtuse that I cannot explain it to this day.)
I’ve had to hang my coats and my wool clothes in the garage overnight to air the smoke out of them after working in an office all day with a couple of chain smokers. I’ve put up with the extra dry cleaning bills without grumbling to the folks who caused it. I’ve had to empty the filthy ashtrays that these folks leave on the outside of the building too. Ugh! But I never whined.
I live in a state where all work place smoking is now outlawed. And all restaurant and bar smoking is now outlawed. In some cities, all outdoor smoking is outlawed. (Madison) You can drive by bars and hospitals and see a small cluster of employees huddled out in the snow, puffing away. I did nothing to pass these laws, nor promote these laws, but I really appreciate them. As a consequence, almost everybody who can possibly quit has, so you seldom encounter anyone who smokes any more. That is why the smelly man buying cigarettes in the pharmacy was so startling.
The Christian Catholic Church was still operating in Zion in 1959-60, but Our Lady of Humility Catholic (Roman) was there too. When you checked into the hospital in nearby WAukegan you had to declare whether you were Christian Catholic, or Roman Catholic. The Blue Laws were still in force with everything closed on Sundays.
No. In fact, most smokers will die significantly earlier from tobacco related illnesses.
Way more fun. Murraycan wowsers have no sense of style, unlike Scot-Australians
John Alexander Dowie - founder of Zion.IL
Even in civvies, one impressive looking guy
One of these disgusting amendments has been repealed. Two more to go.
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