This open hostility towards smokers started with a reasonable request, that smoking in airplanes be limited to the last three rows, and then it snowballed to people like you wanting smokers exiled. You may have had a point at one time but you also convinced activists that this strategy was effective. So then Gays just wanted to live in peace, abortion was supposed to be safe, legal and rare, you get the idea. Now they are saying red hats cause anxiety. So what's next for Trump supporters? I'm sure whatever it is it will sound like a reasonable request.
I remember the last 3 smoking rows on airplanes. Once on a flight I was seated back there, I objected, and the whole flight became non smoking. WINNING
why should i or others be subjected to smelling smoke or sitting next to a person for hours on a plane who just smoked and having to breath that smell?
the whole rest ofyour comment is not the same. gays, people choosing to kill babies, etc does not effect my personal health or comfort as directly as smoke or smell of it does. That invades my personal being. The others don’t do so.
Very well stated!
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Now they are saying red hats cause anxiety.
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Now I know why I have/had a closet full of RED HATS which I ordered when I got all my Custom made military hats in RED as well as my standard Navy Blue.
I have taken to wearing my RED Vets hats to see if I can stir some MORE hate & discontent as that is basically what the original Vietnam hats were supposed to do..to keep reminding all the people with ‘short memories’ from the 60s....
I may even get lucky and have some fool try and REMOVE MY COVER because it is red....
Surprise! Surprise!
While we’re making comparisons to how leftists treat Trump, I should point out that you seem to be doing the same thing the president’s critics do. That is distort a comment into something other than what was said. The poster simply stated a desire that all smokers leave. There was no mention of exile, which would be something forced on them.
Next is give up your guys so everyone can be “safe”. To be followed by get on this bus to the re-education camp so you can get your head right.
I used to smoke, and I enjoyed it. But I realize at one point my life that I grew up from a generation that really didn’t know a lot about smoking but gained knowledge from medical observation. I realized that I needed to just stop, and I did. Not that I haven’t smoked since but it’s rare that I do. And as a nonsmoker, I can understand smokers just as I can understand non-smokers.
But smoking in public places really does affect everybody, and many of those people who are now in the majority would rather not be affected.
But that doesn’t mean smokers should be completely ostracized, and in regards to this article if that guy wants to move to France so he can smoke in a restaurant, he’s an adult, with Free Will and he’s allowed to do so.
(Completely off subject but somehow oddly comparative)
In fact that’s what the police tell concerned loved ones when family members go mad, and those families could do nothing about it because the mental breakdown was occurring to an adult and because free will allowed that person to remain out there until a legal boundary was crossed. People die because of those mindsets.
It’s a shifting of liabilities but the liability ultimately rests with the individual or in cases of insanity, with the responsible spouse or parent, whose hands are often tied because of free will and the non-participation of agencies that were designed to help but refused to do so because of lible concerns.
The government will do everything it can to deflect liability but the liability always comes back to the individual and the individual is the one who ultimately pays that ultimate price for libel. That’s why lawyers thrive, to deflect liability.
It saddens me how this sitr is full of people who actually do not want a Free Republic.
I don’t like cigarette smoke either but I’d fight for the rights of other Americans to pursue their own happiness.
Our laws come in when one’s rights impinge others’ and I’m good with intelligent people making rational compromises.
But this country should remain true to freedom as much as possible. It’s not freedom if people can only do what YOU like.