If you smoke, you are just plain stupid, or else hopelessly addicted. There is no other rational explanation.
I will advise people on this matter, but in the end, an adult decides for himself. However, that does not give the smoker the right to inconvenience and annoy others. If you are a smoker, you can go poison yourself in private, but leave my air alone!
There is another matter here: addicts typically manifest antisocial behavior. In the extreme, we see this in the case of crack mothers who turn to crime and prostitution for the sake of a drug habit, while neglecting their children. Smokers are also addicts, and though most are not as extreme as crack addicts, they are similarly antisocial when it comes to their addiction. Just watch: they are litterbugs, seldom using the ashtrays in their cars. The butts are usually thrown out onto the road. Smokers are generally inconsiderate, and most of them tend toward the obnoxious in personality profile.
As with all generalizations, there are exceptions. Even some addicts can manage to be pleasant. Nonetheless, the tendency of addiction is antisocial.
Advise? Who ask for your advise? None of us on this thread ask you for anything. And there are plenty of places today where you can go and not be around smokers. Lord knows, we sure don't want to be around the likes of you. Leave your air alone? Try staying in your own home.
Smokers are generally inconsiderate, and most of them tend toward the obnoxious in personality profile.
I find you VERY inconsiderate and obnoxious. New to Free Republic are we?
As with all generalizations, there are exceptions. Even some addicts can manage to be pleasant. Nonetheless, the tendency of addiction is antisocial.
Addicts? I don't think the government allows for the legal selling of drugs. Or haven't you noticed. Pleasant? You come in here and stand on your soap box and we are to be pleasant to you? You must think rather highly of yourself. Go to another thread where people might want you.
You are comparing crack addicts to smokers?? Please tell me you aren't really that rude and/or ignorant.
However, that does not give the smoker the right to inconvenience and annoy others. If you are a smoker, you can go poison yourself in private, but leave my air alone!
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Do you not understand that we are not talking about smoking in your face here? That businesses are PRIVATE property and their owners have a right to allow LEGAL activity (not crack smoking, fercryinoutloud!) on their premises? Many, many such establishments (not to mention airlines and a score of other public places) have created a separate smoking area so YOU DON'T HAVE TO BE AROUND IT! What is so hard to comprehend about that?
If a business allows smoking on the premises and you don't like it, you are free to go elsewhere, or sit in the *gasp* non-smoking section if they provide one.
Isn't America grand?
That would explain why the author in the original article stated that air-rage increased when smoking bans were implemented.
If my smoking inconveniences and annoys others, that is too bad. Live with it. Has it occurred to you that your aftershave, cologne, or musk could be just as big an inconvenience or annoyance to me. As it so happens the scent of musk bothers me greatly. I however, have the maturity to accept your right to wear it. And, I will move without comment if I find the scent to be too over bearing.
You suggest that I should go poison myself in private and leave your air alone. I already do that whenever I walk into a restaurant or bar that allows smoking. You see when I enter one of those establishments I am then on private property. I am exercising my legal right to smoke. And, I am doing so with the approval of that property owner. If you don't like my smoking take yourself and your agenda to an operation that does not allow smoking. THAT IS WHAT IS CALLED PERSONAL CHOICE! YOUR SOPHOMORIC SOPHISTRY IS, AS ONE WOULD EXPECT, FULL OF HOLES!p>
You come on a smoking thread and use that line first in your first post and expected to be treated cordially??
You're dumber than a box full of rocks!