Posted on 01/13/2005 11:53:07 AM PST by bob3443
"All that typing research etc devoted to that, all the while placing children in harms way by allowing gays to adopt, and forcing them to "study" homosexual lifestyles" and encouraging the practice thereof, at schools."
EXACTLY!!
>> I have much bigger things to protect my kids from. <<
LOL!! You must have just read my previous post. You are absolutely correct. There are FAR worse things than smoking tobacco. I know first hand.
But smoking bans are not an attempt to keep it out of public.......they are attempting to keep it out of private places, that is the difference.
Ban it at DMV, the court house or other government buildings, and although smokers are taxpayers supporting those places, you won't get much arguement.
But government banning of it in my private office, on my private property is an infringement upon private property rights.
Isn't that the truth! I'm sorry about your friends...that must have been very hard to go through. :(
As for me, my parents worried about my smoking because I have always been the goody-two-shoes...never caused them a lick of trouble about anything. I did drink, two times (seriously!!) but never to excess and NEVER EVER drove. If I went somewhere, I called to check in...without being told. Good student, blah blah blah. No boyfriend until spring of my senior year. Needless to say, they thought my smoking meant I was heading in a bad direction, since it was out of character...can't explain it, myself, to be honest. :)
"Anyone who tries to stop me from smoking in my own home better be ready for a fight because that's exactly what you're going to get if you try."
It's ridiculous. What ever happened to people minding their own business? The are places OUTSIDE where smoking is banned. Places where the only place you CAN smoke is in your home....
Oh, I agree, but that won't stop the otherwise unemployables at the American Legacy Foundation from trying to make it a major issue.
I just love all these Frankenstein organizations that are funded by the Tobacco Settlement.
Smokers being forced to fund their own vilification.
I have nothing against the newcomers........except when they take a position without listening to evidence to the contrary, just because thye don't like a differing position.
They will get quickly added to the HTT list...........
>> I'm sorry about your friends...that must have been very hard to go through. <<
Thanks. It was a painful lesson but one I've never forgotten. I'm just thankful I made that mistake early enough in my life to recover from it and lead a normal and productive life.
Mommy -- You're not allowed to SMOKE AROUND ME! When I go back to school, I'm telling.
I would imagine so, if they keep this up. And what's with that, anyway?? They're making me look bad, just on principle, darn it!! LOL
Can I get a bumper sticker that says that? LOL
I had one on my van for years, but got rid of the van last fall.........I know I've got another one around somewhere here, I need to find it to put it on my car.
You won't believe anything we have to say to dispute the word of the anti's. You have your mind made up. And that truly is a pity.
Just because you don't like smoking, (smoking isn't for everyone) you still paint us with a broad brush of being vile people. Do you really think that is fair?
Do you realize that a lot of us are Christian, work at decent jobs, are parents and grandparents and a lot are even on the PTA? Why do you continually want to believe that we all live under a rock just because we smoke?
I bet. :)
It's a wedge issue. A camels nose under the tent issue. A socializm issue like the wetbacks swarming across the border. Really, I won't smoke around you if you don't like it.
Actually, I just read it now! Great minds and all.....
:)
" the otherwise unemployables at the American Legacy Foundation"
LOLOL
"Mommy -- You're not allowed to SMOKE AROUND ME! When I go back to school, I'm telling."
Yes, coming soon.....
Good grief.
I realize certain accomadations need to be made for the disabled, but this is taking it far too far to the extreme.
Since these type people are in the minority, maybe they should be the ones not inconveniencing the majority?
OOPs....I'm not being PC
Yup.......that's the one I had on my van for years. And had one on the car I had before that.
For the first time in more than 10 years I don't have one on my car..........but my license plates do have tobacco leaves on them......
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