[joesbucks]

It's funny, because I used to work with two women who smoked and at about the same rate. One always smelled like an ash tray, the other unless you were right on top of her you couldn't tell.

I also find this smoking thing funny. Most social conservatives are against assisted suicide, which in most cases smoking is (self assised), are against smoking because it violates scripture regarding the vessel God gave us to take care of, support not smoking in the church, yet are furious over the various laws that have placed limits over smokers.

[SheLion]

It's funny, because I used to work with two women who smoked and at about the same rate. One always smelled like an ash tray, the other unless you were right on top of her you couldn't tell.

The "stinky" one didn't practice good hygiene.  The other one did.

I also find this smoking thing funny. Most social conservatives are against assisted suicide, which in most cases smoking is (self assisted), are against smoking because it violates scripture regarding the vessel God gave us to take care of, support not smoking in the church, yet are furious over the various laws that have placed limits over smokers.

And you and I are reading the scriptures differently:  I feel that our Soul is the vessel.  We do not want to soil our souls because THAT is what goes to our maker at the time of death.

It doesn't matter one hoot what happens to our bodies.

I was told once by a Priest that the Lord cares more about what comes OUT of our mouths then what goes in.  And cigarettes doesn't make me all funny in the head to where I will do anything to "damage my soul."

It's funny, because I used to work with two women who smoked and at about the same rate. One always smelled like an ash tray, the other unless you were right on top of her you couldn't tell.

The "stinky" one didn't practice good hygiene.  The other one did.

I also find this smoking thing funny. Most social conservatives are against assisted suicide, which in most cases smoking is (self assisted), are against smoking because it violates scripture regarding the vessel God gave us to take care of, support not smoking in the church, yet are furious over the various laws that have placed limits over smokers.

And you and I are reading the scriptures differently:  I feel that our Soul is the vessel.  We do not want to soil our souls because THAT is what goes to our maker at the time of death.

It doesn't matter one hoot what happens to our bodies.

I was told once by a Priest that the Lord cares more about what comes OUT of our mouths then what goes in.  And cigarettes doesn't make me all funny in the head to where I will do anything to "damage my soul."

[Wheee The People]

Nothing will convince the smokers here that most conservatives don't support them. The votes in Washington and Florida show that conservatives will go to the polls and vote to restrict the imagined rights of smokers.

[mass55th]

I don't smoke. Never have. Both my parents were long-time smokers and both died of lung cancer. One at the age of 72; the other at age 69. Both my sisters smoked for years. One recently quit due to the discovery of four aneurisms in her head, and out-of-control blood pressure. My oldest sister is the only one who still smokes and she's in a nursing home. My brother was a 3 pack a day smoker and dropped dead of his second heart attack at the age of 51. I don't care if other people smoke, but I've noticed that as I've gotten older, I have less desire to be around folks who do. And being retired has provided me that option.

My biggest complaint about the liberals is that they say a woman has a right to do with her body what she wants, and that includes murdering a baby inside her womb. Yet those same liberals, don't believe a woman has the right to smoke herself to death.