Posted on 05/08/2006 1:26:21 PM PDT by SheLion
Where's my tax revenue ping?
Ridiculous! What are they going to be required to do, have smoking and non-smoking wings? What about non-smoker patients? The staff's exposure? Find somewhere on their grounds for these people to puff away?
These folks aren't living at home if they need nursing care and should not be accomidated as if they are. They can find another facility that doesn't have a busy street to cross or Big Tobacco (or smoking advocates) can fund a solution.
I say the nonsmokers should have to put up with it. I know that I'm personally finished trying to appease you psychos. I also hope that you enjoy the secondhand smoke.
What will come next? School students forced to stand outside in the rain, or cross the street to leave school property, so that they can smoke? We need to change the laws, for the sake of children.
After all, they know better than you do, what's good for you.
This should make a lot of churchs happy.
Father:"So, my son, why are you coming to church after all this time?"
New convert, lighting up in his pew:"Gosh, Father, I needed to find somewhere inside where I could smoke..."
Screw em all! If they'd never put these anti-freedom laws onto the books in the first place, they wouldn't have these (incredibly) stupid consequences to deal with now, now would they?
It's even more frustrating knowing that everything these laws are based on is total hogwash (to wit: elderly people smoking!) If it was so deadly, why are they still alive? Meanwhile you have people dying of lung cancer who have never smoked a cigarette in their lives.
The whole anti-smoking thing is just one of the latest straws the busybodies among us have taken up in their quest to rule everyone's lives but their own. As I said, "Screw em all!" I'm moving to Montana!
I have never had a problem being curteous, and I have not smoked among a group of people without their consent, but the empowered blowhards I have dealt with lately have made me reconsider. I'm talking about rude bastards ready to punch me because I was OUTSIDE smoking by myself with a stiff breeze. To hell with that. The next one gets smoke in his face and his wages garnished for the rest of his life when he hits me. I'm finished dealing with nanny state authoritarian zealots.
The nutballs have spread everywhere, like a yeast infection.
What Texas? This is my puff ping for the articles about smoking, etc.
Do you want to be added to my ping list???
These folks aren't living at home if they need nursing care and should not be accomidated as if they are. They can find another facility that doesn't have a busy street to cross or Big Tobacco (or smoking advocates) can fund a solution.
You are beyond ridiculous and you have NO heart! How dare you want the worst for our elderly!
And if you think second hand smoke is the killer that the anti's made you think it is, then I must say you have been easily swayed!
And YES! The nursing home IS their home! They can no longer live at home and they need medical care.
The nursing home, to which they are paying thousands of dollars a month for is DEFINITELY they home!
Were you even born with a heart?????
I say the nonsmokers should have to put up with it. I know that I'm personally finished trying to appease you psychos. I also hope that you enjoy the secondhand smoke.
He is so cruel and was born with no heart. What compassion eh? Makes me want to throw up. People like him are filling our prisons every day!
Ahhhhh...........my daughter graduated in 1990 and during her high school years, they were able to smoke on the grounds. But a year before she graduated back then, the authorities put an end to it. They had to leave the grounds to smoke. Which was across the street at a store.
So, I don't know many High Schools today that allow students to still smoke on the grounds. That is pretty much gone.
Me too!!!!
As if. That didn't stop them from building a couple of stadiums and a bridge that nobody wanted... and voted down.
Enough already... me too!
There's got to be something we can do. I've really had it with this WA law.
Lately I've been getting into a little verbal confrontation with an @sshat building manager at my office. The smoking area that's been there for more than ten years is just outside the garage entrance. There's a sensible place outside the garage door... but 25 feet away is out in the rain. The building manager is grinning and adamantly pressing the issue, even though it makes no sense. He's a little 20-something twit on a power trip.
It's a *garage* entrance... you know... the kind where *cars* drive into...? Sure, it's OK for cars to be inside pumping exhaust, but we can't risk a little wisp of smoke going in there...?
It is completely absurd. I'm tempted to push it and make them call the police. Every day. It would be worth a few tickets, especially since it might be fun to pour some money into a good lawyer and fight it (as if I had time for that... but it would be fun).
Right! They promise us the moon to get our votes, then when in office, all they give us is the OUTHOUSE!!!
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