Posted on 11/19/2013 1:19:52 PM PST by Kaslin
Busy-body a-holes.
I’m not a smoker, but if I lived in one of these apartments, I would be tempted to get a tobacco scented candle just to rile things up.
Opt for the bust of Winston Churchill that burns cigar scented incense...
Any new ordinance for more items to tax when the tobacco taxes fall even more?
This is what it inevitably comes to in a Marxist State - the politburo considers it has the right to tell you what you can and cannot do in your own home.
Expect to see more and more of this sort of Liberal Fascism in the coming years.
The Bay Area - where you can smoke a pole to your heart’s content, but don’t even THINK of lighting up a Marlboro!
I would say “poison yourself” by way of cigarettes, if you want to - but don’t try poisoning me and trampling on my rights to NOT BE POISONED by some crazy or nutty smoker (or even a “sane smoker” - but that’s questionable if they exist, considering what they’re doing).
It’s not just in kooky California. My apartment community is trying to make us sign an addendem to our lease dealing with “second hand smoke”. I asked them, “okay, are you going to get rid of the charcoal grills scattered around for our use because of global warming?”
Our management team has no sense of humor. All a bunch of lib women. And in middle Tenn! Go figure.
My lawyer is looking into it because I don’t think they have the legal authority to stop a smoker in the leased unit from smoking. Many folks go on their porch or balcony and they say that’s not allowed either.
So they are trying to make the entire property smoke-free. I bet they don’t advertise that.
I’m going to use the internet sites that review these places to rake them over the coals.
“Busy-body a-holes.”
I’ll second that and I don’t smoke.
I’ll add...Busy-body “LIBERAL” a-holes.
The smoker has a right to, as you put it, “poison himself.” Your right as a nonsmoker is to either stand elsewhere or politely ask the smoker to do so.
It seems the nanny state has done the same thing to common courtesy that it has done to common sense.
I quit 20+ years ago, but I’d fire up a Camel to blow smoke in these clowns’ faces.
“but that’s questionable if they exist, considering what they’re doing).”
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LOL-—the old broad brush painting.Looks like you bought the entire anti-smoking hysteria scenario.
There are still quite a few old smokers around,including me.
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“My lawyer is looking into it because I don’t think they have the legal authority to stop a smoker in the leased unit from smoking.”
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They have had the authority in other cases,even in the case of owners being prohibited from smoking in their units.
They use the health issue as a reason.
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I have no problem with making a multi-unit residential building a no-smoking building inside and out.
But only if it starts out that way from the beginning and people know that up front when they buy/rent the unit.
Otherwise, it should take a 100% buy-in from all the condo owners to change the rules.
If a building is owned by ONE individual, the Owner should be able to make the call. It’s his/her property.
Well, I don’t consider it sane to continually poison oneself - however, I don’t have any problem with that kind of insanity, as long as it’s kept to themselves.
When it involves others who don’t want to be poisoned, including me - then those smokers are trampling on my rights. It’s that simple.
My bottom line is to “Keep it to yourself and don’t involve me against my will in any way, shape or form.”
It’s my right to stand exactly where I’m standing and tell the smoker to get his poisonous smoke out of my proximity. That smoker has exactly ZERO RIGHTS to have his poisonous fumes around me.
Long time no see....
Then don't drive your carbon-monoxide spewing car on my planet. Also, don't BBQ anything, or use toxic chemicals (paints, cleansers, etc.) anywhere on my planet. Don't use electricity unless you're generating it yourself with solar or wind (just don't kill my birds if you're using wind).
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