[RightOnline]

As usual, this has nothing whatsoever to do with smoking; it has EVERYTHING to do with pissants who think they know what's better for thee and me.

I'm a 48 year old man, I lift weights five days a week and am in excellent physical shape, and I can keep up with most 21 year olds. I am also a smoker of 30 years. If I choose to smoke, it's my own damned business. I don't need the government, an employer, or any other pushy idiot telling me what I can or cannot do on my own time or trying to regulate an entirely legal act.

Make it illegal or shut the hell up, you anti-smoking schmucks. While you're at it, get a life. You have WAY too much time on your hands.

[Dan from Michigan]

Make it illegal or shut the hell up, you anti-smoking schmucks.

That's my view.

[Cultural Jihad]

I don't need the government, an employer, or any other pushy idiot telling me what I can or cannot do on my own time or trying to regulate an entirely legal act. Make it illegal or shut the hell up, you ...

Condoms are perfectly legal to make, purchase, own, or use. Supposedly a private employer is being a 'pushy idiot' to prohibit their use on his or her own private property, and the only way a property owner can discourage their use is by an outright governmental ban, huh?

[SheLion]

Make it illegal or shut the hell up, you anti-smoking schmucks. While you're at it, get a life. You have WAY too much time on your hands.

High Five!

Well said!

Most of us are around the same age in here and have smoked nearly as long as everyone else. It's the ones under 30 that come in and try to tell us what we are doing wrong with "our" lives. Go figure.

I love to smoke! I love coffee and cigarettes. I have lived well and hope to live a lot longer. For those of us that grew up when smoking was acceptable, we knew back then that it was 'bad for us,' but it is legal and we made the choice to smoke. There sure is a lot worse going on in this world today besides smoking.

If that's the best anyone can do today is bash a smoker, then your right. They really need a life!

[Gabz]

I am placing the appropriate sarcasm tag before I start this.............

I'm a 48 year old man, I lift weights five days a week and am in excellent physical shape, and I can keep up with most 21 year olds. I am also a smoker of 30 years.

You are a liar.

If I choose to smoke,

No you don't, you're an addict.

it's my own damned business.

No it's not, it is the business of everyone that is going to be paying for you sorry idiot when you are drowning in your own flesh because of your filthy, disgusting addiction.

I don't need the government, an employer, or any other pushy idiot telling me what I can or cannot do on my own time or trying to regulate an entirely legal act.

You wanna bet?????

OK - I can't go on with this.......there is no way I can keep up such a farce the way the twits do.

I'm sure you and everyone else (other than the twits, who don't even recognize themselves) understand exactly what I am saying.