Posted on 07/17/2002 10:47:58 AM PDT by SheLion
Verrry interesting. Can't wait to tell Bubba that we have a "lesser quality of life."
And how old does one have to be before they are eligible to die, in your honest opinion.
Here's my message!
Don't in the same breath pretend you couldn't care less and then call people stupid!
Here's another message!
Who cares if you work in the health care field and see stuff!
Try reading a little history!
Here's another message!
I think you're stupid!
And I don't even have to work in the "health field" to figure that out!
You don't know what your talking about.
And not to worry. You and I shall never, EVER meet on God's Green Earth! Not if "I" have anything to say about it!
No, he did that in Miami on April Fool's Day.
Are you naturally ignorant or do you have to work at it daily?
Listen. I will say this ONE time. Do NOT come into my threads and flame my friends. YOU are not welcome here.
YOU are the one showing your a$$ in here, buddy!
There is a God.
Are you naturally ignorant or do you have to work at it daily?
I'm humbled by your intell...zzzzzzz
By the way, what are you a madame of.... huh....
Ok, I'll make you a deal - since you're too stupid to be embarrassed, I'll be embarrassed for you.
I mean it! When a celeb gets into standing on a soap box and it goes against anything that "I" believe in, they are finished with me.
I know we all have the freedom to believe how we choose, but when they have a Fan Base, I certainly would not encourage them to take a stand on anything political one way or the other. They can diss a lot of people that way.
For instance: when I discovered what a lap dog Barbara Streisand was to Clinton, I burned her CD's that I had in my collection. And I can no longer tolerate Baldwin.
People in the limelight need to be careful. They can lose a lot of fans.
If you want to smoke-- great. I could care less. But don't knock a guy for getting out a message of truth.
If that was all that was happening we wouldn't knock it.
However, ETS, second hand smoke, does NOT cause asthma as was implied in the article. ETS has not been proven to cause any type of harm to anyone that doesn't have a pre-existing medical condition that would prohibit them from being around ANY type of smoke.
We who post frequently on this type of article have not said that smoking, first hand smoke, is not bad for some people, just that there is a choice to be made and we don't want the nanny state making it for us. EVERYTHING has risk from the time you are born to the time you die. We want to be able to choose the risks we want to take.
If you can point us to the study, that has not been refuted or cherry picked, that says that ETS kills please do so and we will either take you at your words or debate you.
Please do not insult our intelligence with things we already know or anecdotal evidence.
~snicker!
So common courtesy is out of the question for you Joe? I usually get along fine with most smokers because most of the smokers I know use common courtesy and don't go out of their way to force their smoke in my face. But based on your statement it appears you would prefer to antagonize non-smokers rather than seek to mutually respect each others' rights.
Perhaps it is a shame that there are so many regulations being put in place regarding where people can and cannot smoke, but it is also a shame that the "need" for such regulations would be perceived. When people are waiting in line somewhere (stores, banks, amusement parks, etc.) common courtesy should be adequate to keep people from forcing their smoke on others. Unfortunately, I've found this not to be the case and often seen smokers take delight in rudely blowing their smoke in peoples faces and flouting city ordinances or other rules designating areas as non-smoking. Apparently it takes something like a $200 to $500 fine to get the attention of some people.
Not nonsmokers but anti-smokers.
If a nonsmoker comes up to me and politely asks me to extinguish my cigarette for ANY reason, or no reason at all, 99 times out of 100 I will comply graciously.
If an anti-smoker gets in my face and DEMANDS that I extinguish my cigarette, even though I am within the law smoking where I am, I may blow smoke in their face.
Or if an anti-smoker gets in my face and starts screaming about how smoking is bad for me, I'm going to die a really painful death, and SHS is killing all those around me I may just light a second one so that I can have one in each hand to REALLY tick them off
You'd stop me from smoking in a public place if you were present?
You have obviously overestimated your powers, there, laddy buck.
I can hardly wait...
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