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I am perplexed as to how someone could have such hatred for a plant (tobacco).

Then you have never watched anyone close to you die a slow and painful death from lung cancer.

I hate the demon weed. I don't hate those who smoke it but I hate the arguments they put forth in forums like this.

Why they should their own lack of willpower give them the privilege of inflicting their filthy smoke on all the rest of us?

Why should they be allowed to go around puffing on their drug fixes within sight of impressionable children?

That's what I hate. The poor pitiful junkies, I just feel sorry for them; they are in the grips of a drug craving worse than heroin in its addictiveness. Most of them will admit this. Those few who go around blustering about their "constitutional right" to blow filthy smoke into the air I breathe have my pity but not my respect.

Their arguments resemble the typical rationalization and excuse making of any other drug dependent addict. We don't listen to the ravings of smack addicts when we make laws against heroin, and I don't see why we need to have the least concern about nicotine junkies jonesing for a smoke when we set public policy on smoking in a bar or restaurant.

-ccm

Please point out where anyone has advocated "the privilege of inflicting their filthy smoke on all the rest of us." People are simply arguing that a property owner should be able to set the rules for how his property is used. No one is forced to go to a restaurant that allows smoking. However, anti-smokers want laws to force smokers out of restaurants that would otherwise accept them. It seems that they are the ones who want to impose their will on everyone else.

You do also realize that many of the people you are arguing against are non-smokers, don't you? I've never used a tobacco product in my life, and yet I'm using the same arguments as those addicted smokers. I don't need a nicotine fix. I simply care about freedom, which is the real issue here.

Then you have never watched anyone close to you die a slow and painful death from lung cancer.

You act like we all live in a bubble and ccmay is the only person that's ever lost a loved one to disease. I'm almost sixty and I can assure you that I've lost family and friends to almost anything you can name, but it never turned me into the hateful, fearful little b!tch you are.

ccmaynot

We don't listen to the ravings of smack addicts when we make laws against heroin, and I don't see why we need to have the least concern about nicotine junkies jonesing for a smoke when we set public policy on smoking in a bar or restaurant.

And you don't have to put up with us, I am sure there are plenty of threads you can frequent, or have you worn out your welcome everywhere.