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Posted on 01/05/2003 3:21:35 PM PST by Mark
Sunday, January 5, 2003
Total ban on smoking the only solution
By Laurie Mustard
Hack.
Powers that be, can we please impose a provincewide smoking ban -- immediately -- and move on from this nonsense?
I mean, we're not talking a ban on smoking here, are we?
Those who want to can still smoke, still suck in that noxious poison and shorten their lives, but they just won't be able to publicly share their death wish with others.
I for one am sick to death of listening to the endless pitiful blather about "smokers' rights." Does anything make a thinking person reel in horror more than watching a smoker puff poison into a baby's face?
Is this denial, stupidity, or what?
"I insist on the right to kill my kid/grandkid, or at least potentially cause him or her some nasty freaking disease later on in life!"
Think I'm being a little harsh?
I'M HOLDING BACK!
And forcing non-smoking employees to breathe in second-hand smoke at their place of employment is equally vile. How blatantly wrong does something have to be before it's made illegal?
Do any of these non-smoking employees' personal habits in the workplace endanger their fellow workers' health and safety? Garlic breath maybe?
This whole debate is such an incredible waste of time.
We all know a partial ban is not fair to businesses. Even a complete ban like they have in Brandon shafts highway businesses because the truckers just keep going till they find a place where they can smoke indoors.
DESTROYING PEOPLE'S LIVES
Why should some businesses prosper and others die because we haven't got the guts to impose a complete ban? This ridiculous partial ban is destroying people's lives.
It may not sound like it, but I sympathize with people who choose to put their own health at risk to enjoy a favourite activity. I used to love screaming down the river at 100 mph on my snowmobile. But I didn't force anyone to RIDE WITH ME!
I have a cousin in Brandon, bless his black, diseased, stinking lungs, pallid skin and fearful heart, who LOVES to smoke. And smoke he should, but not in the presence of people who don't want to breathe his crap in.
The time has come for smokers to form smoking clubs, just as we have golf clubs, knitting circles, nudist escapes, etc.
They should huddle together at some private, non-public hideaway, like maybe a volcano -- an active one -- and puff their brains out. This should be allowed to continue till proof of smoking's actual impact on health costs is produced, at which time smoking should be banned ALTOGETHER, regardless of how furious it makes my cousin.
Stick that in your pipe, puff daddy.
I repeat -- full provincial public smoking ban, today, please -- and let's move on!
Smoking is, and we all know it, a form of suicide that kills innocent bystanders.
Plain as the butt on your face. The argument is over, it's time to ACT!
I have a dream, friends -- to some day eat my cheese omelette at Nick's Restaurant in Headingley, in a SMOKE FREE ENVIRONMENT!
You smokers may not be there to enjoy that fresh air with me, but that's your problem. Time for the BIG BAN, man.
It is not about the right of the smokers, it is about the right of a business owner to make decisions which affect his/her livelihood without interference from an oppressive government.
As long as the liberals control the government they will seek to destroy real diversity in the market. Liberals want to be kings and rule what all others do because they believe people are too stupid to make intelligent decisions.
Liberals, are of course, idiots. Too bad more don't come on here to be debated, but I think they like their safe havens elsewhere where they can feel free to be deluded amongst like 'minds'.
Good article, thanks for the post!
FMCDH
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And I'll bet my entire 401k this pompous ass believes in a woman's "right" to kill her unborn child. |
Hey liberal, care to ask Nick about that? I have a dream that some day you will not be allowed to eat a cheese omelette ANYWHERE, due to high calories, whatever else is injected into that evil product protected by the "cheese omelette" lawyers in your country.
Fortunately, Canada Ministers don't run the world. But I say, If tobacco is such a killer after hundreds of years, they should just ban it. Pull it off the markets and save us all this grief! But guess what? That would shut down the honey pots the anti's are feeding off of. They haven't gotten their total bans passed everywhere yet. So, their work is not finished. They still see billions to be made from smoking, and so they march on, in their brown shirts and jack boots.
But I see more walls being put up daily against the anti's.
And, I, for one, am sick to death of the anti's controlling, banning and restricting us at every turn.
And what sane, non-abusing adult is EVER going to blow smoke in a kid or baby's face?! This is asinine. More spin.
Yes! How about working with an obese person who cannot hold their own weight? And no one else can either! Talk about a waste of money for a pay check!
Laurie's mental crap is a lot worse then second hand smoke "crap" will EVER be! She's a bigot!
Banning the mouth of Laurie would be the lesser of two evils. And she IS evil. Her rights? Don't trample on them. Our rights? Be damned!
Oh yes! It's "HER RIGHT" you know! Just don't trample on HER rights. She makes me sick!
She has a dream, alright! And her last name is MUSTARD? hmmmmm
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