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.
You smokers may not be there to enjoy that fresh air with me, but that's your problem. Time for the BIG BAN, man.
The real barrier to the author's dream is that Nick's will not be there.
By 'banned' do you mean she drops out of sight -forever- because she's been chained to a ring set in the condrete floor of an 8'by 8' room in a basement, breathing air saturated with tobacco smoke 24/7?
The bloating makes you irritable, you know.
Just after the bidding began, the auctioneer spotted someone smoking and announced on the P.A. that no-smoking was allowed in the building.
About an hour later it was time to begin auctioning off the cars; they started each car in its turn and ran it for a few minutes in this same closed-in area prior to the bidding.
After about the fourth car, a Jaguar with a bad case of the "chokes" was started, somebody got the bright idea to open a couple of the large garage doors.
LOL!
I'm an ex-smoker myself, but I'd have made an exception just this once. I'd have borrowed a cigarette from the smoker chastised for smoking earlier by the auctioneer and lit up just to see if it would be noticed.
Ten to one, you would have been asked to extinguish the butt or leave, with a cheering crowd acquiescing.
Well said!!!!
You bet they are William! As we speak, I have enlisted a cadre' of attorneys and we are going to take on the beer, wine and alcohol manufacturers for their manufacturing of Substances of Mass Destruction (SMD)!. God only knows how many lives have been destroyed, families torn apart, children and wives abused, innocent victims of drunk drivers all as a result of the evil alcohol manufacturers! We are going to tear this country inside out and make it the tobacco-alcohol free eutopia you have been praying for! God Bless you brother and thank you for being on our side!!!!!
Grow up.
And I would have lit up right next to him ready to watch his back because I'm mad as hell and I'm not taking it any more..........
Well, heck, so would I. That doesn't mean there wouldn't be a bunch of panties-in-a-wad types risking their mascara chasing us.
We'd win.
Liberals, who believe that there is such a thing as a free lunch, would like to see taxes on tobacco at an infinite rate. Smokers would then obediently buy them, flush them down the toilet, and go out and buy more. Buy more and more, but never smoke them.
The scariest thing about this smoking nazi is not that she wants a legal substance treated as if it was illegal. Rather, she believes that government is so all-powerful that it can just snap its fingers and reorder the universe to satisfy her petty desires.
1) Ignore them until someone near you makes it their business to get right in your face to alert you.
2) Play the "Who?... Me?..." game until it wears thin.
3) Shift to the "Huh?... What?..." game for awhile.
4) Pretend to take an urgent cell phone call from your wallet, or whatever you happen to have in your pocket that is roughly cell phone sized.
5) Yell "Woo Hoo!" and shout, "It's a Boy!"
6) Go back to 'your call', yell, "And he's hung like a mule!"
7) Terminate the 'call', continue smoking as though nothing has happened.
8) Repeat steps 1-3 randomly if required until cigarette is played out.
9) Hold up butt and say, "You mean this?"
10) Take a final drag and drop the cigarette on the floor. Don't step on it. Wink and do the thumbs up at the auctioneer.
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