Oh! Ok! I didn't go look. Well, figures. heh!
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.
Oh! Ok! I didn't go look. Well, figures. heh!
And I guess Mr. Twinkie didn't put others who happened to be on that same river at risk? Far more risk than smoking has ever put a bystander. Wonder if those folks he put at risk were there willingly, knowing that this idjit was going to come screaming at them at 100 mph?
Gawd, I detest these people--every last one of the arrogant, elitist fools.
Want to bet that the cheese omelette comes with fried potatoes, bacon or sausage, and toast with butter?
Now, that's a lawsuit!
The tyrants are drug addicts who insist on their so-called "right" to inflict their filthy, dangerous smoke on normal peoples' lungs. You nicotine junkies are a menace to everyone else. You're worse than heroin addicts; at least they don't force me to shoot up with them.
-ccm
-ccm
I would like to see tobacco made illegal(in U.S.A.), as maybe you. But even more so, I want to see the comments from liberals like Meathead Reiner opposing the ban and hear your comments about this ant-tobacco crusader not wanting to see rhe product out-lawed.
Well then you have a major problem with your value system - that's a very disturbing statement. Go away.
Far more young children will grow up to die of tobacco-related illness-- every year-- than will ever be killed or harmed by all the perverts who ever lived.
Most of them will be following the poor example of a foolish parent or other adult role model. Some will never smoke, but die nonetheless, since their foolish, self-centered, drug addicted parents will smoke while they are pregnant or while the infant's lungs are developing.
Who's got a problem with their value system? Drug addicted nicotine junkies, that's who.
By all means, drop the hammer on child abusers, but treat anyone who deliberately blows poisonous smoke into a baby's lungs as a child abuser too.
-ccm
Exhibit A in the lineup of nicotine junkies who want to force those around them to accommodate their filthy habit. I'd like to see their cancer sticks extinguished with fire hoses full in the face.
-ccm
Sshh, the UN already has ideas in that direction.
At least big tobacco and smokers are paying hefty taxes, thats more than can be said about druggies and dealers, yet they are tolerated, even pampered....... something wrong with this picture.
Being a male with a name like Laurie, small wonder he's got his knickers in a twist.
You sir, have a violent nature... by the sound of it, there is a lot more troubling you than smoking.
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