Total Ban on Smoking the Only Solution (Canada)

Canoe.ca/WinnipegNews ^ | 1/5/03 | Laurie Mustard

[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.

[SheLion]

Where are you...in some little room somewhere with people blowing smoke in your face? You have your own free will. If you're around people who are smoking and you don't like it, than LEAVE. Nobody is FORCING you to do anything. YOU want to FORCE other people to stop smoking for your own convienence....at least be honest with yourself about who wants to force who to do what.

That's what "I" told her! If she doesn't like smokers, then don't GO THERE! DUH! She's ignorant. I think she just loves to read her own pitiful postings.

[SheLion]

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.

Yes!!!! These brain washed non-smokers (not ALL of them, mind you), want us the smoker, who pay hefty taxes to GO AWAY! Get this: if we DO go away, guess what? Guess who will be left forking the tax bill?

Tobacco and smoking is legal! I wish they would just get a grip. Prissy noses! And I would MUCH rather pass a smoker on the HWY anyday then a pot smoker.

[pray4liberty]

For the record, I don't smoke and I'm allergic to tobacco. But I still think government has overstepped their bounds with this one.

Wait until they go after one of your filthy habits and it'll be you screaming bloody murder. The stage has been set; don't say you weren't warned. :) So it's smoking today; what'll it be tomorrow?

[Republic of Texas]

I fully expect this kind of stupidity from Canadians.

[oldtimer]

Glad you're in the hunt She Lion...the nazi's are in deep clinton now.

[Freedom4US]

"The time has come for smokers to form clubs" You stupid Can't Understand Normal Thinking. We already have "smokers clubs" - they are called Bars, Restaurants, Pubs, Taverns, etc.
It is because of people like her that I will never, ever, ever, vote for a "liberal"; because they are NOT. I live for the day when the normal, everyday folk take our countries back. I'm serious.

[oldtimer]

You live in a fantasy world....more children harmed by tobacco products than child molesters...I cannot believe this.

BTW, have you ever been around a child who had been ruined because of a child molester.

Why don't you go over to the Democratic Underground and hang out there...they are just as paranoid.

[Just another Joe]

Where does this writer get the hate and vitrol that they are spewing?
Something had to happen in their youth for this much hate to be formed.

[Just another Joe]

I see you have bought into the anti-smoker fantasy that 440,000 deaths a year are tobacco related.
Do some actual research and you will find that this is patently untrue.

[Great Dane]

I fully expect this kind of stupidity from Canadians.

Excuse me, the most fanatics of all fanatics happen to be US citizens....... remember Glantz and his pals.