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Yeah right, to hell with everyone elses rights as long as I get want I want. You smokers need to start thinking about someone besides yourselves. We don't want to breathe smoke. If you want to kill yourself go right ahead. But you don't have the right to smoke around me and my family. I know it kills you that you have to submit to any authority. But some of us have grown up and realized that we can't always have everything that we want. There are rules and regulations that we have to live with. And the best thing for all of you to do is get on with life and accpet the fact that most people don't agree with you.

You smokers need to start thinking about someone besides yourselves. We don't want to breathe smoke. If you want to kill yourself go right ahead. But you don't have the right to smoke around me and my family.

The anti-smokers aren't just trying to ban smoking near themselves. They are trying to stomp out smoking everywhere--even the places that they themselves do not go and have no interest in going.

Smokers like to congregate over beer or other drinks. If smokers want to congregate off by themselves, why should they not be allowed to do so? And if the owner of a watering hole wants to welcome smokers in for such comraderie and fellowship, why should he not be allowed to do so?

I don't smoke, but I do like to sing karaoke sometimes. In most of the bars I've been in, the vast majority of people--employees and patrons--smoke. On some occasions, the smoke in the air has been so bad I decided to leave. In many other cases, I've decided to stick around. If I knew of any non-smoking karaoke places which had regulars as nice as the places I go, I'd go there instead. Unfortunately, so far as I know, no such places exist (at least not around here). Unlike many liberals, though, I recognize that even if smoking were banned in all karaoke bars, there still wouldn't be any fun non-smoking karaoke bars. There just wouldn't be any fun karaoke bars at all.

And the best thing for all of you to do is get on with life and accpet the fact that most people don't agree with you.

I couldn't care less if you don't agree with me and would do anything humanly possible to avoid the company of you and/or your family.

I do care about the erosion of private property rights.

We don't want to breathe smoke.

All well and good - but that also means you don't barbeque or do any other fun stuff like that. What a shame your kids will never know the wonders of a toasted marshmallow.

Or is it that you just have been brain-washed to believe that it is only tobacco smoke that is a problem????

The answer to that question is most likely a resounding YES.

"Yeah right, to hell with everyone elses rights as long as I get want I want. You smokers need to start thinking about someone besides yourselves. We don't want to breathe smoke. If you want to kill yourself go right ahead. But you don't have the right to smoke around me and my family. I know it kills you that you have to submit to any authority. But some of us have grown up and realized that we can't always have everything that we want. There are rules and regulations that we have to live with. And the best thing for all of you to do is get on with life and accpet the fact that most people don't agree with you."

Most of that post (with the exception of 2 sentences) could be said to the anti-smokers and be very accurate.