[elkfersupper]

1. put restrictions all on all your land that run perpetually with future owners. 2. subdivide your land. And 3. sell parcels to buyers who like the restrictions you put on your land.

In 1971, I bought a house in an area in Portales, NM that had a deed restriction prohibiting sale to...and I quote........"Catholics, niggers, and other undesirables".

Those restrictions were long ago voided by federal law, but were there nonetheless.

Smokers are apparently the new "Catholics, niggers, and other undesirables".

[cajungirl]

You seem to overstate things a bit.

Smokers are undesirable and not because of their beliefs or their color.

They stink places up. They don't acknowledge that they have a responsibility not to stink places up. They blame others and call them names when others complain. They demand to indulge in their habit in an infantile way when they are curbed.

Nobody cares if you hurt yourself by indulging in a habit that clearly may kill you, may make you ill, ruins your lungs and is expensive and dirty.

We just care when you impose your habit on us. For years smokers got away with it because most people don't complain about others. Now the passive recipients of the blow from your cigaret aren't taking it anymore.

Maybe smokers need to think about quitting.

[SheLion]

Smokers are apparently the new "Catholics, niggers, and other undesirables"

These people sound like they are lap dogs of Al Quada! heh! They would make nice suicide bombers, wouldn't they????.

[Atlas Sneezed]

Smokers are apparently the new "Catholics, niggers, and other undesirables".

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I think you are missing the obvious difference.

Smokers are being restricted because what they choose to do has negative effects on others, which is the correct result under traditional principles of "nuisance."

Those other groups were prosecuted because of irrational bigotry, which is wrong.

Smoking stinks, catholics et al. don't.