Smokers have no rights, eh? This burns the chit out of me when I hear someone say this.
Those are FIGHTIN WORDS!
Posted on 05/30/2002 7:07:00 AM PDT by Just another Joe
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By Heidi Rauch-Webb /Oswego Daily News
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The Oswego County Energy Recovery Facility has gone the way of airlines, hospitals and most shopping malls in the country: no smoking in their facility. Deputy Superintendent Frank Visser said that though only about 10 out of 30 employees at the ERF are smokers, the issue was a serious one. "Our lunch room was also our smoking room and it's very small," he explained. "People who don't smoke couldn't get away from the smoke." Visser said that there had been some complaints to the health department and a few weeks ago Michael Rosen, Deputy Health Commissioner, and an assistant visited the facility and came to the conclusion that controlling the smokers was not feasible so they designated the building as non-smoking. "The new policy is that people who want to smoke must do so 20 feet from the building," Visser said. There were some disgruntled employees but Visser told the assembled County Department of Public Works committee last week that some of the smokers have no one to blame but themselves. "Some smokers were smoking in non-designated areas," he said. "I told them that it takes only one person to ruin it for the rest of the employees." Visser said the decision is final after the recommendation went to the county Legislature's Health committee. "It's a done deal," he told DPW committee members as they offered suggestions on how to correct the problem. "As a smoker, you have no rights. If I smoked, I guess I'd just quit." |
You see what it's coming to?
Smokers HAVE NO RIGHTS.
Is this what it's going to take to arouse one quarter of the population?
There, now it makes sense!
There, now does it make sense?
controlling the smokers was not feasible so they designated the building as non-smoking. -------
"Some smokers were smoking in non-designated areas," he said. "I told them that it takes only one person to ruin it for the rest of the employees."
some of the smokers have no one to blame but themselves.
As someone that has the screen name lewislynn you have no rights.
That makes just as much sense as the "Smokers have no rights" statement.
I will agree that one bad apple can spoil it for the whole bunch but if you see one bad apple do you throw the whole barrel away?
I don't smoke but I can see that this is taking us somewhere none of us want to be~ smokers or not. Everyone should care about this whether they smoke or not.
controlling the smokers populace was not feasible so they designated the building as non-smoking instituted martial law.. -------
some of the smokers have no one to blame but themselves.
The rest of the smokers can blame the smoking nazis.
That's part of what some of us here are trying to get across to some others here.
Smokers have no rights, eh? This burns the chit out of me when I hear someone say this.
Those are FIGHTIN WORDS!
Exactly, Boxsford. The American who loses the right to smoke a legal commodity: what will be next? They chip away at this Right, there will be more to fall.
This is a Right's Issue.
As a smoker, you have no rights.
As a heterosexual, you have no rights.
As a hunter, you have no rights.
As a parent, you have no rights.
As a Southerner, you have no rights.
As a Christian, you have no rights.
As a omnivore, you have no rights.
As a conservative, you have no rights.
As a male, you have no rights.
As a pro-lifer, you have no rights.
As a tax-PAYER, you have no rights.
"It's a done deal," he told DPW committee members as they offered suggestions on how to correct the problem. "As a smoker, you have no rights. If I smoked, I guess I'd just quit."
Do you want to tell this little dictator what you think?
Here's the e-mail addy, Visserf@oswegocounty.com
Thanks for the email addy, Joe. You bet I will give him a piece of my mind!
Mr. Visser,
After reading the article in the Oswego Daily News online, County ERF Bans Smoking; Some Smokers Fume, I have a few problems with some of your statements.
I have no problem whatsoever with your making a county owned building nonsmoking. That is the county's right as the property owner.
I do take offense at some of the statements in the article and some attributed to you. " Michael Rosen, Deputy Health Commissioner, and an assistant visited the facility and came to the conclusion that controlling the smokers was not feasible so they designated the building as non-smoking."
Should this not read, "....controlling the smokers BREAKING THE REGULATIONS, was not feasible...."
Were ALL the smokers caught smoking in the non-designated areas? Were the smokers breaking the regulations punished or written up? Or is this just an excuse to demonize smokers in general?
The statement of yours that I take offense at was. "As a smoker, you have no rights. If I smoked, I guess I'd just quit."
EXCUSE ME! As a smoker I have no rights? It is thoughts such as this that will tip this country into socialism faster than you can say Jack Sprat. Do you, or did you, realize what you said? Just as easily you could say,
"As a smoker, you have no rights. As a heterosexual, you have no rights. As a hunter, you have no rights. As a parent, you have no rights. As a Southerner, you have no rights. As a Christian, you have no rights. As an omnivore, you have no rights. As a conservative, you have no rights. As a male, you have no rights."
I believe that you did NOT realize what you were saying. If you did then I really believe that you should not be holding public office in the USA.
I suggest you get help for your mental imbalance.
Perhaps a prescription from Doctor Feelgood will cure your bitterness.
Or at least mask it.
I added him/her to my list.
He/she is a Situation Conservative of the worst kind.
Is one of the requirements to becoming a mid-level tax-eating bureaucrat an inability to understand the Enlish language, or do they take a course in Orwell Speak 101?
If banning smoking in a building is not controlling the smokers, just what the hell is it?
No smoking = Double plus good.
What an (o).
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