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Smoking cigarettes (not weed) just tobacco which is a legal commodity.........is the relaxation of choice for 55 million Amercians.

This is a circular argument. You can't say that something should be tolerated just because it's now legal. Other kinds of drugs were once legal too, and for that matter so was slavery and wife-beating. We outlawed those just like we should outlaw the wretched tobacco weed, as dangerous a drug as any that have gone before.

Pot and tobacco are both filthy and dangerous, and anyone who uses tobacco is just as bad as someone who smokes pot. They ought not to be allowed to corrupt other people's children into the drug-addicted lifestyle, nor to blow their disgusting drug smoke into the air where other people have to breathe it.

In fact tobacco is far more addictive than pot and maybe ought to be treated more harshly. The vehemence of the militant smokers on this thread is just more proof of the depths of their addiction. Does anyone doubt that these pathetic junkies would commit crime to feed their addiction if they couldn't afford to pay for their smokes? (That's why I think tobacco ought to remain legal while one is in one's own home.)

I wonder what ccmay prefers........prescription drugs.......or booze?

Why do you assume I use anything? There are other ways to relax than using drugs, dear. Though I wouldn't expect a drug-addled junkie to know that...

-ccm

We outlawed those just like we should outlaw the wretched tobacco weed, as dangerous a drug as any that have gone before.

Go ahead and keep manufacturing criminals out of people that do others no harm. The more groups you criminalize, the deeper you foster disrespect for the law. See what that gets you.

where other people have to breathe it.

You don't have to walk into any establishment that allows smoking. When you choose to go there, you choose to breathe whatever air within. Don't like their air, or music, or whatever else, keep walking. It's really not all that complicated.

The vehemence of the militant smokers on this thread is just more proof of the depths of their addiction.

I don't smoke, never have, never will. So, what's your explanation for my defense of smokers?

All opinion, and all irrelevant. If you don't want yourself or your kids to breathe smoke, keep yourself and your children the hell out of establishments (private property) where it is allowed.

This is a circular argument. You can't say that something should be tolerated just because it's now legal.

Tobacco has been legal for HUNDREDS of years!

Other kinds of drugs were once legal too, and for that matter so was slavery and wife-beating. We outlawed those just like we should outlaw the wretched tobacco weed, as dangerous a drug as any that have gone before.

I have never heard ONE case of abuse, or anyone ending up dead in a piece of twisted metal from driving and smoking, and tobacco is no more dangerous then the FAT FOODS YOU EAT FROM THE FAST FOOD RESTAURANTS.

They ought not to be allowed to corrupt other people's children into the drug-addicted lifestyle.

We lost a LOT of teen-agers in Maine this past summer from drinking and driving. If all they did was smoke, they would still be here with us.

Why do you assume I use anything? There are other ways to relax than using drugs, dear. Though I wouldn't expect a drug-addled junkie to know that...

Your pathetic, you know it? You see what others in here think about you. Yet still you wear blinders. There is no talking sense to you, and I for one, am on my knees thanking God that you and I will NEVER meet!!!!!!

I am ashamed that you are a Conservative. Take a good look in the mirror, bub. Your so pious that you can sit behind your monitor and spew your hate towards good decent people who choose to smoke a legal commodity. Hitler??? I thought HITLER WAS DEAD.

Do me a favor. Stay out of our smoking threads. There is NOTHING you can say to us that will stop us from fighting for the rights of the Americans. Nothing! Your all hot air. I don't appreciate your narrow minded anti-American posts.

And with that, I will bid you adieu. I will not lower myself ever, by responding to your illiterate words. Have a nice day.

We outlawed those just like we should outlaw the wretched tobacco weed, as dangerous a drug as any that have gone before... Pot and tobacco are both filthy and dangerous, and anyone who uses tobacco is just as bad as someone who smokes pot. They ought not to be allowed to corrupt other people's children into the drug-addicted lifestyle, nor to blow their disgusting drug smoke into the air where other people have to breathe it... Does anyone doubt that these pathetic junkies would commit crime to feed their addiction if they couldn't afford to pay for their smokes? (That's why I think tobacco ought to remain legal while one is in one's own home.) ... Why do you assume I use anything? There are other ways to relax than using drugs, dear. Though I wouldn't expect a drug-addled junkie to know that...

I am perplexed as to how someone could have such hatred for a plant (tobacco).

I also find it frightening how so many anti-smokers like to use dehumanizing language when talking about smokers (“bad, pathetic, drug-addled junkies”). There are some habits I find annoying, but I don’t feel anything close to the level of hatred some anti-smokers feel towards people who smoke.

" In fact tobacco is far more addictive than pot and maybe ought to be treated more harshly."

If you really believe 10 percent of the nonsense you spew, you really should just go out and pester your demoratic representative to pass a Constitutional Amendment banning tobacco. Until then, just stay away from my state. We have enough problems with real communists and facists 90 miles south of us. We don't need the make pretend or wannabe-commies coming into the state in any larger numbers than they already have.