Try telling that to my mom. Oh wait I arleady have...But seriously good luck with that because I don't see you accomplishing much by banning cigs altoghter except get a lot of smokers to despise you. Whew that was a long sentance. Possibly a run on...I'm a HUGE geek sitting here crticizing my own writing. Aren't I? smartass
Smokers are selfish if they think they have the right to pollute other peopls lungs and to give themselves lung cancer then expect taxpayer chemotherapy to fix their own problem that could have been prevented in the first place. I think that if you smoke, you know what could happen. You pay the price.
while i am against smoking, im afraid to say we really can't make it illegal. that will probably just make it worse, because then people will have to smuggle them in and steal and people would end up literally killing for a cigarette. smoking sucks, drugs are bad, but, BUT, people choose to smoke cigarettes and such. so smoking sucks, but i think there's nothing more we can do about it
Originally posted by MakeddeAs far as I know taxpayers don't pay for it.
Smokers are selfish if they think they have the right to pollute other peopls lungs and to give themselves lung cancer then expect taxpayer chemotherapy to fix their own problem that could have been prevented in the first place.
Originally posted by Makedde
Smokers are selfish if they think they have the right to pollute other peopls lungs and to give themselves lung cancer then expect taxpayer chemotherapy to fix their own problem that could have been prevented in the first place. I think that if you smoke, you know what could happen. You pay the price.
1. Grammar
2. Taxpayers don't pay for chemotherapy. Why do you think so many families go broke when someone close to them has Cancer
Originally posted by Makedde
Smokers are selfish if they think they have the right to pollute other peopls lungs and to give themselves lung cancer then expect taxpayer chemotherapy to fix their own problem that could have been prevented in the first place. I think that if you smoke, you know what could happen. You pay the price.
Look, I live in a city that has banned smoking from almost every public activity. But, you know, the vast majority of people find themselves in the smokers corner at one point or another. I'm all for the right of another human to say they dislike and avoid smoke. But, if you don't like smoking, then don't go where smokers go. Because you want to get laid by a smoker is an invalid reason to venture into such places? And we do have the right to pollute the air around us. If you want to start a grass roots movement where non-smokers abandon the smoker for whom they have feelings, then go ahead. But, it won't work out. Just because there are some people who don't stop to consider the fact that they are partaking in an activity that will kill them, doesn't mean they don't know it will kill them. So, stop acting like they smoke because they're too stupid not to smoke.
Agreed with capt, I think it's a disgusting display of how Americans are full of it when they claim they're about freedom, yet we can't even smoke where we please, we breathe in more toxins just walking down the street do to gas exhausts in cars, yet we're worried about some dude smoking a little ciggerate.
It's all just a ploy, a ploy to see how far the goverment will bend to the will of rich protesters who don't know what it's like to have to deal with real life, and the answer is a heck of alot.
It was the tobbacco industry that helped us get out of the depression. Smoking is bad for you, but so are alot of things, hell, why doesn't the liberal werewolves do something USEFUL and ride the ass of alchaholics?
I never heard of someone killing a small child while driving under the influence of tobbacco.
Or for that matter heard someone beat thier wife senseless cause they had a smoke and were not in thier right mind.
Yet, when confronted with this, oh, suddenly we're reminded of the prohibition, and how restricting what Americans can do is wrong.
I swear, it's like Bizzaro World or something..
Originally posted by Hack Benjamin
freedom, yet we can't even smoke where we please,
i'm not saying we should be allowed to smoke where we please. I'm saying we should be allowed to smoke where we're allowed without people bitching about it.
I don't smoke in my own house.
I wouldn't smoke at a table where no one else did..or a minority of the other people there smoked.
I wouldn't smoke in the car of a non-smoker
I wouldn't smoke in my own car if the passenger didn't tell me he/she didn't mind before hand.
It was my choice to start smoking. If another person disagrees with tat, then it's common courtesy not to subject them to it. But, when I'm standing in a room that is designated for smokers, they can STFU. When I come back from such a place, don't talk about the stink of tobacco on my person. If you don't likeit, you can leave. But they never do.
Originally posted by Hack Benjamin
Well, do you think it should be legal in a bar or casino?Cause in Florida currently you can't, I figure if people are going to be gambeling and getting drunk off thier ass anyway, who cares?
I would imagine that depends on the segment to which they cater. I'm not saying that all smokers are bad, evil people...but if it's a non-smoking casino, then you either shouldn't be there, or respect teh opinions of others who are.
what does getting drunk have to do with it?
Well, I figure it's a bit hypocritical, and well.. dickhead like of people to be killing thier livers but complaining about thier lungs..
Also as i said, alchahol can kill people around the drinker much more directly then ciggerates ever could.. I just think if they're going to do something, do it right or not at all.
Either ban all things like alchahol, painkillers, etc.
Or let people smoke when and where they want too.
It's like censorship, either do it all the way or don't even bother, I don't mind either one, I just mind half-ass..
Originally posted by Hack Benjamin
Well, I figure it's a bit hypocritical, and well.. dickhead like of people to be killing thier livers but complaining about thier lungs..
But, it's not the choice of the person, is it? We can all choose to suffer from one thing or another.
Originally posted by Hack Benjamin
Either ban all things like alchahol, painkillers, etc.
Sure, ban all things that alter the conceptions of a single person. This is how things like legalizing pot ends up in a conversation. Which should be done, don't misunderstand.
Originally posted by Hack Benjamin
Or let people smoke when and where they want too.
cigarettes only...or pot too?
Originally posted by Hack Benjamin
It's like censorship, either do it all the way or don't even bother, I don't mind either one, I just mind half-ass..
Censorship can be a good thing. It all depends on how it's used. I don;t think disembowlment should be on sesame streeet...but I think that not hiniding the realities of life from a kid will go a long way towards making him less of a pus*y. In the strictly terminological sense, that is.
take my nephew for example. He's a bigger wuss than I ever was....why? Because his father wants to keep reality from seeping in. When my father died, my mother didn't pretend it didn't happen...etc. But, why is that a bad thing? Reality is a bad thing? I say grow some large hairy balls and let the rest of teh world deal with their tiny hairless, testicles.
We only exist in terms of our own reality.