Barnacle Bill
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People who don`t smoke or drink really don`t live any longer; It just seems longer !
Ban Smoking
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Exactly right! It is more of the "We know what's best for you." attitude that politicians seem to love.
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ChattanoogaPhil
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I tend to agree with this. At one time smoking was glamorized, not so anymore. I just don't see that many smoking in public places like parks. Though, I do notice smokers hanging outside of their workplace. In general, I'm thinking it isn't such a problem requiring legislative fixing. That said, I certainly would not want to go back to the days of smoke filled theaters and airplanes.
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Ironically, tobacco smoke doesn't bother me, but I'm allergic to the smoke from burning cigarette paper! It chokes me up until I can't talk or breathe.
So if everyone smoked cigars, I wouldn't mind, but I wish cigarette smoking would just STOP.
So if everyone smoked cigars, I wouldn't mind, but I wish cigarette smoking would just STOP.
keith44spl
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Waitin' to Exhale
Well,
Heck, just ban exhalin'...
I once got on a plane in Dallas with a dip of Copehagen and didn't spit till I got to Chicago.
Smokers just need to toughen up alittle bit.
Su Amigo,
Dave
Well,
Heck, just ban exhalin'...
I once got on a plane in Dallas with a dip of Copehagen and didn't spit till I got to Chicago.
Smokers just need to toughen up alittle bit.
Su Amigo,
Dave
Fishslayer
US Veteran, Absent Comrade
Already done here in the People's Republik. Most parks, some (All? Not sure.) beaches, lots of places.
The nicotine lozenges will take the edge off when ya can't smoke...
The nicotine lozenges will take the edge off when ya can't smoke...
JcMack
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I grew up in an era that included TV pro smoking commercials in BW that featured a lot of famous people like John Wayne, Lucy and Desi, and plenty of others. My parents both smoked, my mother quit, but my father died of emphysema at 64. Every girl I went with in HS smoked. Smoke was everywhere, so it was almost like I smoked myself. I never minded it. I smoked cigars for a couple years but that was it. I saved all my money for beer. Tolerance of smoking is pretty liberal around here. The only thing I object to as I'm a non smoker is, smoking in restaurants. My favorite greasy spoon has a great breakfast special. But I've got to sit way out in left field to avoid smoke. Banning outdoor smoking is ridiculous. What's next? A bear can't crap in the woods?
Being a reformed smoker, (last cigarettes 69, last cigar's 2000) I detest cigarette smoke indoors. But, I just voted against a ban on outdoor smoking in the parks. What they need is to enforce "Littering" laws. I am sick and tired of any officials banning everything.
My, not so humble, view...
I once had a German lawyer tell me that the main difference between American law and German law was that in Germany everything is forbidden unless expressly permitted, while in American law everything is permitted unless expressly forbidden. Guess we're heading to look more like Germany (and the rest of Europe probably) than we are like America!
I never cared for cigarettes, I use to smoke a pipe, I still like the taste of an occasional (good) cigar, and I still chew tobacco regularly, so I admit my bias here when it comes to tobacco use, but as an American I detest too much government regulation. I understand no smoking indoors in public buildings (it affects others too easily); but outdoors, away from non-smokers and away from public building entrances or in private settings?
Peace,
I once had a German lawyer tell me that the main difference between American law and German law was that in Germany everything is forbidden unless expressly permitted, while in American law everything is permitted unless expressly forbidden. Guess we're heading to look more like Germany (and the rest of Europe probably) than we are like America!
I never cared for cigarettes, I use to smoke a pipe, I still like the taste of an occasional (good) cigar, and I still chew tobacco regularly, so I admit my bias here when it comes to tobacco use, but as an American I detest too much government regulation. I understand no smoking indoors in public buildings (it affects others too easily); but outdoors, away from non-smokers and away from public building entrances or in private settings?
Peace,
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OLDFED
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Smoking sucks! I'd like to see a ban on those fiberglass filters that litter our streets and flow to the lakes and seas after a rain. I was behind a man at a stop light two weeks ago, who opened his driver's door and dumped his very full ashtray onto the road. We had a few choice words before the light changed.
I agree with OLDFED about the littering: I'm tired of picking cig. butts out of my yard and driveway. I was told once that cigarette butts are the largest item littered, but due to the size not many see them, or complain about them. Let us not forget the dummys who throw lit butts out the windows. I had one roll under my truck this afternoon while at a traffic light. Glad my gas tank doesn't leak.
Another issue is underage kids smoking. The high school lot is loaded with young kids walking out and lighting up. More irritating is the local gas-and-go who, while claiming to be a "Christian run store" has a policy of "if you got money you can buy tobacco in our store", where most buy their packs at.
Last but not least, the people who are on welfare or just poor and spend the money on smokes (and alcohol) instead of food or clothes for their kids. Makes you want to - well, it just makes one mad that the kids suffer at the hands of the parents.
Another issue is underage kids smoking. The high school lot is loaded with young kids walking out and lighting up. More irritating is the local gas-and-go who, while claiming to be a "Christian run store" has a policy of "if you got money you can buy tobacco in our store", where most buy their packs at.
Last but not least, the people who are on welfare or just poor and spend the money on smokes (and alcohol) instead of food or clothes for their kids. Makes you want to - well, it just makes one mad that the kids suffer at the hands of the parents.
USAF385
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I'm for smoking bans in certain places. Like restaurants.. Yeah I don't want to inhale plumes of carcinogens while I'm eating. I also think buildings should be able to ban smoking outside their doors. Again, I don't want to inhale cancer smoke when I have to walk in and out of places. I know a hospital around here makes smokers go quite a distance away from the hospital to smoke.
As far as smoking in your car or in your house... who cares.
I am more anti secondhand smoke, if you want to puff on cancer sticks go right ahead.
Sad story....
I know a family of four.. A man, his wife and two daughters. He had smoked for years. He is close to 60, one daughter is mid 30s, the other is lower 30s. The wife died of breast cancer a few years back. Both girls had / have breast cancer. The man has throat cancer. He quit smoking, but sadly too late.. Research has shown second hand smoke greatly increases the chances of getting breast cancer.
As far as smoking in your car or in your house... who cares.
I am more anti secondhand smoke, if you want to puff on cancer sticks go right ahead.
Sad story....
I know a family of four.. A man, his wife and two daughters. He had smoked for years. He is close to 60, one daughter is mid 30s, the other is lower 30s. The wife died of breast cancer a few years back. Both girls had / have breast cancer. The man has throat cancer. He quit smoking, but sadly too late.. Research has shown second hand smoke greatly increases the chances of getting breast cancer.
My grandfather died from smoking in the 1973. He smoked several cartons a day (non-stop) for years, but he rolled his own non-filtered. We as kids build forts out of the several thousand Laredo tobacco cans he saved. (The garage was practically full of them!) We hardly watched TV at his house as it was more fun to watch him roll with his hand held rolling machine. He would even let us roll some too.
When he was taken to the hospital after he collapsed the day before he passed, he fought the medic to take off the oxegen mask so he could smoke. Dad said he was told alter by the medic he lite one up with one hand and fought with the other.
I was 10 when he died, and I still miss him 36 years later.
When he was taken to the hospital after he collapsed the day before he passed, he fought the medic to take off the oxegen mask so he could smoke. Dad said he was told alter by the medic he lite one up with one hand and fought with the other.
I was 10 when he died, and I still miss him 36 years later.
No one smokes in my house or my car.
Add Florence, Alabama and make it a triple. More to come, I have little doubt.
Farmer17
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Nobody would care if other people smoked, if the tobacco companies could come up with a hybrid tobacco that didn't stink so BAD! I'd rather smell raw sewage, or burning rubber, or laquer thinner, and I would rather have a skunk's butt in my face than a person smoking a cigarette on the other side of the room. If someone could come up with a biodegradeable, stinkless cigarette I wouldn't care if people smoked till tar and nicotine dripped out of their ears! Maybe if they could make some kind of hydrated grapevine cigarette that when lit, it turned water into steam, and they could add the tobacco flavoring....?
This topic reminds me of a story I heard at my dad's funeral last year. My dad spent a lot of time at the Amvets near his house in his later years and hadn't smoked since 1962 and spent most of my life trying to get me to quit but when they brought up banning smoking inside the Amvets building he became so angry they had to escort him out the door. He lived most of his life when America was America. I miss him.
