primitives smoke

[franksolich]

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Oh my.

wings of progression  (11 posts)        Wed Dec-31-08 02:02 PM
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I continue to smoke because .. of smoking bans. they only make me want to smoke more to rebel against and question bureaucratic authority. I am 100 percent pro-choice on smoking. people should be free to make their own decisions, not some dictatorial bureaucrat. Nothing against non-smokers or folks trying to quit, but I want freedom of choice. Nanny state laws do more harm than good. Smokers continue to face intolerance and discrimination just because it's not politically correct to be a smoker.

bigwillq  (1000+ posts)        Thu Jan-08-09 05:05 PM
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1. As a smoker, I enjoy the smoking bans.

It's been in place for quite a few years now here in CT and I really am ok with it.

TWiley  (1000+ posts)      Sat Jan-24-09 04:44 PM
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2. Smoking and smokers stink. 

You may not notice, but smokers really stink. They smell worse than a bad fart. I can smell someone who just had a cigarette at about 60 - 100 feet. I cannot smell someone who just farted at that distance.

If you do quit, you will begin to think other things smell bad. Well, they ALWAYS smelled that way, you just couldn't smell it. Lots of recently quit smokers think their crap smells worse because their biology is changing. Well, it has always smelled that way, and your nose is finally recovering from all the abuse you have been giving it.

I dunno.  These are clean pristine pure Nebraska Sandhills nostrils, that have little or no tolerance for stench.

The worst stench I've ever smelled was Boston in the summertime, reeking of dead fish and raw human sewage.

Why Syzygy  (1000+ posts)        Fri Jan-30-09 01:36 AM
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3. They are probably more sensible than the 'old days'. I smoked in the hospital after my son was born (1978). We used to smoke at our desks in the high rise bank building downtown (1980s). It makes more sense to limit smoking areas. It's more difficult to justify non-smoking bars, though.

[AprilRazz]

DUmmies bitching about nanny states. Oh the irony!

[VivisMom]

You may not notice, but smokers really stink.

Not true. Almost everyone I meet is surprised to find out I'm a smoker.

The Wiley primitive has more projection issues than a movie theater. 

[The Village Idiot]

they only make me want to smoke more to rebel against and question bureaucratic authority. I am 100 percent pro-choice on smoking. people should be free to make their own decisions, not some dictatorial bureaucrat

sounds like a conservative

[terry]

they only make me want to smoke more to rebel against and question bureaucratic authority. I am 100 percent pro-choice on smoking. people should be free to make their own decisions, not some dictatorial bureaucrat

Really.  Decisions people should be free to make - poisoning themselves, killing their children.  Decisions people should not be free to make - educating their own children, choosing their own medical care, spending their own money.   
         

[AllosaursRus]

Really.  Decisions people should be free to make - poisoning themselves, killing their children.  Decisions people should not be free to make - educating their own children, choosing their own medical care, spending their own money.  
        

Hmmmmmm, my parents smoked, my grandparents smoked, my great grandparents smoked, I smoke, yet all my children and grandchildren are as healthy as a horse before the Kentucky Derby! I don't think they poisoned me, and I don't think I poisoned my children or grandchildren.

Every one of my ancestors lived to be older than 75! Wonder how come, since we have been poisoning ourselves for generations!


Maybe I should sue the tobacco industry for prolonging our agony!

(edited for sarcasm) 

[terry]

Hmmmmmm, my parents smoked, my grandparents smoked, my great grandparents smoked, I smoke, yet all my children and grandchildren are as healthy as a horse before the Kentucky Derby! I don't think they poisoned me, and I don't think I poisoned my children or grandchildren.

Every one of my ancestors lived to be older than 75! Wonder how come, since we have been poisoning ourselves for generations!


Maybe I should sue the tobacco industry for prolonging our agony!

(edited for sarcasm) 

Oh I don't think you poisoned anyone but maybe yourself and I think you have every right to poison yourself.   I don't smoke but I have other poisons.

I guess I didn't make my point very well.  The liberals claim to be all for personal freedoms, including the freedom of mothers to kill their own children.   But they are very much against the right to keep and spend your own money or educate your own children or keep a gun or choose your own medical care.

[AllosaursRus]

Oh I don't think you poisoned anyone but maybe yourself and I think you have every right to poison yourself.   I don't smoke but I have other poisons.

I guess I didn't make my point very well.  The liberals claim to be all for personal freedoms, including the freedom of mothers to kill their own children.   But they are very much against the right to keep and spend your own money or educate your own children or keep a gun or choose your own medical care.

Oh, my comment wasn't directed at your post so much as it was directed at the DUmp Monkeys. One of their favorite arguments involves "second hand smoke".