Is it too late for smokers to ban together?
I'm an x smoker but I am on the side of the smokers. I feel things have gone too far. Law makers are allowed to smoke in their private offices both in Frankfort and Washington. Yet public bldgs are smoke free zones. One law maker in Washington did complain about the stink from his neighbor but NO RULES WERE BROKEN.
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No. They can band together and form societies to pay for each others' funerals.
But they should hurry...
Yes !
You shouldn't smoke. It degrades the health of everyone around you.
Yes it is too late. Those that smoke in their office need to stop. I'm a ex-smoker too. I am all for smokers having the right to smoke in their own car and their own home. But I don't want to be subjected to their smoke. It stinks.it really stinks.
It's never too late. I don't smoke, never have, but I agree with you. It's gone way too far.
Yes! Band together. Better yet, get a bunch of smokers together and tie a large rubber band around the whole bunch then they can jump off a tall building together!
WHAT A CONCEPT!!!
no it is not to late, I don't smoke or use tobacco and as you I think the gov, has gone to far with this B.S and feel it is a prelude to greater loss of our freedoms, as they chip away at things hat many people won't disagree on then slip some ting else into the pot, and since they have so many people disliking one another , nothing will be done about their real crime, it will go in many instances unnoticed
Blowing smoke in a kids face or anybody elses is a very selfish and uncaring act. Kids who live with smokers have no choice but to be subject of possible lung problems or high cancer risk. A lot of smokers only care for themselve and always try to deny the facts that doctors have warned. Get a life and think of others around you. How about I come up to you and just fart right in your face, how would smokers like that, I don't think they would.
no doubt --- suicide pacts form all the time -- many are
successful.
Yeah, sorry, it's too late. Smoking has been absorbed by a group of people who are writhing with self righteousness, and consumed with political correctness.
If second hand smoke is so dangerous, why do they have to use false statistics, "scare images" in advertising, and outright lies to get their way? I have yet to see a study that shows conclusively that second hand smoke is dangerous, and unless you've held the actual statistics to the study in your hand like I have, don't bother to voice your opinion.
And as far as the "stink", there's lots of "stinks" we have to put up with in the world, but I don't see anyone making any laws dealing with bathing, incense, musak in buildings (sound, but still irritating) and sweat smell due to obesity. Heck, obesity is even more of a killer than smoking, but I don't see people acting rude and obnoxious to fat people about it, or demanding laws to make obesity illegal. And it does harm everyone, it pushes up the cost of health care just like smokers due.
I have no problem with making smoking illegal according to enclosed environment, but in a place like, oh, the Port Authority Terminal, or Madison Square Garden, it's just silly. I've got the common sense and decency to not smoke around another person in an enclosed space. Anti-smokers should have the same common sense and courtesy as well.
No, it's not too late to band together. It doesn't necessarily mean that you'll succeed in changing all smoking legislation, but this is a government "by the people." That's all you need to remember to know that your effort is not in vain. Many others, not just smokers, will join along side you in curbing government power: Libertarians, Constitutionalists, free market capitalists, some conservatives, etc. I'm not a smoker & never have been, however, private business should be able to decide whether or not it is beneficial or detrimental to their business to allow smoking or not. If it hurts them, then they'll realize that and change their policy. They decide who they want their businesses to appeal to, and whether or not potentially losing loyal customers or hardworking employees due to smoking standards is worth it or not. In the case of lawmakers, it's slightly different, b/c for instance, if someone who is allergic to smoke is elected & must have an office in the Capitol, he can't really just decide to get another job in a building that doesn't allow smoking. As a non-smoker, the most disappointing thing is the lack of respect & consideration smokers have for others. When someone offices next to you, and you decide to light up a cigarette, it would be polite to ask those in the surrounding offices (who also share air ventilation systems) whether or not they mind if you smoke or if they'd rather you step outside. It's much easier for a smoker to take it outside or to a designated smoking area than it is for someone to relocate their office (which you know lawmakers would do at taxpayer expense) or to force others to deal with a tobacco stench in their hair & clothing all day. That being said, banding together in a grassroots effort has more pull than you think. Form a PAC (political action committee), write & call your Congressmen, or start a petition. Giving up never solves anything. It's never hopeless, as long as we're still a free republic. The only way to keep it that way is if the people use their voices & voting power.
A sick society -
where you take on a habit on yer own and its down to the government to stop you.
finding a friend then getting married the government jumps in with laws telling you to stop.
Like so many other things such as drinking the government jumps in and wants you to stop.
This and many other aspects of life is foreign to everybody - we're born alone, have to work alone, fight alone and when you open yer mouth suddenly you are not alone and get locked up for trying to do more than you should do.
If you smoke then smoke.
If you drink then drink.
If you sleep then sleep.
If you work then work.
If you live then live.
If you vote then you know who to vote for.
Take everything in moderation.
Yes, it's a dead issue. Smoking is being banned in restaurants, bars, subways, and other public areas all over the nation and businesses are still as profitable as usual. You "smoker's rights" weenies can band together all you like, but you obviously haven't noticed that the majority of the public today LIKES smoke-free environments! And this is a democracy, last I checked. So you guys are just going to have to smoke your crap in the back of the building, right next to the garbage where you belong.
It's never to late, perhaps that way, they can come up with one good lung between them ( I'm an ex-smoker).
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