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Originally Posted by _LesPaul43_
Everyone is fucking stupid. Masterbating in public or whistling to yourself cant feed smoke into other people's lungs which in the long run takes valuable time off of your life.
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How does feeding smoke into others' lungs take years of your life?
Seriously though, you're mixing up two different arguments. The issue here is public smoking, not just smoking in general. As far as I can tell, nobody is arguing that nobody should be allowed to smoke, period. Sure, some of you think smoking is stupid, and it probably is, but that's up to smokers to decide.
And then there's two arguments against public smoking. There's the "second hand smoke takes years off innocent peoples' lives," which I have a very hard time accepting. It's not like every time you inhale second hand smoke you lose three months, you either inhale so much of it you get some sort of lung problem that kills you, which seems very unlikely, or you don't. You don't die at 60 of a heart attack and say, oh well, he inhaled a lot of second hand smoke that's why he died 20 years early.
The second argument seems to be, "smoke is annoying, it smells bad." In restaurants, okay, fair enough, I can accept that. I still think that if the restaurant has outdoor seating it should be okay. For bars or poolhalls on the other hand, fu
ck you. That's just part of going to a bar. The vast majority of people who go to bars go there to smoke and get sh
itfaced and just because you only go there to get drunk and not to smoke doesn't mean you somehow have the authority to impose your will upon others.
That's all I have to say about this matter, feel free to continue making the same arguments over and over.