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Old 11-30-2007, 02:05 AM   #31 (permalink)
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We've had a smoking ban here for about a year...I've gotten used to it, and I've cut back on my smoking when at the bars.

Even as a smoker, I'm ok with the idea, but I think it should be left up to the businesses. All our pool halls went bankrupt, and almost all of the bars have seen reduced business.
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Old 11-30-2007, 08:11 AM   #32 (permalink)
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I guess this as close as there is to an argument...but I could care less about a ban, or no. It's the hypocrisy of it all that pisses me off.

1.) It's the smell and not the health issue:

I wish they could make a cigarette that instead of smoking, it atomized (or some such sh1t) vitamin C (or some such healthy sh1t) as the second hand smoke it produced. Something that was super healthy for everybody, but the smoke from these new cigarettes smelled like sad dead fish.

2.) It's the money and not the health issue:

If there was a sincere effort to inconvenience smokers to quit (by taxes, or ban) there would be legislation to create a progressive age requirement to buying cigarettes (next year you'd have to be 19, the next year 20, so no one could start).


There's more, but that's enough.
It Just went up to 18 by me....although i know a lot of people aren't happy and i don't know anyone under the age who it's actually stopped.

It should have given a 2 year warning, people who were addicted legally at 16 have been forced to quit and to me that seems unreasonable.
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Old 11-30-2007, 09:57 AM   #33 (permalink)
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Thumbs up I like the ban

Personally, I'm happy with the ban. I don't give a damn about whether smoking is unhealthy or not, or how much second-hand smoke may or may not affect a non-smoker's health-- I know only one thing (being a non-smoker): Its VERY unpleasant, like needles going into my eyes.

Maybe because I don't smoke my olfactory glands work better, but I can smell the smoke on people's clothes and it doesn't just stink-- it has a physical effect on my eyes and nasal passages. When I visit my parents, who smoke, that smell is in my clothes & my eyes burn long after I have gone.

Stink I can deal with, but not the physical pain from being around people who could care less and light up anyway. For that reason alone, I welcome the ban. Smokers should keep that unpleasantness to themselves.

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Old 11-30-2007, 11:22 AM   #34 (permalink)
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Wasn't that problem resolved simply with smoking and non smoking areas?
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Old 11-30-2007, 11:23 AM   #35 (permalink)
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Wasn't that problem resolved simply with smoking and non smoking areas?
Yes, but some people wil still complain.
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Old 11-30-2007, 11:26 AM   #36 (permalink)
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Can't we just **** in their mouths as they open?
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Old 11-30-2007, 12:42 PM   #37 (permalink)
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Wasn't that problem resolved simply with smoking and non smoking areas?
No. Smoke drifts. Still gets in your eyes and clothes-- even if you are sitting a good distance away from the a "smoking area."

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Old 11-30-2007, 12:44 PM   #38 (permalink)
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Yes, but some people wil still complain.
Like me. LOL
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Old 11-30-2007, 01:02 PM   #39 (permalink)
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So what it all comes down to is, what? Discomfort? Some people just don't like the smell, or the smoke makes them cough. Alright, fine, that's understandable - but surely mild discomfort in some is not nearly reason enough for the government to begin infringing upon people's civil liberties? Oh, apparently it is.
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I dunno if I would dismiss it as merely "mild discomfort."

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