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I somewhat agree with the rest of your post, but I found the above quote funny. It is obvious to me that smokers just don't get it. Inhaling second hand smoke is just as repulsive to me when I'm not eating as it is when I am. I understand that you think this is being respectful, but you just don't get it.

I once worked for a guy that smoked and we worked from his house developing software. Even if he wasn't smoking, he ALWAYS had a cigarette lit even if it was just going to burn up in his ash-tray. One day I mentioned to him that I couldn't even go out after work without going home and completely desmoking myself first. He seemed concerned and wanted to do the right thing to make it easier for me at work. His solution: He put a tiny little fan in the window and pointed it outside.

Atleast when I lived in south Florida a year and a half ago the law didn't apply to: Bars that do not serve food, casinos, and resturant bars (no food) which are in a seprate room with a door (and then most just proped the door open).

I'm suprised that they changed it since those seemed like pretty decent regulations. =/

Um... You are aware that smokers pay far more into the medical care field then they cost, right? When you add up the taxes applied to tobbacco products (something like 85% of a typical pack of cigarettes, nearly all of which goes into medical budgets), and then add up the fact that smokers pay higher premiums for insurance (medical and life), it's far more accurate to say that you pay *less* for medical care because of smokers.


That's not to say that everyone should smoke up or anything. But your argument is essentially baseless. You most definately do not pay more for a hospital visit because of smokers. Additionally, many medical advancements in the treatment of heart and lung diseases are the direct result of the funding recieved from taxes on cigarettes. So if you ever happen to develop a heart or lung ailment (and statistically the majority of such cases are *not* smokers), you're benefiting from research funded by smokers.


Your argument is pretty much completely backwards.

When I see friends from my school smoking (cigarettes) I cant help but feel... I can't describe it, its a mix between hopelessness and frustration. How desperate can they for acceptance that they smoke just for the sake of rebelling? Or do I have it wrong, is there some good reason to smoke (cigarettes) I haven't heard about? I've tried to get them to stop but its really too late for them already. It's seems so pathetic... and the worst part is that they're good people but now they're gonna have a 10-20 year shorter life because of mistakes they made when they're stupid and young. This has nothing to do with the smoking ban but its an observation of mine none the less.

I'm considering taking up smoking again.

This BS about not stepping on the rights of non-smokers is getting deep enough to drive me to that sort of unhealthy act just so I can flagantry disregard the bans and better express my inner *******.

Before I'd write a law banning smoking in certain places, I'd write one banning the use of walkie-talkie cellphones. I'm gonna shove one of those up somebody's *** soon, I'm afraid.

I hear ya, plus it's a great way to let others know you've done time. Then there's the added benefit of how much more likely you are to be approached by potheads.

And yeah, my employer has us smokers outside in a little plexiglass-walled hut. I'm not one to complain though, because it truely is the best part of my day to get out of the cubicle, march outside with my black-lunged little buddies and contribute to our own choking demises. On the other hand, smoking in the bar should be not only an unalienable right, it is such a fundamental part of the culture that I don't hesitate to call it my duty.

The worst of it is that there is a button right on the side that will make the walkie talkie part work just like a regular cell phone, yet people really think everyone wants to hear them shout about what kind of tampons their wives want in the middle of the store so they crank the stupid thing up to max volume. I fear it would still be perfectly audible even after you shove it up their ***.

I don't smoke but I take smoke breaks with the guys at work who do. I just go outside and shoot the **** for 5 minutes a few times a day. Its a nice break and the weather here is beautiful right now. And it gets me an extra 30 minutes or so of break time by the end of the day.

So: even if you don't smoke, take the breaks.

I'm hard pressed to think you need help but if it cooks your omelet, knock yourself out.

Try to prove their cellphone gives you cancer first. That way the law will support you.