roachboy

i smoke.
i dont care about smoking bans: they are fine by me.
smoking bans seem most coherently about worker health.
the public health arguments i find infinitely less compelling, simply because the fact is that you are not going to die from passing through clouds of second hand smoke--you are not trapped in them, they do not follow you around--there are no little demons in clouds of smoke that will poke at you until something Horrible happens.

but protecting worker health (folk who work in a pub and are exposed all the time)--that makes sense.

so i am fine with the bans.

in places where there are no bans, i respect what an actual human being who i was interacting with request---and certainly would not smoke around anyone with asthma if i knew about it.
when i go to a pub, i go to pubs with belgian beer and people who smoke . just my preference.
i hate bad beer.

if i am in a public space and feel like having a smoke and there are folk around me who aren't smoking, i generally ask if it would bother them.

and i roll my smokes, so they dont sit in the ashtray burning away while i am not paying attention.
and they dont smell *as* bad.

none of this seems to be rocket science.

if i am going to be polite or considerate of others concering when and where i smoke, i expect that to be reciprocated.

i am not moved by the righteous lather.
if anything, i am far more inclined than i otherwise would be to tell very righteous people to go fuck themselves.
preferably through a cloud of smoke.
that you do to like cigarettes does not mean you get to be an asshole.

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spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear

it make you sick.

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