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Originally Posted by guccilvr
Sure it makes sense. I mean does the air really get that polluted from cigarette smoke?
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Yes, if you're sitting anywhere near me smoking a cigarette that extra pollution gets into my lungs and onto my clothes.
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Does it hang around like car fumes and jet fuel?? I highly doubt it.
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You don't get out to bars much do you?
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If people are so worried about what they are breathing in, they shouldn't walk by a running car.
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Running cars do not have the concentration of carcinogens and tar that cigarettes do, and you know it. Hell a running car in LA is actually putting cleaner air out the tailpipe than it took in. You can't say that for a cigarette smoker. Additionally, cars are outside where the exhaust can dissipate. Cigarettes that I object to are inside, where it stays around. If you brought a running car into a restaurant I guarantee you'd have a room full of pissed off people.
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The air you breathe is full of junk no matter how you try to slice the pie.
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And that makes it ok for you to put more junk into it? Great line of logic there.
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I can understand how my argument wouldn't make that much sense if you are talking about an enclosed environment
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That IS what we're talking about.
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but even then, there are plenty of germs, allergens and harmful things floating in the air at your neighborhood restaraunt that a little cigarette smoke isn't really going to make a difference one way or the other.
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Just about every doctor on the planet, except those on the payroll of the cigarette companies, will disagree with you there. The germs and allergens might give me a cold or some hay fever. The cigarette smoke can give me cancer, and reduce the efficiency of my lungs for decades. There's a big difference, and pretending there isn't weakens every other argument you might come up with.