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Holo · 12-12-2003, 04:24 PM

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Originally posted by sixate
I'm all for people giving themselves cancer and and causing themselves to suffer a horrible painful death. More power to you, but keep that shit out of public places and where people work so people like me aren't poisoned by it.

I somewhat disagree with this being so poisonous. Unless you're in a small room during an AA meeting where you have some air with your cigarette smoke, I don't think it's as harmful to health as it's hyped. It's one thing at a workplace where you'd be subjected to your boss smoking at the desk across from you all day, but even at public places it's a nasty smell more than a real health risk in short time spans. Most of the food we eat would be impure by the food of olden days due to preservatives and pesticides, etc. I worked at a beer bistro for a while and we used to load the trucks inside the warehouse. Every time one of those trucks started up black soot from the diesel engines would cloud the air above. At the end of the night you have to pick the black boogers out of your nose from all the soot you'd inhale. I think that's a much larger work hazard than a cigarette.

It's easily the most disgusting bad habit on the planet.

I still think eating feces for sexual pleasure beats it

Smokers are absolutely the most ignorant group of people on the planet because not only do they not care about their own health, they could give a fuck less about anyone else's health too.

You could add gas-guzzling higher emission vehicle owners to that list. Or ppl who vote for a football stadium to be built instead of better schools. Let's throw on drunk drivers to be sure. It's not as common you hear anyone dying of secondhand smoke, but you always hear of victims of DUI/DWI, and the secondhand smoker is aware of risks of prolonged exposure that they could remove themselves from that environment. You can't plan to stay away from a drunk driver.

I just worry when someone calls to ban things...I think of what they'll want to ban next. I have a cellphone, and I vote to jam them in hospitals, restaurant, and theatres. You still have the choice to use one outside if you need to without infringing on someone's entertainment/meal that they paid to see/eat.I dislike the smell of cigs and don't want them around when I eat but it's up to the establishment to serve ALL of their customer's needs, not to exclude one group because it's suddenly PC to do so.

/me takes off horns and puts away pitchfork.