What should we do about smoking?

[Maximum Carnage]

Wah, wah. Wade through the smoke to get to the door? Ok, that's not crazy..

 

[Wilhelm-Scream]

Personally, I don't and never will smoke. If someone wants to I'm fine aslong as it's not around me. I say we make it private so people smoke at their home or out in the jungle or on the side of a highway. Please no public parks, not around my home, not downtown, not outside the mall. Go somewhere you don't bother anyone. I don't want to get sick. What do you think?

Idiots are as dangerous as smokers.
When a smart person is confronted with an idiot, nearly 79% of the time, the smart person's cortisol levels rise to a dangerous level.

Soon, the smart, cool person's heart gives way. He or She may become fidgety, clammy and the intelligent person is almost certain to chew off his freaking tongue because he's trapped on a planet with so many idiots...so many freaking ******ed morons.

I say, if you are a freaking moron, that's fine....but please, confine your idiocy to:

1) Your home
2) Out in the jungle
3) the side of the highway

Please, seriously, no more idiots, or, religious people for that matter, in public parks, anywhere near my home, downtown, outside the mall, picking up chicks at the food court, etc.

Go somewhere you won't bother anyone. I don't want to have a stroke because idiots and morons and religious people are making my cortisol levels rise beyond the FDA approved daily requirements for enduring effing stupid, inbred, malicious, self-centered morons who think they own the f***ing universe and are entitled to tell everyone else on Earth to kneel down and suck their big toes.

What do you think?

 

[ElectroFlare]

Wah, wah. Wade through the smoke to get to the door? Ok, that's not crazy..

That was meant as an aside, a joke. Sorry, I never think to use smilies.

 

[ElectroFlare]

Idiots are as dangerous as smokers.
When a smart person is confronted with an idiot, nearly 79% of the time, the smart person's cortisol levels rise to a dangerous level.

Soon, the smart, cool person's heart gives way. He or She may become fidgety, clammy and the intelligent person is almost certain to chew off his freaking tongue because he's trapped on a planet with so many idiots...so many freaking ******ed morons.

I say, if you are a freaking moron, that's fine....but please, confine your idiocy to:

1) Your home
2) Out in the jungle
3) the side of the highway

Please, seriously, no more idiots, or, religious people for that matter, in public parks, anywhere near my home, downtown, outside the mall, picking up chicks at the food court, etc.

Go somewhere you won't bother anyone. I don't want to have a stroke because idiots and morons and religious people are making my cortisol levels rise beyond the FDA approved daily requirements for enduring effing stupid, inbred, malicious, self-centered morons who think they own the f***ing universe and are entitled to tell everyone else on Earth to kneel down and suck their big toes.

What do you think?

Actually, that's not a bad idea

 

[Hades]

Idiots are as dangerous as smokers.
When a smart person is confronted with an idiot, nearly 79% of the time, the smart person's cortisol levels rise to a dangerous level.

Soon, the smart, cool person's heart gives way. He or She may become fidgety, clammy and the intelligent person is almost certain to chew off his freaking tongue because he's trapped on a planet with so many idiots...so many freaking ******ed morons.

I say, if you are a freaking moron, that's fine....but please, confine your idiocy to:

1) Your home
2) Out in the jungle
3) the side of the highway

Please, seriously, no more idiots, or, religious people for that matter, in public parks, anywhere near my home, downtown, outside the mall, picking up chicks at the food court, etc.

Go somewhere you won't bother anyone. I don't want to have a stroke because idiots and morons and religious people are making my cortisol levels rise beyond the FDA approved daily requirements for enduring effing stupid, inbred, malicious, self-centered morons who think they own the f***ing universe and are entitled to tell everyone else on Earth to kneel down and suck their big toes.

What do you think?

You sound Hilter esque

 

[kingman]

Either have it in well ventillated areas or outside the building in open air

 

[lazur]

Too bad we can't lace all cigarettes with cyanide. Since smokers are in such a big hurry to kill themselves anyway, why not speed up the process a bit and leave the rest of us to live long, healthy lives, without having to pay for their medical expenses?

 

[kingman]

I doubt there will ever be a complete ban on smoking becuase the governments make way too much money out of it... pretty much they want people to smoke but they have to keep both sides happy

 

[Darthphere]

Too bad we can't lace all cigarettes with cyanide. Since smokers are in such a big hurry to kill themselves anyway, why not speed up the process a bit and leave the rest of us to live long, healthy lives, without having to pay for their medical expenses?

Darn those strong christian values.

 

[Hades]

If we're going to ban smoking we might as well ban fast food and make that little bastard clown a fugitive.

The other day I seen this fat mother feeding her fat little piglet Mcdonalds while I was there. She was running around panting trying to climb in the tubes but she was too fat.

 

[DV8]

they should outlaw cigs and legalize weed goddamit!! That's right . . . I said it!!!! somebody had to . . . .

 

[redmarvel]

That's the way it is in Jersey. Can't smoke in public places, gotta go outside. Bars and resturants smell much, much nicer and the food even tastes better.

You still gotta wade through the smoke to get to the door though.

Here in Toronto smoking is illegal in public buildings. Many buildings also institute a "you can not smoke within 9 metres (30 feet) of the door" policies. With Hospitals it is actually a provincial regulation (illegal to smoke within 9 metres of the doorways).


One other problem I have with the folks that smoke outside... WHY DO YOU INSIST ON THROWING YOUR BUTTS ON THE GROUND? If you want to smoke, carry a small metal box with you. When you're done, put your cigarette out in your small metal box. Then when you are near a garbage can, empty out the box. I am so sick and tired of seeing cigarette butts littering the park where I want to let my son play.

 

[redmarvel]

they should outlaw cigs and legalize weed goddamit!! That's right . . . I said it!!!! somebody had to . . . .

Actually, I agree with this. Marijuana has been found to have health benefits for folk with Arthritis or other painful illnesses. It dulls the pain without causing other nastier side-affects.

 

[Wilhelm-Scream]

Too bad we can't lace all cigarettes with cyanide. Since smokers are in such a big hurry to kill themselves anyway, why not speed up the process a bit and leave the rest of us to live long, healthy lives, without having to pay for their medical expenses?

I totally agree.
I feel exactly the same way about chubby, fat or obese people, with high cholesterol.

Of course, there are always a few tall, fit, skinny guys who have crappy hearts and arteries, like David Letterman, or Lyndon Johnson, etc.

But, no...I really think, you don't KNOW that a skinny, tall jogger/vegetarian has clogged arteries, and is pretty much parading around, coercing you into footing his/her medical bills via higher insurance rates, etc.

But one thing we DO know, is that f***ing fat people, who pour immitation bacon bits on top of the Ranch dressing they've slathered all over their hamhocks, sausage and cheese-bricks,....ARE, in fact, deserving of being poisoned, to save the rest of us FIT people a LOT of money!

So, I suggest that we lace Rocky Road Ice Cream, French Fries, Cow Meat, Cheese Cakes, and, well, pretty much anything aside from warm tofu and berries, with fat-ass-killing toxins, so those of us who are trim, beautiful and sprye, can enjoy getting on the effing public transit without some B.O.-Ridden HAWG shoving his/her back-**** into our chiseled, sexy noses.

 

[terry78]

Here in Toronto smoking is illegal in public buildings. Many buildings also institute a "you can not smoke within 9 metres (30 feet) of the door" policies. With Hospitals it is actually a provincial regulation (illegal to smoke within 9 metres of the doorways).


One other problem I have with the folks that smoke outside... WHY DO YOU INSIST ON THROWING YOUR BUTTS ON THE GROUND? If you want to smoke, carry a small metal box with you. When you're done, put your cigarette out in your small metal box. Then when you are near a garbage can, empty out the box. I am so sick and tired of seeing cigarette butts littering the park where I want to let my son play.

True enough, that is one argument I agree with. A lot of smokers do have this innate ability to throw their butts everywhere but the proper receptacle, and it's perfectly accepted to do so.

 

[DV8]

Actually, I agree with this. Marijuana has been found to have health benefits for folk with Arthritis or other painful illnesses. It dulls the pain without causing other nastier side-affects.

I'm dead serious. I recently quit smoking cigarettes, and if it weren't for weed, I'd have definitely been smoking again . . . .

 

[November Rain]

Smoking should be illegal, if for no other reason than the BURDEN it places upon EVERYONE ELSE who has to deal with the COST of MEDICAL CARE for people dumb enough to VOLUNTARILY give themselves diseases.

It's a no brainer.

At the very least, those who smoke should have to sign a statement waiving EVERYONE ELSE from having to pay ONE SINGLE CENT for their medical care when they choke down enough cancer to require it. Wanna smoke? Fine, go ahead, but it won't be covered by medical insurance and you'll be paying OUT OF POCKET for care for diseases PROVEN to be caused by smoking, or you can just die in some dark alley somewhere if you can't afford it.

by this logic, i guess they should also criminalize the consumption of alcohol and fatty foods.

 

[Hades]

Eh, it just seems stupid to me to ban cigarettes but then legalize marijuana.

For one, I've read many places that Marijuana is actually harsher on the lungs.
That, and it intoxicates you. Don't you guys remember all the anti-drug commericals. The guy that ran over a kid with a bike, or the guy that shot himself in the head with a pistol cause he was just too damned stoned to realize it was a pistol I guess

But still, how many people get killed from somebody driving who has had too many cigarettes.

 

[Hades]

by this logic, i guess they should also criminalize the consumption of alcohol and fatty foods.

And cell phones, cause they kill your semen and give you ball cancer.

That, and they're the number 1#! leading cause of automobile accidents.

 

[terry78]

I always laugh when I see commercials about people getting stoned and causing accidents. Yet right after it I see a beer commercial that emphasizes the party atmosphere. Both provide the same effect, yet since one is legal and the other isn't, it's demonized.

 

[redmarvel]

I'm dead serious. I recently quit smoking cigarettes, and if it weren't for weed, I'd have definitely been smoking again . . . .

So was I. Marijuana does have health benefits. Regular cigarettes HAVE NONE whatsoever. If someone could PROVE that cigarettes could do some good then maybe I wouldn't despise the manufacturers so much.

 

[Outsiderzedge]

I totally agree.
I feel exactly the same way about chubby, fat or obese people, with high cholesterol.

Of course, there are always a few tall, fit, skinny guys who have crappy hearts and arteries, like David Letterman, or Lyndon Johnson, etc.

But, no...I really think, you don't KNOW that a skinny, tall jogger/vegetarian has clogged arteries, and is pretty much parading around, coercing you into footing his/her medical bills via higher insurance rates, etc.

But one thing we DO know, is that f***ing fat people, who pour immitation bacon bits on top of the Ranch dressing they've slathered all over their hamhocks, sausage and cheese-bricks,....ARE, in fact, deserving of being poisoned, to save the rest of us FIT people a LOT of money!

So, I suggest that we lace Rocky Road Ice Cream, French Fries, Cow Meat, Cheese Cakes, and, well, pretty much anything aside from warm tofu and berries, with fat-ass-killing toxins, so those of us who are trim, beautiful and sprye, can enjoy getting on the effing public transit without some B.O.-Ridden HAWG shoving his/her back-**** into our chiseled, sexy noses.

...what are you even aiming for...

Regardless, I want to have anal sex with you and incubate your children in my colon.

 

[DV8]

^marijuana IS harsher on the lungs, and in fact contains more carcinogens than cigs . . . the difference is, most POTHEADS don't even smoke 20 gottam joints a day, as opposed to the average pack-a-day smoker; and as far as the carcinogens go, they are more commonly dormant in pot, whereas the added chemicals in cigarettes are more likely to trigger the carcinogens found in them

 

[November Rain]

I don’t smoke, never have and never will. But I am also not comfortable infringing on someone’s right to ‘f’ up their body if they want, be it by smoking or shoveling a bunch of fast food down your throat. It’s a simple philosophy. If it hurts you and your stupid enough to do it, then have at it Champ. I see no reason to deprive anyone of anything they deem pleasurable, as long as it doesn’t affect me or somebody that doesn’t know any better and can’t do anything about it. Really this whole issue is a matter of respect, and it goes both ways. If come into my space, it’s my right to ask you not to smoke. If I come into your space, you am I to tell you what do.

Banning smoking in enclosed public spaces is as far as this should ever go.

the point of the matter is that 'people doing whatever they want' does affect you...

tax anyone, insurance, medical care schemes??? What about rises in crime, addiction, depletion of the workforce, a growing isolated demographic, an ageing population, a rise in illiteracy.

most of these things occur because people allow other people to do what they want since they don't think it affects them when it does eventually.

besides, whatever happened to looking out for a fellow human being

 

[Outsiderzedge]

I always laugh when I see commercials about people getting stoned and causing accidents. Yet right after it I see a beer commercial that emphasizes the party atmosphere. Both provide the same effect, yet since one is legal and the other isn't, it's demonized.

That's a good point.