Smoking

[wishfulthinking]

Australia just introduced laws banning smoking in pubs, beaches, parks, pretty much most places but residential homes. Shops have had the amount of space they can display ciggs in strictly limited.

I think it is fantastic - I'm a non-smoker of course

But smoking is addictive - I feel kind of sorry for the people sucked into the disgusting habit. What if I had to give up chocolate?

What is your country's take?

 

[Guest]

oh, itll be obliterated in all public places and smokers will be driven to create special houses that resemble crack dens...the future for those who choose to smoke is bleak here in the states. its just a matter of time before its much like prohibition.

buying a lighter will be like buying a dime bag...

 

[TheEarl]

Hooray! I'm sorry, I know some people like it and it's a pain in the arse for them, but the sooner it's completely illegal the better.

Smoke weed if you like, go take most other drugs, but nicotine doesn't actually do anything for you. It doesn't make you feel better, all it does is make you feel worse if you're without it. And kills you of course.

I know too many people who smoke and I'd be absolutely devastated if one of them got lung cancer.

The Earl

 

[domjoe]

It's amazing how quickly things change. My father, who was a chain smoker (he died of lung cancer), used to tell me bedtime stories while chain-smoking Players Navy Cut (UK eqiv. of Lucky Strike). My bedroom was full of smoke by the time I went to sleep.

TV adverts showed smokers all the time. And even sportspeople would smoke on TV in chat-shows.

 

[Liar]

Australia just introduced laws banning smoking in pubs, beaches, parks, pretty much most places but residential homes. Shops have had the amount of space they can display ciggs in strictly limited.

I think it is fantastic - I'm a non-smoker of course

But smoking is addictive - I feel kind of sorry for the people sucked into the disgusting habit. What if I had to give up chocolate?

What is your country's take?

Not quie that restrivtive. Smoking is banned now in bars and restaurants, and there is talk about extending a smoke free building several meters outside of it's entrance. Other than that... public outdoor places? Can't see it happening.

Anyway, I don't give a toss about smoke myself. But I'm allergic to a whole range of perfumes, that people seem to shower in. It's just as bad - on occation I have to get off the bus because of all the morons who don't know what soap is and try to cover up their lack of hygiene with other, supposedly 'nicer' odors. Ban excessive use of those in public transports, shops and bars first. Then we can talk about more smoking restrictions.

#L

 

[SensualCealy]

Ontario, Canada is pretty much the same, no where can you smoke in a public place, even outdoor concerts have banned smoking.

There is nothing worse than building a sand castle with your kids and finding someone has emptied their ash tray or filled a cup with cigarette butts. Oh and of course the kids want to use them for the burning torches- NOT!

To me smoking is a dirty habit, but, to each their own, if I am around someone and they light up I can choose to ask them to put it out or go else where.

It is there right to smoke and I have no problem with that as long as they dont smoke around me! lol

I think the best picture they should use for anti smoking campaignes is- Mother sitting with her new born baby, nursing of course, and in her other hand , a cigarette with a huge ash hanging off the end.

My 2Cents worth
C

 

[minsue]

It varies city to city here. The city I live in has no restrictions, but I work in a city where it is banned in any workplace (including bars and restaurants) and within a few hundred feet of the door of any workplace.

Liar, I'm right there with you on the perfumes. I'd be a lot happier with taking my noxious cloud of smoke across the parking lot if others would be kind enough to do the same with their noxious cloud of perfume.

 

[rgraham666]

I'm hoping they make tobacco as illegal as crack, heroin or alcohol. Look at how successful banning those was.

And I'm preparing for the day that tobacco becomes illegal. Already setting up producers, transportation, storage and sales. The demand will be high, the supply low and I'll end up being richer than Bill Gates.

Then sher's thread about the AHer's coming to a private Caribbean island will be true.

Seriously, here's what the effect of banning tobacco completely will be.

The market price will be driven up.

The use will increase as smoking will now be 'cool'.

We'll lose a lot of tax revenue.

We'll have to spend more money to hire more police, prison guards, to expand our legal system to prosecute the criminals and to build more prisons.

The level of violence will increase as vicious psychopaths battle over who gets to make the most money in this new black market and addicts have to make more money to feed their habit.

And there will be more deaths from tobacco because more people will be smoking. And because there will be no regulation about what goes into the tobacco. During Prohibition, there were a lot more deaths from alcohol poisoning and impurities in the alcohol than there are now.

Oh well, a perfect world demands a high price.

 

[Lisa Denton]

Kill em all --- Let God sort their butts out !!!

I dunno why the militant anti-smokers is so hostile. I would never light a cigarette around someone else, inside or out. I ask people if I can smoke in my own house.

There is laws for assholes, most smokers are nice people. If the wind is blowing the wrong way and you are outside near a smoker, and ask them to please put it out they will.

In my city they recently passed a law against smoking inside, any place, bars included. The nice smokers just go outside and don't mind, the asshole smokers whine and bitch.

Peoples is peoples, smokers are no different. There are assholes and laws to protect you from their second-hand smoke, but often a kind request is all that is needed. An order from you with an anti-smoking speech and hostile attitude is not nice, when outside, and that is why it might be met with a not-nice attitude.

 

[ABSTRUSE]

Kill em all --- Let God sort their butts out !!!

I dunno why the militant anti-smokers is so hostile. I would never light a cigarette around someone else, inside or out. I ask people if I can smoke in my own house.

There is laws for assholes, most smokers are nice people. If the wind is blowing the wrong way and you are outside near a smoker, and ask them to please put it out they will.

In my city they recently passed a law against smoking inside, any place, bars included. The nice smokers just go outside and don't mind, the asshole smokers whine and bitch.

Peoples is peoples, smokers are no different. There are assholes and laws to protect you from their second-hand smoke, but often a kind request is all that is needed. An order from you with an anti-smoking speech and hostile attitude is not nice, when outside, and that is why it might be met with a not-nice attitude.

OMG! I agree with Lisa on something!!!

I'm scared.

 

[Lisa Denton]

OMG! I agree with Lisa on something!!!

I'm scared.

Me too, HOLD ME!!!

 

[ABSTRUSE]

Me too, HOLD ME!!!

Can I use ropes?????????

 

[TheEarl]

Me too, HOLD ME!!!

Okay!

<rushes to the front of the queue>

The Earl

 

[Lisa Denton]

Earl and Abs and ropes!!!! I'm smokin!!!! Now can I light a cigarette?

 

[ABSTRUSE]

Earl and Abs and ropes!!!! I'm smokin!!!! Now can I light a cigarette?

I can picture it!
Earl's sassy, I'd like to tie him up.

I'll light you up babe.......Joan of Arc was an idol of mine.

 

[Lisa Denton]

I can picture it!
Earl's sassy, I'd like to tie him up.

I'll light you up babe.......Joan of Arc was an idol of mine.

Can the whole AH watch as Abs ties up Earl and spanks his sassy ass?

 

[Belegon]

going to grab a camera now....(this should be worth something for future blackmail)

 

[shereads]

It's amazing how quickly things change. My father, who was a chain smoker (he died of lung cancer), used to tell me bedtime stories while chain-smoking Players Navy Cut (UK eqiv. of Lucky Strike). My bedroom was full of smoke by the time I went to sleep.

I have pleasant memories, when I was three or four, of helping my mom by arranging cigarettes into this little flower-shaped porcelain ciggie dispenser that was kept on the coffee table with its matching porcelain lighter and ashtray. It was the mark of a good housekeeper & hostess, sort of like putting out bonbons for visitors.

First song I remember: a Salem cigarettes jingle. Salem commercials featured pretty girls in straw hats and floaty white dresses frolicking in meadows. I could hardly wait!

When your dad and mine started smoking, they didn't know better. Lucky Strike used to have an ad campaign that said, "Doctors recommend Lucky Strike to clear the T-zone." (Throat and sinuses.)

When I started, I knew better but like most 20 year olds I was bulletproof. Somewhere in the back of my mind, I thought that by the time I was old enough to get a lung disease, it wouldn't matter because I'd be too old to have fun anyway.

The same seems to apply to young people who still work on getting a tan. They think they won't care when they're wrinkled and have skin cancer, because people over 30 are supposed to be wrinkled and have skin cancer.

If the ban against smoking in office buildings and on airplanes (U.S. domestic flights) had been in place when I was going through three packs a day, I'd have turned into a tower sniper.

 

[domjoe]

Just wanted to add that my father was 87 when he died. Go figure.

 

[scheherazade_79]

Smoke weed if you like, go take most other drugs, but nicotine doesn't actually do anything for you.

But don't you need a little something to mix in with the weed? It doesn't tend to burn all that well without a little bit of tobacco.

As for the blood-curdling howls of the anti-smoking brigade... OK, I don't believe it's fair to light up in a place where there are other non-smokers, but surely places like pubs and restaurants could have special smoking rooms (note the use of "room" rather than "section" - dividing a room in half and calling one half the non-smoking section is an utter waste of time, because the smoke tends to drift over).

The way I look at it, most of the world governments are filling their pants at the moment, because people are living longer and they can't afford to pay everyone's pensions. As a result the quality of life is going downhill, because people will soon have to work a lot longer and pay higher taxes in order to receive a pension.

Solution? LET people smoke! Let them drink! Let them stuff themselves senseless! It's already been proven that smokers in the UK cover the cost of future medical treatment through the disgustingly high taxes they pay on cigarettes. So what's the problem?