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Originally Posted by Cantankerous
you know, i'm kind of mad about the smoking ban in new york because you couldn't even smoke in CBGB's either time i went there. now that i think about it that's really the only thing that's stopped me from moving there.
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Better get used to more restrictive smoking rules everywhere, all the time....
I just don't understand how smokers can feel that a DEFENSE, a RE-action to the imposed smoke they feel they have the RIGHT to put on non-smokers is an unreasonable action.
Someone lights up, the environment is immediately changed, other ambient air pollution notwithstanding. The non-smoker is PRODDED...it's not just a perception...it's an actual accosting of one's 'space'...their 'air-space'..if you will.
So...a smoker initiates an undesirable condition...THEY are the ones breaking the 'status quo' of the air....a reaction is made to quell that obnoxious, dangerous condition. And yes..secondhand smoke of ANY kind is not kind on the body.....don't even try to question that...you're insane if you do.
So it's a matter of privacy. Contain your smoke. Be conscience, even OUTSIDE of where you're smoke is wafting. It DOESN'T just disappear. I've sat a ballgames and the smoke sometimes just lingers...I am breathing it....even from smokers several feet away. It doesn't just float straight up and out....so yeah, banning smoking in OUTDOOR facilities makes PERFECT sense and should be the norm. I puff pot, but NEVER if there are those who'd wish I didn't. I will go around the corner to 'contain' my imbibing, without feeling 'rejected' or insulted...the illegality of the weed makes NO difference...it's the courteous thing to do.
Another peeve....why..when you try to tell a smoker NOT to smoke in an area..they act like it's their finger. OH NO...don't cut off my FINGER..damn...but as soon as the cig is down to the butt......FLING..there is goes...right to the ground....LITTER..TRASH !!!
I'd be willing to bet 99% + of smokers do this because....'everyone else does'........that's just trailer trash to me...no excuse..and I ALWAYS give people shit when I see them do this....
Somehow one's mind loses cognitive thought with a nicotine addiction/habit and reasonable, courteous thought goes out the window and an immediate defense of their habit....takes precedence.....
We all have bad habits to some degree. The WHOLE point of this is containment and privacy.....KEEP IT private.....as we all see, the acceptance of public smoking is waning.....and it's because smokers FAIL to keep it private on their own......so it goes....
If one smokes and consciencely keeps it away from others...you won't have a problem.....your impostition is what is being thwarted.....DO IT on your own...and you'll be OK...
As far as going after 'fatties'...those who eat to much....that's a self contained habit....they aren't expelling any noxious smoke...maybe just some natural gas......!!!!!
In that case.....I'll get upwind and put a match to one's derriere !!!!!