Something that Aggravates me.

December 26th, 2005, 03:02 PM

Ill say this, someone please justify why somking is legal and drinking and driving is not, public intoxication is not, Heroin is not, Cocaine is not, Marijuana is not, Methemphetamines are not, prescription pill abuse is punishable by law.

**greencrest1272** · December 26th, 2005, 03:59 PM

How much do you spend a week on cigarettes?

**MikMo** · December 26th, 2005, 04:43 PM

It always puzzled me why people would voluntarily take smoke into their bodies. And something else....ever kiss a chick who smokes? Makes me wanna wretch! Whenever I accost a smoker, it's always "Well, you don't care to drink alcohol and ruin your liver." In moderation, alcohol will not ruin your liver. If you smoke in moderation, you'll still develop emphysema, and likely lung cancer.

**starbuck** · December 26th, 2005, 05:06 PM

smoking in your car going down the road. OK, it is you, but when you throw out your Butt that is littering and should be looked at like throwing out a drink can. use your ash tray.

**SWVA-Football** · December 26th, 2005, 06:46 PM

I think I speak for many people when I say that smoking absolutely makes me want to vomit.

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It always puzzled me why people would voluntarily take smoke into their bodies.

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Yeah, I've still not figured that one out...

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Restaurants should ban smoking period.

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[img]/LDPforum/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img] I agree with that as well!

**imported_elp6n** · December 26th, 2005, 06:58 PM

It took my parents nearly 20 years to stop smoking in my presence, and it certainly took its toll on me.

I now have to carry Albuterol, Qvar, and occasionally Advair and Prednisone with me. And yes, the doctors attribute this specifically to the smoke exposure I had all those years.

If smoking was something that affected only the smoker, then fine... puff away, kill yourself, that's your business. But it affects so many more people.
Being on the other side of the restaurant isn't enough.. my last bad episode came after being in a house with residual cigarette smoke it in where someone had smoked hours earlier.
And let me tell you, smokers, it's not fair to folks like myself to have to wake up in the middle of the night after dreaming that someone was holding a pillow over your face (I was smothering so bad that I dreamed about being smothered).

It's not fair for folks like myself to have to shell out the $ for emergency care & medicines because you couldn't take your habit somewhere else.

I do my best to get away from smokers, I'll leave a restaurant, store, etc. Smokers whine about their rights... what about mine? How is it fair to me when it's basically legal for someone to make me ill? How is it fair to me when I have to leave an establishment when I want to be there, but a smoker has run me out?

Is the smoker the more important customer because he/she has an addiction that needs a fix?

One time I was at a home and someone there lit a cigarette right beside me. I told him that I couldnt breathe and tried to leave the room. This person grabbed me by the arm and blew my face full of smoke.
I have yet to encounter a smoker (other than my parents, now) that understands the serious problems smoke causes (even the tiniest amount of smoke).
I was in the hospital the next day after this happened.

**SWVA-Football** · December 26th, 2005, 07:22 PM

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It took my parents nearly 20 years to stop smoking in my presence, and it certainly took its toll on me.

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My mom actually smokes, and I know how you feel, I absolutely can't stand it... the smell of the smoke itself is enough to irritate me to the point at which I just want to go inside my room and lock myself up for the rest of the night.

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One time I was at a home and someone there lit a cigarette right beside me. I told him that I couldnt breathe and tried to leave the room. This person grabbed me by the arm and blew my face full of smoke.

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Holy crap... if someone did that to me, the next thing they'd be seeing would be my fist coming towards their face, then a bed covered in white sheets afterwards! [img]/LDPforum/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/mad.gif[/img]

December 26th, 2005, 07:34 PM

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LPDfan, I typically respect your posts, and I'm hoping this line was just sarcasm.

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also will ask you to be considerate of me by not breathing while I smoke.

[/ QUOTE ] I've been told that I hold a grudge, that I'm a hard man to deal with, when I was a chairman of the mine committee at WCCO I was told I would do anything to win a case. When The tobacco "Bigges" are all broke, RJ Renyolds, and ALL the white collar folks the ones that ran the ads in particular, then I'll be satisfied. They killed my aunt, my grandfather and are killing my dad, it has been known forever that nicotine is addictive, but the government stuck it's head in the sand. I think everything above the poverty level should be stripped from this bunch, they killed more than ALL the wars put together. Then check how many of the execs are into the same companies that market stuff to get off the cigs. Then figure the chunk of public health care goes into tobacco related health care, and where is the cash for the farmers that quit growing the stuff? Haha, Spuds is about like Godzilla when he gets started, he just snaps at everything, but just take the tobacco related , public health care. Make the companies pay for that, it would help. And you would soon find that they would stop leeching the cigs , it is a problem in itself, of a totally different matter. [img]/LDPforum/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img]

**greencrest1272** · December 26th, 2005, 07:39 PM

Id say the total health care costs for tobacco realted illness's in America for a year approaches the trillion dollar mark.

**89bluedevil** · December 26th, 2005, 09:19 PM

As a general manager for a restaurant franchise with locations in the Tri Cities to the New River Valley I've listened to many arguements concerning the smoking issue. Our restaurants were switched to smoke free in 2002. My store opened in 2001 as non smoking. I can honestly say that we lost very little business due to being smoke free. Possibly gained some by reducing the wait for tables when the restaurant was full.
Anyone has the right to smoke if they want. However, it has been proven that second hand smoke is extremely dangerous to others. Therefore, the restrictions on smoking in public places not only for customers or guests but also employees. Eventually a business will be sued because an employee claims they were made to work in a smoke filled environment. It is in the best interest of the business, the guests, and employees to be smoke free.