“If they could find a way to make the same money off of weed, that would be legal, too. Same argument can be made regarding the deadly nature of alcohol. ”
I tolerated smoke from other people’s cigarettes (including my relatives) for years. So did most non-smokers- we suffered for years with it because we had no choice. Try to eat in a nice restaurant? Forget it. Go to a bar for a few drinks and come home reeking of cigarette smoke on your newly drycleaned expensive suit? Trying to work in a small room without open windows and putting up with the reek of cigarettes?You think tolerance is a virtue sorely lacking? I think if smokers like you had been more considerate in the first place, you’d wouldn’t be begging for tolerance now?
If anyone is being disingenuous about smoke and how it smells, its you. I’d also like to point out that unless you’re swimming in gallons of, wine and beer involve going over and actively sniffing. Please- not even you are able to claim the smell of wine or beer is as intrusive as cigarette smoke. Don’t even try. I don’t care if you smoke. I don’t care if you love having your lungs gunked up with nicotene and tar. I don’t care if you do it outside in the street. But I for one am perfectly happy to sit through a meal where I can smell the food and not cigarettes. Your smoking is your problem- don’t make it mine.
You know, the government claims to care about the health/rights of nonsmokers but it’s all bullsh!t. Cigarettes have killed far more people than weed ever has and ever will. Cigarettes remain legal and smokers rights will always prevail in some fashion because the government makes way too much money off of cigarette companies in terms of taxes. If they could find a way to make the same money off of weed, that would be legal, too. Same argument can be made regarding the deadly nature of alcohol.
i am always wiping things down top to bottom, youd be shocked how it really does turn everything yellow. but it comes off with mr. clean magic erase like MAGIC, so it’s no big deal.
hmm.. okay im definitely pro-smoking and stuff, but the no smoking in bars i do not mind. i love going out for a cigarette. it also gives you a good excuse to flee any given conversation / situation. i live in a heavy smoking apartment, and seriously, i am always wiping things down top to bottom, youd be shocked how it really does turn everything yellow. but it comes off with mr. clean magic erase like MAGIC, so it’s no big deal.
I wonder if bar owners would be amenable to paying a smoking fee…say $10k a year or so paid to the city for the right to allow folks to smoke in their bars. The city would have some great income from it and the bars could easily make up that money because I know as a smoker, the more I can smoke, the more likely I am to continue pounding beer.
Agreed on that snappy- and for the record my anti-smoking rant is not for people like you and DH who try to be considerate.
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Does it work on your lungs too??? 🙁
no, for that you use that canned air stuff they sell at Staples.
*rob*
“If they could find a way to make the same money off of weed, that would be legal, too. Same argument can be made regarding the deadly nature of alcohol. ”
AMEN!
I tolerated smoke from other people’s cigarettes (including my relatives) for years. So did most non-smokers- we suffered for years with it because we had no choice. Try to eat in a nice restaurant? Forget it. Go to a bar for a few drinks and come home reeking of cigarette smoke on your newly drycleaned expensive suit? Trying to work in a small room without open windows and putting up with the reek of cigarettes?You think tolerance is a virtue sorely lacking? I think if smokers like you had been more considerate in the first place, you’d wouldn’t be begging for tolerance now?
If anyone is being disingenuous about smoke and how it smells, its you. I’d also like to point out that unless you’re swimming in gallons of, wine and beer involve going over and actively sniffing. Please- not even you are able to claim the smell of wine or beer is as intrusive as cigarette smoke. Don’t even try. I don’t care if you smoke. I don’t care if you love having your lungs gunked up with nicotene and tar. I don’t care if you do it outside in the street. But I for one am perfectly happy to sit through a meal where I can smell the food and not cigarettes. Your smoking is your problem- don’t make it mine.
You know, the government claims to care about the health/rights of nonsmokers but it’s all bullsh!t. Cigarettes have killed far more people than weed ever has and ever will. Cigarettes remain legal and smokers rights will always prevail in some fashion because the government makes way too much money off of cigarette companies in terms of taxes. If they could find a way to make the same money off of weed, that would be legal, too. Same argument can be made regarding the deadly nature of alcohol.
i am always wiping things down top to bottom, youd be shocked how it really does turn everything yellow. but it comes off with mr. clean magic erase like MAGIC, so it’s no big deal.
*rob*
Posted by: PitbullNYC at August 18, 2009 3:20 PM
Does it work on your lungs too??? 🙁
hmm.. okay im definitely pro-smoking and stuff, but the no smoking in bars i do not mind. i love going out for a cigarette. it also gives you a good excuse to flee any given conversation / situation. i live in a heavy smoking apartment, and seriously, i am always wiping things down top to bottom, youd be shocked how it really does turn everything yellow. but it comes off with mr. clean magic erase like MAGIC, so it’s no big deal.
*rob*
I wonder if bar owners would be amenable to paying a smoking fee…say $10k a year or so paid to the city for the right to allow folks to smoke in their bars. The city would have some great income from it and the bars could easily make up that money because I know as a smoker, the more I can smoke, the more likely I am to continue pounding beer.
“You all realize the majority of noise/QOL complaints regarding bars is because people aren’t allowed to smoke inside right?”
Hell, YEAH!