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Virginia’s governor is supposedly moving to ban ALL smoking in restaurants - believe it when you see it? Hmm.
Rather than trying to ban, they passed a law where if you allow smoking in your restaurant you will have to put a sticker on the door. The fun of this is that in the law it states that establishments that put this sticker on their door no longer have to have both smoking and no-smoking sections. The tobacco monopolies love this law.
Smoke for one and all. I hear it keeps you healthy. At least that is what they told me in the Virginia public school system.
That pretty much sucks - thought it was too good to be true…
If you don’t like smoking then don’t smoke. Some like to smoke. It is a free country, except where palestar exists.
meeoow…
Well - where Palestar exists is a land where we have generational drunks - and generational DUI’s going on - people dying from stupidity - and judge’s who exact slap on the hand good ole boy justice. As far as smoke free - our resaurants and other public places have no smoking inside - but if you must smoke you are able to go outside to smoke - that way you are able to blow your damn 2nd smoke on everyone who passes by sharing your poisons.
So yes we are still a free country as long as you drink like a fish and fly down the road not caring who’s in the way - and smoke like a fiend no has no regard for the health of others.
Oh, yeh, if this is your idea of a free country then come on down - he haw!
fiend who has no regard that is - there I go typing too fast.. Point made tho…
We are fortunate to live in a country where more and more, year after year, we are able to escape things that oppress our senses. Do you like sitting on a bus next to someone who smells like shit? No. Most wouldn’t. If you want to smell like shit, go into a field and don’t bring offensive odors around strangers. That is just plain polite. Just like you would not blare your boombox in public, or go up to strangers and push them. It is called respect.
This is not an issue of freedom. It is an issue of being polite, and to some extent being sensitive to how some people are allergic to smoke. I could say the same thing for bathing in perfume, or rubbing peanuts all over your naked body and running up and down the aisles of an airplane. People really overuse the term, “Free Country.” Face it, we are not free to do whatever the hell we like. Your freedoms end where mine begin. If you live in an area where most people act in a way that you find offensive, you DO have the right (Bill of Rights) to complain about it, and try to make a change to the status quo. If smokers could be more sensitive to the concerns of other people, who are offended by smoke for some reason, then non-smokers might not treat them like the pariahs of society.
You don’t have a “right” to invade my personal space and offend my senses. Sometimes laws are passed when there are loud, naked men, covered in peanut oil and smoking in the seat next to you on the bus. If people can’t be considerate, you may find overly restrictive laws. It would be much better if people worried less about their “freedom” to do something, and more about treating others well.
Smokers invade other’s space with their byproducts - sometimes causing them immediate health issues. I have asthma and my chest seizes up when someone puffs away next to me without considering why I am wheezing. Since my “not smoking” doesn’t invade the smoker’s space, who do you think the burden should be on for being considerate? For far too long, people have been forced to not go out to restaurants, bars and public places because of smoking. All I would ask is that smokers think about how rude it is to not think or care if anyone is impacted by the smoke they blow.
Either smokers are (1) unintentionally rude and don’t know any better, or they are (2) intentionally selfish or (3) weak-willed addicts who can’t control themselves. Maybe discussing why smoking is rude, and a health hazard is a way to educated people. I’m not trying in the least bit to get smokers to stop smoking.
What the hell do you care? We are talking about C-Ville. You don’t live here. “meeoow”? Very intelligent fits in with your “he haw”.
Maybe you should start educating people in your own cities, start where you live. Ever think of that or just want to bitch about a place your not at. Another intelligent thinker.
I have lived in Charlotesville - I have a friend in C’ville and I give a damn.
You brought up where I lived in a non free country or? So I explained how it is here.
It is a free country and people are allowed to make a damn fool of themselves - What are you afraid of?
Intelligent folks who end their sentences with a preposition…hmm!
If Modern Woman doesn’t like intelligent thinkers, maybe she should hang out with her smoker friends.
Answer my question about why smokers are rude jerks. It’s a lot easier to flame someone and harder to respond to a question of why you think you have the right to harm someone who isn’t harming you.
OK Modern Woman (why does she use that name…or is it a he?), answer the question JJ asked. I personally want to see JJ rub peanuts all over his naked body while spraying a known carcinogen all over people on an airplane. Jjjjjjjjj’s on a Plane. The movie everyone must see!
I have a feeling he would get the plane grounded very quickly, just like the C-Ville-ite that lit up a cig on my 25 minute flight and got it grounded. That was very polite to the other passengers as they sat around in an airport for bonus hours. Actually, that doesn’t sound like a good movie.
“Why smokers are rude jerks?” I don’t know. I don’t smoke and neither do my friends.
“Another intelligent thinker.” A waste of good sarcasm on you.
Want to control the world or just C-ville? (Rhetorical, in case you don’t pick up on that one)
A friend in C-ville, who, Outskirts Guy? Interesting palemoon.
So, what have you done to help people stop smoking? Bitch about it. We are glad you’re not in C-ville. Find something else to complain about its old news.
I ran the race and beat OG - 68!
She, it, he
Where are you from bitch? (No preposition) Thank you for pointing at out mommy.
(end their sentences with a preposition)
Must be a long time since you got F**ked.
Ha ha! Easy to make fun of people and be a jerk. You should start smoking Modern WOman. Then you could flick hot ash on babies too. After all, it’s a free country.
(Two quick signs of someone with a weak argument: They pick on spelling/grammar and they resort to name-calling.)
I think she answered your question. She used to live in Charlottesville. (I’ve never been to C-ville, and don’t have any comments on that topic.)
Well J-man read it over again, the preposition remark was made by palemoon. So you are saying her argument is weak? Sounds like your argument is weak, wanting someone to smoke now. Which is it, smoke or don’t smoke?
“Then you could flick hot ash on babies too. After all, it’s a free country.”
“People really overuse the term, “Free Country.â€? Face it, we are not free to do whatever the hell we like. Your freedoms end where mine begin.” What happen to this comment, it was so profound for you to take it back so carelessly.
Name calling - ha ha. You crack me up.
MW - I have been able to understand sarcasm, even from you. PS gets off topic, which hurts her argument. You resort to name-calling.
My comment to you was that if you feel it is ok for people to be rude and harm others, go right ahead and do what you feel people should be allowed to do in public. I do NOT want people to stop smoking, and never advocated that. I just would like them to be considerate, and not blow it on me in public. I’d also like more restaurants that are smoke-free so I can enjoy them.
You really are stupid if you couldn’t recognize my sarcasm. BTW, that isn’t name calling, it is an observation based on your stupid need to keep this thread going. It died days ago. Let it go. (I vow not to post again on this topic.)
MW ran a 68! You are so fit and smart. If only I could be that good. Maybe someday.I’ll keep trying to dream, but I fear it is an impossible dream.
I’m about done with this thread also. Pointless to argue with people that think killing children with secondhand smoke represents the beautiful freedom of our society. Go Kaine. Fight on. If you want to smoke do it where you will only kill yourself, not where you expose others to known carcinogens.
Why does MW read this blog anyway?
I remember seeing a modern woman back in the 70’s. She was it. I bet she could run a ten miler in a great time.
OMG I remember that commercial - where on earth do you find these things…
Doc - you are still a hoot. Thanks for the chuckle - I needed one today.
So glad I missed THIS boat… I hate to be redundant, but… meeoow!