I LOVE Non-Smokers

[reese125]

this would be one of the more ass-backwards laws ever passed

guys are over there tip-toeing around stressed as hell thinking a car bomb is going to go off any second and they cant catch a butt? people just dont get it.

farg that...if Im about to die for your law happy country come and take the shtein out my mouth

[rjs246]

Being fat is just as bad for you as smoking.

[Diomedes]

In other news, it's just as dangerous to other people as well.  My blood pressure goes thru the roof every time I have Giganto sitting in my airplane/train/bus/subway seat with me.

[ice grillin you]

luckily fat people will never be banned from eating in restaurants and bars

[rjs246]

More's the pity.

[Diomedes]

We just need to drum up a witch hunt, find some tangential negative affect on the rest of us, and we can run these people out of every public and private space except their homes.  It's the American way.

And oh yeah, tax them heavily.

[ice grillin you]

More's the pity.

wtf?

did you grow up in county gloucestershire in the 1850's or something

[rjs246]

Yes.

[Tomahawk]

We just need to drum up a witch hunt, find some tangential negative affect on the rest of us, and we can run these people out of every public and private space except their homes.  It's the American way.

And oh yeah, tax them heavily.

That would be much better than the current methodology of trying to control what kind of food can be served at McDonalds.

The tangential and tangible negative affect is how sumo-ugs raise health insurance rates because of the care they need.

[Diomedes]

That argument suffers from the same fatal flaw that it did regarding health care costs for smokers:  since fat people die a lot sooner, they actually cost us all less in the long run.  A few knee replacements and diabetes drugs followed by death at 60 is cheaper than an extra 25 years of old person medicine, hip replacements, etc.

[phattymatty]

i smoke a lot again. yay.

[ice grillin you]

if most smokers werent whiney douches and had some intestinal fortitude they wouldnt frequent restaurants and bars that ban smoking...and once that happened youd see smoking laws go bye bye with the quickness


public health is important but not as important as money

[rjs246]

So the douche who whines about smokers and smoking is calling smokers whiney douches. Got it.

[Diomedes]

It's the same methodology behind the TEA party responding to the NAACP by calling them racists.

[charlie]

if most smokers werent whiney douches and had some intestinal fortitude they wouldnt frequent restaurants and bars that ban smoking...and once that happened youd see smoking laws go bye bye with the quickness


public health is important but not as important as money

I read somewhere that while smokers hang out longer, non smokers spend more money. And a good number of communities that have banned smoking at all restaurants have seen more traffic in their establishments overall.

I don't care about it either way, but it was interesting to see the findings a year or two after the bans in place.