To the fucking assholes that continue to smoke at the bridge bus terminal even though there are no smoking signs everywhere. Fuck You!!!
It’s bad enough I have to wait for the bus, but to have you pricks stand in front of me and light up and blow your fucking smoke everywhere, all over kids, old people etc. without a care in the world, just drives me.
How about getting some common courtesy and light up away from people. No one wants to smell that shit on a beautiful day! —Pissed off non-smoker
This article appears in Jul 8-14, 2010.
that’s odd another smoking bitch:)
What are the odds?
umm I’m thinking like 1/9 🙂
It would be nice if the by-law was enforced, even just a little.
dear pissed off, seig hiel.
Dear P.O.’d, place your lips firmly on the exhaust pipe of the new hybrid bus, making an airtight seal and proceed to draw most succulently on the tofu fueled flatus of a million Elizabeth Mays
LS and Ivan, exactly. A big fuck you to the OB. It’s fucking outside.
You anti-anti-smoking Nazis are douche bags.
Just because it’s outside doesn’t mean you can’t smell that shit. People talk about smoker’s “rights” but I’d say the right to breath fresh air trumps your selfish “right” to suck on a cancer stick.
I don’t give a shit who smokes and who doesn’t — just means less people in the population after you die from your smoke related diseases to take up space in the health care system — but *I* chose not to poison my lungs, so stay the hell away from me.
It wouldn’t hurt smokers at the bridge terminal to have a little courtesy and smoke away from the general population. Y’all seem to think that walking here there and everywhere is a GREAT idea. If someone starts smoking, I’ll move — I don’t make a stink about your cigarette stink, but stop fucking following me!
So in case you hadn’t figured it out: I agree with this bitch.
i think there’s now three sure things these days : death,taxes, and smoking bitches 🙂
Avoiding smoke at the bridge terminal is like avoiding getting wet in the rain. It’s unlikely. Part of the problem is that the people that populate that particular terminal are about as intelligent as a squirrel, so asking them to stop is like asking them to take a bath.
AAAARRRRRRRGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH….I just can’t take another smoke bitch.
Smokers should be required to wear air tight masks of the type that would keep all the noxious and toxic fumes on the INSIDE. Then they could smoke anywhere they wanted to.
After all, we don’t let folks walk around naked and allow them to squat and “dump” anywhere they like. It could lead to community health problems and also it’s offensive. For me, smoking is in this category, but I’d be willing to let smokers “dump” in their own gas masks, as well as smoke in them.
I have other ideas for a clean community and I will share them with anyone who asks.
Do tell Urban Farmer Bob! I like the smoking mask idea! Too cool! What a way to save a fortune in smokes! Recycling 2nd hand smoke! Less hard earned dough going to the government tax coffers and/or contraband cancer-stick producers. No more ashtray stench to offend others. It’s all self-contained. No more smoking designated areas. One could smoke anywhere. It’s a winning situation all round! What other gems have you been dreaming up?
Oceanlady – go to Radical 420 on Portland St. and get their gas mask that’s used for smoking weed. I’m sure it would work just as well for tobacco smoke 🙂
What!!! There’s actually a smoking mask??? No way!!! I’m not a smoker but I know some who would love the mask concept…hehehe.
I would rather smell a cigarette then someone’s joint.
And as an ex-smoker, I still say to all you smoking nazi’s…
DON’T LIKE IT, DON’T BREATHE!!!
The only problem in your logic UFB is that walking around naked and taking a dump in the middle of the street is illegal, whereas smoking in an open area is not.
I so can’t wait until pot is legalized. You want to complain about offending SMELLS? Sweet Jesus, we’ve only just begun.
The problem with this terminal is there’s no one to enforce the rule, thus people just do it. A new terminal would solve this issue to the degree that there’d be an indoor area to go to, but a certain premier decided to butt in where he wasn’t welcome and now that plan is on hold indefinitely.
I have to admit, the smokers at the bridge really lower the overall tone of the place and make it uncomfortable and threatening for the panhandlers, the crips, bloods and melvins, the wangstas and their 14 year old baby-mommas. Some people have just forgotten how to be good citizens, that’s all.
And Doctor walking around naked and taking a dump in the middle of the street are only illegal until some “activist” decides to practice “civil disobedience” by challenging an obviously “unjust” law and then demanding an “independent” inquiry when the police “over-react” by ticketing him. Then our bare-assed shitter becomes a lone heroic figure, taking a pricipled stand and defending the rights of an apathetic society which values “order” over “freedoms”
FIGHT THE POWER YO 🙂
Taser them!
If this is about the Dartmouth Terminal – that is the only one I ever really frequent – I walk down to the end of the Terminal near the big sign (closest to Wyse Road) if I have the time to have a smoke between transfers.
I do this, as a smoker, because I am sensitive to how other people feel.
Hopefully this will mean less people (and hopefully no one) will have to inhale my second hand smoke… while they stand inhaling all of the exhaust from 5 or 10 running buses.
The bus drivers are the worst offenders for this. If they have a few minutes time layover before they need to be off, then they hop off the bus and smoke a cigarette.
there is no “RIGHT” to smoke written anywhere in any law within the country of canada…it is a health issue,pure and simple,and if smokers cannot understand this basic notion,maybe the lung cancer will kill off the really stupid ones…
@Dr.Fever
I thought we were talking about outdoor public areas that are posted as “No Smoking”. There are many such areas in HRM, but of course one has to be able to read in order to be aware of such restrictions. Wait a sec! No one doesn’t even have to be able to read. They have those universal signs with the smoldering cigarette crossed out inside the red circle.
@Ivan
As a form of protest I would support walking naked in public and taking a dump on the street, but only as a form of street theatre that would spark a discussion of the pros and cons of my concerns. I wouldn’t want to make something like that legal, because I’d have to avoid stepping in shit all over the place (I already have enough to do avoiding dog shit everywhere) and it would lose its power as a form of protest.
As for the rest of your comments on civil disobedience, the recent problems at the G20 in Toronto provide an example of the uneven manner in which law enforcement grapples with so-called evil doers. Many of those arrested in Toronto broke no laws and some broke laws that didn’t even exist; call them “rumours of laws” if you will. Whereas smokers break the law all the time, but I’ve yet to see one arrested.
Too Orwellian, I guess, to countenance the arrest of smokers for simply “puffing” in a No Smoking zone. On the other hand, putting a few hundred people in cages for the weekend for legally expressing their opposition to the way the elites run the world doesn’t appear Orwellian enough for some.
I don’t like it when my clothes stink like smoke after standing to close to someone smoking. But breathing in the odd breath or two doesn’t bother me. Seriously though if you smoke you should have the common sense to do it away from other people.
what i hate is that just about antwhere you go nowadays, you are assaulted by either too much stinky fucking perfume, cologne, or deisel exhaust. how come this is always about smokers and smoking. it’s a lost cause peopler, give it the fuck up. if you want laws enacted, then get your name on a ballot, run and win an office, or just please, let us all alone, smokers and nons alike. seriously, we don’t want to hear more rehashed drivel, we have had it up to the fucking ying yang. you only make yourselves sound stupid by going on and on about the smell, second hand smoke, and of course the ignorance of smokers. who the fuck cares anymore. use some of your hate on the dope dealers, the rapists, the killers(human), and a lot of other shit. i smoke, and i really think the gooberments should place a 100 percent total ban on all types of tobacco, and will they? no fucking way, not while they can suck every last cent from us, and will they help us stop, again no fucking way. blame the fucking right people for this shit, the gooberments, not the smokers, we are just zombies that can’t break the addiction.
It’s all about smokers and smoking because perfume doesn’t give you lung cancer afaik.
And the fact that every fucking smoker trying desperately to defend themselves and their dirty fucking habit always brings up the exhaust from cars is pathetic.
Smokers always go on about the taxes they have to pay and how they’re paying for everyone else’s healthcare blahblah…um, no. I’d bet the majority of those taxes are going to pay for smoking-related illnesses, because it’s been widely documented that smoking fucks with your health. How much has a smoker who gets lung cancer paid in taxes on their smokes — probably just enough, if not enough at all to cover the course of their treatment.
Sure there’d be a loss of taxes if smoking was banned, but there’d also be a loss of addicts in the system getting care for smoking related illnesses (or the decline of other illnesses because of the smoking).
PK, just one little problem with that. The cost of obesity caused diseases is outweighing tobacco caused diseases as there are far more many fat people than smokers. I of course have decided to be both and if I’ve cost the medical system more than $1,000.00 in the last thirty years, I’d be surprised. My doctor would be in the poorhouse of she had to count on me.
Got any stats to back that up, BT?
Just because one is fat doesn’t mean they’re a health mess. Plus there are lots of fatties who smoke.
And don’t forget, junk food and fast food are both taxable food items 😉
I tell you what’s costing the health care system the most : OLD PEOPLE omg you go to the emerg. or a doctors office and they’re everywhere and what’s with the broken hips for the love of god and if granny gets a chest pain 911 911 emergency emergency oh wait granny ate something that disagreed with her oopsy 🙂
put them on ice floes^^^
I agree with your sentiments to a degree, martym. It’s hard as FUCK for me to get an appointment with my diabetic specialists because of the backlog of those with type 2 who are older and who are suffering with complications because they abused themselves throughout their lives. There are tons of people with diabetes who take care of themselves who get nasty complications anyway, and these people have to wait in the backlog while the body-abusers (smokers, people who willingly don’t take care of their sugars, etc…) get pushed through. Often their complications are worse too because of the crap they put themselves through and get priority, so all the ones who did take care of themselves get put on the back burner and their complications get worse in the meantime. It’s such a shame.
I can’t even get a prescription for a pump because i can’t get in to see my endo any time soon to get documentation that it’s medically necessary for my episodes of hypo unawareness. *sigh*
Maybe if people stopped smoking, the people who didn’t cause their own cancers or cardiovascular diseases could get proper treatment in a proper time frame.
Here is the economic cost of obesity in Canada according to Canada Health Agency is 202 Billion:
The Economic Cost of Obesity
The most recent Economic Burden of Illness in Canada (EBIC) study shows that the total cost of illness reached $202 billion (2005 dollars) in 2000.11 In a recent analysis, the total cost of obesity has been estimated to be $4.3 billion (2005 dollars); $1.8 billion in direct healthcare costs and $2.5 billion in indirect costs.12 This figure is suggested to underestimate the overall economic cost of excess weight in Canada as it does not include the costs for those who are overweight, but not obese. Further, it only includes costs of adult obesity and costs associated with eight chronic diseases.
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http://bing.search.sympatico.ca/?q=cost%20…
For tobacco, in 2002, according to Health Canada was 17 Billion:
This report estimated the cost of tobacco use in Canada to be $17 billion – more than 42% of the total costs of substance abuse in this country – and identified the biggest single direct cost associated with substance abuse as health care. A breakdown of health expenditures, comparing tobacco with alcohol and illicit drugs, underscores that tobacco use still accounts for the greatest share of direct health care costs.
http://bing.search.sympatico.ca/?q=cost%20…
We should get diesel scented smokes and then you’d all be fine with it.
BTEX. Look it up. Automobile exhaust. Millions of liters per day at those bridge tolls. The respiratory volume of smokers in comparison is nanoscale. Literally.
Have you ever ridden a bicycle in this city? I am a middle aged life long smoker and can still power up the bottom of Victoria road without hitting bottom gear. You know what really sucks? When one of those asshole drivers who does not properly maintain their vehicle literally suffocates you, you have no choice in that situation, you have to suck the air, you need, it. At the bus terminal you can turn away, nor are you pulling huge volumes of air.
I am one of the smokers who stands off to the side of the bus terminal in the parking lot, does field extractions on my butts and put the filters in the trash can.
I can explain exactly why all the Health Canada propaganda is horribly misguided and designed to manipulate you, impose your morals on others and maintain the value fo the marijuana trade. I won’t explain it all again.
Finally, fuck you.
P.S. It’s fucking Dartmouth. I think you might need to go somewhere with a higher Starbucks/Tims quotient like Toronto or Vancouver. I think You’d fit right in in Toronto though.
I wonder how much money pharmaceutical companies and the governments make off of those two things you are debating. The thing is, it is definitely not the person with diabetes or smoking habits who is making money by having either of those, or both. You know where is a smoker’s heaven? Japan. Vending machines of cigarettes everywhere, and they are dirt cheap compared to here. $3 a pack instead of $10!
Lovin’ the new pic Newto. Gotta say, the last one was kinda creepy in a low budget, 70’s horror movie sort of way. We have the worlds dumbest rakins (Thanks Ricky) on the grounds of Casa Del Ivan. They climb into the dumpsters after they’ve been emptied and spend the night scrabbling and squawking because they can’t get out. So, guess who gets to play Steve Irwin and sidle up to the dumpster and toss in a couple of big boxes for them to climb out on. All the while picturing a 3 AM trip to the E.R. with a coon muckled onto my face, Alien style.
Hmm – guess what, Tuesdays suck as bad as Mondays do. >: )
Damn rakins… raided my cooler when I was camping. Smart little buggers sometimes. Just not the ones in your ‘hood, huh, Ivan? That was a great Tuesday morning story, by the way.
Glad to be of service Ralmn. “Pointy-faced cats” LOL. God I love Ricky – he’s the post-ironic avatar of good-natured white male rage.
well duh… climbing out of a dumpster isn’t rocket appliances.
If you don’t like the smell of smoke OP, leave, go the fuck inside, or buy a car. I don’t give a shit about your right to clean air anymore than you give a shit about me polluting my lungs. Just because there’s a stupid sign post and an unenforced bylaw in place doesn’t give you anymore special rights than what I have. At least none that I recognize or respect.
This is one lame fuckin’ bitch! Even if the by-laws were enforced, smokers would smoke “wherever” anyway. Illegal narcotics are still out there. Drinking and driving is still out there. Prostitutes are still out there, etc., etc., etc. Don’t bitch about it here. Some of the peeps who are responsible for enforcing the by-laws are smokers and they don’t give a flying fuck!
“Here is the economic cost of obesity in Canada according to Canada Health Agency is 202 Billion:
The Economic Cost of Obesity
The most recent Economic Burden of Illness in Canada (EBIC) study shows that the total cost of illness reached $202 billion (2005 dollars) in 2000.11 In a recent analysis, the total cost of obesity has been estimated to be $4.3 billion (2005 dollars); $1.8 billion in direct healthcare costs and $2.5 billion in indirect costs.12 This figure is suggested to underestimate the overall economic cost of excess weight in Canada as it does not include the costs for those who are overweight, but not obese. Further, it only includes costs of adult obesity and costs associated with eight chronic diseases.”
Learn to read, BT — it says the total cost of illness was 202 billion in 2000 in 2005 dollars. If you read further:
“In a recent analysis, the total cost of obesity has been estimated to be $4.3 billion (2005 dollars); $1.8 billion in direct healthcare costs and $2.5 billion in indirect costs”
so, 4.3 billion overall out of the 202 billion is related to obesity.
Your further analysis says 17 billion is attributed to smoking in 2002. Presumably those are 2002 dollars and would be higher for the 2005 figure.
Thanks for playing, Bro. Better luck next time.