Why dont we have a little more respect for you? Smokers are a minority that is most discrimiated against in some places, and w take your shit sitting down. We aren’t even allowed to smoke indoors anymore. Geezus fuck, why dont places put in rooms like Tim Hortons used to have for smokers? Why dont non-smokers walk around instead of walking directly through smoke we just exhaled and they saw? Why when they’re walking on the other side of the street do they cough and cough and look directly at us, even though the smoke is no where near them? Non-smokers think they rule the fucking planet. Learn to share, dumbfuck.
And while I’m on this topic, bus drivers are entitled to a break. They drive our miserable sorry asses around all day (mine included), and listen to our sob stories. It’s no wonder the drivers have shitty attitudes. They have people cursing and swearing at them, spitting on them, throwing stuff at them, knives pulled. Perhaps you should look at it fromt the other side of the fence before throwing stones.
This article appears in Jul 24-30, 2008.
you CHOSE to be ‘discriminated’ against. you were not born addicted. you chose to start smoking.sop why should I suffer for your bad choices? i quit smoking on purpose, and i dont need your idiotic choices ruining my good choices for me. if you cant handle your addiction responsibly, dont acquire one.
I like how you think that the world should accomodate itself for idiots like you who act like being a smoker is like belonging to some poor “minority group” who can’t catch a break. Get over it and get some Nicorette or something. There’s a thing called free will and choice, so give up the filthy and annoying habit. Hope you don’t get lung cancer!
Poor bus drivers. Poor smokers.Can you feel the sincerity?
Since when is discrimination okay to legislate in our “free” country? People play the ‘public health care dollars’ card as if that’s a good reason to DISCRIMINATE. Guess what? Joggers use the health care system when they tear ligaments but they keep jogging, office workers are treated for carpel tunnel syndrome all the time but they keep working, traffic woes damage people every day but we still keep driving and we simply don’t discriminate in general against alcoholics nor narcotic drug users.I’ve been challenged with this card: “what is it about smoking that you like?” and after having time to brew I ask what is it about coffee that YOU like? There are likely as many health issues related to excessive coffee drinking (bad breath, stained teeth, tooth decay and related infections, caffeine interactions and addictions, gastric issues, blood pressure/sodium/renal related issues, mental issues related to sleeplessness, getting your teeth knocked out because you can’t shut up, etc). Personally, I find coffee grossly bitter and something better used to tie-die T-shirts than ever put it in my body but, hey, we’re entitled to do such things to our own bodies in a FREE COUNTRY. Keep in mind gambling, nose picking and masturbation can be addictive behaviors too while you’re deciding who to discriminate against.Kate would like to think that all smokers are trying to quit because we know nicotine to be addictive but she doesn’t seem to realize a lot of smokers just really enjoy it, have never tried to quit and have no desire to. Why do you care if I’m addicted? Either way it doesn’t matter because we’re supposed to be living in a free country where we can be who we want to be.After all that there’s still the issue of second hand smoke. Aside from health care dollars your coffee drinking or booze chugging does not affect me unless, of course, you puke on my shoes or drive drunk so, okay, we’ve legislated the ‘smoke-free work place’, what grindcore would call handling our addiction responsibly so I invite the rest of you to simply stay the fuck away from me while I enjoy a nice smoke otherwise bite your tongue while you hold your breath and make for the other side of the street.
Kay, seriously. take your medication.yes, you have the RIGHT to smoke. go nuts, you can choose to do it, love it, whatever. But you have to realize that the majority of people are no longer rocking the smokey wave like you are. They also have a right to not be shrouded in your smoke.Smoking, unlike other habits like coffee drinking, are very visable, they impact the whole area around the smoker, not just the smoker themselves. so go ahead and smoke, but show some goddamn curtesy. realize that when you are the minority, it is your job to blend in as much as possible for the majority- if 2/3rds of the population smoked, yeah, the non-smokers would be the ones who have to suck up some discomfort and make allowences for the majority.but that’s not the case. and since you’re so keen on democratic society, that means the majority rule.s and the majority says YOU should be the one crossing the street when you smoke, not me.
Take my medication? You can’t say anything without insulting someone! Go fuck yourself hedgyhog.
The MAJORITY of people prefer to be healthy. I’ll give you that. So why is anybody allowed to stuff their faces full of crap and become obese without breaking a fucking bylaw or two, huh? BECAUSE THIS IS A FREE COUNTRY
Kay, stuffing yourself iwth fast food effects YOUR health, not everyone around you. What smoking bylaws do is FORCE smokers to be curteous and realize that most people would prefer NOT to breath their smoke as well. It would be nice if we didn’t need these- if smokers could just realize that they may choose to effect their health, their body scent, their teeth, whatever by smoking, and not feel it’s their right to force that choice onto others by smoking in public places where teh scent lingers and the smoke wafts into nonsmoker lungs, we wouldn’;t need those laws.But with smoking, you do get a lot of people whog et defensive about it- yes, it’s your right, but it’s also my right to have clean air. so all the bylaws do is say if youw ant to smoke, do it here where you’re only effecting other people who made this choice, and where non smokers can reasonably avoid. That’s all. It’s a free country sure, but there’s this thing called common curtesy.also the meds thing was a joke. gosh you take your internet persona serious.
I’m imagining old WWII propaganda campaigns with packs of shifty-eyed smokers cornering a frightened non-smoker. I should be imagining non-smokers frollicking with balloons on a rainbow made of smiles, and a nicotine-stained teddy bear crying and smoking alone. How come non-smokers feel so persecuted? All this talk of suffering for others’ unhealthy choices, as if you’re being forced to breathe it in. I’m more worried about the carcinogenic effects of burning martyr smoke, personally. Try to take that 16 feet from doorways.
Burning martyr smoke – that’s fucking priceless, Beav. Last time I smelled that was in Catholic grade school.
Don’t forget the unicorns, Beav. “But there are no unicorns” you might say. That’s because they all got hooked on nicotine and died from emphysema!!
Okay, I’ll tear down my bedroom posters now that my dreams are dead too, thanks, Tasha! Don’t worry, I’ll replace them with scenes of kittens smoking cigarettes.
Hedgy just be glad that in 30 or so years they’ll be too weak to type, and by then there will be very few smokers left to broadcast their persecution complex.And would someone please look up the fucking word “rights”, or stop using it??Rights DO NOT mean you can just do whatever the fuck you want.
ooh jammie, somone’s been reading their Hobbes ;)I agree though; rights are part of the social contract- you do something for society, you get something in return, to put it simplistically. it’s not just a free-for-all diyonisian romp of self indulgence. Rights come with responsibilities, in this case the right to smoke comes with the responsibility to be curteous about, and stop whining about how everyone’s so mean to you about it when you know going in that smoking isn’t terribly socially acceptable anymore.
its funny how you feel the right to complain about us non-smokers having a problem with you smokers. you are killing our babies and my lungs. soon you will have a place to smoke all you want – in hell!
killing our babies? i eat babies.