Smoking at the work place? Laws ect?

Yep. There’s been a few of those around Buffalo in just the last couple of years.

pickup all the cigarette butts and dump them in their cars. Then say “oh well not my problem”.

I won’t walk off, but I’ll play ball. It’s mostly one person thats been here for a while and thinks he owns the place. Really, he just washes cars.

lol just work hard for like 3 months and become his boss and fire him

I’m just going to piss him off until he gets the point

for some reason I feel an air horn or a squirt gun is in order here.

Put some acetylene torches near his door of choice then point out the NFPA standards?

Air soft gun as a part of my hollween costume.

that would get the message across really fast. 20 FEET OUT THE DOOR sound the horn squirt the cancer

I was just going to play james bond music over the PA, then once they get shot they will know it a no-no. Kinda like an invisble fence for a dog.

make no smoking indoor announcements on the PA?

I think people have leaned on smokers so hard in the last few years that they’ve really developed an “I don’t give a shit anymore” attitude. They have so few places they can smoke that they probably wouldn’t be accomodating as they normally would.

More of a reason to quit.

I love walking into the breezway just inside of where the smoking area is at work.
Its a free reminder of how smokers all smell.

I think alcohol and drunk drivers have a greater impact on the lives of others yet no one goes and complains to the bar owner that they’re offended people are drinking. Just sayin.

Actually bartenders are legally responsible for letting people get grossly intoxicated, and there’s plenty of complaining about DWI coming from groups like MADD and the insurance lobby. Beside that, unlike smoking which has been proven dangerous for those directly around you a guy getting drunk next to me has zero direct effect on my health.

If smokers weren’t such assholes I think anti-smoking legislation would have a much harder time. But every time you’re driving around and some piece of shit tosses his cigarette butt out his window, or a non-smoker has to wade through a cloud of nicotine addicts standing just outside a door support for higher cigarette taxes and stricter smoking laws just keeps going up.

Oh yes, because smokers don’t effect people with asthma or kids that have to grow up around 2nd hand smoke.

The guy getting drunk next to you doesn’t affect you but wipes out someone’s family member after he pats you on the back and stumbles out the door. I see your point on the littering but I’ve seen much worse. Smokers were pushed out if bars and resraurants to outside areas and I don’t have a problem with that, but then people complain about walking through their smoke outside. I’m not denying the affects of smoking on others but I think there’s a difference between walking through smoke on occasion and working in a bar loaded with smokers. Everyone wants their freedoms but there is usually something people do that bothers others so can we all ask to ban all offenses from everyone?

You seem to be confusing “offensive” with “damaging”. It’s not offensive to force people to walk through your clouds of smoke because you refuse to move away from the entrance to a building, it’s proven bad for their health. At no point have the freedoms of this country allowed you to knowingly hurt other people.

The Westboro Church is offensive, but it’s their right to sit there and be offensive. The minute they go from blowing hot air to smoke though, they’re done.

And the whole DWI comparison is totally off point. DWI is already illegal no matter how you cut it.

DWI is a result of alcohol consumption just as health concerns are a result of inhalation of smoke. Smoking affects others around smokers, just as alcohol affects others around drinkers. Those affected by either did not make the choice. We could go on forever debating this. Even if I were a non-smoker I would advocate smoker’s rights. The only way to totally solve a problem is a complete ban of the source. Are we ready for a nationwide smoking ban, repeal of gun rights, a second prohibition? How far do we go?