smoking

[beat90tsi]

@PurpleMongoose

If it was for the public health, then ban it entirely. No more cigarettes, cigars, pipes, chewing tobacco or snuff. No more smoke. No more tobacco. No more sales. No more tax money.

Why not ban cars, then? They put out more toxins than my cigarette. Don’t believe me? I’ll sit in my garage and chain-smoke for 3 hours. You sit in your garage with your car running for 3 hours. We’ll see who’s in better shape after.

Anyway…this is not something that should be legislated. If a business owner wants to permit smoking, then they may miss out on non-smoker business, and vice-versa. Don’t like smoking/non-smoking? Don’t go to the one you don’t like.

Excellent points, screw the government trying to ban anything.

[SP71Supra]

@PurpleMongoose

My main problem with it is the way it’s being presented.

All the pols say ‘it’s for the public’s health.’ Bullshit. It’s just one more thing they can control.

If it was for the public health, then ban it entirely. No more cigarettes, cigars, pipes, chewing tobacco or snuff. No more smoke. No more tobacco. No more sales. No more tax money.

Why not ban cars, then? They put out more toxins than my cigarette. Don’t believe me? I’ll sit in my garage and chain-smoke for 3 hours. You sit in your garage with your car running for 3 hours. We’ll see who’s in better shape after.

Anyway…this is not something that should be legislated. If a business owner wants to permit smoking, then they may miss out on non-smoker business, and vice-versa. Don’t like smoking/non-smoking? Don’t go to the one you don’t like.

good points.

[blackfive-o]

There’s a lot of good points here. I have been smoking for 35 years. Long ago, it didn’t matter where you smoked, or even IF you smoked because the air pollution was so bad the cigarette smoke didn’t matter.

I agree that it stinks and causes problems for non-smokers. I don’t smoke in my house, nobody does. I go outside no matter how cold.

I have been patronizing the same bar for 28 years regularly. I have been smoking in that bar for 28 years. I have spent a TON of money in that bar. 90% of the people who frequent this bar have been going there for a long time and they also smoke. The owners and employees all smoke.

So, they are gonna ban smoking in a bar where almost everyone smokes? I have never heard a complaint from a no-smoker at this bar. My wife and daughter come to this bar with me on weekends. They are non-smokers. They never complain about the smoke.

So, if any of your non-smoking asses ever wants to come to Mike’s Place and bitch about the smoke: STAY THE FUCK OUT! :stick:

PS I throw my butts out the window too, have been for 35 years.

[Darkstar]

I’m sitting in my office at work in Kittanning, puffing away on a sensuous Marlboro Menthol Light as I type this. I sincerely hope that the smoke annoys the hell out of each and every one of my non-smoking co-workers.

[blackfive-o]

@Darkstar

I’m sitting in my office at work in Kittanning, puffing away on a sensuous Marlboro Menthol Light as I type this. I sincerely hope that the smoke annoys the hell out of each and every one of my non-smoking co-workers.

I’m sitting in my office NOT SMOKING cause I work in a smoke free building! Gotta go outside!

[Darkstar]

@blackfive-o

I’m sitting in my office NOT SMOKING cause I work in a smoke free building! Gotta go outside!

this is a non-smoking building too, but noone here has the balls to say anything to me about it. :bowdown:

[2toneishot]

@Darkstar

I’m sitting in my office at work in Kittanning, puffing away on a sensuous Marlboro Menthol Light as I type this. I sincerely hope that the smoke annoys the hell out of each and every one of my non-smoking co-workers.

and this is why you are awarded the douchestick of the year award!

[berad]

I smoke. Have since I was 19-20. I quit for 6 months about a year and 1/2 ago when I was dating this girl. At first I didn’t think she smoked till she whipped out a pack of Newports at the bar. After that we both quit. I’m trying to quit again. I think it’s mostly nerves and stress. I hate smelling like smoke. I hate feeling like shit. Spending $5+/pack sucks. I don’t smoke in my car or inside the house. It’s especially difficult when in the garage working on cars or on a business trip traveling/working from 5am till 4am the next day.

[Darkstar]

@2toneishot"

and this is why you are awarded the douchestick of the year award!

and to think you usually run unopposed for this honor. I hope you’re not mad that I’m stealing your thunder.

[2toneishot]

@Darkstar"

and to think you usually run unopposed for this honor. I hope you’re not mad that I’m stealing your thunder.

:greddy2:

[blackfive-o]

@Darkstar"

and to think you usually run unopposed for this honor. I hope you’re not mad that I’m stealing your thunder.

I gotta hand it to you Darkstar, yo Do come up with some good ones!

[SP71Supra]

@Darkstar

I’m sitting in my office at work in Kittanning, puffing away on a sensuous Marlboro Menthol Light as I type this. I sincerely hope that the smoke annoys the hell out of each and every one of my non-smoking co-workers.

Yeah I got a pack in my pocket right now! I dont smoke in my office… I could, but it seems kind of unprofessional… so I just go outside… but when its cold out / raining, ill go upstairs above the shop.

[Darkstar]

@SP71Supra

Yeah I got a pack in my pocket right now! I dont smoke in my office… I could, but it seems kind of unprofessional… so I just go outside… but when its cold out / raining, ill go upstairs above the shop.

yeah I don’t entertain too many clients in the office here, usually take them into the conference room, so I’m puffing away…

MMMMMMMM delicious nicoteney freedom!!!

[SP71Supra]

@Darkstar

yeah I don’t entertain too many clients in the office here, usually take them into the conference room, so I’m puffing away…

MMMMMMMM delicious nicoteney freedom!!!

Im glad I go outside / upstairs tho… if I could smoke at my office, I would smoke WAYYYY to much…

[Shaggy]

@jph102900

What benefits do you get from smoking? NONE. You waste your money and in the end all it does is raise the cost of health insurance/healthcare for everyone else. I don’t know if it is just me, but I really tend to judge people when I see them smoking. It just seems like such a waste of money and unsophisticated.

Your a Idiot, Who cares what other people do. What if their was free healthcare. then you would still complain i bet.

@SK360

Ban it altogether.

Ban Alcohol also and legalize marijuana. oh wait that will never happen.
GOV makes a killing off killing its citizens.

@1st v-dub

you are only thinking about patrons. also think about employees, which is what the bill is aimed at. If you are part of a wait staff in a restaurant you are subject to cigarette smoke.

Then you are going to say “well faggy ass hats should go work for a restaurant that doesn’t allow smoking”. To which I’ll reply, “there are only so many jobs in that industry in pittsburgh that fit the bill”. Sure they could move to California, or New york, or Minneapolis, or Denver, or Boulder, or Charelston, or… but it’s a wait job, you aren’t going to move for that and I would bet that a large portion of the staff is here as students just looking for extra money.

The government regulated the coal industry. While black lung may kill you sooner than cigarette smoke, the long term effects of smoking or being in a smoke filled environment are just as tragic.

Get another fucking job like Mcdonalds.

[Darkstar]

ell played by the shagster