Smoker's rights

hell, i can remember when there was smoking IN CLASS at the local community college. also wasn't that long ago that hospital patients were lighting up in their rooms and at church there would be a small group smoking and having coffee in the kitchen of fellowship hall before the sunday morning service.

 

Smoking and nonsmoking should be determined by the business owner, and the customers should decide which establishments to frequent: smoking bar or nonsmoking bar, smoking casino or nonsmoking casino, smoking restaurant or nonsmoking restaurant.
Ideally, I think it should go beyond that: smoking airline or nonsmoking airline, smoking movie theater or nonsmoking movie theater, etc.

 

You betcha.

Ciggy Boy got:

1) a nice polite request: "hey man the smoke is bugging us, could you put it out?"

2) a firm suggestion: "Dude, there's no smoking here. There are 10,000 signs all over the stadium that say so. Be cool and kill the butt."

3) at that point he would have been told by the ushers, had they felt like doing anything, but they did not, so he did not.

4) a direct order: "Look motherfucker, I didn't pay $95 a ticket to breathe in your cancer gas for two hours. Put the fucker out."

When his response to that was "Ha Ha," it was time for the boot square in his ass, straight down the steps.

Happy landings, dude ;D

 

Star, I know you're serious, but the way you are describing what happened is funny. Can I use the launch line, please?

 

Have at it. We are go at throttle-up.

 

Thanks.

 

Now THAT'S what I call Starman Justice.

 

I think cops should required to pull over and ticket any smoker throwing a butt out a car window. I can't (and wouldn't) toss a gum wrapper or soda can, yet they constantly litter.

 

That's a bit of hyperbole.
I'm a semi-regular smoker, and I don't litter.

 

I used to smoke unfiltered Pall Malls and field strip them so I wouldn't leave a trace but even that, on some level, is littering -- just tiny pieces of tobacco and paper.

But, yeah, it bothers me when people toss cigarette butts on the street or sidewalk.

 

No smokers, even those who do litter, are advocating for littering.
I think most smokers just want the rules set with some common sense, and they don't the rules to keep shifting. They object to irrational approaches, and they object to continued encroachment.
It should be a subject that can be discussed rationally. Usually, however, it is not discussed rationally.

 

But the rules are going to keep shifting, and not in a good way for smokers. We are moving away from relatively unrestricted smoking more and more each day. It will probably never be banned, though it should be, but the restrictions are going to keep coming and that is a very good thing.