Re: BIG FUCKING RANT.
Posted: Sat Jan 27, 2007 12:56 pm
Lol,
You cannot really expect most smokers to agree to these new laws. Since they've been allowed to smoke around others freely -for years- then they've took it for granted that they have the right to poison others, or at the very least, spoil other peoples socializing time.
It's just ignorance to tell me to go into a restaurant. (Though you can smoke in lots of restaurants too remember).
I'll lay out the differences as I see it...
If a non-smoker wants to socialize without being blasted with other peoples smoke, 'where do we go?' Smokers have places to smoke in, but for the most part, non-smokers do not. If non-smokers complain, we're whinging? Oh, that's fair !doh!
Another important fact, and something most seem to miss...Smokers are 'not' being denied access to anywhere, they're just being asked to refrain from smoking for the few hours they are around other human beings. Smoking kills after all.
As for the lame 'but drunk drivers kill more people than passive smoking per year' argument......well, I agree, it probably does. You forget though that drunk drivers are legally refrained from doing so for that very reason!
If smokers can slowly push harmful substances down non-smokers lungs over years & years, which may cause health problems further down the line, with a risk of death, then surely drunks should be allowed to drive? It's there selfish right to put people in danger if they hold a licence right?
How can smokers say drunks shouldn't drive because of the dangers, while ignoring the dangers they pass to others in public places like bars, clubs, restaurants & caf?s?
Drunk driving 'and' smoking kills, and given the choice over death from being run over, or death from years of lung cancer, I'd pick being run over by a drunk every time. Any smoker who thinks it's their right to let others inhale their smoke is plain selfish. There's no other way about it.
A smoker refrained from smoking is just delaying a habit for a few hours. A non-smokers being made to stop at home at the weekend because he/she has nowhere to go without being poisoned is forced into a 'fucked either way' situation.
A drunk driver gets sentenced, as well as living with what they have done. Smokers never get to find out how many people they've helped kill over the years. They have no faces and grieving children pointing the finger at them because it's a collective thing. They can then feel secure that it wasn't 'their cigarette' that did the damage. They're free of the guilt a drunk driver has forced upon them.
I see no difference between killing someone instantly in a car, or contributing to other peoples death from smoking around them. They both kill in there own way. The only difference is the legality.
Yours (whingingly),
Sam
You cannot really expect most smokers to agree to these new laws. Since they've been allowed to smoke around others freely -for years- then they've took it for granted that they have the right to poison others, or at the very least, spoil other peoples socializing time.
It's just ignorance to tell me to go into a restaurant. (Though you can smoke in lots of restaurants too remember).
I'll lay out the differences as I see it...
If a non-smoker wants to socialize without being blasted with other peoples smoke, 'where do we go?' Smokers have places to smoke in, but for the most part, non-smokers do not. If non-smokers complain, we're whinging? Oh, that's fair !doh!
Another important fact, and something most seem to miss...Smokers are 'not' being denied access to anywhere, they're just being asked to refrain from smoking for the few hours they are around other human beings. Smoking kills after all.
As for the lame 'but drunk drivers kill more people than passive smoking per year' argument......well, I agree, it probably does. You forget though that drunk drivers are legally refrained from doing so for that very reason!
If smokers can slowly push harmful substances down non-smokers lungs over years & years, which may cause health problems further down the line, with a risk of death, then surely drunks should be allowed to drive? It's there selfish right to put people in danger if they hold a licence right?
How can smokers say drunks shouldn't drive because of the dangers, while ignoring the dangers they pass to others in public places like bars, clubs, restaurants & caf?s?
Drunk driving 'and' smoking kills, and given the choice over death from being run over, or death from years of lung cancer, I'd pick being run over by a drunk every time. Any smoker who thinks it's their right to let others inhale their smoke is plain selfish. There's no other way about it.
A smoker refrained from smoking is just delaying a habit for a few hours. A non-smokers being made to stop at home at the weekend because he/she has nowhere to go without being poisoned is forced into a 'fucked either way' situation.
A drunk driver gets sentenced, as well as living with what they have done. Smokers never get to find out how many people they've helped kill over the years. They have no faces and grieving children pointing the finger at them because it's a collective thing. They can then feel secure that it wasn't 'their cigarette' that did the damage. They're free of the guilt a drunk driver has forced upon them.
I see no difference between killing someone instantly in a car, or contributing to other peoples death from smoking around them. They both kill in there own way. The only difference is the legality.
Yours (whingingly),
Sam