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Originally Posted by matt_a
I think the main complaint for most non-smokers about second-hand smoke, is that they don't want to breathe any of it. They don't want a smoker figuring out if the amount they are breathing is enough to hurt them or not.
I agree with you 100% about not wanting to live to be 90 if it means having to be taken care of in a nursing home. But it doesn't always mean that. That example is always used. Sure, some people end up that way. But what about the people who live to be 90 and are still healthy at home and semi-productive? There are plenty of those too. I could be the perfect picture of health and die in a car crash today. You never know. I just think it makes sense to limit the stuff that's obviously bad for you and has been shown to cause preventable problems. It's simply improving the odds.
I agree with you 100% about not wanting to live to be 90 if it means having to be taken care of in a nursing home. But it doesn't always mean that. That example is always used. Sure, some people end up that way. But what about the people who live to be 90 and are still healthy at home and semi-productive? There are plenty of those too. I could be the perfect picture of health and die in a car crash today. You never know. I just think it makes sense to limit the stuff that's obviously bad for you and has been shown to cause preventable problems. It's simply improving the odds.
Either way, i'm pretty sure we could go back and forth all day making good points and everything.. I think we can agree to just agree and move on. lol I'd hate to take an entire thread up just for us agreeing with each other.
If anyone would like to debate or talk about it with me, friendly, feel free to IM me on aim or PM me.
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From: Just to the right of Hell
I hate the smell of cigarette smoke so bad, I won't go into a resteraunt if they allow smoking... makes the food taste like crap. On the other hand, some pipe tobacco and very few cigars are like potpori to me. I'll light up a brazillian at least once a year but never more than twice.
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From: scionlife.com
It's the smell. Definitely the smell. I can smell cigarette smoke in my clothes later in the day if I was near a smoker. I can TASTE cigarette odor if I kiss a girl that took a drag hours earlier. It is an offensive and disgusting smell.
Imagine if you have to sit next to a large man that chose not to wear deoderant. Wouldn't you be disgusted? The only difference is that if you sit next to someone like that you probably won't smell like it for the rest of the day.
I really have no problem with the damage the smoke does to the smoker, and I think that second-hand smoke isn't as dangerous as the press might lead us to believe, but it's just that damn smell.
Anyone seen my lung?
Imagine if you have to sit next to a large man that chose not to wear deoderant. Wouldn't you be disgusted? The only difference is that if you sit next to someone like that you probably won't smell like it for the rest of the day.
I really have no problem with the damage the smoke does to the smoker, and I think that second-hand smoke isn't as dangerous as the press might lead us to believe, but it's just that damn smell.
Anyone seen my lung?
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From: West TN - Land of twisty roads
Originally Posted by superjeer
Smoking is bad for you, it's bad for me and it's bad for the economy. Think of the economy!
Many state governments couldn't function without all the TAX money that smokes generate. Heck, in Michigan the TAX alone is almost double the actual cost of the Smokes.
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From: Burlington, VT
Originally Posted by killerxromances
As for the death, its not rocket science that smoking does speed up a persons death.
(To answer the question -- I've smoked lightly for most of my adult life, but I quit once and for all about 5 months ago.)
--mark
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From: HB, CA
Originally Posted by scionlife
It's the smell. Definitely the smell.
If anyone saw Jimmy Kimmel last night he showed a clip of one of the City Council members justifying the Council's vote on the new law to the media. I am paraphrasing but the guy basically said, "I can't walk down the street with an open beer....I can't openly use a blow up doll to do what I want to do to it in public....how is this law any different?"
I kid you not, btw.
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From: Surf City SoCal
Originally Posted by surfcity40
Originally Posted by scionlife
It's the smell. Definitely the smell.
If anyone saw Jimmy Kimmel last night he showed a clip of one of the City Council members justifying the Council's vote on the new law to the media. I am paraphrasing but the guy basically said, "I can't walk down the street with an open beer....I can't openly use a blow up doll to do what I want to do to it in public....how is this law any different?"
I kid you not, btw.
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From: San Diego, CA
All I'm going to say is that I'm glad they banned indoor smoking in CA. =)
When I'm out of the state I usually won't go into a restaurant that allows smoking unless I really have to.
No offense to any smokers..I have a couple of uncles who smoke.
When I'm out of the state I usually won't go into a restaurant that allows smoking unless I really have to.
No offense to any smokers..I have a couple of uncles who smoke.
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From: Las Vegas
I live in Vegas and the whole damn state smokes. Every strip mall in town has a payday loan and a smoke shop. I like the "no smoking in public places" laws that a lot of cities and counties are passing now. But I know that is a long ways away in Las Vegas. And I smoked a pack a day for 20 years, but I've been smoke free for about 3 years now.
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From: San Diego, CA
Originally Posted by Tay831
I don't smoke and am not a big fan of smokers(no offense) it kinda sux to cuz sometimes I see a good loking girl and start talking to her and find out she smokes its a turnoff.
til you see her put a cig up to her lips then you're like... 
No offense to any smoker, again.
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