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This is a thread where anyone who hates or has comments that are of an anti-smoking nature. If you want to vent about how much you hate smokers and smoking, and the smell, or having to see smokers, or walk by them as they smoke on their smoke breaks at work. Say it in here.
So please, now that you have this thread, please refrain from making anti-smoking comments in threads where people are discussing or asking legitimate questions about smoking.
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As long as you keep your cigarettes away from my gasoline pumps, you can do whatever the heck you want.
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Feel free to kill yourself, and all that. I'm just a little miffed at the percentage of bar-goers who fall into that category. Smoke adds to the ambience at a New Orleans jazz club, perhaps, but encountering it when in search of simple food and drink is annoying (but not annoying to seek out and patronize smoke-free establishments...yet).
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This is a discussion board. People are free to voice their opinions in whatever thread they choose. Stop being so childish.
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And as personal policy, I never give money to someone asking for money on the street if they're smoking.
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quote: If you want to vent about how much you hate smokers and smoking...
Hey, kinglear, in our society that is suppposed to be tolerant of others shouldn't we all "love the smoker but hate the smoking?"
I don't care if people smoke, but if they light up in front of me I usually grab a big chaw of Red Man and say:
Some people like to smoke, and others like to chew, if you dont blow your smoke on me, I wont spit on you.
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I am lucky enough to not encounter tobacco smoke often, but when I do, the smoke really bothers me.
But what I *really* despise is the anti-smoking commercials. The whole "truth" ad campaign just puts my teeth on edge. It almost makes me want to start smoking just to piss those guys off.
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quote:So please, now that you have this thread, please refrain from making anti-smoking comments in threads where people are discussing or asking legitimate questions about smoking.
Yes, but sometimes (often actually), the right answer to a legitimate question about smoking is going to be an anti-smoking response.
kinglear is a smoker. He just started this thread for people who hate smoking/smokers. I guess he wanted a place to talk about the smokes without the clutter of obvious and annoying anti-smoking propaganda.
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So I guess under this rational, only supporters of gay marriage can post in the pro-gay marriage threads and Bush bashing will be banned in any pro-Bush threads.
I can see this really taking off.
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I would say that people bashing gay marriage should stay out of a thread started by gay people about how much they love their new gay marriage, yes. As to a thread started about whether or not the latest gay marriage decision is a good one, I think that's a place for the gay marriage lovers and haters to knock heads.
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While I agree with your first example, I'm not sure it would happen here. That was what I was trying to get across.
How about if I started a thread about how much I loved Buffy? Some people would come in and denigrate my tv tastes, even though it was a pro- Buffy thread. And I wouldn't want to stop them.
(As an aside - a while back there was a pro-Bush thread that got hijacked into an anti-Bush discussion, while the anti-Bush thread started in response to the first thread got taken over by Bush supporters. )
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I think it's all about scale. Buffy is a relatively transitory and silly topic of discussion. Smoking, on the other hand, seems to get lots of people in a big huff for no discernable reason. Yeah, it's not the best thing I can do for my body, but niether is eating pop-tarts. I still do that, though.
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I'm sorry, but as the daughter of a woman stupid enough to kill herself by smoking a lot, I can't even agree with that. But I know I'm not objective.
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I never tried to smoke, and will never. Since her death, I'm quite aggressive with smokers and often feels sorry for that. But honestly... Spend just one day in an hospital in which they treat lung cancer, and then say you know what you're doing. Not before. By some ways, I think my grieving period has been easier than the period in which she was dying. Posts: 3526 | Registered: Oct 2001
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Heh . . . how flattering that my little post before going to bed spawned a thread!
Anyway, here is my reply from that thread:
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quote: Seriously, if you don't like threads about not smoking, don't post in it (there's an antismoking thread for that now).
Who said I don't like the thread?
Guess what: this is a public forum. You can't stop me from expressing my feelings, or force me to confine that expression to a thread you can more easily ignore. So deal. It's not like my expression of disgust can affect your experience of smoking a cigar, or prevent you from doing so. So read it or don't, and get over it. For myself, I like to think of posting of my disgust for cigars as symbolic revenge against the people who light cigars up in public. When someone lights a cigarette up outdoors, you can't smell it unless you're next to them. But a cigar you can smell from fifty feet away. It destroys my enjoyment of food if I'm eating, and it destroys my enjoyment of being outdoors when I'm not. I consider smoking a cigar in public to be an aggressive act. Nasal rape, even. I can't stop people from doing it, though. Just like you can't stop me from posting in this thread.
Heh . . . how flattering that my little post before going to bed spawned a thread!
That seems to happen a lot around here, anyways:
You're right, I started this thread in response to two comments that had been made in Phantos 'cigars' thread, namely the first twocomments posted by Fitz and you.
I agree that this is a public forum, and anyone can say anything they feel like. Thats free speech, it lets you place your opinion wherever you feel like putting it. However, Phanto started that thread with the following:
quote:Does anyone here know anything about:
A) How they're made? B) How they're smoked? C) What kind of smoke do they produce? D) How do you dispose of them?
Thanks!
[And for all the sighers and cynics] ((()))
To me this thread is not about discussing smoking, smokers, smoking laws, lung cancer, bad smells, cigarrette butts, or any other topic. From his post I would assume that Phanto is asking to have some questions answered. I tried to do that.
If I started a thread to ask a question I think I would appreciate it it someone helped answer that question. I'm sure that if you ever asked a question in this forum you would appreciate an answer as well. It is my belief that we should try to help each other out, not just start a diatribe in opposition of something the original poster had mentioned.
If the thread had related to the pros/cons of smoking, or to what people thought about it, or asked for any opinion, I would not have any thoughts against your posts. But Phanto just asked for information about cigars.
So, thats why I started this thread, for those who wish to debate the smoking health/smell/etc topics, and merely ask people to refrain from posting comments against smoking, when someone is merely asking a realistic question.
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Did the person who started this thread really attempt to argue there is a shred of legitimacy behind smoking?
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nope, my main arguement behind this thread is that when someone asks a real question about smoking, I simply feel that its impolite to post comments of an anti-smoking nature when someone just wants some information.
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quote: So please, now that you have this thread, please refrain from making anti-smoking comments in threads where people are discussing or asking legitimate questions about smoking.
There are no legitimate questions to be discussed about smoking. Smoking is disgusting. Smoking kills you. Smoking kills the people around you. Smoking kills unborn people inside of you. These are facts. There is no room for debate, discussion, scintillating conversation, sugar coating, or whining about freedom to choose. If I was in a restaurant in a table next to yours, and every few moments I threw some Anthrax germs in the air, you'd be upset too. There is no reason to become a new smoker in 2004 other than weakness and a desire to fit in. Game over.
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Tolerance is a virtue this country seems to be forgetting. Put yourself in the shoes of a wine connoisseur during Prohibition. Listening to Women's Temperance BS all the time would get kind of old.
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People can do whatever they want, because people like the freedom to choose and face it, people would smoke even if it was illegal everywhere. But I don't like to be around smoke; it makes my eyes water, I can't breath or think properly, and something that impinges on my ability to function worries me. So, obviously, I don't smoke.
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lear, when I start a thread asking a question, I fully expect the thread topic to meander around. If I'm lucky, I also get answers to my question, but I don't waste time being annoyed at people who post with other statements. Attempts to keep a thread on task are futile and silly.
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Oh my. The google ads here drive me to a site to buy cigarettes. It would be funny if it wasn't so sad. I think I don't like these ads, too bad we need it.
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quote:Oh my. The google ads here drive me to a site to buy cigarettes.
I'll commit my own hateful sin here of going off-topic, but if the smoking discussion here sends us to tobacco ads, where do the ads at the bottom of the gay marriage and the porno threads lead!!!
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Funny fallow! Hey, but really. They are looking into nicotineless cigarettes by bioengineering the tabbaco plant.
quote: I don't care if people smoke. As long as they don't do it within 100 feet of me.
Ok. I'm down with that.
quote: There is no room for debate
There's always room for J-E-L-L-O.....er debate.
((Teshi)) All you have to is ask. Smokers generally are a fairly polite bunch in person. We are not mind readers though. If I was, would I be in the military right now? Heck no.
odouls268 : Your opinions are a great read. I love it how you write it as if to try and run my life. I think I don't ever want to meet you, as we would probably not get along. I have enough stress to deal with at work. I don't need any more.
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