Reply #155: right

[RainDog]

cigarettes have the same effect as pcbs that were dumped at sites that made refriges, etc .Cigarettes have the same impact as a superfund site from some major manufacturer who (at least in my area) closed up shop and ran rather than deal with the issue.

See, this is the sort of crap that really disgusts me. Why do you even try to equate the two?????

jesus, you non-smokers will just not give it up, will you? Have I accepted Jesus Christ as my personal savior and, more importantly, have I admitted I smoke cigarettes? the whole point is that I don't want to be around people like you, so you had no need to reiterate what you said. get it? I've never been a rude smoker. I've gone out of my way to respect the rights of non-smokers. The hostility exhibited on this site... is UNWARRANTED for probably most of the people here. I honestly do not know one person who smokes who would try to annoy others with smoke, or blow smoke toward them or try to be around non-smokers (when, obviously, ppl are outside. Inside smoking has not been a part of anyone's experience here for years.

my point (also on the thread I started and stopped) is that non-smokers do not want to give smokers a choice, i.e. a smokers only bar, where no one is forced to work there because there are tons of non-smoking bizzes. But such a bar is not allowed in non-smoking cities because... again, why is any other business person is allowed to open a business that caters to other particular legal items, but not cigarettes?

safety regs for bizzes do not pass muster as an excuse in a bar, for instance, which exists to be a bar for smokers. because, as I again noted, there are plenty of jobs that deal with hazardous chemicals and people choose to work in those jobs, whether they are researchers at the CDC or off-shore oil riggers. why is It okay to force your pov on others if it involves a smoker's-only facility, but you wouldn't dare display that same level of interference in those researchers work, for instance, or try to regulate their workplaces due to possible exposure to hazardous chemicals.

see the hypocrisy is really annoying. especially when the argument is about others' health and safety when it in no way impinges upon you - when others can choose where to work. where non-smokers have tons of options of places to go for an evening out, but not one such establishment should be allowed for smokers.