Poison's in the air.

[secondlina]

AAAAAAAACK!

Today as I was waiting for the bus, I started wondering about when they were going to pass that $?#$ anti-smoking law for public areas. See, at that moment, I was getting a serious cloud of second hand smoke coming my way. I really don't get it...all the other Canada provinces have banned smoking in public areas...What's quebec doing?

Quebec bartenders are afraid that their profits will drop. Nevermind us, oh poor non-smokers, slowly being poisoned. If people choose to smoke and slowly fill their lungs with suddent death gas, it's their choice, but I don't feel they should impose it on people. I have nothing against smokers per say. Or at least polite smokers. Those that will open a window, hold their cigarette far from your face and go out to smoke. But it's all the impolite smokers that smoke while they talk to you, while they eat with you, etc. C'mon! It's like...I don't floss while i'm talking to people or eating...It's commun courtesy here! If all smokers were polite, we would not need to ban them from public places.

I lisened to one of my smoking friends bitch after my bitching on how smokers had equal rights to non-smokers and should not be banned. Well, I say, poison is poison. It's like if I was eating anti-gel in front of you and trying to make others eat it...would you stop me?

Comments

[ichiban-victory.livejournal.com]

Hey, Washington State only now passed an anti-smoking law, but it's about time! I completely agree with you. And seriously? Smoking is not a right, it's a privilege. One that many smokers have lost. I hope your province (?) gets with the program and joins the rest of Canada. No one has the right to poison the air you breath with cigarette smoke!

damn right!

[secondlina.livejournal.com]

You just nailed the word i was looking for: privilege. And yes, the word is province.

Re: damn right!

[ichiban-victory.livejournal.com]

I had a debate with a friend the other week when Washington passed its law, and he used the 'smokers have rights' thing on me too. I think people get too caught up on the 'rights' thing to realize that most things we have are not rights at all.

(And good. One time I goofed and wrote 'providence'. Oh Canada, how I love you and your terms!)

[annekay.livejournal.com]

mmm. i think people should just find a way to make new cigarettes. that only poison the people who smoke them. and not the people around them.. that would be fun. then people wouldn't die from second hand smoke. and only them silly peoples who smoke will die...

ooo. or make cigarettes that turn your ears purple... then people wont want to smoke... unless they want purple ears...

[ichiban-victory.livejournal.com]

It's called chewing tobacco, or eating the cigarettes. ^_- Although if people actually ate the cigarettes I think they would wake up and stop smoking because of how sick they would get. (When my mom was young a friend got a cigar for them to smoke, then a guy passing by told them the best way to enjoy it was to cut it up and eat it. She and her friends did, and got so sick to their stomachs! She never touched a cigarette after that.)

[earthstar-moon.livejournal.com]

I agree with you. I was so glad for my lungs when they passed the anti-smoking law in N.B.
And I would imagine that having to sit next to a smoker would be a big problem for someone who has asthma and little kids too. So yeah, I think banning it is a good thing.

Re: damn right!

[secondlina.livejournal.com]

Providence is a word with a different meaning. It means "good luck" or an incredibly profitable opportunity.

[secondlina.livejournal.com]

It's stupid to say, but there's less poisonous ways of addicting yourself to something. I think that if they took out the addicting elements in cigarettes, no one would smoke. A lot of smokers know it's bad and know it's gross, they just can't stop. It's the damn nicotine! Either that, or take the other 100 poisons out (ciragettes contain 101 differents poisons) and just have nicotine...it's less poisonous then.

[secondlina.livejournal.com]

That's very harry potter-ish. But it would work! I guess we need something obviously physical to affect them because something physical underneath their skin and something regarding society dosen't seem to change a damn thing in their opinion.

[secondlina.livejournal.com]

Oh, god lucky you...I wish I was in N.B.!