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Smokers

It is hard on smokers nowadays anyway.

In Oklahoma, where I am now, smoking is not allowed in any restaurant anywhere in the state.

In the Texas city I live in, smoking is not allowed in any public place nor is it allowed in most of the cities near me.

Finding a hotel where smoking rooms are available is difficult too.

I hear people screaming all the time about making it illegal for people to smoke in their own homes or cars if children are near them.

Cigarettes are outrageously taxed.

Considering how many people are nuts about smokers, it just surprises me his smoking habit isn't a big deal to the non-smoking bitches.
 
As long as it's not effecting his judgment, then I really couldn't care.

It's ridiculous trying to make a law to ban smoking in an individual's home. How is that enforceable at all?
 
Many Americans aren't satisfied with the control they exert over their own property. They wish to exert control over other people's property too. They tattletale on their neighbors about "code" infractions like leaving the recycle bucket on the curb too long. They call them "Code Rangers" in my city. I call them Nazis. These are the same kind of people who would police what other people do inside their homes.
 
Cacophony said:
As long as it's not effecting his judgment, then I really couldn't care.

It's ridiculous trying to make a law to ban smoking in an individual's home. How is that enforceable at all?
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It's what Huckabee wanted to do. I'm sure someone who's already rich would get richer from selling smoke detectors resembling Geiger counters to the police, who could arrest you for detecting any unauthorized particles.

Obama, eh? Anyone who makes an issue out of that personal habit of his shouldn't be allowed to vote in the first place.
 
Obama smokes? So what?

In Vermont, clean indoor air is heavily regulated. You may not be aware of this but restaurant and bar workers used to have the highest incidence of lung cancer in the population, statistically.

I quit playing in bands as a result of the cigarette smoke I would inhale. It's different now, and pretty much the only place you can smoke legally now in Vermont is in your car, your home or in public.

I agree with this, despite the fact that I was a two pack a day cigarette smoker up until I was 32.
 
eloisel said:
Many Americans aren't satisfied with the control they exert over their own property. They wish to exert control over other people's property too. They tattletale on their neighbors about "code" infractions like leaving the recycle bucket on the curb too long. They call them "Code Rangers" in my city. I call them Nazis. These are the same kind of people who would police what other people do inside their homes.
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In Minnesota, Gov. Plenty (Pawlenty) proposed a state wide smoking ban.

And succeeded with the help of his conservative henchmen in the state senate.

And before his election in 2003, he campaigned on a "No new taxes" platform. He won, and then to balance the state budget, he imposed a .75 cent "health impact fee" on the sale of tobacco products.

If Jeb never runs for President, I expect Gov. Plenty will make one hell of a future republican candidate.
 
My state banned smoking years ago, we are used to it now. I just smoke less and buy my shit from indians.

Business owners like it, less mess, painting, heath problems with staff,,, the better folks have put up areas outside for smokers. ( can you say BURN A BOWL ? :y_yes:)

It works out great..
 
Still, it surprises me that the anti-smoking nuts aren't just bitching up a storm about him smoking. Completely opposite - nobody is talking about it, if the subject is raised it is quickly swept under the rug, excused, no big deal. I think it would be very different if it were Bush or even Hilary.
 
Gee, no wonder Barack Hussein Obama wants universal health care. So his smokin' buddies will get free chemo and emphysema treatments!
 
I've been "can't smoke" for 6 weeks now. I'm surviving it better than I thought I would. I think I went thru the nicotine withdrawls the first and second week when I was so sick I thought I was going to die anyway so I missed that. Haven't had to use my fake cigarette in about a week now too. Surprising that as this past weekend. Can't smoke in restaurants in Oklahoma so all the smokers go to the lakes and the rivers - where I go on the holidays. There were smokers to the left of me, smokers to the right - yahooo!
 
Colonel Kira's Left Tit said:
I thought Obama quit smoking (or so he says)?

Anyway, no, I don't care if he or anyone else smokes or not, nor do I care where they smoke.
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I read he was attempting to quit - on Nicorette. Apparently that was about a year ago when he didn't want the photographers following him on the campaign trail to photograph him smoking. First, he said he wasn't a heavy smoker, then he said he was a 2 pack a day smoker.

Tobacco is a legal substance in this country, as is smoking it. No one should have to hide their smoking habit from anybody or apologise to anyone because they smoke. It is a legal activity. If someone wants to quit smoking because it is the right thing for them to do, then fine. However, if Obama is quitting smoking because of the GD anti-smoking nut bags, then he is too weak to be a leader.

Anti-smokers have been attacking smokers for decades and depriving smokers of the use of public places and work places to smoke for some time. Tobacco is hugely taxed to pay for programs that have nothing to do with smoking. I'm seeing taxation without representation.

I still think that the die hard anti-smoking groups aren't attacking Obama about his smoking because he is black - because if he weren't you know they'd be screaming his 2nd hand smoke is going to kill us all and he has kids and is endangering their health, yada, yada, yada. If he becomes president, is that how it is going to be? I can't say anything about anything wrong he does because if I do it will mean I'm a racist? I'll be thrown in jail and charged with a hate crime?
 
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