midiman
Aquarium Advice FINatic
I was a smoker in high school, because, like all smokers believe at first, it was cool. (Why else would a thinking being deliberately inhale the smoke from burning leaves??)
After I didn't need to be cool any more, I did what it took to quit. Quitting isn't easy, but neither is watching someone die from lung cancer. Being "difficult" is not an excuse. People need to take responsibility and make hard choices (of course with the example set by our govt leadership, it's not surpirising that people want everyone to accomodate their wishes, rather than take responsibility for their own actions.)
As for child endangerment... The other day I saw a woman get out of a car with two kids. She had a cigarette in her mouth. Here in NY, it was 8 degrees.
Yes, that's child endangerment, and yes, it SHOULD be a serious charge. What would you say if she had OFFERED her kids cigarettes? It's the same thing. The slap missing from that picture was not from my hand, but from her face!! (Ouch)
And my point about self-centeredness was not exclusively directed on behalf of workers in bars, etc. It was a GENERAL statement about the gall of people who think they somehow have the "right" to blow poisonous smoke into the air whenever they feel like it. As I said, they have as much of a "right" to smoke as I do to light an incense stick. Tell me how they're different, if you don't agree.
My uncle Onofrio, an 82 year old Italian American navy vet, man of few (often earthy) words, and former smoker, who has a lot less need for political correctness than you or I might, has the following response when someone asks if he minds if they smoke:
He says "Do you mind if I fart?" I think that about sums up the difference between what may be a "right" vs what is actually "right" in terms of public behavior.
After I didn't need to be cool any more, I did what it took to quit. Quitting isn't easy, but neither is watching someone die from lung cancer. Being "difficult" is not an excuse. People need to take responsibility and make hard choices (of course with the example set by our govt leadership, it's not surpirising that people want everyone to accomodate their wishes, rather than take responsibility for their own actions.)
As for child endangerment... The other day I saw a woman get out of a car with two kids. She had a cigarette in her mouth. Here in NY, it was 8 degrees.
Yes, that's child endangerment, and yes, it SHOULD be a serious charge. What would you say if she had OFFERED her kids cigarettes? It's the same thing. The slap missing from that picture was not from my hand, but from her face!! (Ouch)
And my point about self-centeredness was not exclusively directed on behalf of workers in bars, etc. It was a GENERAL statement about the gall of people who think they somehow have the "right" to blow poisonous smoke into the air whenever they feel like it. As I said, they have as much of a "right" to smoke as I do to light an incense stick. Tell me how they're different, if you don't agree.
My uncle Onofrio, an 82 year old Italian American navy vet, man of few (often earthy) words, and former smoker, who has a lot less need for political correctness than you or I might, has the following response when someone asks if he minds if they smoke:
He says "Do you mind if I fart?" I think that about sums up the difference between what may be a "right" vs what is actually "right" in terms of public behavior.