Fair point, but then again cars have a use value. If cars were banned people wouldn't be able to do important things like get to work, pick up groceries, take loved ones to the hospital, commit drive-by shootings, and conceive unwanted children. Cigarette smoking is purely a pleasure. If my pleasures impede your pleasures, mine should be curbed first. What you wrote about going outside is exactly right: smokers can adapt. What you wrote about leaving the club is also true: non-smokers should be able to know when certain situations demand that they leave.
ban cars?
nope, but as long as the 'leading edge' of the 'DEVELOPED WORLD'
ie, your average fat, stupid lazy American
is pre-occupied with their environment ONLY when something annoys them
LIKE SMOKERS
we will all continue to drown in air filled with an ever more vast amount unnatural particulates in what we breathe
however, since most of these toxins are odorless i do not expect people here to ever care
PS: for the record though
i believe that part of the backlash against smokers is justified in that
it is a manifestation of people's, frequently unconscious, ire @ the growing decline in civility
i myself have almost never not asked someone who i was talking to, (
or otherwise in close proximity to) if they minded if i smoked
as a matter of fact
when i lived with a non-smoker, i smoked outside and not in her car as well
but i use to know many smokers that acted much more thoughtlessly than i when it came to when and where to smoke
see, its really SIMPLE
if you are smoking and someone asks you to stop
do so
but no
i understand
thats not gonna happen because too many smokers have now become too
INSECURE ABOUT THEIR RIGHT TO SMOKE
& too many people that want to ask someone to stop smoking are oft too meek to do so
so instead we get LAWS
NOT civility
how pathetic!
