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^If second-hand smoke is your biggest hardship in life you might want to learn about something called "history", focus on the middle-ages and learn about some of the things that transpired during that time.
I think people often forget that there is only a link between cigarette smoking and related health problems. That seems accurate given the number of smokers i've known (myself included) who have never suffered a single smoking-related health problem. My best friend smoked 2-3 packs a day for 30 years and is actually in fairly good health so I would really like to see some stats on second-hand smoke because that link becomes a lot blurrier than even smokers who often don't experience health problems in spite of all the propaganda about how dangerous smoking is. I really hope the slippery slope we are all sliding down towards laws for everything stops really soon.
Except for spicy food. I wouldn't be upset if parliament enacted laws banning spicy food.
I was going to write agreeing with you...until you asked for a law banning spicey food, then I was getting lynch mob set together to go after you.
As with some others on here, I'm getting sick of this agrument, if you want to live in a world where the government controls everything, I hear China and Cuba might be choice destinations, in the meantime, if the worst thing in you're life is whining and complaining about second hand tobacco smoke, why don't you take a trip down to east hastings and spend half the energy and thought that goes into the anti-tobacco crusade and go help some of those people, or maybe go head down to Africa...be thankful you live in the country that you do. We don't always get what we want, thats the biggest problem with our generation, and the ones that are coming out now, they forget the hard times (which maybe we're coming into...or rather are in...) and seem to think they entitled to a perfect world.
Well I'll tell you what... I find the ladies who wear excessive perfume to be offensive (it on occasions will put me into a sneezing fit or cause my airways to constrict), as do i find the fumes from taxi's idling offensive (hello global waing...), I find the smell on people with bad b/o offensive (its called anti-perspirant...), I find the smell of patchuli offensive (I don't live on a commune...), I find the numerous smells in apartment buildings offensive (pot smoke, cooking, bo, mould, years of neglect etc...), i find the immigrants that come into this country that cannot abide by our laws offensive (gang war far, driving like you are in bangkok, tax evasion etc etc etc), but you don't see me devoting my life, time or energy into inacting laws to control everything I don't like in this life.
I accept the fact I live in a diverse, multi-cultural country with many problems that over time will work themselves and integrate into society, I accept the fact that individuals are entitled to their own choices, and I do not wish to see the government try to place any more control on my life, than they already do. If you don't like the smells, and perils of big city life, or living near humans, than I suggest you buy some land in timbucktoo and move out there so you can live free of all the worlds harmful toxins and smells.
(ohhhh yeah, if you don't like walking through a cloud of smoke, cross the street, if you don't like staring at cig butts, don't look at the ground (ps. I find mcdonaldsand other fast food garbage far more offensive that tobacco products on the ground...) I also find bright colors on houses offensive, as do I crappy architecture...but GUESS WHAT? Life ain't perfect, stop you're whining and griping, be THANKFUL we live in the country we do, and if you breathe in a few breathes of smoke now and again suck it up, because I don't like breathing in you're bo, perfume, idling exhaust etc...and YES this is the right topic for this rant, because, it relates directly to how RIDICULOUS this entire topic of more and more control on our lives via tobacco and liquor laws is...
