Why do NON SMOKERS look at SMOKERS as if they are pariahs?????
 

Pariah = Outcast


Anyways why they look at you like your a freak? Why cant i light up in a restaurant as i take a bite out of a juicy steak?

Why cant i light up at a bar as i swirl down a cold frothy beer?

Grandpa Juicy (God Rest His Soul) lived to the age of 84 , smoked 2 packs per day and drank vodka like it was water.

I long for the day i can walk into the bathroom with a cig in my mouth and one hand on my cock as i take a piss.....

I long for the day I can walk through the Mall with a cig in my mouth as i buy my latest club shirts!!!!!!

I miss the days when smokes where $2 a pack!!!!!!!

Preach on brother Juicy :thumbsup

They know you are going to die and they just feel sorry for you :thumbsup

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preach it brotha.

I don't get it either man

and oh yeah, here where I live in Goergia, smoke are usually around $2.30 a pack, $19 a carton

Because you're stinkin' up the place.

When they banned smoking shit in NY i cried for 3 days!!!!!!!!!

I long for the day i can walk into a rest and the chick asks me smoking or non smoking sir!!!!!!!!!!

proper ventialtion and smoke filters solve that issue.

everyone is going to die

for every 10 people that smoked and got lung cancer, i can show you 10 people that didn't smoke and got another form of cancer

for every 10 people that smoked and died early, I can show you 10 people that lived to be 90 and smoked 2 packs a day

I have no problem with people that smoke. I have a problem with people that stink like a smoker.

ANyway. smokers will leave a lot more room on the plante, because most of them die young.

they banned smoking in a county here in georgia, but did it in a creative way

if you allow anyone under 18 into your business, you can't allow smoking....if your business is 18 and up, you can allow smoking

Juicy. Move to texas. they still allow it.

Heh, I feel sorry for people because they are addicted to spending that much money just to make themselves unhealthy.

yea you can wear a 6 shooter there too.. that's why I'm moving out there.

True :thumbsup

uh... no. I've never ever come across "proper ventilation" to get rid of the stench of a smoker 10 feet away from you.

come to georgia, the gun laws here are almost non-existant...we are central to everything...and they don't ban our personal liberties

the backwoods of georgia is pretty fucked up, but around Atlanta it is one of the most liberal places you will ever live

Georgia is too cold and I'm buying in Texas because it's cheap as shit.

they only look at you as a pariah till they've had a couple cocktails and want to bum one of your cigarettes lol

Gone are the days that I ask anyone for a drag.

Remember the days when it was the other way around... people looked down on the ones that didn't smoke, smokers are gradually being pushed out :disgust

drugs are bad.....mkay

I quit smoking 4 years ago. It's amazing what you notice when your sense of smell returns.

haha, yeah, this 65F winter we are having is killing me...LOL

maybe i dont want your fucking smoke in my face, i cannot stand smokers, most of my friends are smokers and i cannot stand it, cigarettes taste like shit and you look like a fag frenchmen lighting one up, get a cigar or a joint SOMETHING WITH FLAVOR.


you are an outcast as a smoker, YES LETS LET PEOPLE WHO HAVE NO WILL POWER BURN UP MY LUNGS!

why cant i take a big piss on someone while they are eating a steak? nothing worse then having some bald looking weirdo blowing smoke everywhere as i am trying to enjoy my food.

because they are??

Growing up my mother smoke. Now 3 of her children including me have asthma.

Growing up when we went grocery shopping my mother and many others would smoke in the store dropping their butts on the ground and putting them out there. This was something everybody did.

Growing up when we went out to eat the non-smoking section was the smallest and one of the worst locations inside most places. I can't recall how many times we got situation by the swinging kitchen doors.
Not to mention the 1/4 inch glass partitions that seperated our booth from the smoking section really did a fantastic job.

Growing up, becauuse my mother smoked I stunk all the time. I just never noticed it until my parents got divorced and we lived with my dad.
If smokers only realised how awful they smell, I think that alone might make them reconsider the habit.

Sorry if I don't share your concern for smokers. I'm a "morbidly obese" man. But my weight doesn't cause you health issues, you won't see me dripping body fat into the curbs on your street when I'm at a red light.
My weight won't make you smell as you try to walk through all the fat guys surrounding the entrance to the no smoking building.

All in all, my weight doesn't do shit to anyone but me.

I don't think they should swing the pendulum so far in the other direction making people who smoke suffer. But I don't think public places should be a smoke zone.

I live in Vegas where everyone gambles, drinks and smokes. I go to a gas station and they have slot machines there. And I have to sit in a line with people smoking 10 inches away from me just so I can pay for my gas.

I just don't think you should have that right.

Property owners do have rights to do as they seem fit with their own property, but then the city makes zoning laws to regulate health and safety all the time, so I don't see how this could be different.

Quit taking away my choice to breathe clean air when I'm only a foot away from you.

Now when I go into a real casino, a nightclub etc. A place that I expect there to be cigarette smoking. I can't complain. I have made the choice to be there so I can't bitch.

Anyway I'm not concerned about people's "right" to smoke in general. You have plenty of opportunity to smoke in allowed areas and if there is anything in life that you can't wait 30 minutes to an hour to do then I think you have to reevaluate how much control that thing has in your life.

because it stinks like shit if you are not around it that much, and it is bad for my health!

the reports that were issued a while ago about second hand smoke are false, they have disproved them a while ago

and also, you are all right with cigar smoke but not cigarette? seems wierd..flavor or not, smoke is smoke, and it all smells like shit on clothes

I'm a non-smoker but I have coincidentally dated smokers my entire life. I don't treat smokers like pariahs, they're just people who enjoy a habit. Lord knows I have my own habits.

My only rule is that there is no smoking in the house because I do not want my house to smell like stale tobacco and I don't think I should be forced to inhale secondhand smoke and put my health at risk just to accomodate my sweetheart's habit. It's an amicable compromise.

Life is too short to be so anal about everything!

this is why I love the way Georgia is doing the non-smoking thing...if you run a business that allows anyone under 18 you can't have smoking...if your business is 18+, you can have smoking...i think it is a perfect solution

lol lol, if you dont think second hand smoke doesnt do anything then there i no convincing you, you are inhalinng ash, i can def. tell a difference in my lungs when i am around smokers.


i am just sayin cigarettes suck, they taste + smell like shit, at least a cigar haas some flavor, i am just saying smoking is retarted and should be banned everywhere indoors.

I personally can't wait till the smoking ban comes into full force in Scotland. March 26th it happens and man its gonna be good.

I have nothing against smokers, they can't help it, its an addiction. I just don't like it.

Why I personally think smoking should be illegal everywhere but your own home...

- When you are around smokers, it is YOUR job to keep your clothing away from the cigarette in their hand.

- When they borrow your car, they leave burn marks on the door where they flick the ashes out the window.

- They litter the sidewalks with them. States need to do an "all smokers littering citation" in the form of a very large, but temporary tax as punishment.

- Non smoking sections of restaurants are ALWAYS the worse places to sit.

- When you are going out to eat with more than one smoker and the restaurant turns out to be non-smoking, you have to leave and find another after they gang up on you.

- If you are in the car with 3 or 4 smokers, every one of them will light up without giving a damn about the non-smoker.

I just find smokers to be very, very rude people. The rate of rude people among smokers is much greater than non-smokers.

smokers are disgusting, you have the right to smell like shit, just don't blow your smoke anywhere near me.

I hate breathing 2nd hand smoke from people in cars in front or when you're walking or in clubs. And if I'm with my little kid it really pisses me off to no end if the stinking smoke blows near his face.

Fuck that. You wanna kill your lungs, be my guest and go out to the mountains or in your house and do it. Everywhere you look you see stinking smoke butts on the ground in the street, flicked out car windows.

Why should I and my family have to endure pulluted poisoned air getting into my lungs?

Smokers want to smoke. Fine no problem. That's your legal right. But I have the right to have and enjoy my air clean and fresh in public places.

Smoking and cigs should be banned and made illegal. That'll never happen in my lifetime, but each year its getting closer and closer to the day when we'll be smoke free everywhere in any public setting. And I relish the day!

i don't have a clean, safe "smoking gallery" where I can get instant free medical assistance if I damage myself while feeding my addiction.
I don't have a free "butt exchange."
I don't have free "weening off" substances similar to methadone.
The substance I'm addicted to is legal.
I am denied medical treatment because of my legal addiction.
I pay tax when I purchase my legal substance of addiction.
I am discriminated against because of my legal addiction.
I am persecuted because of my legal addiction.
I don't resort to criminal activities to support my legal addiction.
You can step on one of my discarded butts at the beach without contracting AIDS.

In a world where smokers are treated worse than smackies, I should have taken up heroin instead.
Get your priorities right.

keep healthy , eat right die anyway

the way the anti smoking shit goes on , its makes it sound like non-smokers don't die

it does not take a general practitioner to understand that all the diseases attributed to tobacco are multifactorial, often with hundreds if not thousandsof different causes which interact differently in every single human in function of hundreds of ever-changing variables.

Another complication is that all the diseases attributed to tobacco also occur in non smokers. It is therefore clear that it is impossible for multifactorial epidemiology to confidently isolate single co-factors such as primary or passive tobacco smoke exposure; thus, it is impossible to quantify the contribution (if any at all) of tobacco in a death or disease

in this modern world that we live in , where the factories, cars, pump out all sorts of fumes , even the brakes on cars were/are made of asbestos , when you hit the brakes asbestos dust falls to road , sure it might not be much , but get into a busy road , a gust of wind all that asbestos gets carried around

You can find a report to dispell any rumor. For every 3 negative reports on something, there are 3 positives. Everybody will find a way to prove what they want to belueve to another person.

All I know is this:
#1. My grandfather who was a non-smoker was a musician in Vegas. He played in smokey rooms for 30+ years, and came home to my grandma that smoked. He died from lung cancer (doctor told him he had the lungs of a smoker).

#2. I grew up in my grandparents home. i had chronic asthma and was hospitalized with croup every 3 months. Once my grandmother passed away, I never had another problem with my Asthma ever again...Until....

#3. Last Internext I was hanging around with friends who are chain smokers. AFter the convention ended, I was home coughing up blood for 3 days. My lungs were severely irritated.

#4. Smopkers can't smell smoke, but non-smokers can. I have a pair of jeans in my hamper that smelled up my closet so bad with smoke, that the scent attached to several other pieces of clothing that needed to be washed as well.

#5. If I need to piss, I won't do it in your food. If I want to eat, i shouldn't have smoke in my face making me want to leave immediatly.

#6. Smokers in work environments are often less productive. How many times do you see smokers taking "smoke breaks"? Non smokers only get breaks to piss and eat. Each cig takes 10 mins and the avg. smoker takes 1 break an hour. in an 8 hour day, thats an hour and 20 minutes wasted. A lot of people take up smoking just for this reason.

I have no problem with smokers who do it on their own time. If you want to smoke in your own home, do it. If you smoke outdoors away from me, thats fine. I just don't like a person's bad habbit imposed on myself, or other non smokers. I want my right to smell like I showered... I want my right to breathe clean air... I want my right to talk to a person without that person blowing smoke in my face.

You want the real answer in the short version?
It's human nature for societies to look down on, marginalize, and oppress groups of people. It's a basic need for the society's self-image, and some would believe, the society's survival.
That need was satisfied for centuries by oppressing other races, ethnic groups, women, etc.
Since that's no longer possible (except in closed company, which doesn't meet society's greater need), society needs to find other types of groups to look down on and oppress. The first group selected (because it was easy, and there's big money in it for attorneys and others) was smokers - the only more obvious choice was drinkers, but because of the failed Prohibition experiment that wasn't a well anyone could go to again.
Once that mission is accomplished (despite the obvious inconsistencies in the arguments - as Jace said, the second hand smoke arguments have been disproven scientifically several times, including in one study by the World Health Organization) - look out, fast-food eaters.
(If the goal was really to co-exist while "protecting society's health" or "protecting the children" - the obvious solution would be in the first case, to allow businesses to designate themselves as smoking or non-smoking venues, and let the market take care of the rest. In the second case, the example cited in Georgia makes perfect sense. But the goal isn't to coexist. The goal is to impose a larger group's will on a smaller group.
That's the way it's always been, and the way it always will be.

I am a smoker, and I actually agree with every single thing you said....
I am pretty concious of the people around me, and if someone is uncomfortable with my smoking, I will leave and smoke elsewhere.....except in bars, if you go out to bars/clubs and expect there to be non-smoking, you are in the wrong place ;)

So you're saying that since there are natural pollutants out there, we might as well add more toxins to our lungs that could easilly be controlled by NOT lighting up a stick of tar?

Cool.. there is a flu outbreak in Vegas. I'll as a sick person to spit into a cup and I'll drink it since I'll probably get the flu anyways! :1orglaugh

People look at smokers as pariahs because smokers are pariahs. Thats all there is to it. If you want to kill yourself at least do it efficiently and without making ME sick.

None of your business what I do to myself, if you don't want to breath the same air, go somewhere else, don't sit outside in the restaurants where I get to smoke after I eat, sit inside and don't complain.

itz cuz we are better than you.

Seriously, is it really THAT difficult to go into a designated area to smoke your cigarette?

Bars and clubs, sure non-smokers can stay away from those. We can't, however, stay away from department stores, grocery stores, office buildings, schools, work environments, or any other regular facet of everyday life.

If you want to smoke, go ahead. But at least have the decency to understand why nobody else wants to be around that filth.

What a joke. So now *I* have to go away if I dont want to be smoked by your shit?

It would be none of my business what you do to yourself IF your death didnt cost me anything. However smoking is a huge waste of direly needed public money, resources, manpower, and infrastructure. Just as I fully support legislation to outlaw assault weapons, I also support every candidate who is in favor of placing more restrictions on smoking and smokers.

Overhere in Europe people are more relaxed about it. If I can't smoke in a place I will just leave. Never had someone looking angry at me because I was smoking. Anyway the last few years I only smoke about 8 or 9 cigarettes a day and I'm planning to stop in a few years from now. I don't drink and I hate drunk people so I can imagine if a person doesn't smoke he could hate the smell of smoke.
Ow yes in the USA they are very fanatic about how bad smoking is but they are eating tons of steaks and burgers from their barbeque and tons of unhealty things wich gives them cholesterol etc...
I recent study was made about worldwide health and showed Europeans live longer then Americans even when Europeans are smoking way more.

Smoking in restaurants is banned here as well but you can still smoke in bars, even I as a smoker wouldn't like to get smoke in my face when I'm eating so I'm ok with that rule.

LOL I dont eat meat either and watch my cholesterol and run and generally take good care of my health. Nice try :)

Yes but do you run in smoggy NY or somewhere on the country where the air is fresh and clean. Do you sit in an airco office all day long etc....
It's very difficult to maintain a healthy lifestyle but it's worth it.
I like meat, I like marlboro, I like cola but I try not to push it, even when I'm 28 I'm looking out for my health because it's so important. But I think it's best not to be to fanatic about it. I know this American lady, she gets :mad: if you light a cigarette in her home.