Smoking
Smoking kills. Ban smoking at all working places. I have an area where people smoke and it is littered with cigarette butts. When will people learn to properly extinguish your cigarettes.
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Don't try to lump all smokers in with the bunch that don't put out their cigarettes. Otherwise I might as well call all christians pedophiles and rapists. Fair is fair right?
Posted by Larry on June 29, 2007 03:19 PMOh no. Somebody somewhere did something stupid! Now we need to pass more laws in a completely reactionary fashion.
After all, once we banned lawn darts, no children were ever killed again.
Posted by MM on June 29, 2007 08:33 PMBan children in restaurants. They are FAR more offensive than smoke.
Posted by clyde on June 29, 2007 11:01 PMHey guy and girls, I've got an idea. Let's all call the Legislators in the house and senate, set a meeting up, then invite zealots of every stripe so a list of things that violate zealot's personal preferences can be compiled and presented as bills next legislative session. That way they can get everything banned at one time.
But wait, maybe not. I forgot about all the exemptions and the ensuing arguments payed for by the representatives of various business interests. This could get complicated far beyond the point of when the exemptions were granted in the smoking ban legislation. Just think about it, the SPCA, NCAA, NASCAR, MADD,NAACP, VFW, American Legion, FAA, conservation associations, NASA, hell even the AAGCMTTW; the American Association of Gay Midget Communist Tag Team Wretlers, would get in on the deal. You think I exaggerate, not hardly. I know the behind the scenes, under the table, deals that were cut for Cigar Bars and the lounge at DIA and casinos,%25 hotel rooms etc. This would take gazillions more time to work out. NO, it's a bad idea. I didn't think enough about it to the end results, just like the legislators did on the smoking ban law, let's just allow the zealots to destroy freedom inch by inch as they have been doing, under the table, all along.
Posted by Allen Campbell on June 30, 2007 06:48 AMCan't you see it is imperative that we punish society for those who are not able to be responsible for thier actions.
Posted by [boarder] on June 30, 2007 06:55 AMMaybe if the person who didn't put out the cigarette had been allowed to smoke inside the building, perhaps in the break room, the fire would never have happened.
Posted by momma y on June 30, 2007 11:24 PMLeroy, for all your obvious and heart felt caring about lives lost due to stupidity, which I agree with, you fail to mention all the, other than smoking, stupid things that cause loss of life: people driving while eating, reading, putting a new disc in the player, talking on a cell phone, not using their turn signals until they are already in the process of turning and ignoring stop signs and lights and hitting people and vehicles while preoccupied by these stupid uncaring selfish endeavors.
Ever done any of these things Leroy? People have the bad, stupid habit of pointing out the failures of others who indulge in stupid things they themselves don't indulge in while ignoring the stupid things they do indulge in. The list goes on ad nauseam.
By the way, did you know that there are at least nine indoor air quality cancerous constituencies that are six to eight time more dangerous than second hand smoke that you are exposed to every day. You will never hear tobacco control advocates mention that but, it is verifyed by indoor air quality studies that the same tobacco control advocates funded to justify an up to 60% reduction in ventilation of indoor air in workplaces with the cooperation of ASHREA, the air quality representative association that set this standard.
Why did they do this?, Well, is it not obvious that when they then retested the air quality under the new standard it would provide them with evidence that second hand smoke could not be removed by ventilation equipment.
I'm sure you will agree that by reducing the ventilation standard, tobacco control actually placed the workers they claim need protection from secondhand smoke in increased jeopardy of that constituent as well as the nine others that are, by a factor of nine, greatly more dangerous than secondhand smoke. Rest assured, these truths will be proven in a very short time.
Posted by Allen Campbell on July 1, 2007 07:58 AM