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Smokers.

I was saying that earlier... heh.

Smokers.

Yeah, because I'm sure that's why you don't want us smoking...

And it's not like smokers are polluting the air, I mean if you think that smokers shouldn't smoke because we are making the entirety of Earth's air dirty, than why don't you just ban cars? Oh I see, because you use them.

Smokers.

Nonsmokers seem to think it's some kind of conspiracy against them. I don't remember the last time I smoked around someone in public, much less close enough to "take away their right to breathe." As a smoker, people should be courteous to nonsmokers, BUT as a nonsmoker, you should have the common sense to move if the smoker is too rude to do so. I hardly see how my smoking outside is taking away your breathe though, since it dissipates into the air with all the other crap. Really, when was the last time you weren't able to breathe because of a smoker? Were you in public when it happened? A bar? A place where smoking is common? I think smokers have just as much right to smoke in public places as non-smokers have to not be around it. There obviously should be a compromise, but separate sections just doesn't appease everyone. So what would you do, restrict smoker's rights to only smoking in their homes and cars?


Smokers have just as many rights as you do. Nonsmokers aren't automatically right just because they don't smoke.

And this is detailed in our bill of rights, right? Or it's detailed in laws mandating that nonsmokers have more rights that smokers, right?

Oh wait... that's right.
Nobody wants to be saved. It's a noble thought, but people will always resent being 'saved' by others.

Smokers.

Are you guys still whining about this bullshit? This thread is like a month old.

Shut up already!

Smokers.

That's because smokers are taking away our right to breathe and that's necessary to live. Smokers are babies because we are taking away their addiction...their so-called-security blanket. Take a blankey away from a child and he'll scream his head off. We non-smokers have more of a right to breathe than smokers have a right to dirty up the air we need to breathe. So for health's sake, non-smokers will fuss a lot because we need that air to breathe and for those that are compromised (asthma, etc...) they need it to live. Smokers bitch like crazy the minute any of us non-smokers threaten to take away their cancer sticks. God forbid we try to keep the smokers from getting sick themselves.

Smokers.

Now, I don't smoke, but my parents do, and I say all the more power to 'em.

All I hear lately is people saying all smokers are bad, and suck, and should die. No one here was that bad with it, but I've seen people harass my grandma for smoking. She's badass and Irish though, so she's always had something witty to say back to the anti-smoking propagandists.

I heard that people are trying to ban smoking in cars. WTF?! They say it's "distracting". If smoking in cars gets banned, so should talking to passengers, cell phones, pets, and kids in cars. It's seriously ridiculous. Not smoking in pubs is just as stupid. Second hand smoke is offending the bartenders? Again, wtf? If you want to work at a bar, than you should be able to put up with second-hand smoke. If you can't, than sorry we can't hire you.

And btw, in regards to the first few posts, it seems like the non-smokers are bitching even more than the smokers.

Smokers.

I was dumb kid who wanted to fit in (with friends and to be like my dad) when I started the age of 13-14. I'm regretting it now.
It used to cost me 5 quid a month, now sometimes that amount or more on a night out (

Smokers.

I agree with FlipTheState, I smoke but i have morals. When a 16 year old kid walks up to me and asks for a cigeret i dont give him one. I dont smoke in front of or around kids, or even indoors. I dont want to sound like a great person or anything, I just think i shouldn't be put in the same catigory as an asshole who wants to look cool.

Smokers.

Just as it's a smoker's right to smoke, it's also a non-smoker's right not to have to smoke. My only problem is people who are inconsiderate with it. i.e. lighting up when there's limited ventilation or kids around. Otherwise, I don't really give a shit if people smoke themselves to death.
Personally, I prefer an occassional cigar to a pack of cigarrettes a day, but that's just me.

Smokers.

jesus crist... those damn anti-smoking cults have gotten into your heads. It is our right to smoke. and do you think that we dont know what it is doing to our bodies, we know that we are killing our lungs and you dont have to shove it in our faces

i was gana quit but then i saw this and i saw how many people hate smokers, so im gana keep smoking just to piss people off! hooraa!