So, the Smoking Ban Passed in Ohio
Another Plus for the NON Group
What's next? The freedom of speech? Are we all going to have to have our mouths stitched shut so we no longer say something that may offend?
As far as I am concerned there are much more dire things to be concerned about.
Years ago they took all the Liquor commercials off the TV, they were afraid it only drew the young into drinking. Have you noticed that they are back? They came back as soon as the cigarettes were banned from the TV. Hmm, when did anyone ever kill someone in a car accident from smoking a cigarette?
So, you say, well you are killing me with your second hand smoke, maybe but then again maybe not. I still have seen no actual proof.
My brother smoked most of his life. He made the Navy his profession. He was a Boilerman on a Destroyer. For 30 years he was in the Navy; not all those years was spent on ship, but the majority of them were, and when he retired he still worked on base as a Boilerman.
After a couple of years of that, he finally decided to call it quits and settle down for once in his life. He had just started enjoying doing what he had always loved to do, but it was very short lived, though, because he took a fall on his porch one day. He made it to the bed, where he stayed for a few days, until the ambulance took him away to the hospital. He never saw home again. He never got to enjoy much of his final retirement at all. He had cancer of the spine. The cause-asbestos, not the cigarettes; he chain smoked for years.
How many people work in factories? I would say more than you can count. What do you think they die of? Welding smoke, coolant mist, air arcing smoke, heat, no ventilation (not until recently), high heat furnaces, graphite dust, silicon spray, paint that when ground with a grinder gives off cyanide gas, not to mention chemical plants, which gives off hazardous materials. This is only to mention a small few. My husband worked around this stuff for 40 years, and now has COPD and guess what they blame for it… Cigarettes. They cant close all the factories down, and leave the majority of the working class without jobs, now can they?
Amazing. If someone farts crosswise they blame cigarettes. There are far too many things floating in our air that we breath. Not to mention the electrical currents buzzing around, and check out your cell phone that hangs on your ear every waking moment. Guess what that is going to do to you. Cancer. Yep.
When you get right down to it we are all doomed. Smokers, non-smokers, it don't matter. I prefer to go out whichever way the good Lord chooses for me to go, be it cancer, car accident, heart attack, sneezing to death, hoof in mouth disease it doesn't matter it has already been decided for me and it has for you too. Come what may.
Instead running other's lives, I think everyone needs to do a check on themselves. People get caught up in the non this and non that game; if someone wants to do something, there is no way that anyone can sway them to their way of thinking. We learn from childhood that we are all individuals. We know what is right for us, and we live by that, and I don't think any of us, when we are adults wants anyone telling us what we can and cant do. I don't know about you, but it makes me want to do it all that much more.
This is just a little food for thought; I think this is something we should all take a look at, before condemning anyone for smoking, look in your back yard, sniff the air, check out those transformers on the telephone poles near your home, there is something dangerously hazardous to our health no matter where we look. Like I said before, we are all doomed.
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19 Comments
Post a Commentall i got to say is this law is ridiculus. I remember one pro smoking ban commercial involving little kids in a bar. who lets minors hang out in bars? now, i could understand a smoking ban on family restruants, given an alternative like some places do with a patio for smoking. and what happened? smokers now croud the sidewalks outside businesses smoking. if anything this is just another smack in the face by those who feel they need the power over others lives. and its wrong. plain and simple.
I am ashamed to say that I live in Ohio. When that law passed I was so disappointed in the Ohioians. This law is so ridiculous, if we got rid of everything that personally offends us then where would we be? We live in america people there are alot of things that are killing us the pollution in our country is far more toxic than someone somking a cigg in the smoking section of a restaurant. So should we outlaw anything that contributes to pollution? I have never smoked a day in my life but I voted no because I believe in the whole free country thing but I guess im one of the few.
I'm not afraid that second smoke is killing me. I voted for the ban beacuse second hand smoke is annoying as hell.
Seriously, the argument that second hand smoke is harmful is really hogwash. These rediculous people think that being slightly exposed to a cigarette while in a bar - or worse, from across the restaurant, will cause them some harm.
Second hand smoke probably can hurt you, but its caused by white trash mothers that smoke in their trailers and expose their kids to it while they are growing up. I just can't rationally believe that smelling smoke, or being near it for 20 or 30 minutes in a restaurant (that is if you sit in the smoking section).
Banning a legal substance - that is for sale in almost every grocery, pharmacy and convenience store is ludicrous. Cigarettes are legal to purchase, and as far as I know, it is the only legal consumable you cannot do in public. Sure in some restaurants you cannot drink, but that is at the owner's discretion. If these establishments were really hurt by banning smoking the law of economics would have them stop. Why do we let owners
Amen to that Michael, I agree.
This law needs to be repealed. It's not about smoking, it's about freedom. We can have concealed weapons in Ohio but we can't smoke, at least not in any public place. What a joke. And the required signs. Murder is illegal too. Do we all need to post signs saying so and where to report. If the nonsmokers want a law that is fair to all parties, then let's pass one that requires any business allowing smoking to post a sign to that effect and that nonsmokers enter at their own choice and at their own risk. This could even require a state license (the state loves new revenue) and a state approved sign.
I too agree with the Article. It expreses my view also.
To pimpdaddy..anything goes in this day and age...might as well be drivers of orange cars too.
One thing that these non smokers, and non everything else needs to remember...one thing about life, you can't get out of it alive.
Let's pass a law banning people with green eyes too! They piss me off! I'm offended by people who drive Orange cars too! Can't we pass a law against people who drive those too? I'm Ok with orange cars by the way, I just hate their drivers. After all, this is America and the Constitution and the Bill or Rights doesn't say anything about protecting drivers of Orange cars. Can we get the Gestapo to enforce these laws?
There is nothing more relaxing than going out and having a few drinks and smoking to me it has always gone together..that choice is gone. I expect to see the good old alcohol sales to go up and everything else that comes along with it. They say they are doing this for our health, well that is just bullcrap, after all it was our wonderful government, Nixon to be exact who raised the speed limit on the highways so there would be more accidents, hence more deaths to control the population..and that is as close to the quote that I can remember. They don't give a rats*ss about our health, and besides our health is our own business, we should be able to do what is best for us as individuals..not what so called do goods say we should do. I myself am a very rebellious type of person. I feel that the Good Lord and me control my destiny not the government.