Smoking bans: Good or bad?

From the perspective of an ex-restaurant employee, I can tell you that the service industry folks will be really happy now that they don't have to cough their way through ever shift and come home smelling like shit. I wish they'd do it in my state, but that's probably never going to happen.

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Originally Posted by kinkymagic

It's a good thing, as long as they also ban fatty foods, alcohol and everything else that isn't good for you and annoys other people. If they don't do that then they are hypocrites.

Are you stupid? You do realize that fatty foods and alcohol only affect the person eating or drinking them, right? Smoking affects EVERYONE AROUND YOU.

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Ever got stuck behind a fat person? Ever heard of drink driving?

I've heard of drunk driving. Still doesn't apply, though.

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Look, we're not talking about the remote possibility that you might be killed by a drunk driver. We're talking about the fact that you are WITHOUT QUESTION affected in some way by the person sitting next to you in a restaurant blowing foul-smelling air your way.

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We're not talking about what causes more fatalities. You're reading too much into this. We're talking about how smoking directly affects other people in restaurants who aren't smoking. And how it affects them EVERY TIME they go into a restaurant or bar.

I was speaking idiomatically.

If those exist in your area (they don't in mine).

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I don't give a shit if smoking harms you permanently or not, to be honest. It makes my eyes burn and it smells like donkey ass on fire.

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Eleo, you could tell me that there isn't one single "documented" case to support the claim that smoking or breathing second-hand smoke is harmful to you, and it wouldn't matter. It's just plain common sense. You're inhaling smoke, tar and other chemicals into your lungs. There's no way that's not harmful.

Plus, it really does smell horrible and it makes many people sneeze, cough and suffer burning eyes.

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Originally Posted by Eleo

And like I said, then you'd need evidence that it's significantly harmful.

NO. What I'm saying is that this is a no-brainer. This is so common sense - you do NOT need evidence. When you inhale foreign substances into your lungs it cannot be good for you. I don't care about or need evidence for me to be convinced that smoking is harmful.

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Remember those ladies in the department stores who used to walk up and spray people with cologne before asking permission? Well guess what. Cosmetic counter employees are now subject to immediate termination for doing that. Why? Because it makes the "sprayee" fucking stink and the person holding the spray has NO RIGHT to inflict an unwanted substance or smell or anything else onto another human being. The same is true for cigarette smoke.

When I used to smoke I truly did not realize how much that crap makes you stink. I used to think that non-smokers were just making an issue out of nothing. But a year or so after I quit, my nose mysteriously started working again and I realized (with embarrassment) that people were telling the truth. The shit stinks to high heaven and makes you smell just...dirty. I don't choose to smell like that anymore and no one has the right to make me. I shouldn't have to walk through a cloud of cheap cologne just because I'm in the mall, and I shouldn't have to walk through a cloud of putrid, noxious smoke to get into my building every morning and have that stench wafting off of my hair for the rest of the day.

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Originally Posted by Eleo

I'm sorry, but cigarette smoke simply does not stick to you so easily or so permanently, especially if you're outside and merely walking through it. The only time I've ever had smoke stick to me was while smoking indoors. If what you said were the case, a substantial number of people inside any given building would smell like cigarette smoke regularly, because there's almost always someone or another outside of a building smoking.

Eleo, I don't want to turn this into a racial thing, but you're black. White people have extremely porous hair. Don't tell me you've never heard any black people say that white people smell like wet dogs when they get wet. There's even a book called, "Why Do White People Smell Like Wet Dogs When They Come Out of the Rain?" It's basically a book that explains black and white stereotypes.

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My point is that white people - ESPECIALLY white people with naturally blonde or red hair - pick up smells and hold them. If I go into a pizza restaurant, for example, I'll smell like pizza until I take a shower. Cigarette smoke clings to me. If I walk through a cloud of it in the morning, I'll still smell it in my hair that night, and not just faintly, either.

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