What should be done with smokers?

[November Adam]

Yep the second hand smoke has a health impact as well, as my asthma is directly related to second hand smoke. My parents smoke like chimneys, and I devloped asthma due to it. Now that I don't live there I have next to no problems with my asthma. I go out to their place I need to live off of the inhaler.

I think smokers should wear little glass bubbles over their head to contain their second hand smoke. This way they can enjoy the truely wonderful habit they have.

[Blackwidow24]

I am a smoker and I always ask..when in a crowd or place with others..if I may smoke..because if it bothers them or they have asthma or problems of that sort I will NOT smoke..it is polite to ask before you light up and always courteous not to if someone says they don't want have it around them. i have children and I do not smoke around my kids..I don not want them to develop any lung problems...I guess I am a responsible smoker only trying to kill myself and no one else around me!

[November Adam]

Kudos!

It's nice to know that there are nice people out there. Many non-smokers just get soured by the not so nice people.

[Blackwidow24]

Thanks..Yeah my exs dad would light up infront of my kids and his excuse would be IT's my house..WHAT A JERK..i would have to take my kids outside.... I guess i wouldn't want people to do it in front of my kids so I should carry the same respect..you can ask the Austin People..we did go out to eat...and I wanted a smoke..I asked if it was okay and they said sure and I asked again just to let them know I didn't mind waiting....

[Bugs ****ing Bunny]

You should be grateful for those of us who smoke in pubs. When we're around, you smell smoke.

When we're not around, you smell your fellow drinkers. They all smell of dead cats and biscuits. It's very nasty.

[Guynemer]

Originally posted by Drekkus


There's no problem in legalizing smoking dope. It's criminalizing ordinary smokers. I think it's now established that second hand smoke is as dangerous as eating a cookie.

It's "established"? Where the hell did you hear that? Jesse Helms?

[Bugs ****ing Bunny]

I love fanatical non-smokers. Particularly the ones who drive diesel cars. Now I never smoke around kids, but do diesel car drivers pump their carcinogenic fumes out past children? You bet your bum they do.

[Zoid]

Nobody wants to answer my question?

[Asher]

Originally posted by Kamrat X
Isn´t smoking banned in public buildings (bars, restaurangs, etc) all over the states? Or is it just California?

IIRC, it's based on the city. Every city has their own rules about it.

[Zoid]

OK, thanks! I friend of mine was over in the states (California) last year and he commented on this very subject. He is allergic to cigarett smoke so obviously he thought it was a good idea. I´m not allergic but I still find it discusting to go to pubs and such where you can´t see your hand in front of your face...

IMO Smoking should be banned in restaurants, cafés and such.

[Bugs ****ing Bunny]

Originally posted by Kamrat X
I´m not allergic but I still find it discusting to go to pubs and such where you can´t see your hand in front of your face...

Try opening your eyes.

[Thoth]

Originally posted by blackice
Smokers not only pay thier fair share they pay a portion of yours too. I think that is why they continue to sell an over the counter deadly drug to it's citizens. Unlike any other say diet pill, cigarettes continue to be sold and are unregulated. Name another deadly drug or substance that is still sold that is proven to kill, over the counter yet.

Alcohol.

[KrazyHorse]

Originally posted by blackice
Albertans have a higher cost of living than those in the Maritimes. In the most recent study of the Consumer Price Index, Statscan found that Alberta had a CPI of 114.6, higher than all PEI, Nova Scotia and New Brunswick which had CPIs of 109.4, 112 and 110.4. Considering these facts alone, Alberta's minimum wage should be at $6.10 for Albertan's working minimum wage jobs to enjoy the same standard of living as workers earning the same wage, for example, in PEI

The minimum wage is $6.90. What figure were you using for your min wage?

[Ramo]

Tobacco smoke gives me allergies and asthma, so cigarrettes tend to annoy me more than they do for most other people.

Isn´t smoking banned in public buildings (bars, restaurangs, etc) all over the states? Or is it just California?

Acutally, I'm fairly sure that this law is state-wide...

[Asher]

Originally posted by KrazyHorse
The minimum wage is $6.90. What figure were you using for your min wage?

$5.90. But there's so many jobs and not enough people so the lowest I know is $7 (McDonalds).

Or do you mean PEI's is $6.90?