Smokers have rights too
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Smokers have rights too and I'm fed up with the way we are now seen as second class citizens. As you may know, smoking in Scotland has now been banned. We are all pushed outside with little facilities to shelter ourselves in. Non-smokers claimed that they had nowhere to go to because if they went into a pub they would die several years later because of the inconsiderate people around them. |
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Come on, it's not like it's a surprise that people are going to be smoking there. But this is not the worst part of it. No, it’s actually the government that I really want to have a gripe at. For example forcing this ban on local businesses, I don't see as fair at all! Who are they to interfere with how a person should run their own lives. Why not offer incentives to become no smoking venues, grants for better ventilation. I'm sure that the government could do this just by cutting down their spending in other areas. |
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The adverts they place on the TV portray people who smoke as penniless, clumsy lepers to be avoided at all costs. After all who would want to be around us smelly, grubby people? I feel that us smokers are the easy targets, after all it's easier to get votes by banning smoking rather than preventing knife or drug related crimes. Well, for all the non smokers out there here's my conclusion. I smoke and I like to smoke. I also know that it causes cancer, I am not stupid. Now we can live in a world where groups are segregated even more and we can all sit in pubs which smell of sweat, vomit and urine. Ah, the great country that is Scotland. By: ScubaSteve |
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Comments from visitors
And just to point one thing out. It isn't air you have to breathe it is air you choose to breathe. You're every bit as capable of moving as they are!
I was in a pub garden a couple of weeks ago in an area marked 'smoking area'. I had some person moan at me about my smoking and would I go elsewhere. I said no! It's their problem, not mine. I'm not smoking inside, I'm not smoking in the general vacinity of a non smoking area even. I accept that non-smokers don't want to breathe smoke filled air but they cannot claim a monopoly of all public places just because they don't partake.
I'm not accountable to you or anyone else, but all your assumptions are wrong, so get the thinking cap on and see if you can work it out.
This couldn't happen to you in the UK these days so you are either making reference to another country, hanging on to old issues from a few years back or, you're making it up!
Can you clarify which it is please?
Anonymous 2.0 - 8-Jun-11 16:32
REPOSTED TO CORRECT TYPOS
When I am seated near people breathing their filthy fumes over me I go over and point out politely to them that they are poisoning the air I have to breathe and the food I am eating. Quite often this does the trick. If they become obnoxious I ask them if they would mind if I stood and farted over their food whilst they eat.
When I am seated near people breathing their filthy fumes over me I go over and point out politely to them that they are stop poisoning the air I have to breath and the food I am eating. Quite often this does the trick. If they become obnoxious I ask them if they would mind if I stood and farted over their food whilst they eat.
"I probably enjoy s3x more than you enjoy smoking
As I don't scr3w in your office, I ask you not to smoke in mine."
In these more enlightened times, smoking in offices in most countries is no longer allowed.
Pinksugarmouse - 8-Jan-11 16:29
If you smoke, you most likely started smoking before you were at a legal age of consent. In other words you are a victim of an activity which should be criminal in a responsible society (distributing cigarettes).
Try to give it up because it's bad for you, you stink, your breath is rancid, your clothes smell like filth and you are hard to like this way. And you are going to die a vile death whereby you lose every shred of human dignity before you slowly go. Regrets...you'll have more than just a few.
Shaft the tobacco companies! - 14-Apr-10 13:48
I think for myself.
Britain does not let its citizens think for themselves.





