Did you know it's against the law to smoke in a car in California if there is a kid in the car with you? I don't smoke but I totally did not know about this law.

The City of Chicago outlawed smoking in its parks. They did not even make the littering argument (which is already illegal), instead, going straight for the health hazard to others argument. Despite being in a well ventilated area (outside) and 100 feet from anyone if caught you face a hefty fine. It is not really enforced though because the CPD has more important things to do.

This anti-smoking stuff has gotten to crazy silly levels. Come on. No smoking in bars (or for that matter any public establishment)?

Wonder when they will be banning cars on the streets surrounding the park.. cell phones and squalling crotch fruit in the park.. etc etc and on and on.

Nothing is worse than the "I'm allergic to smoke!" crowd.

OK, you may not like it. But allergies? Your body is creating excessive white blood cells because of cigarette smoke? No, it's an irritant and you may dislike it, but don't go around saying that it's going to make your windpipes close up and you'll have to bust out your epi-pen.

/quit smoking years ago
//but have no problem with smokers

I've got this under control guys....

fuzzycuffs: Nothing is worse than the "I'm allergic to smoke!" crowd.

It is a toss up in my mind with the fake cougher crowd. You know the type. They are five feet away from a someone smoking and give a fake cough. Whenever I witness that I want to punch their smug faces repeatedly.

Panty Sniffer: It is a toss up in my mind with the fake cougher crowd. You know the type. They are five feet away from a someone smoking and give a fake cough. Whenever I witness that I want to punch their smug faces repeatedly.

Saw an 11 month old do this around his dad when he was smoking. Damn children.

I shake my fist at planes because of their chem trails. I'm allergic, you see. RAAAAAAAAAAGE

ftfa:
"In other business, the aldermen:

l Gave an unofficial approval to purchase special keys to the city for the Hornell High School Red Raiders football team."

is hornell, ny a walled city?

The_Sponge: I highly doubt smokers are walking up to you and blowing smoke in your face.

I've had a smoker blow smoke in my face before. Granted most smokers aren't dicks like that.

I have lots of friends that smoke and they try as hard as they can to blow the smoke away from me... most of the other smokers I've come across do the same.

Only once has a smoker blown smoke in my face, and it was when there was a fire alarm during a dance at college. We all had to file outside into a very small area (because there was a bottleneck and people wouldn't move forward) and were waiting for the alarm to stop. There were 2 girls smoking right next to me, and so I asked them (very nicely, I promise) if she would please stop smoking or move further out of the group because I had been having some asthma problems that day the the friend I was with also had asthma. (smoking is a major trigger for my asthma)
The girl looked at me with a snotty face and blew smoke right in my face.

That was the first time and only time that I've ever had the urge to put out someone's cigarette in their eye... But, I didn't. I just left and made a mental note that if that girl ever needed my help with anything not to do it.

/still thinks there should be smoking areas.. but that one biatch can diaf

Ranger Joe: I'm more for "pee enforcement"...if you see someone smoking, you go pee on their cigarette.

Now that's just mean...



hee hee!

fuzzycuffs: Nothing is worse than the "I'm allergic to smoke!" crowd.

OK, you may not like it. But allergies? Your body is creating excessive white blood cells because of cigarette smoke? No, it's an irritant and you may dislike it, but don't go around saying that it's going to make your windpipes close up and you'll have to bust out your epi-pen.

/quit smoking years ago
//but have no problem with smokers

Smoking can be a trigger for asthma... "Secondhand smoke can trigger asthma episodes and increase the severity of attacks." from http://www.epa.gov/asthma/shs.html

/doesn't have a problem with most smokers either

you went to 'dances' in college?

is the photo in your profile of your granddaughter?

/i'll give you props if you can still do the lindy with your original hips.

DerekSD: you went to 'dances' in college?

is the photo in your profile of your granddaughter?

/i'll give you props if you can still do the lindy with your original hips.

I wish I could do lindy. I do swing. We did have dances in college... I graduated in 2008, it was called Vertigo and it was the engineering school's techno dance (not exactly a rave so I called it a dance).
/still has my original hips but I'm only 23
//grandma still has her original hips too just not her original knees or shoulder

Vala0128: DerekSD: you went to 'dances' in college?

is the photo in your profile of your granddaughter?

/i'll give you props if you can still do the lindy with your original hips.

I wish I could do lindy. I do swing. We did have dances in college... I graduated in 2008, it was called Vertigo and it was the engineering school's techno dance (not exactly a rave so I called it a dance).
/still hasve my original hips, but I'm only 23
//grandma still has her original hips too just not her original knees or shoulder

Vala0128: I had been having some asthma problems that day the the friend I was with also had asthma. (smoking is a major trigger for my asthma)
The girl looked at me with a snotty face and blew smoke right in my face.

So you had a pretty violent asthma attack from that, huh.

I disapprove of government encroachment into liberties. With that said, fark smokers.

My university has a smoking ban with "peer enforcement." Completely ineffective.

Yogimus: I disapprove of government encroachment into liberties. With that said, fark smokers.

I wish more people would.

/Okay, maybe it's not the smoking in my case.
//shut up

The tyranny of the majority is clearly demonstrated when smoking outside in a park is banned.

I'm wit Obama on this one...smoking is no big deal and makes you powerful and successful. I'll bet the little ones grow up to be Marlboro (wo)men like daddy!

GAT_00: Can we start charging smokers who just throw their butts on the ground for littering?

I thought we always could? In Cali you can get a ticket for throwing a butt out of a car window (or at least you could when i was ticketed for it) because it's a fire hazard. But this other stuff?

If you come into the city where I live from the southern interstate, you can see a dome shaped orange/yellow haze covering the area from several miles away. We have air advisories where people with asthma and other respiratory problems are warned about staying indoors. I'm just not that concerned about a few cigarettes worth of air pollution in a very well ventilated area like a park.

assmasacre: Vala0128: I had been having some asthma problems that day the the friend I was with also had asthma. (smoking is a major trigger for my asthma)
The girl looked at me with a snotty face and blew smoke right in my face.

So you had a pretty violent asthma attack from that, huh.

I wasn't going to mention that.. but I did have an asthma attack after she did that. It was a minor one, and I had my inhaler and had removed myself from the irritant... so I was fine. Had I not had my inhaler it could have been worse. Are you really trying to defend her?

Do you know who else discouraged smoking?

*insert Nazi anti-smoking propaganda poster*

/too lazy to find one myself

mrbumpy: I'm wit Obama on this one

::ctrl +F TFA and the thread for "Obama":::


wat

Plate of Crazy: My university has a smoking ban with "peer enforcement." Completely ineffective.

Let me guess... "No cigarettes - Bongs only"?

And what's the "peer appeal" process going to be like?

A broken jaw for busybodies who don't know better than to keep their mouth shut?

I farkin' roll how I roll.

Oh_Enough_Already: And what's the "peer appeal" process going to be like?

A broken jaw for busybodies who don't know better than to keep their mouth shut?

Yeah... I really don't get that part of it at all. At least give them a smoking section or something. Never leave it up to peers to reinforce.. that just lame.

Oh_Enough_Already: And what's the "peer appeal" process going to be like?

All we have to do is look at Dear Leader for guidance. The big "O" smokes 'em regularly so this a non-issue at best. Who is a better Peer Leader than the President?

Anytime I've ever been told that "smoking isn't allowed here, sir" while I was out freaking doors I simply reply "I am sure that you are correct."

My willful disobedience confuses them and the fact that I'm 6'2" and 250 dissuades them from trying to stop me.

There are a few things in this world I really detest.

Missionary born again christians, always trying to convert people around them.

Computer Zealots or who has to actively try to convert pagans to their hardware, OS and Software of choice.

Non-drinking people who believes that no other person in the world should be allowed to co-exist in a world where alcohol is used for anything but disinfection.

Non-smokers, or more specifically ex-smokers out on a crusade to have more people join their bleak existence of persistent biatching and whining to others.

Missionary vegetarians who want people to actively seek out protein deficiencies like they have, and start a life of smug sprout-eating in a holier than thou attitude only matched by Mac-users.


What these people have in common, is a desire to have others change their lifestyle to match their preferential choices through various forms of biatching, whining and false arguments about "health benefits/hazards" and "environment", when their agenda is simply a fascistoid control over what others should be allowed to do or not.

Peer enforcement works in the South and even works here in SoCal. I wouldn't expect it to work in the Northeast, though. People have a hardon for law and order up there.

I don't smoke but there reaches a point where almost any movement has gone too far and this crosses that point IMO.

If they're going to ban smoking then they have to ban barbecuing too because I seriously doubt your lungs can tell the difference between second-hand tobacco smoke and second-hand fat dripped on hot charcoal smoke. Your nose yes, lungs no.

l Approved two 15-minute parking spaces in front of Pizza King on Main Street.

Thanks Dad. That's all I need as I'm high when I visit on the holidays. You might not even need that many minutes. But while you're at it, about about 2 spots each in front of KFC and Taco Hell?

Cornwell: There are a few things in this world I really detest. *blah, blah, blah.

Well said. That is remarkably similar to the list of people I detest. I would Farky you if I had that installed on that computer.

relaxitsjustme: ...then they have to ban barbecuing too because I seriously doubt your lungs can tell the difference...

When people start smoking mobile BBQs out of their mouths, you may have a point.

mrbumpy: relaxitsjustme: ...then they have to ban barbecuing too because I seriously doubt your lungs can tell the difference...

When people start smoking mobile BBQs out of their mouths, you may have a point.

The ban is on smoking in public parks. Try to keep up