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[Tim Drayton]

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I think it is unreasonable to tar (snigger) all smokers with the same brush because a small minority abuse the rules...
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I am not doing that, but I think that smokers have to respect non-smokers rights, too. I only wish to find some sort of common sense solution that safeguards everybody's rights and freedoms. I absolutely will not tolerate any attacks on the hard-won rights of non-smokers to be protected, though.

[Tim Drayton]

I smoke in fact I am blowing smoke at the computer right now & enjoying it.
Actually I have been both a smoker & a non smoker & it has been my choice but I wouldn't dream of interfering with the choices of others. I wouldn't smoke anywhere I wasn't supposed to & if others do, it's their look out if they get caught.
As a non smoker, if I didn't like others smoking near me I could move away, or go somewhere else like sit next to the traffic & breath in all the car fumes! or the dust in the air! or go visit someone how continuously sprays fly killer & artificial air fresheners & breath those in.
You are obviously a wonderful law abiding citizen never did anything you shouldn't.
You don't smoke! and are obviously a very controlling person as you wish to control what others do.
My advice is get a life and go live on an uninhabited island.

I don't smoke and consider I have a perfect right to adopt a healthy life style, which means also not inhaling more than a tiny amount of second-hand cigarette smoke. Apart from that, no, I have no wish to control anybody. Other people are perfectly at liberty to spend their whole lives in slavery to a weed slowly poisoning themselves.

[eleni]

Tim

I agree with you, the problem is a bit of give & take, there is never a happy medium. There should be designated areas for smokers ( it is not ok to take away the rights of smokers either).

There will always be the odd person that will still light up when they shouldn't & they will get caught sooner or later, but to hunt them out is so childish... just move away from them!!! 1 cigarette doesn't take long to finish. Puts me in mind of curtain twitchers!

[kafenes]

Smokers unite!

I have just filed a lawsuit against my wife for illegally inhaling 6 of my cigarettes p/annum for the last 20 years without paying for them!

I'm also considering doing separate ones for the kids just as soon as I find a loophole making them liable...

I'll send you five Euros for the other night....

You mean 5 euros p/person that was there that night!

€5 per smoker then....

That's not fair. The ones I smoked had 10 times less tar and nicotine then GRs. I'm only paying 50 cents. Take it or leave it.

[cyprusgrump]

Tim

I agree with you, the problem is a bit of give & take, there is never a happy medium. There should be designated areas for smokers ( it is not ok to take away the rights of smokers either).

There will always be the odd person that will still light up when they shouldn't & they will get caught sooner or later, but to hunt them out is so childish... just move away from them!!! 1 cigarette doesn't take long to finish. Puts me in mind of curtain twitchers!

The problem is that the anti-smoking lobby via the mainstream media has whipped up public hysteria over the effects of smoking and second-hand smoke.

People really do believe that just one whiff of smoke from a passing smoker will endanger their heath. In the UK you can see people lined up at a bus stop inhaling filthy diesel fumes yet waving their hands in front of their faces when a smoker approaches!

Fortunately many people are starting to see through the lies and spin that are served up to them every day by the media. Until sound scientific research comes to the fore we'll never be able to properly debate the rights of smokers - or drinkers, gamblers or burger lovers for that matter.

Hopefully, the recent dabacle over climate change will cause more people to question the 'scientific facts' that are fed to them... It will be a slow process tho...