Sure you're not an ex-smoker, dear? I tease, in that ex-smokers who try to convince themselves of the 'horror' of the habit tend to get that sort of vehement, more vehement than non-smokers. Minus my sister, who is just a dramatastic bitch who thinks all smokers should be shipped to leper colonies.
Anyways, as a smoker on hiatus (I hope to keep off of it once the kiddo is born; it's a bit too pricy here! Doesn't mean I miss the habit. :p), I actually don't object to having to go outside to smoke; most places don't have adequate ventilation to deal with the heavy clouds of smoke a full pub generates, and it's a bit uber-grody. I do object, however, to the government trying to legislate against people having the option to go outside even; god forbid a small child somehow ran into the beer garden and got a lungful.
As for the health repercussions - taxes are freaking ludicrous on tobacco; I can say with a fair degree of confidence that I feel smokers pay for their own future care in taxes alone (and it's not like every smoker or person near a smoker gets lung cancer, mind!). And that really, anyone who has any vice really doesn't have a place to knock someone poisoning themselves if they do the same on any substance... though I concur you have every right to be annoyed if someone sticks your face in it, same as if someone held you down and forced chocolate down your throat, or booze. ;)
Anyways, I hope you don't mind me taking advantage of your posting to bring it to a semi-debate stage. It's a subject that I do enjoy discussing to some degree. :D
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Date: 1/12/09 11:45 (UTC)Sure you're not an ex-smoker, dear? I tease, in that ex-smokers who try to convince themselves of the 'horror' of the habit tend to get that sort of vehement, more vehement than non-smokers. Minus my sister, who is just a dramatastic bitch who thinks all smokers should be shipped to leper colonies.
Anyways, as a smoker on hiatus (I hope to keep off of it once the kiddo is born; it's a bit too pricy here! Doesn't mean I miss the habit. :p), I actually don't object to having to go outside to smoke; most places don't have adequate ventilation to deal with the heavy clouds of smoke a full pub generates, and it's a bit uber-grody. I do object, however, to the government trying to legislate against people having the option to go outside even; god forbid a small child somehow ran into the beer garden and got a lungful.
As for the health repercussions - taxes are freaking ludicrous on tobacco; I can say with a fair degree of confidence that I feel smokers pay for their own future care in taxes alone (and it's not like every smoker or person near a smoker gets lung cancer, mind!). And that really, anyone who has any vice really doesn't have a place to knock someone poisoning themselves if they do the same on any substance... though I concur you have every right to be annoyed if someone sticks your face in it, same as if someone held you down and forced chocolate down your throat, or booze. ;)
Anyways, I hope you don't mind me taking advantage of your posting to bring it to a semi-debate stage. It's a subject that I do enjoy discussing to some degree. :D