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I just spent 3 days in a non-smoking motel-room........oh yeah, the room next to mine was also
non-smoking. Well, I was nauseated the whole 3 days from the 2nd-hand smoke.
The rules and laws about smoking, yeah, good on paper and that is about it.
But on this bill is a request to legalize pot. The hypocrisy of this nation much less this proposed ordinance is dern near laughable. (PS..no there isn't a pot bill but someone will think it's a nice compromise.)
Ridiculous. I don't want our cops and courts wasting their time on such nonsense.
While I agree it's ridiculous, and commented in-depth on the NYC forum, the cops and courts will NOT be likely to get involved. We have a lot of these laws (no smoking in public parks/streets/etc) in California now, and they're considered "self-enforced" - meaning we're expected to just follow them ourselves, and if you're so inclined, cite the law to anyone you witness breaking it. The police cannot be called to enforce them, and would only issue citations if they happened upon you AND you were being an arse about it.
Did they define "walking" first? Is three steps left then three steps walking? Technically, yes. Can I walk while smoking in my back yard? On my porch? On my terrace/patio on, say, 56th floor?
Dumb.
I just spent 3 days in a non-smoking motel-room........oh yeah, the room next to mine was also
non-smoking. Well, I was nauseated the whole 3 days from the 2nd-hand smoke.
The rules and laws about smoking, yeah, good on paper and that is about it.
Why not move to a different room or hotel I would not put up with that for 10 minutes.
I keep thinking the last legal place to smoke a cigarette will be hanging from a ladder that goes down a few steps from a helicopter. Maybe each year they will make the ladder longer to protect the pilot, and require the helicopters to fly higher each year to protect the people on the ground.
I remember Dr. Joseph Mercola, certainly no fan of tobacco, saying smoking a cigarette is nearly as dangerous as eating a French fry. How about a $50 fine for each cigarette left in a pack and each French fry possessed but not yet eaten? They could call them thought crimes.
Those who are eager to toss out the rights of others need to remember that when they do that, they have just said that when, not if, WHEN something they enjoy or cherish offends someone else, and their rights are tossed out, they can't complain because they've already said it's just fine to do that. Of course, they never think it would happen to them, because nothing THEY enjoy is offensive to anyone else. Wonder if we could get it made illegal for someone to try to make everyone else make the same choices that they would. That's certainly offensive, and far more dangerous to this country and its citizens than cigarette smoke, or overeating, or any of the other things control freaks grab to indulge their own addiction.
No, I don't smoke. But I'm highly allergic to the kind of people who advocate this kind of thing.
I'd love to respond but it would earn my an infraction.
Let's just say I'm a vociferous anti-smoker but I think such a law would be a bad joke.
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