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I think 21% sounds reasonable. I'm with you, smokers are filthy and disgusting. I'm glad fewer people smoke, and would love to see smoking disappear all together.
Remember not to cry when your taxes go up to replace the lost tobacco revenue when it does.
Well, I guess it is if you like government telling you how to live your life.
A government that is powerful enough to ban smoking is powerful enough to ban anything.
The state of Florida had their democratically elected representatives vote about the smoking bans in restaurants, and it was voted through. Floridians accept Democracy, and obey laws, and if you don't like it, then maybe you are in the wrong country. Unfortunately I can't think of a single country where there is no lawmakers and no law.
The people of Florida WANTED this law. If 20% of the people did not want it, then tough luck, because they were outnumbered 5 to 1 and democracy won.
FL law allows smoking in bars and outdoor restaurants and in restaurants which make 10% or less of their profit from selling food. I think it is a good law.
Last edited by Finn_Jarber; 08-30-2011 at 07:35 AM..
That's funny. I read 21% and I thought it was high. At least around the company I keep, I have two coworkers out of 60 that smoke, 0 friends that do and 1 family member. Small sample space and all.
Obviously, smoking is one of the most disgusting things a person can do. It is amazing to see these pathetic, drug-dependent dregs sucking on their pathetic little sticks of weed to keep themsevles from going through the dreaded drug withdrawls that would ensure if they didn't. The foul stench, the filth, the litter, the effluent.
Having said that, however, I must say that I support the legal right of the skank to use their drug. My only requirement that they keep their filthy stench to their filthy, stinking selves, and not inflict it on the normal people, i.e. the non-addicts.
That's funny. I read 21% and I thought it was high. At least around the company I keep, I have two coworkers out of 60 that smoke, 0 friends that do and 1 family member. Small sample space and all.
One inevitably finds that the higher in society one runs (white vs blue collar, highly educated vs not-highly educated) the less smoking there is. Quality people, in the main, are just too high quality to engate in such filth.
Remember not to cry when your taxes go up to replace the lost tobacco revenue when it does.
Smokers always try to deflect discussion of their disgusting addiction by bringing up more taxes, "freedom", blah, blah, blah.
Why don't they just confront the reasons for their foul, anti-social, dirty, unhealthy habit, and why they are unable to quit? Look in the bloody mirror!
Smokers always try to deflect discussion of their disgusting addiction by bringing up more taxes, "freedom", blah, blah, blah.
Why don't they just confront the reasons for their foul, anti-social, dirty, unhealthy habit, and why they are unable to quit? Look in the bloody mirror!
What does it feel like to be perfect in every way? Please tell us.
What does it feel like to be perfect in every way? Please tell us.
Yet again, deflecting and refusing to address why smokers continue their foul habit.
I am far, far, from anything remotely approaching perfection, but at least I will admit my shortcomings, failures and weakness; I don't make excuses, or avoid the subject.
I don't hate smokers since I have a few relatives & friends who do smoke but I wonder if they realize that we non-smokers can tell that you do smoke. We can smell it on your person and on your clothes. We can smell it when we get into your car or when we go to your homes even if you hadn't smoked all day.
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when your taxes go up to replace the lost tobacco revenue when it does. 
