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Here are a few that come to mind... eating unhealthy foods, driving cars that aren't electric, wearing strong perfume/cologne, drinking alcohol, being gay, being a parent (or non-parent), having tattoos, dressing a certain way, etc, etc. Just about everything will offend somebody, when you think about it!
Funny you should mention alcohol. See, I do have a few vices, one of them being that I enjoy a beer or two on occasion. Like with smoking, drinking beer has a side effect - you exhale second-hand smoke, where I have to eventually expel some urine. Yet beer drinkers do not act as if anyone surrounding them should expect to be exposed to the side effect of their vice.
In other words, when I'm around smokers, my hair and clothes end up stinking from their second-hand smoke, yet they don't take kindly - at all - to the idea that if they're around beer drinkers, they should expect to smell of urine at the end of the evening.
Since roughly 80% of the adult population does not smoke, smokers are a decided minority. I always tell non-smokers there will come a day when something you do the vast majority of people don't do or like including me and you'll need me to stand up in defense of you.
Not in the least. In fact, smokers treat the rest of society with contempt and an absolute disregard for their comfort, health or well-being. Filthy pigs, one and all.
I think they're treated unfair in a couple ways. For example the fact that smoking got banned in ALL bars in many states. Why not just have non-smoking bars AND smoking bars? Theres a lot of bars where nearly all of it's customers got together and smoked, places that non smokers like myself wouldnt have wanted to go to anyways. Why should their gathering place be basically driven out of business or altered into serving a completely different clientele and crowd? Bad for freedom and bad for business.
Funny you should mention alcohol. See, I do have a few vices, one of them being that I enjoy a beer or two on occasion. Like with smoking, drinking beer has a side effect - you exhale second-hand smoke, where I have to eventually expel some urine. Yet beer drinkers do not act as if anyone surrounding them should expect to be exposed to the side effect of their vice.
In other words, when I'm around smokers, my hair and clothes end up stinking from their second-hand smoke, yet they don't take kindly - at all - to the idea that if they're around beer drinkers, they should expect to smell of urine at the end of the evening.
Where are you hanging out that people still smoke?
Keggers out in the boonies?
You pee on my Louboutins and I am gonna plant a stiletto heel up your butt.
Where are you hanging out that people still smoke?
My family back in Yurp smoke to the point where you can at times cure herring in the living room. I try not to visit in winter when the houses are closed up.
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You pee on my Louboutins and I am gonna plant a stiletto heel up your butt.
What, and I'm the inconsiderate one? (As if I'm invited to Louboutin-type events in the first place...)
My family back in Yurp smoke to the point where you can at times cure herring in the living room. I try not to visit in winter when the houses are closed up.
What, and I'm the inconsiderate one? (As if I'm invited to Louboutin-type events in the first place...)
Ewwww, herring, sorry, I forgot about that.
Oh, wait, I'm thinking of lutesfisk, not herring, nevermind.
Since roughly 80% of the adult population does not smoke, smokers are a decided minority. I always tell non-smokers there will come a day when something you do the vast majority of people don't do or like including me and you'll need me to stand up in defense of you.
Treated wrongly? No. Cigarettes are proven to be harmful to those not smoking them, there's nothing at all wrong about making a law that protects people against second hand smoke.
I don't really see an issue with that. The law wouldn't be necessary if smokers were more considerate... Oh, and it'd be nice if smokers didn't think littering was a law they are excepted from.
Cigarette smokers aren't being imprisoned but are most certainly being threatened with fines if they smoke anywhere in public, even in a private business where the owner would be willing to allow it if he/she could.
And now there are big pushes to regulate smoking in private homes.
Funny you should mention alcohol. See, I do have a few vices, one of them being that I enjoy a beer or two on occasion. Like with smoking, drinking beer has a side effect - you exhale second-hand smoke, where I have to eventually expel some urine. Yet beer drinkers do not act as if anyone surrounding them should expect to be exposed to the side effect of their vice.
In other words, when I'm around smokers, my hair and clothes end up stinking from their second-hand smoke, yet they don't take kindly - at all - to the idea that if they're around beer drinkers, they should expect to smell of urine at the end of the evening.
And when you are out in public you are exposed to all sorts of toxins in the air. You have toxins in your food (unless you grow and process every last bit of what you eat).
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(As if I'm invited to Louboutin-type events in the first place...)
