smoking ban in washington (Seattle, Kent: living, parking, best)

[cjg5]

Originally Posted by revelated

Now it makes sense why there is such an abhorrent number of people smoking while driving. Which of course given the poor traffic conditions, makes a very bad situation when they hang their smoke out the window, because my air conditioner pulls that in and forces me to do recirculated until I'm away from them.

And then they just toss the butts out of their windows and roll up. Litterers they are!!!

I have to go to recirculated with the windows cracked any time I've ever been stuck behind a car or truck with horrible, suffocating exhaust. How do these vehicles pass emissions? That however is another topic entirely.

[tijlover]

Originally Posted by j_k_k

I don't smoke cigarettes, myself, but I would be very interested to compare the toxicity of a passenger car's exhaust to that of a cigarette.

Our wonderful world has evolved to the point where most people can see a leaf, but they can't see the tree, or, let alone, the forest! Or, that nuclear toxic mess out in Hannaford!

Only 2% of the frozen fish coming into the U.S., from polluted Asia, gets inspected, and yet?

Anything too big to fit onto people's radar screens is going to be overlooked, but if a tiny little dots shows up, they go crazy!!!

Oh, the ongoing hilarity of the human race!

I grew up in MN, in a small 800SF house, with the windows closed throughout the cold winters, with a Papa that smoked 4 packs of Kool's everyday. Talk about 2nd hand smoke! From birth to my leaving when I was 19! And my mother went on to breathe it in far, far longer, and she died with no respiratory problems whatsoever! And my Papa, decided to quit after 50 years of smoking at age 66, died at age 96, and towards the end, no need for oxygen, COPD meds. Go figure!

That's what keeps many smokers from quitting, quickly pointing out the many that survived, not only years of more dense 2nd hand smoke, but those who smoked for years and were lucky!

Living in Washington, my overriding fear, each and every day, would be an upcoming mega-earthquake!

[Foreverking]

Originally Posted by tijlover

Our wonderful world has evolved to the point where most people can see a leaf, but they can't see the tree, or, let alone, the forest! Or, that nuclear toxic mess out in Hannaford!

Only 2% of the frozen fish coming into the U.S., from polluted Asia, gets inspected, and yet?

Anything too big to fit onto people's radar screens is going to be overlooked, but if a tiny little dots shows up, they go crazy!!!

Oh, the ongoing hilarity of the human race!

I grew up in MN, in a small 800SF house, with the windows closed throughout the cold winters, with a Papa that smoked 4 packs of Kool's everyday. Talk about 2nd hand smoke! From birth to my leaving when I was 19! And my mother went on to breathe it in far, far longer, and she died with no respiratory problems whatsoever! And my Papa, decided to quit after 50 years of smoking at age 66, died at age 96, and towards the end, no need for oxygen, COPD meds. Go figure!

That's what keeps many smokers from quitting, quickly pointing out the many that survived, not only years of more dense 2nd hand smoke, but those who smoked for years and were lucky!

Living in Washington, my overriding fear, each and every day, would be an upcoming mega-earthquake!

God had originally scheduled your dad to live to 118 years old...smoking cut him short 22 years

[Fat Freddy]

Originally Posted by Foreverking

God had originally scheduled your dad to live to 118 years old...smoking cut him short 22 years

Well that's God's fault.
He should have been smart enough to have created better tobacco products.

[loveagrey1]

Are there a lot of smokers in the Seattle area? That would surprise me? I hate it here in the south..you can't come to a stop light without smelling cigarettes.....

[Lamplight]

Originally Posted by loveagrey1

Are there a lot of smokers in the Seattle area? That would surprise me? I hate it here in the south..you can't come to a stop light without smelling cigarettes.....

I couldn't say concerning Seattle, but I moved from Tennessee to Bellingham and I'm amazed at how many smokers there are here. I lived in a larger town in TN and it always seemed like "everyone smokes here", but it wasn't even close compared to Bellingham. That's actually one of my few complaints about this town, though it's a relatively small complaint.

[revelated]

Originally Posted by loveagrey1

Are there a lot of smokers in the Seattle area? That would surprise me? I hate it here in the south..you can't come to a stop light without smelling cigarettes.....

Of 50 people I encounter daily, 45 are active smokers.

At work, there's 7 team members. 3 of them smoke. 2 of them multiple times a day.

To give more perspective, Seattle businesses have nearly universally implemented smoking bans near work buildings.

It's bad.

[AT-AT28]

My home state of Montana passed smoking bans in even bars and casinos. If you wanna kill yourself with cancer sticks, have fun. But the rest of society doesn't wanna smell your secondhand death smoke. Glad Seattle is following the same idea.

[Pahn]

Originally Posted by Lamplight

I couldn't say concerning Seattle, but I moved from Tennessee to Bellingham and I'm amazed at how many smokers there are here. I lived in a larger town in TN and it always seemed like "everyone smokes here", but it wasn't even close compared to Bellingham. That's actually one of my few complaints about this town, though it's a relatively small complaint.

Well, everybody smokes outside where they're plainly visible.

[tijlover]

The anti-smokers, even the smokers, are going to have a royal fit when the inevitable, unavoidable nuclear holocaust comes to a city near you, there'll be smoke everywhere! The smoke from burning flesh and hair, houses, cars, forests, animals! Won't that be a stinky, smokey mess, and what a job that's going to do your lungs!!!