Comments on: Why am I not dead?

By: Grandad

Grandad — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 23:09:59 +0000

Robert - If it’s spam, it’s not much use as there are no links. If he posts in the future including a link, I’ll spam him. He seems genuine. How on earth did you manage to track down this comment? It’s ancient!

By: robert

robert — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 22:55:52 +0000

It seems education in America has gone to pot. (Not the smoking kind!)

All the time and effort it took Ghetto Ninja to bang out that post only to forget to include paragraphs?

The shame. It’s utterly unreadable and probably spam!

By: Ghetto Ninja

Ghetto Ninja — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 19:39:31 +0000

I think you are all missing the point. Our government bans smoking because they declare it bad. Well if it is so bad why not take down the corporations making them? The answer is quite obvious. The government makes money off of cigarettes. Everytime you buy a pack of cigarettes you are supporting the government that banned the use of them indoors. Your argument has now become completely void of any rational thought. Seriously, I think we would all be better off if cigarette corporations were shut down. Think about how much fertile land we use to grow tobacco that could be used to grow fruit and vegetables, which would drive down the cost of produce and increase availibility. Do you think the heroin addict would think they were better off if they didn’t do heroin? No, otherwise they wouldn’t do it. Sometimes you have to take things away from people to show them what’s really there. Granted this is a very idealistic view, so here’s a reality check. Govenrment makes societal system in which people think they need money. People work for money. Work creates stress. Money buys cigarettes to deal with stress. Executives at corporation and government officials make tons of money selling you cigarettes. People see this all happen and consume large amounts of liquor hoping it will all go away. It doesn’t. Welcome to 1984.

By: Caro

Caro — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 11:13:29 +0000

The only person in my family who smoked was my grandmother. She died in her early sixties of lung cancer.

A friend of the family was a non-smoker, who worked in a bar all his life. He died (a very long, horrible) death of throat cancer almost certainly caused by years of breathing secondary smoke.

This is why I don’t smoke. It’s all down to luck.

By: Thriftcriminal

Thriftcriminal — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 20:27:52 +0000

Shite. That’s depressing. The prospect of my mother reaching her natural life expectancy despite her smoking habits is … is …well, shite really.

By: Jayne

Jayne — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 15:57:16 +0000

I’m a smoker & have been for 38yrs. It’s my choice. I wasn’t pressurised into smoking, I simply do it because I enjoy it. My mum smokes - she’s in her mid 70’s. My motherbylaw smokes & at 79, has recently been diagnosed with colon cancer - primarily caused by many decades of constipation & NOT smoking. I’m 100% behind you grandad. In my opinion, it’s just (whichever) governments’ way of screwing people for more money. Why is honesty such a bad policy? Instead of making stupid fekkin laws, why not tell smokers they’ll simply have to pay more for their pleasure?
I choose not to drink alcohol & I’m bloody sure there are a lot more deaths attributed to arseholes pissed out of their brackets behind a 4 wheel killing machine, than there are people who choose to light up & enjoy a fag. There are statistics, there are figures & then there are the lies that twist all of the figures & statistics.
I recently went through to DoBuy (Dubai) for a charity run & noticed that even our fan-belt & t-cloth bedecked-chain-smoking-arabs have slapped a no smoking ban on all the restaurants & malls. Now business owners are bitching about loss of income! Can’t have it both ways can you.
Sorry for the long comment, but the tree-huggers that propose these stupid bloody laws haven’t got a clue.
Enjoy your pipe grandad, same as I’m going to enjoy my next Gauloise Blondes

By: Grandad

Grandad — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 13:03:11 +0000

OFTR - Any prizes for guessing the next crazy thing they’re going to ban?

By: OneForTheRoad

OneForTheRoad — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 11:04:51 +0000

I read that about the patio heaters. The reasoning is that they are contributing to global warming. I mean , seriously, I’ve had it up to here with these bleeding’ hippies.

As for this license in the UK - the mind boggles as to how I’d react if it were introduced over here.

I already have a license to smoke. It’s called a fucking birth certificate.

By: Grandad

Grandad — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 00:24:34 +0000

JA - It has surprised me in the past, the number of non-smokers who are not in favour of the ban. Really it is not the ban as such that I object to - it’s the whole philosophy behind it. It it was demanded by democratic vote, or even if there had been a public outcry demanding it, things would be different. But this is political correctness, and the Nanny State rolled into one.

I also vociferously question the rationale behind the smoking ban. A senior U.K. government advisor on health apparently said on Radio 5 the other night - “I don’t think the arguments on passive smoking are all that strong”. This is the same adviser that is advocating the licence. The entire ban is based on a public perception of a threat which has been manufactured by the anti-smoking lobby.

Incidentally, they are also talking about banning those patio heater things!!!!

Quickroute - Maybe you are right? It would explain a lot. I was talking to a bloke the other day [I think his name was Adolf Hitler?] who was expressing doubts too.

RhodesTer - Frankly, if I were given a choice between 160 and 85, I’d choose the latter. Do I want to end my days dribbling down my beard and peeing myself all the time? [On second thoughts, I'm there already]

Steph - I’ll put it to them - a new advertising campaign - Cully & Sully PROLONGS LIFE!!!!

Baino - You have put forward the one argument for quitting!! It does cost a fortune, but then so does everything else these days. But it’s one of my few pleasures in life [*aaah*], so they won’t stop me that way.

Michelle - Another non-smoker!! The people I feel sorriest for here are the old single farmers down the country. Their only social contact was to meet in the pub of an evening for a pipe and a pint. Now with the ban and the draconian breath testing, they are confined to isolation. I believe the suicide rate has increased alarmingly.

That is bad.

By: Michelle Gartner

Michelle Gartner — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 23:56:07 +0000

I’m an exsmoker, but DH still smokes. I am so glad to get rid of the habit, it gives me more pocket change and now I can outrun my kids and DH when I piss them off…

But I don’t understand why they keep smokers out of the bars here. Most people smoke who go to bars in America, and it’s ridiculous to be in the casinos and no one is smoking. I hate having my DH have to ditch me to catch a smoke when we’re out and about. With five kids I don’t see him as is, without the smoking bans cutting into us making out publicly in restaurants, bars, and casinos.