Reply #330: Thanks for being so sane and rational [View All]

[Cats Against Frist]

It's hard to come by.

I've said just about everything that I can say on this topic, but let me add one more thing: People poo-poo and deride the smoker, for being either an addict, or a jerk. For people to cling to their hypochondria and paranoia, to the point of advocating totalitarianism, however, is every bit as fucked up as what the smoker does. Period.

I was going to let this pass, because I didn't believe that people really sucked THAT BAD, but after reading NUMEROUS posts on DU about how some "poor-mes" are "allergic" to cigarette smoke, and experiencing a situation, the other day, while passing some pale, sickly looking woman WHO WASN'T WITHIN THREE FEET OF ME do the "cough cough" and sheild her face from my cigarette, I ain't going to let it rest. Let me say, first.

NO ONE IS ALLERCIG TO CIGARETTE SMOKE. IT IS NOT AN ALLERGEN.

Second, as I posted, in another thread:

One of my best friends is a "body talk" expert, which is another way of saying, "you pay me, and I will sell you a hunk of flaming shit on a stick." She sees dozens of clients every week with "allergies" and "asthma" and fybromy-gonads, and any other auto-baloney disease that the pharmaceutical companies and doctors can cook up, for a buck. You know how she "cures" them? By making them hold an egg, or a piece of wheat and tapping them repeatedly on the head and chest. Some people, who live in the real world, call these diseases "all in your paranoia hypochondria addled brains." I submit that anywhere from 60-70 percent of those who complain about smoke flairing up their little nose hairs, need to hold an egg and be subjected to some raps on the noodle. Maybe a walk in the park, and some good sex. Maybe, a cigarette. At least smokers are willing to take some creeping, grody tumor for their particular pleasure -- attention-getting Baron Munchausens don't really have to suffer much, for the attention.

I stand by that, and wanted to add that to this thread. The ONLY issue is WHETHER OR NOT ETS CAUSES CANCER, and the jury is still out on that one. THE ONLY POSSIBLE LEGAL STANDING for any of these cigarette bans to have Constitutionality is because it exposes employees to ETS. Your choice to see a band, or go to a restaurant, or to have to climb into a detoxification generator after you pass by a smoker, is YOUR FUCKING PROBLEM.

I'm cool with all public buildings being smoke-free. I'm cool with all restaurants being non-smoking, except for those who have the high-end HVAC systems. I am NOT COOL, however, with the nannies, the hypochondriacs, the babies, the whiners who want to use the state to take smoking out of bars, cigar shops and lounges. Not cool, at all.

Time for some sanity and some compromise, instead of all this banning shit. Ban this, ban that -- I'm going to try to ban everything that makes me uncomfortable, or I can imagine causes me harm. I'm going to start with cats, lap afghans, doilies, humidifiers, hot water bottles, plastic furniture covers, websites chronicalling auto-immune disorders, those little things that you can put all your pills for the week in, and health insurance for hypochondriacs.