[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This smug little missive really grinds my grits. Going outside to smoke is fine in nice weather. What about January or when it's raining?
This is the typical baloney used to justify an entirely unjustifiable move on the part of city council. Now all those who think the ban is just dandy are set up to vote for the incumbents in city hall. Supposedly, with this ban in place, all will forget whether or not the incumbents did anything substantive about the tough straights the city is in.
While you're all breaking your arms patting yourselves on the back, my buddies and I, mostly old, some smokers, mostly going out for coffee with friends is what we can afford, have nowhere to go and hang out at all. Thanks a toad ton.
Now that we're all so piously smoke free, I hope you choke on it.
<>WizardMarks, Central
Gee whiz ... and thank you for those kind words ...
If turning the tables around who's civil liberties are taken away? Nonsmokers have had civil liberties absent all this time. Wouldn't you agree? For us majority of nonsmokers who have been told to work around it all this time. So, I shouldn't go when invited by my brother or a friend see them play in a band in a smoking environment? I come out with my lungs feeling awful - that's okay? Oh - but your telling me I should go somewhere else that is smoke free - but my bother isn't playing "somewhere else". (BTW - as a musician he hated the smoke too.)
I figure we both win - you get to keep your habit, but have to step outside for a few minutes. Cold out? Wear a coat. I would when I needed to get a breath and I survived. Don't want to go out? Chew gum - or put a wad in - whatever you need to do to get your fix. I couldn't care less if you do that - I don't have to breath it.
Sounds like addiction talking to me not what's best for the greater good, which is the basis of democracy. Seems as though smokers have a really hard time understanding how much of what they do impacts on the health/civil liberties (take your pick) of others.
In general - can we just move on, beyond this discussion. It seems so petty compared to such bigger issues in this fair and wonderfully smoke free city ...
Liz Greenbaum
Longfellow
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