City Bans Outside Smoking In Front Of Kids

Local6.com ^ | 3/17/04 | N/A

[metesky]

(or are you too young to remeber?)

Are you kidding? My prom date was Pocahontas!

I remember all those things well.

When I started smoking you'd put a quarter in the vending machine and the Lucky Strikes came out with two pennies inside the cellophane.

Are you that old?

[GeekDejure]

Wait... Wait... You can NOT smoke cigarettes in your own living room, because there may be some children prancing around on your TV screen that might somehow be seriously damaged by your filthy, disgusting activities !!!

Just wait... that'll be the next insane liberal law !!!

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[Just another Joe]

Are you that old?

Pretty darn close.
25 cents in the vending machine but no 2 pennys.

[Alas Babylon!]

Well, White Burley is really plug tobacco, but it was the only seed I could get. I may try to cut it real fine and see how it smokes.

I grew some a couple of years ago but just as they were getting ready (dying back and ready for drying) Hurricane Georges struck and wiped me out. The plants literally blew away! I found one 10 inch leaf (they're very distinctive) curled around a strand of barbed wire on my back acreage, but it was all moldy. Really ticked me off, but the several year drought we were having back then was ended by this storm. So, sorta mixed blessing on that!

[My2Cents]

LOL...Not quite that old. :-)

[metesky]

I love your profile page. Two of my favorite presidents there, Silent Cal and Ike.

[My2Cents]

Thanks. I like Ike. :-)

[My2Cents]

Re: age -- I'm old enough to remember Ike (bearly), but not old enough to remember Cal.

[swarthyguy]

I want a thread on Gay smokers ; the kind that smoke cigarettes too.

[swarthyguy]

But cigs will stay legal. How's the state gonna survive without all those taxes?

[metesky]

I admit to being so young then that I had to be really furtive when buying.

[HenryLeeII]

But this ban doesn't cover smoking in front of children in small rooms without ventilation, does it?

Also, at what distance is a smoker considered to be "in front of" a child. If its a large park, and a smoker is 1,000 yards away but within easy visual range, does that count? I'm not a smoker, but this just seems silly...

[metesky]

Ike was in office from about the fourth grade until my junior year in HS.

In those days we had neighborhood grammar schools and most of us went home for lunch (Campbell's Soup and PB+J sandwich). Big Brother Bob Emory was on Boston TV then and every noontime we would have a milk toast to the President.

It all seems so innocent and far away from today, a different country.

Ike is one of the most underratted presidents in history.

[metesky]

If its a large park, and a smoker is 1,000 yards away but within easy visual range, does that count?

If the smoker is within range of a .50 cal sniper rifle, he/she is guilty as charged.

[My2Cents]

I was born in '51, so I don't remember Ike's tenure as President. I do remember my dad racing his car along a two-lane road that paralleled a portion of the Southern Pacific RR line in the south Bay Area (SF), telling us that Pres. Eisenhower was in the train ahead of us. As I read more about his presidency, and about the time of history he governed during, I am filled with admiration for him. He is probably the most underrated President we've had.

And, yes, I'll agree that the '50s were a golden era. Innocent. Clean. Today, we are still suffering from the nihilism of the '60s.

[EllaMinnow]

You're lucky you had those years.

I was two when Kennedy was elected, and the only thing I remember about him is the assassination. By the time I was old enough to know what a president was, we had LBJ.

I've been telling my son how lucky he is to have spent his childhood with Reagan as president.

[cinFLA]

And, yes, I'll agree that the '50s were a golden era.

Gee I hated that dial on the phone! Also, only one phone in the house would ring!

Of course it was pretty neat to learn how to call the others on the party line.

[Madame Dufarge]

What's the matter with you two?

Don't you know that Ike SMOKED?

Any of his accomplishments are obviously nullified by the association.

Get with the pogrom, will ya?

[tomball]

I will probably get flamed for my opinion but...

None of this garbage would be in issue if the Clinton Administration wasn't so hell bent on demonizing an industry in order to "redistribute wealth through the courts." He and his minions succeeded. Rather than money spent on researching remedies for smoke related illnesses, the money goes to attorneys who exploit people who have been smoking voluntarily for years.

Now we have farmers out of work, frivolous law suits continue to clog the courts, and our individual freedoms being stripped from us without so much as a chance to defend ourselves.

Oh - and let's not forget the anal retentive huns that have the gall to create laws around cigarettes to demonize the smoker while they are inhaling prozac and force feeding their kids ridlin. Tobacco does not have the side effects of these drugs, but no one will speak about that.

I do not smoke by choice. People who smoke do not demonize me or force me to go somewhere else because I do not smoke. People who smoke are my friends, not foes. I will sit anywhere in a restaurante so long as I can be seated. Going into a smoke filled bar does not bother me. Walking past a tobacco shop is aromatic - not toxic.

Cigarette smokers pay higher taxes through their means of enjoyment. By paying "sin taxes," cigarette smokers fund stadiums and outdoor public events places where they are not even allowed to smoke. Not even a smokers lounge is offered on behalf of their contributions to the facilities. Now these taxpayers can't go outside of their own house to smoke without fear of an alleged neighbor calling the cigarette police on them.

Spare me. I am not offended by people who smoke. However, I am truly offended by those who create laws against those who do.

[metesky]

During the invasion of North Africa, Ike was smoking up to eight packs a day.