Posted on 07/20/2012 5:22:21 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
SAN FRANCISCO (KCBS) – Smoking anything other than medically-prescribed marijuana at San Francisco street fairs, festivals and other outdoor events held on city property would be banned under new legislation before the Board of Supervisors.
Supervisor Eric Mar said he introduced the proposal because of the health impacts of secondhand smoke when people light up in public.
“It’s widely known that secondhand smoke is responsible for as many as 73,000 deaths among non-smokers each year in the United States, and there is no safe level of exposure,” he said.
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THE BIG, brave Passive Americans responded with a vengeance. They began shouting at smokers in restaurants. They shuddered and grimaced and said "Ugh!" as they waved away the impure air. They put up little signs in their cars and homes: at first they said, "Thank You for Not Smoking," but now they feature a cigarette in a circle slashed with a red diagonal.
Smokists even issue conditional invitations. I know—I got one. The woman said, "I'd love to have you to dinner, but I don't allow smoking in my home. Do you think you could refrain for a couple of hours?" I said, "Go ---- yourself," and she told everybody I was the rudest person she had ever met.
Miss you, you old freedom fighter.
Been busy destroying my net worth. Die broke is my motto.
Miss you too.
” First the claim was that 3000 deaths per year in the US was due to SHS. That wasn’t scary enough, so they went to 50,000. Then 53,000. Now it’s 73,000 deaths per year from second hand smoke. If they’re just going to make up numbers why not just say that “zillions” of people die from SHS?”
Just like man-made global warming : )
” Smokists even issue conditional invitations. I know—I got one. The woman said, “I’d love to have you to dinner,SO I CAN ABUSE YOU IN FRONT OF MY FRIENDS : )
” A misanthrope is someone who hates people. Hatred of smokers is the most popular form of closet misanthropy in America today. Smokists don’t hate the sin, they hate the sinner, and they don’t care who knows it.
Their campaign never would have succeeded so well if the alleged dangers of smoking had remained a problem for smokers alone. We simply would have been allowed to invoke the Right to Die, always a favorite with democratic lovers of mankind, and that would have been that. To put a real damper on smoking and make it stick, the right of others not to die had to be invoked somehow, so “passive smoking” was invented.”
Flo King strikes again!!
I will sorely miss her.
I will miss here too. I didn’t know she was this ill. Great acerbic wit.
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