Cigarette break

SJ Online ^ | March 18, 2002 | Lisa Chmelecki

[Rowdee]

Now, now, now......you're setting up artificial barriers.....the subjects in this article gave a first name...and apparently at least some didn't have a problem indicating their occupation. To me those qualify as your 'so long as they don't show me in full frontal nudity" comment! LOL!

You were the one wanting them to 'let it all hang out"--like there's nothing to hide nor be ashamed of.....just seems like that other shoe should fit on your foot! Regards.....

[Great Dane]

I was going to comment, but I was afraid of being branded as a liberal commie because I don't smoke and would dare to find humour at the expense of a smoker.

Fill your boots, we will be laughing when they tax junk and fatty foods......... those taxes are just around the corner.

[Great Dane]

Smokers do stink.

Hope you don't wear perfume........ IT STINKS.

[Great Dane]

My company or mall, my rules. Don't like it? Open your own smoking mall?

Thats just the trouble, it isn't the company making the rules, it's THE GOVERNMENT, companies making the choice...... is fine with all of us.

[Great Dane]

just NOT in my room.

But my dear, all restaurants are not yours.

[Max McGarrity]

Just be prepared to either have us laugh WITH you or attack like the savage dogs that we are.

Depends on what they consider 'humor,' don't it? Amazing how many folks don't consider insults flung at smokers to be insulting at all, then get all bent out of shape when we square off. What was it Pudgy O'Rosie said: "You can never be too rude to a smoker." Well, yes you can.

[Max McGarrity]

How do you like them unintended consequences, Hila(ry)?

One thing, though, the smell of tobacco smoke washes off; the smell of bigotry is to the bone. Live with it.

[Max McGarrity]

Yes, it is ironic/idiotic that smokers want out to enjoy some fresh air, therefore polluting yet another pocket of non-smoke air. If smokers crave clean air, how much more their lungs; if smokers crave clean air, can they understand that others crave it too. More power to those who are seeking to break their addiction.

Polluting non-smoke air? Give me a break! Look around you and count the cars, trucks, busses, aircraft, not to mention smokestacks and fumes from every single manufactured item in existence today. You're a control freak, pure and simple, and delight in abusing those who partake in something you don't like.

[Just another Joe]

I just don't want to scare the children.
(or give anyone an inferiority complex.) ;^)

[Just another Joe]

It WAS pretty funny, Max. He did put the comment in later.

[Max McGarrity]

For those who want to quit I suggest: 1. Keep trying...one day it will click; 2. Try acupuncture with a mindset to quit...it will work for many and; 3. Remember what it cost you to smoke a pack when you started vs what you are paying today.

When the desire to quit becomes stronger than the desire to smoke, then and only then will the smoker quit smoking. And he'll quit without any other aid or assistance, just as millions of smokers have quit before him. (Let's see: The earliest price I can remember is 23 cents a pack and at the time I was earning $1 an hour; now I pay nearly 80 cents and make considerably more than that even though I'm retired. I can stand it.)

[Max McGarrity]

My company or mall, my rules. Don't like it? Open your own smoking mall?

You ain't from around here, are ya? If it were up to the owner of said company or mall, we wouldn't be discussing this. As it stands now, the gubmint has decreed I am not ALLOWED to open my own smoking ANYTHING, including private clubs in some places.

[Max McGarrity]

Now if we could just get the gubmint to vote in "Ditter-free" places, I'd change sides in a rabbit minute. You lost, Ditter?

[sistergoldenhair]

I think smokers should sue under the disabilities act and if they win force every company in the country to install adequate facilities for their smoking.

My local courthouse went NO SMOKING.
They recently revisited their decision and established several smoking areas.
Seems it looked bad to have all those jurors standing on the street corner with the defendants and lawyers.
It also drove the security guards nuts having to rescreen people.

[Rowdee]

Ah...if you say so. :)

[Ditter]

That makes no sense Max, besides I thought we decided to be friends. You promised you weren't going to be rude to me anymore.

[Max McGarrity]

I LOVE that! Hehehe.

[Just another Joe]

heh heh

[Max McGarrity]

It makes just as much sense as them getting involved in private property. (When did I say that? I must have been drunk. Besides, I don't consider that 'rude,' Ditter, just a little friendly ribbing, like when you say smokers "stink." See? I can do it too.)

[patton]

I have sold a heck of a lot of business in the "smoking areas." One could say, it has made my career.

But don't tell the self-rightious - let them wonder how I got the promotion, while they were campaining for a better workplace.

Idiots.