Assignment America: Smoke screens/One of the best articles I have read!

United Press International ^ | 22 August 2002 | John Bloom

[Just another Joe]

So, I was correct.
The only people on this thread that actually want reasoned deliberate discourse are smokers.
The rest are just "blowing smoke" because they don't like it for one reason or another.

Well, to all the anti-smokers - If this is the way you treat the subject of private property rights, you are not true conservatives.
All you are is CINOs.

[SheLion]

I'm so sorry, Joe. My thoughts are with you.......

[SheLion]

A fine article (dare I say "A breath of fresh air"? :))...and I don't smoke.

A Journalist that finally tells it like it is. And I believe a lot of non-smokers (not anti-smokers) are starting to see the truth behind the war on a certain group of people who choose to smoke a legal commodity.

If this war is won by the anti's, who next will be in their sites? They have already started on the obese. No one is safe. NO One.

[SheLion]

Well, to all the anti-smokers - If this is the way you treat the subject of private property rights, you are not true conservatives. All you are is CINOs.

J oe, the anti-smokers that come in here have either been brain-washed by the propaganda that has been spewed by the anti-tobacco group and/or they are so full of deep-seated hatred, that smokers are an easy pickings for them. (Or THINK we are easy pickings).

I find when a "reasonable adult" is open to both sides of an issue, you can usually wake him up to the truth.  But the ones that just pound out endless hate and cookie cutter lies to us on our smoking threads.........well, those are the ones I pity and are pretty leery of.

The people that are so full of hate and come in here put me in mind of the teenager who goes and shoots up a school, because he isn't being noticed.  These people remind me of the men out there that are kidnapping, raping and killing the girls.  FULL OF HATE.  NO TOLERANCE FOR THEIR FELLOW MAN.  THEIR WAY OR NO WAY, even if it means eliminating those that disagree with them.

This is the world we live in today.  These are the people on "the other" side in America. NO TOLERANCE.  They say everything goes full circle.  I believe it.

[Just another Joe]

Joe, the anti-smokers that come in here have either been brain-washed by the propaganda that has been spewed by the anti-tobacco group and/or they are so full of deep-seated hatred, that smokers are an easy pickings for them. (Or THINK we are easy pickings).

They can't even hoist the CLAIM to easy pickings until they contend with me/us.
Since they won't do that all it makes them is someone that wants the government to interfere where it should not.

[SheLion]

Since they won't do that all it makes them is someone that wants the government to interfere where it should not.

Which makes them a True Anti. No Tolerance for any other side. Just their side. Their way or the Highway!

[headsonpikes]

I see from the authoritarian drivel you slobbered over the balance of the thread, that you are incorrigible.

You are exactly as I sketched in my #260.

You are not alone , of course; socialism has seeped into the public space of America like so much smoke from burning excrement.

[RockyMtnMan]

Is that all I get, "EXCUSE ME??!!", not a great deal of context around that statement but I'll entertain.

I live in a state where our smoking relatives find the altitude too thin to breathe and henceforth do not visit. However an asthmatic, which I ASSUME is what the excuse me is all about, should have no trouble adjusting to the limited but CLEAN air supply.

I love my in-laws and I know they'll never give up the gerts, so why make my family suffer and let them drop in whenever they want on their terms. Now they have to agree to hold down the indoor polution when my family visits (including their 4yr old grandson). The only reason I make an issue out of it is because my son gets sick EVERY time he is exposed to their non-stop smoking habit.

For the smokers in the house all I ask of you is please don't smoke near children, especially children who do not come from a smoking household. Otherwise light up and be happy around other pissed off adults that have had their airspace violated by your exhalations (I think all the bitching is funny when it's just me and the wife).

One more thing, what's the difference between methane gas emissions coming from your butt and smoke coming from a smoker?? I'll take the smoke over the butt gas any day!!!