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The government decides to outlaw caffeine because its a stimulant. They did that with coc aine. You are now one of those addicts that are raging for a fix. You get caught with a thing of Maxwell Coffee in the trunk of your car you just got from canada. You're now a criminal.
The smoking issue will subside just as prohibition did.
Originally posted by an0maly33
you don't destroy other people's livers when you drink next to them. this isn't really the same as prohibition.
Originally posted by an0maly33
comparing a mild stimulant to heavy narcotics is silly. no one has killed anyone over caffeine. we don't have "caffeine houses" that need busted. no one tries to sell caffeinated drinks to kids in an ally, etc. this whole idea is disconnected from the smoking topic.
Originally posted by Chorlton
Cigarettes stink, anyone going into a pub or bar before they were banned would come out smelling like an ashtray and would be suffering because of other peoples drug addiction.
Originally posted by craig732
If no-smoking bars were such a good idea, why weren't there any before the bans?
Well have fun banning things, pretty soon you may hear the drum beat of people trying to ban everything like they are to junk food and guns.
People need to smoke their addicted
and your not allowed to drink to get drink in a bar anymore
I agree were not free at all but it's alot better than what the rest of the world has.
Laws are overrated what we need is alot more apathy
If my neighbors having a party at 4 a.m. and I have to go to work the next day I use ear plugs, becuase if I choose to have a big party some night I dont want my neighbor being a big jerk and calling the cops.
Who cares if people arent strong enough to break their habit, it's non of my business and people who want the law always enforced usually end up regretting it when the law comes down on them for something stupid like going 2 miles over the limit
Holy crap turning their smoke around around and sticking into their face
if someone was actually slow enough to let that happen I dont think anybody would get away with that without a huge scuffle happening.
have fun smuggling man, ariva derchay LOL didnt even attempt to spell that correctly.
But Rifles every child should know how to use one, not at eachother though but a knowledge of firearms is usefull should they ever decide to go hunting wild game is much tastier than farmed meat and you feel the accomplishment brininging in food for the family.
Just another non-issue to take the peoples attention off real issues.Such as corporate greed,political corruption,erasing of peoples rights etc.etc.
The government decides to outlaw caffeine because its a stimulant.
Smoking is legal, throwing fists isn't. Why shouldn't a business owner be allowed to regulate legal activities within his own establishment?
force people to smoke right outside the door, defeating the purpose anyways.
Do I even need to respond to this?
So the individual who is a garbage man should not be allowed in public because his clothes smell of trash?
That person with overactive sweat glands should be forced into exile because nothing can cover up the smell?
Did you ever think that what smells bad to you might be pleasing to others?
Dont go all melodramatic on me here. You know full well I am not advocating things of this sort. This is in the context of the government forcing legal behaviour out of businesses.
However, no one has the right to tell me what I can and cannot do with my personal body.
comparing a mild stimulant to heavy narcotics is silly. no one has killed anyone over caffeine. we don't have "caffeine houses" that need busted. no one tries to sell caffeinated drinks to kids in an ally, etc. this whole idea is disconnected from the smoking topic.
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No, but infringing upon my right to make choices for myself is
I dont hear many advocating the banning of alcohol in bars because of drunk drivers.
Originally posted by Octavius Maximus
im not sure what you mean, i assume you mean ;smoke to get a drink in a bar'
I agree were not free at all but it's alot better than what the rest of the world has.
Clean lungs?
Smoking is legal, throwing fists isn't. Why shouldn't a business owner be allowed to regulate legal activities within his own establishment?
These 2 sentences are the opposite of each other.
Under your rule i could own a bar and actually legally fill it with bear fights, underage prostitution and crucifixion of the friend of your choice, simply because its my own establishment?!
force people to smoke right outside the door, defeating the purpose anyways.
No it doesnt, you close the door and the smoke doesnt get in.
So the individual who is a garbage man should not be allowed in public because his clothes smell of trash?
The washing machine is a fairly useful invention in this case.
That person with overactive sweat glands should be forced into exile because nothing can cover up the smell?
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Did you ever think that what smells bad to you might be pleasing to others?
So i should jump in a sewer and then go out to a bar? If someone starts annoying me i can say "Hey man, some girl might like this, alright?"
Well when the government made up the first Anti rape laws they were making perfectly legal behavior against the law.
no but they can advise you. i went out last night and had a very good time. I watched as a guy lit up and was proceeded to be advised that if he continued smoking a fairly large man may stick a fork in his eye.
It was all done nicely, of course. with only abit of knuckle cracking.
comparing a mild stimulant to heavy narcotics is silly. no one has killed anyone over caffeine. we don't have "caffeine houses" that need busted. no one tries to sell caffeinated drinks to kids in an ally, etc. this whole idea is disconnected from the smoking topic.
Thank you
Children could pick up coc aine at the local pharmacy before it was criminalized. It didn't need to be sold out of alley's or drug houses because it was legally procured. People weren't killing because of it either. 50 years ago no one would have thought smoking would be banned in bars but here we are. It is not so ridiculous to think caffeine could be next.
No, but infringing upon my right to make choices for myself is
So you choose to give out drugs to children, noone is allowed to stop you because its your choice?
I dont hear many advocating the banning of alcohol in bars because of drunk drivers.
if you ban ALCOHOL in a BAR what is there left to do?
Originally posted by an0maly33
soooo...back on topic. do we think a smoking ban is a product of the "NWO"? seems like a "no". let's leave the rest to personal belief and move on. =)
Tell that to the people living in smog invested cities not caused by second hand smoke.
Why shouldn't a business owner be allowed to regulate legal activities within his own establishment?
Like someone else already stated, if making a bar non-smoking was a profitable business alternative, it would have already been done.
All the bars around here leave their doors open unless it is winter, in which case the doors get opened during the busy hours to cool the place down.
Do you have a right to call him smelly or take his clothes and throw them in his face because the odor pisses you off?
You obviously have not met someone with overactive sweat glands. These are the people that spend 5 minutes outside in 80 degree weather and are drenched in sweat. It is expecially prevelant in more heavy set individuals. Deodorant can't cover up all that for long.
Like you said, smoking smells terrible to you, but I find it pleasing. Does that give you a right to harrass me for my smell preference?
Please explain a time period when rape was legal by any modern, civilized country?
What gives you the right to threaten someone for doing a perfectly legal activity?
In fact, why do you feel the need to "enlighten" every smoker about his choice?
You will not convince ONE person to stop smoking with your antictcs. In fact you are turning them off to listening to any such advice from people.
Children could pick up coc aine at the local pharmacy before it was criminalized. It didn't need to be sold out of alley's or drug houses because it was legally procured.
I am arguing the government should not tell me what I do to MY OWN BODY, not to others. Please stop twisting words to make me look like some inhuman brute set out to rape/murder/pillage. I am just defending my rights.
Go drink at home, thats whats left to do.
You make smoking illegal everywhere, which has been advocated here, and all those tobbaco outlets go out of business.
I am just saying that if smoking should be banned in bars for its affect on others, than alcohol should be banned for ITS affect on others.
Originally posted by LegalizerDo you actually think treated water is safe? The wool is so far over your eyes its down to your ankles.
Originally posted by Legalizer
Do you actually think treated water is safe? The wool is so far over your eyes its down to your ankles.
Originally posted by LegalizerDo you actually think treated water is safe? The wool is so far over your eyes its down to your ankles.
Well, I've been drinking it for 18 years and I'm not dead or seriously ill.
Anyway, I agree that this is not a conspiracy... it's government intervening to keep some people with a pointless and dangerous habit from screwing up the air quality of the rest of the population.
Yes and who cares if they started in the first place or passive smoking they still need them smokes.
Clean Lungs!!! who needs em!!! only elistists who live in environmental type domes.
my opinion is laws shouldnt be enforced unless they make reasonable ones anyways.
And what wrong with hunting? you leanr how to survive in the wild, you bring home enough meat that you dont have to buy cow meat for a month just off one deer, or moose you could feed a whole village.
Whats that smoking might become a illgeal activity LOL whatever you say man LOL
smoking sections are All because of laws which suck and are made by nanny minded people who thinkl their the centre of the world and do whatever they thinks the best thing to do much like a dictator in my opinion
Cool good good have no conderation of anyone else you are finally getting it
Laws suck and should be scrapped.
athmatics can move away when someone smokes because thats what I am but I dont expect people to change for lil old me.
whatever smoking rooms if the buniness owner wishes to do so the whatever floats ya boat.
I agree with you there, Alcohol shoudnt be banned either but who cares if people smoke really? ever watched the penn and teller show and seen the show they did on second hand smoke?
Originally posted by SamuraiDrifter
Alright, let's take a look at a logical deduction sequence.
Smoking is a choice.
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Smoking is completely, undeniably unhealthy.
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Smoking affects the health and life quality of people nearby.
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Smoking does not produce any sort of positive effect on society. For all it takes in terms of health, it doesn't give anything back.
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From these, we can deduce that deciding to start smoking is, logically, a bad decision. There are a long list of logical cons and no logical pros.
Therefore, a bad decision made by some is affecting the health and quality of life of others. That, to me, seems to be the point at which law should intervene.
[edit on 19-8-2007 by SamuraiDrifter]
well have fun at the woolworths.
Good luck trying to hunt by hand animals are more intelligent than you think.
my IQ's 58 I'm super smart man LOL
Yes people who tell other people what to do suck and they are corrupted by
power.
By the way isnt our culture already ruled by the strongest? the richest? but
hey I guess thats just the way the cookie crumbles.
Nobodies supposed to rule the world.
Yuppers thats why laws suck, boy your deductive power astonish me.
Justice sucks
Penn and teller show you their tricks!!