Reply #205: And now who's making assumptions?

[Warren DeMontague]

How am I extremely judgmental and vicious? Oh, that's right, you 'know' I am, but you can't be 'bothered' to back it up with a link or even a reference. Uh Huh.

Well, here's a summary of my extremely judgmental and vicious attitudes about it: I think it's an unhealthy habit, personally I think it makes people smell foul, and having grown up in an era when, as a kid, I was forced to be stuck in an inordinate number of enclosed, smoke-filled environments, I'm very glad that it's a) not as popular as it used to be and b) regulated to the extent of being prohibited in most indoor, public spaces. So people who want to smoke can go outside.

Like I said, my dad died of lung cancer. I'm extremely glad I never really picked up cigarette smoking in high school, because I know I would have had a hell of a time quitting. Honestly, I was too busy smoking pot to smoke much of anything else. But when the time came to quit smoking pot, it was pretty easy to do. Obviously, my dad wasn't lucky in that regard, and he knew, at the end of his life, that the cigarettes had killed him.

But despite all that, I firmly believe cigarettes (like booze, and like pot) should be legal, regulated, and taxed. But that doesn't mean people should be free to do any or all of them anywhere and everywhere. There are lots of regulations on where you can do things. You can't take a shit on a table at a restaurant. You can't pull your dick out and masturbate in a bar (most bars, at least) ... you can't get an abortion in a Kragen Auto Parts store. Yet shitting, masturbation, and abortion are all legal. So is smoking, but it is generally regulated to the extent of where it can be done. And this seems to be the source of the chagrin we get, on a regular basis, from smokers complaining about 'repression' and 'anti-smoking nazis', etc.

I don't hate smokers, and honestly, if I don't have to breathe it in, I don't give a shit. At ALL. It's your body. Your choice. Knock yourself out.

But, really, what seems to be going on here is that you've come pretty much unglued over something, not sure what, apparently feeling oppressed as a smoker or made to go outside or I don't know what-the-fuck is the problem. But for someone who is supposedly on an anti-alcohol tear, your behavior in this thread, honestly, is coming off a little less than sober.

Seriously, if you're that anti-alcohol and pro-smokes, you would have loved AA, at least a decade or two ago. I don't know, maybe there are still smoker friendly meetings, even. No drinking, major chain smoking.

Right up your alley? :shrug: