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Originally posted by ChrisCantSkate
what do you actually want fixed?
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Good question. I want people to just stop bitching. As a fellow smoker Chris, you've no doubt put up with it as well. People make comments, give you dirty looks even though you've never met them, and the government taxes the fuck out of you even though people with other addictions (say...shopping or over eating) get off scott-free. You're right when you said I like things equal. That's all I really want. I guess I also want the people who've been giving smokers shit for so many years to know how it feels. Right now I get treated like some second class citizen merely because of the fact that I smoke. Pretty fuckin' unequal.
I take it you've never been to Europe? It seems like everyone in Europe smokes. You can smoke in restaraunts, airports, shops, and just about everywhere else. And when I say you can smoke there, I don't mean they give you some little poorly lit corner of the place. You can smoke pretty much where you like. Smokes are relatively cheap and no one bitches about anyone else's smoke. The funny thing is, it doesn't really smell of smoke anywhere and the streets are surgically sterile compared to the U.S. (at least in western Europe). If Europeans can pull it off, surely we can since we like to think that we're sooooo much more inventive than they are. The fact is that this country is just plain unfriendly to smokers, and that's bullshit. Of course I realize there are places where people shouldn't smoke. Two you mentioned are hospitals and grocery stores. I wouldn't want ashes finding their way into my operating room or people ashing all over my food. Aside from that there's very little reason to regulate it anywhere else (perhaps a natural gas field). If you can smell smoke in a restaraunt then the restaraunt doesn't have good ventalation...it's not the smoker's fault (see: Europe). Maybe I don't want to smell the entree being served 3 tables over...and in a good restaraunt I won't. But if I do I can't very well bitch and whine like some little pussy. So yeah...it's all about being fair. Some non-smokers might sneer and say "well that's how we like it so we'll do how we please". Yeah...they're douche bags who like to feel special and/or important. Do you care what a douche bag thinks? I don't.