Smoking in bars ...

Smoking in bars ...

Smokers are feeling picked on ...

We get it ...

There are bars trying to get around the smoking ban and I saw interviews with smokers who were trying to come across as sympathetic characters that are patriotically fighting for their rights ... it felt like watching satire ... to be honest, the more I watched, the less i felt sorry for them ...

For as long as any of us have been alive smokers have been able to impose smoke on us with impunity ...

Is there a civil rights element to tobacco? Maybe on some level ... but when someone does something that causes harm to others that simply is not a strong case ...

Don't give us all the 2nd hand smoke kool-aid ... the notion that 2nd hand smoke is not harmful is both wishful thinking and denial mixed up in guilt and wrapped around a lie ... studies are coming out that finally prove that ridiculous and insulting assertion ...

When smoking was taken out of public places I finally didn't hack up crap out of my lungs when i would go out dancing ...

When smoking was taken out of public places I finally didn't need a change of clothes to be able to stand my own smell while driving ...

When smoking was taken out of public places I finally didn't need a bath prior to bed ...

When smoking was taken out of public places bands played longer ...

I understand that there is a sense that smokers consider something to be taken from them ... However, it is clear that what has really happened is that the rest of us simply are no longer willing to be subjected to something harmful on those grounds ...

Smokers ... prove it is not harmful to the rest of us and that it is not an infringement on your civil rights ... prove that your choice to smoke has no effect on others and I will vote to repeal the smoking ban ...

Didn't think so ...