Why didn't anyone smoke?

[DevilEyes]

That, more than any health concerns or statues, is likely to have an effect on public smoking. If it's considered unwelcome by a few, many will rally to show their support to those few in hopes of scoring... The natural result is that smoking will only continue in environs where threat of physical violence ain't a scoring factor as such - where one might have to follow through in order to gain anything. Basically, smoking is becoming the vice of the "criminal classes" for purely ego- and fashion-related reasons!

Timo Saloniemi

Where? In USA perhaps and in a few other countries. In other countries like my own, smoking is very common, and a person who would complain about it would likely be considered a boring prude.

 

[CommanderRaytas]

by increasing my risk of dying of cancer by exposing me to carcinogens.

Called it!

I'll bet even money that someone will come along and post a few indignant paragraphs of response. I can even make a gander of a guess as to from whither their argument will strike; certainly second-hand smoking will be brought up with the greatest of severity.

Okay, so it isn't a few paragraphs, but I got the severity and the second-hand smoking stuff down pat.

Considering that there aren't all that many drugs that can kill people who don't even use them, I think the thing about second-hand smoke and cancer is perfectly legitimate.

And just as legitimate is the fact that smoke will often trigger asthma attacks in asthmatics. I often suffer fairly painful attacks when I'm exposed to cigarette smoke, and when I was an R.A., we had a number of residents who indicated that the asthma attacks they suffered from smoke making it into their windows from inconsiderate smokers who tended to smoke just outside the residence hall were getting so severe that they felt the situation to be genuinely dangerous.

That is so true. Count me in among the people who aren't radically anti-smoking, but not smoker friendly, too. I used to go out with a guy who was severely asthmatic, and if smoking hadn't been banned in Brazilian public buildings, he would have been unable to go anywhere.

I was so happy when smoking was banned from pubs. No more coughing, red eyes, clogged sinuses, stinking hair and clothes.

 

[Sci]

Considering that there aren't all that many drugs that can kill people who don't even use them, I think the thing about second-hand smoke and cancer is perfectly legitimate.

Of course you do.

"I called it! So predictable!" "Of course you do."

Because, of course, not wanting to get cancer from someone else's bad habits merits a condescending response.

 

[Kegg]

Because, of course, not wanting to get cancer from someone else's bad habits merits a condescending response.

Hm? I don't recall being condescending. But I do like predictability. It gives me something reliable to see on the internet.

 

[Jimmy Bob]

That, more than any health concerns or statues, is likely to have an effect on public smoking. If it's considered unwelcome by a few, many will rally to show their support to those few in hopes of scoring... The natural result is that smoking will only continue in environs where threat of physical violence ain't a scoring factor as such - where one might have to follow through in order to gain anything. Basically, smoking is becoming the vice of the "criminal classes" for purely ego- and fashion-related reasons!

Timo Saloniemi

Where? In USA perhaps and in a few other countries. In other countries like my own, smoking is very common, and a person who would complain about it would likely be considered a boring prude.

Judging by his name, in Finland I guess - http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8459947.stm

Personally, I became an instant libertarian after reading that.

 

[Nerdius Maximus]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCMzjJjuxQI

That was 1949, not 1968. A lot of doctors did smoke back then. Hell, EVERYONE smoked. And the ad only claimed that Camel was the brand most preferred by doctors who smoke, not that doctors RECOMMEND smoking.

Still, today that commercial usually elicits a reaction akin to that of the audience during the opening number of Springtime for Hitler.

I never said anything about 1968. I just thought I'd throw that in there because it's funny. Now, there were print ads with doctors recommending that you smoke. It stimulates your "T-zone!"