Surgeon General's report on secondhand smoke

No, but I also don't think it's worse than automobile emissions. Where are the commercials telling the public that their cars are killers? People don't have to drive, esp. if they live in areas with outstanding public transportation.

 

OK. I walk a lot, take public transportation when I can and drive a hybrid. I also bitch about emissions.

Am I allowed to complain about secondhand smoke?

 

Serious question: The consensus seems to be that smoking shouldn't be done inside or outside in public, so is anyone ready to make it illegal?

 

No. If you would like to smoke in your house, I see absolutely no problem with it.

I'm not on the ban smoking outside kick. I just wish that there was a way to enter locations without being bombarded with smoke.

 

I didn't drive for 11 years when I lived in the Bay Area. I have to drive now that I'm back in NC but I still walk many nearby places.

You can complain all you want, lugnuts, that's your right. I just rarely see the amount of energy put into complaining over secondhand smoke put into criticizing automobile users. Yes, I realize that driving constitutes a need and smoking is just a habit but as you can see by some of the responses here, people don't even want to talk about the difference.

Smoking is bad, bad, bad and if you try to suggest anything that makes it seem less bad, you're an idiot. Fuck that bullshit. There's a definite slant when it comes to criticism of smoking and I don't understand why people won't just acknowledge it. It seems that it would make the arguments against smoking even stronger instead of being propped up by incomplete or erroneous information.

 

the only way I'd be in favor of outlawing tobacco is to legalize marijuana.

 

Yes!!!!  Thank you.

I'm entitled to complain, everybody, and you're not.  Na na na na boo boo!!

When you go out and bike to work, and carpool and drive a hybrid and bitch about emissions.... Then, and only then, can you complain about the dangers of secondhand smoke.

I'll consider letting you in my club if you see An Inconvenient Truth.

 

The same thing could be said about drinking (something tells me that anti thread won't be coming anytime soon), eating basically anything not directly out of the ground, coffee, etc., etc.

So what exactly is your point?

And BTW, I'm a non-smoker.

 

I'd love to see it but the real inconvenient truth in my life right now is that my last fart might have been a little too wet.

 

Stupid, TMI.