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Nonsmoking Crybabies

Nonsmoking Crybabies

A few days ago I was rolling through Arkansas and heard a driver bitching on the CB about a particular small truckstop near the Texas state line. Arkansas is one of those states that has banned smoking everywhere except in places where those under the age of 18 are not permitted.

This particular small truckstop opted to be a smoking establishment and simply ban any minors from entering. They are trying to cater to their main business, truckers, the majority of whom do smoke.

This crybaby was whining because he stopped in there and they didn't have a nonsmoking section. He was pissing and moaning about how unfair it was and that he should get a bunch of nonsmokers to picket the place and shut it down.

Ok, I went off on him a bit. There is 1 damn truckstop in the entire state that even allows smoking at all, and he wants to piss his pants over it. He could have easily just gone to the one across the street to have his dinner, but then he wouldn't have had anything to cry about. I was pretty pissed and let him know what I thought of it, him, and the whole crybaby lot of them that think that they somehow have the right to force their choices on others. I told him now he knows exactly how smokers feel when they go into a place that doesn't have an area where they can smoke.

One single truckstop in an entire state and somehow he feels that he has the right to cry about how unfair it is? I think it's pretty damned unfair that businesses don't have a place for us smokers but I don't threaten to try and have them shut down. I simply don't spend any money there.

Those of us who smoke know that it bothers those who don't and most of us believe that the smoking area should be isolated from the nonsmoking so that our smoke doesn't bother them. We don't have a problem with that. The nonsmoking crybabies however, can't settle for having a good system that isolated smoking and nonsmoking. They want it completely their way and just force people to not smoke at all. Fascists, plain and simple. No compromise is good enough for these whiny assed cretins.

You know, I used to make every effort to be a polite smoker, but these days I have had it with these assholes and don't even try any more. If a nonsmoker comes into an area where I am allowed to smoke that's just tough shit for them.

I can't wait for the inevitable anti-PC backlash that will bury these fascist crybabies under a pile of their own shit. Every pendulum swings both ways and a growing number of people are already getting fed up with the PC bullshit.

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Reply #26 Top
Nope, that would be completely different if they were taxing the hell out of something I use on a daily basis.


Ah, don't you see the hypocrisy of this?

There is plenty of tax on a gallon of gasoline though.


Too much in my opinion, but if it's ok to create punitive taxes in the interest of public health, that's the place to do it.

I thought the seat belt laws did help prevent deaths.

I'm sure they have, but they in no way accomplished the promised drop in health care costs (which was my point).


Sorry I pissed you off.

You didn't piss me off at all, I am simply pointing out the flaws in your statements on the issue and offering counter points.




Smoke all you want but I'd prefer you didn't do it around me. If I am in a business that allows smoking, I'm not going to complain. If it bothers me too much, I will leave.

Which is quite reasonable. Total bans and the people who lobby for them are not reasonable, which is the whole point of the original article.
Reply #27 Top
I told her I was being kind, by pulling her off to the side like this, but I wouldn't be next time. I told her next time she would be in for the embarrassment of her life, and you better damn well believe she knew I was not lying.


I likely wouldn't have done her the courtesy.
Reply #28 Top
The same for the guy whose complaining. If there's that one place for you smokers, then he should just lump it since he went there on his own knowingly or like you said, go across the street to the other place!


Yep, but unreasonable people don't do reasonable things.
Reply #29 Top
Reply #17
I always laugh when I'm at McDonald's or some other fast food place and I see a sign that says something like...

For the health of our customers, thank you for not smoking. ;~D


Yeah, the signs are stupid. A simple "no smoking" will do.
Reply #30 Top
It's an idiotic world.


Yes it is
Reply #31 Top
IF YOU WON'T SMOKE, I WON'T FART.


I'd probably light up and ask her is she had enough beans for lunch
Reply #32 Top
Reply #21

If 78% of the people do not smoke, then why dont they pass a law banning it altogether?

Answer: They are addicted to the tax revenues. Smokers may be endangering their health, but the non-smokers are gleefully counting their filthy lucre as they nail the coffins shut.


Exactly, and this is the most hypocritical part of it all.

A town in CA, Belmont I think, is considering a complete ban on smoking anywhere inside city limits, indoors or outdoors, including your car. The only place that it will be legal to smoke is inside your own home and then only if it's a single family house. If you live in an apartment, tough shit it's illegal to smoke their.

I'm willing to bet the stores will still be selling them though.

This shit is simply going way too far into the realm of open fascism to suit me. They aren't even trying to be subtle about it any more. What's next? Twinkies?
Reply #33 Top
Answer: They are addicted to the tax revenues. Smokers may be endangering their health, but the non-smokers are gleefully counting their filthy lucre as they nail the coffins shut.


I wonder when they'll start allowing the illegal drugs on the market to make more revenue. Just imagine the taxes you could get on marijuana, cocaine, LSD, etc. I know some greedy government bastards have been thinking about it.

~Zoo
Reply #34 Top
I know some greedy government bastards have been thinking about it.


Thinking about it? Some states already do, even tho they are not legal yet!