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Now that authorities are banning smoking out of doors as well, we'll have to go in search of another planet to inhabit!
Move on down here to Alabama. We still have cigarette vending machines in some places. Plus, when it snows in those once in every ten year situations we close the entire state down :wink:
I agree, something about 'the pursuit of happiness' comes to mind... But that would never stand up I'm sure.
We as a forum should form some union to separate "Smokers" from brothers and sisters of the briar.
I've never touched cigarettes, and never plan to, so why should a ban on smoking cigarettes limit me (us)?
That's pretty much the same as saying that a pen is no different than a pencil because you use them both in your hand to make words appear on paper. Sure, there is a similarity however, one will leave stains, and is harder to control, while the other leaves no mark that cannot be undone and is in complete control of the user. One may bleed through and could ruin the next few pages, while the other leaves every other aspect of anything other than the page and line of the paper the user would be writing on pristine and untouched.
Cigarettes are not Cigars is not Pipe tobacco. The same way that Caffeine is not marijuana in not heroin. Sure the former is Tobacco products, in the same way that the latter are drugs.
Perception is what we must fight, and the perception that Pipe smoking is as unhealthy as Smoking a pack of Cigarettes everyday is ludicrous and ignorant.
We as a forum should form some union to separate "Smokers" from brothers and sisters of the briar.
I've never touched cigarettes, and never plan to, so why should a ban on smoking cigarettes limit me (us)?
That's pretty much the same as saying that a pen is no different than a pencil because you use them both in your hand to make words appear on paper. Sure, there is a similarity however, one will leave stains, and is harder to control, while the other leaves no mark that cannot be undone and is in complete control of the user. One may bleed through and could ruin the next few pages, while the other leaves every other aspect of anything other than the page and line of the paper the user would be writing on pristine and untouched.
Cigarettes are not Cigars is not Pipe tobacco. The same way that Caffeine is not marijuana in not heroin. Sure the former is Tobacco products, in the same way that the latter are drugs.
Perception is what we must fight, and the perception that Pipe smoking is as unhealthy as Smoking a pack of Cigarettes everyday is ludicrous and ignorant.
The issue is what we do with our own bodies and on our own property, is our business alone. Whether it is harmful or not, it is our right endowed by either our creator or by the mere fact that, if we are only animals another animal of such base origins has no authority to run our existence.
There is no need to split hairs over whether this vice is better than that vice. While pipes are better than Cigars or cigarettes, they aren't "good for you." Don't fall into the trap, divide and conquer is a wonderful tool, it makes your enemy defeat himself.
There is no need to split hairs over whether this vice is better than that vice. While pipes are better than Cigars or cigarettes, they aren't "good for you." Don't fall into the trap, divide and conquer is a wonderful tool, it makes your enemy defeat himself.
Factory smokestacks blow out tons of polluted smoke, but that's not a popular issue to protest. Instead it's much safer to go after smokers.
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