Anti - Smoking Nazis

[mate]

From: lyris@wood.lyris.net

Subject: THIS is TRUE #797: 20 September

Date: 25, September 2009 11:00:00 PM GMT-04:00
COMPULSORY FLORIDA STORY: The headline alone is attention-getting: "Woman

Arrested for Using Air Freshener". The parties were not named, but a

woman called police because a neighbor objected to her smoking, and

demonstrated that by spraying the back of her head with air freshener

for almost a full minute (Glade Potpourri brand, if you must know). The

assailant allegedly said, "I will do it again, and take it to the

Supreme Court because I have the right to breathe fresh air," the

police report said. Officers arrested her for battery. The town in

Florida? Niceville. (Northwest Florida Daily News) ...Next stop:

Smackover, Arkansas.

 

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[chuckw]

About a year before I retired, I was in a truckstop in Wisconsin to purchase some supplies. Ahead of me in the checkout line was a female truck driver. You know the type, large with a ruddy complection, croked teeth, stinking of cheap cologne to cover the "other" aromas and clothes that should have been tossed six months ago. She actually took offense to my pipe tobacco and said so in no uncertian terms. I told her I took offense to her looks, smell and holier than thou attitude I sugested she should stand out in the rain to clean herself, her clothes and her language.
I got several cheers from the other people gathered around.

 

[admin]

I applaud that one too Chuck!

 

[python]

I would've loved to have seen the look on her face Chuck!

Types like her feel like they are allowed to say anything that they want, but often get upset when some one does the same to them.

 

[dunendain]

Before long we will not be allowed to wear aftershave or perfume lest someone smell it and become offended. Let the factories belch all their smoke. The factory owners wife who complains about second hand smoke cares nothing of that.

 

[dunendain]

I walked down to the Metro train station this morning. I wanted to try an experiment. I wanted to see if I would get any complaints if I sat down on a bench and smoked my pipe while others waited on the next train. This is an open air platform mind you. So, I fired up my pipe loaded with P.S. Luxury Bullseye Flake. Not one person complained or gave me the evil eye. Some actually smiled. This is a small town. Known for being conservative. Had I been 20 miles away in Los Angeles, I am certain the outcome would have been quite different. I was proud of those people. I had a little fun as well.

 

[admin]

That's cool dunendain. In LA you would have been tarred & feathered.
I just got back from shopping downtown with Laura. I was smoking one of my new Charatans and the Peterson Merry Xmas tobacco. I got a couple of smiles and a couple of curious looks, but no complaints.

 

[dunendain]

Very soon, I will take my experiment to the Forbidden City and report back.

 

[dunendain]

I had a nice experience yesterday. I was sitting in a beer garden, in a Danish village in central California. I am smoking my pipe, and a little old lady walked up and asked me what blend I had in my pipe. She practically put her nose in my pipe. I told her it was Peter Stokkebye Danish Whisky. Her husband, who was in his 80s was with her. She told me and my wife Leta, that she made him smoke outdoors. They had gotten off a tourist bus and had Canadian name plates. Poor guy. He asked me where I bought the P.S. Whisky, and I directed him to the tobak shop. It was a cool thing.
I got several smiles from others as well. I knew I was far from LA.

 

[admin]

That is very cool dunendain!

 

[dunendain]

I will always support that bar. Whenever I get the chance. Thanks for the login help.

 

[dunendain]

For anyone interested in the Danish village, the name of the town is Solvang. All of buildings are of Danish architecture. Of course, the tobacco shop sold only Peter Stokkebye. That was fine by me. I am a big fan of the P.S. line. I picked up some English Oriental Supreme. An early morning smoke, that is a must try for English fans.

 

[python]

Cool story! It is great when people actually appreciate the smell of a pipe!

 

[seakayak]

I go out of my way to be considerate to non-smokers. Still, I get the occasional Nazi stare...very disconcerting. Jim Bennington, my local tobacconist has been in the famy business since he was a kid. He now believes that, within the next 5 years, smoking will be banned in tobacco shops. How crazy can we get! It's like banning the use of alcohol in pubs. If we don't push back, nanny could be carrying a very big stick very soon. Solidariy, gentlemen.

 

[jimbo]

".... within the next 5 years, smoking will be banned in tobacco shops."
It's already happening. In San Angelo, Texas the only quality pipe/cigar shop is in a strip mall and because of that, they would have to either ban smoking there or close, according to the recently voter-approved public smoking ban which also bans smoking in bars and restaurants.

 

[nativeson]

http://www.bmj.com/content/326/7398/1057.full. That's an article on second hand smoke. A UCLA professor concluded it was not a statistically sinificant hazard. That's right, UCLA. That's also right. Not a hazard. He was later fired by ucla, but not for bad science. It was for politically incorrect science, and it was quite a story, too. Look him up on line. Dr. James E. Enstrom. I think smokers better organize like the NRA. YOU CAN'T WIN A FIGHT IF YOU ARE NOT ORGANIZED. Our opposition is very organized. And smokers are about as disorganized today as we could possibly be. And let's be honest. We all know where this is going, don't we?

 

[menckenite]

My prediction is that laws, in regards to marijuana and tobacco, will reverse roles in the future. It seems I hear a little more every day how the former is being more legalized while the latter is becoming more illegal (at least in use). There you will be in your own home smoking whatever pipe tobacco you could get from the dealer on the street and the feds will be busting down your door and hawling your ass off to jail.

 

[tanless1]

...I don't know. The legislation is pointed in said direction; but I think/hope that the public is waking up. Next is to start removing laws from the books and defunding the beast.

 

[jimbo]

nativeson,
That's a good link. I quoted that one, as well as
http://63.234.227.130/pls/oshaweb/owadisp.show_document?p_table=INTERPRETATIONS&p_id=24602]
where OSHA says, "29 CFR 1910.1000 Air contaminants, limits employee exposure to several of the main chemical components found in tobacco smoke. In normal situations, exposures would not exceed these permissible exposure limits (PELs), and, as a matter of prosecutorial discretion, OSHA will not apply the General Duty Clause to ETS.", in posts to the local San Angelo Texas newspeper, but apparently, the voters didn't get it. They voted to ban public smoking earlier this month.
It's an uphill battle. People don't like to be proven WRONG.