"sf" <.> wrote in message ...
> On Sun, 08 Jun 2008 14:02:56 GMT, "Michael \"Dog3\""
> > wrote:
>
>>sf <.> : in
>>rec.food.cooking
>>
>>> On Sat, 07 Jun 2008 14:09:46 GMT, blake murphy
>>> > wrote:
>>>>
>>>>at times i wouldn't be kidding. bitching about having to 'run a
>>>>gauntlet' of smokers by the door? unless they're holding you down and
>>>>giving you shotgun tokes, i think you'll survive.
>>>>
>>>
>>> You tried to make it into a joke, but it's not funny.
>>
>>Of course it was funny. Well written too.
>>
>>> By passing
>>> through a fog of cigarette smoke, a non smoker is literally bathed in
>>> it and the smell doesn't go away.
>>
>>Barb, you get the same thing walking by someone that has just plastered
>>their hair down with Final Net. Been in a condominium or apartment
>>building elevator lately?
>>
>>> Non smokers don't like the smell of
>>> cigarette smoke, and they don't want to wear someone else's second
>>> hand smoke for the rest of the day/evening. Smokers also add to dry
>>> cleaning bills because non smokers want that smell gone, not hanging
>>> around in the closet.
>>
>>Yeahbut... Whaddya do about the exhaust fumes from the busses, cars, taxi
>>cabs etc.? Ya' dry clean those clothes don't ya'? Or do you just hang
>>'em in the closet and stink up the rest of the clothes?
>
> As I said before, the clothing needs to be dry cleaned to get the
> stink out. I don't dry clean something just because it's been worn
> once, so that's a bill I should be hand to the smokers. I also need
> to take a shower to get the smoke smell off my skin and hair. I don't
> usually shower before and after an event.
>
>>You seem to be
>>one of the people that takes it to the extreme.
>
> Not really, but I certainly can when arguing about smoking with a
> person who has the POV that smoking only affects themselves, not
> others.
>
>>Sure, ban it in public
>>buildings and especially airline flights. Lots of things in life can be a
>>nuisance. Cigarettes, cell phones and just about anything else you can
>>think of that people do that is objectionable to you, me or anyone else.
>>Eventually people stop listening when something is pushed to the extreme.
>>
> I don't have to talk about it. Smoking is banned as much as it needs
> to be here, in fact I think the current laws about public smoking are
> too strict. Oh - a new cell phone law is going into effect in July,
> so hopefully the weaving cell phone driver syndrome will decrease too.
>
Michael has no idea how bad he smells, or how bad he makes other people
smell. Maybe he will smoke himself all the way to hell and there will be one
less stinky smoker aboveground.