"blake murphy" > wrote in message
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> On Sun, 8 Jun 2008 15:26:06 -0400, "cybercat" >
> wrote:
>
>>
>>"sf" <.> wrote in message
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>>> On Sun, 8 Jun 2008 13:26:49 -0400, "Edwin Pawlowski" >
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>>"sf" <.> wrote in message
>>>>> How about that SUV driver with a cigarette in one hand, a cell in the
>>>>> other and a bunch of kids in the back?
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>I keep hearing various states want to pass laws that you cannot smoke in
>>>>a
>>>>car with kids. Much as I dislike smoking, I'm against such a law. My
>>>>car
>>>>is
>>>>sort of an extension of my home and aside from improper driving or
>>>>endangering, I should be free to do what I like.
>>>>
>>> IMO, it's dangerous in the respect that it takes one hand off the
>>> wheel - just like cell phones. Unlike cell phones, you're distracted
>>> by talking to a disembodied person.
>>>
>>>
>>
>>I live in a tobacco state, smoked from age 15 to 40, and STILL know that
>>people who try to defend smoking are out of their ****ing minds.
>>
>>Screw the health concerns, the expense, the contact smoke.
>>
>>YOU ASSHOLES STINK!
>>
>>You smell bad, your houses and cars smell bad, and anyone visiting you
>>winds
>>up smelling bad.
>>
>
> i don't defend smoking so much as twit non-smoking zealots.

I always have too. But of the two, SMOKING zealots are invariably
the more stupid. Stupid people get on my nerves, especially when they
are loud and persistant like Michael. And Greg. And ... well, hell, I
guess I am just ill tempered.


> life is
> nasty, brutish and short with of without second-hand cigarette smoke.

Only if you're doing it right.

> man up.
>

Is it too much to ask to expect less people to act like imbeciles?

Never mind.

By now I know it is.

Meanwhile, I do miss my cigs, and I always will. Talk about reliable
fwends. Stinky, but ever present.