First, they came for the Jews. And I did not speak up because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for the smokers and I was mightily pissed at them for that.
It's kinda off of me to compare the smoking ban with the persecution of an entire ethnic group. But, the proposed ban on smoking in public that is to take place next march has really got my goat.
Who are these do-good fuckwits who deem that I shouldn't be able to choose an early death? The same people who allow massive companies to spoil our atmosphere by polluting it with barrels of toxic poison and smile happily, as their share prices rocket skywards.
And while we're on the subject of body poisoning... Would all you people who stand in the pub throwing back bottles of Becks Beer, Brandy and Burgundy & harp on about how my cigarette smoke is killing you, please... Fuck off. You are a hypocrite and a moron.
And to all of you who drive a car of any kind... You my toxin producing friends are making a bigger mess of this planet than I ever will with my cigarettes.
It's kinda off of me to compare the smoking ban with the persecution of an entire ethnic group. But, the proposed ban on smoking in public that is to take place next march has really got my goat.
Who are these do-good fuckwits who deem that I shouldn't be able to choose an early death? The same people who allow massive companies to spoil our atmosphere by polluting it with barrels of toxic poison and smile happily, as their share prices rocket skywards.
And while we're on the subject of body poisoning... Would all you people who stand in the pub throwing back bottles of Becks Beer, Brandy and Burgundy & harp on about how my cigarette smoke is killing you, please... Fuck off. You are a hypocrite and a moron.
And to all of you who drive a car of any kind... You my toxin producing friends are making a bigger mess of this planet than I ever will with my cigarettes.
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The laws don't take away your choice to smoke, they just protect the choice (and right) of non-smokers to not have to. I for one, drinker of note (on the odd occasion) prefer things the way they are now. I don't stand in pubs or restaurants with my eyes watering anymore, choking to get a breath and I don't go home with my clothes smelling of smoke and there's an altogether better atmosphere in the places.
As much resistance as there was before the laws came into effect in SA, smokers here actually see things differently now and accept that their smoke bothers other people.
The choice to smoke is still there, but there's the added choice of smoke in a designated area, or not smoke at all. I don't begrudge smokers their choices, I just choose not to.
I will however also add this: smoking areas in pubs and restaurants are forbidden in Norway, that is, if you want to smoke you have to do it out on the street and not indoor. At the same time, here in Oslo there are designated needle-rooms, places where drug-adicts can go to get clean needles and do their injections - and drugs are actually forbidden. So, when you do something legal, you have to stand outside on the street, but when you do something illegal, the government will provide a room for you where you can do this!! It surely is a strange world, isn't it?
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