My Fellow Smokers! Sign in here and UNITE!

In My Humble Opinion
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OOOOOOKAY!

I’ve had it. It’s time to fight back.

I smoke, and I personally don’t care if you find it offensive or not. I was sitting in the smoking section of a restaurant in our mall, having enjoyed a fine lunch of excellent salad, wonderfully done baby back ribs, rolls so delicious I ate the whole basketful, crispy, magnificent onion rings and a fluffy, large baked potato with sour cream, and butter. Chased with two mugs of great iced tea. During this time, I contented myself with reading a Stephen King book as I consumed my meal and bothered no one.

I was bothered, though, by some kid screaming his dirty butt off across the room, owned by some chubby Momma that seemed inured to the belligerent caterwauling of her offspring and kept on shoveling great, heaping amounts of food into herself. Some Black guy had problems with keeping his voice down below a shout as he and a friend had a ‘quiet’ chat. A group of 4 teens, all guyz, were loud and annoying talkin’ to da boyz on da cell phone and makin’ time wit da bitchez (waitresses). (White guys, BTW.)

I finish my meal, order coffee and as I settle in to digest it while sipping said good coffee and reading said excellent book, I lit up a smoke. Nothing like a good smoke after a good meal!

I got bitched at by a couple of chicks sitting two tables away from me! I was in the smoking area. They were not. It started with dirty and shocked looks, then comments I tried to ignore and then a waitress called, who explained something to them, but they were persistent, with dagger looks at me and the uneasy employee drifted over and asked if I would mind putting out my smoke because it disturbed the guests. I said no! I pointed out the smoking sign and the waitress shrugged embarrassedly, said she was just delivering a request and wandered off.

I looked over at the two girls young women really, grinned and went on smoking, to be glared at for a time whilst they mumbled louder and louder comments like ‘ignorant pig’ and I got irritated. My fine meal turned to lead in my stomach and I couldn’t concentrate on my reading and finally, I put the smoke out and left.

Look. I and several other million people got suckered in by the tobacco companies when I was young and cigarettes were advertised as being good for you. I have an addictive personality and quitting, at this time, is not an option. Smoking is my last vice, aside from sex.

I can cheerfully list over 100 different things you nonsmokers contribute to that offend and endanger me, but you people don’t say a peep about. I have to put up with a**hole commercials pointing out how dumb, stupid, dangerous, antisocial, selfish and annoying smoking is, commercials with kids with big eyes pleading with Mom and dad not to smoke and an antismoking campaign more active than the campaign against drugs complete with inaccurate and doctored statistics about how smoking kills more people than anything else in the world, including nature. (Funny, to date, at least 8 other conditions and diseases claim such statistics also.)

So, smokers unite. I smoke and I’m going to smoke and you mouthy b**ds can shut up about it and leave me alone!! If you smoke, at least have the balls to sign up here! Like there’s a post for nonsmokers to list on, so why not one for us smokers, who are rapidly becoming the most violated people in civil rights, far beyond any minority!! Tell it like it is, brothers and sisters. Show some spine. Let’em know you puff and that they can bit you!

Thank you.

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Uh. that should read bite you. :smiley:

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Amen, brother.

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Hack cough! That’s it, smoke another one. Hack cough! A smoker checking in. What I love is the one “Truth” commercial which has the guy with the bullhorn and the woodchipper reading from a report by the tobacco companies that says, “Today’s teenager is tomorrow’s customer.” :rolleyes: Like every company doesn’t have a similar report in its files somewhere. To quote George Carlin, “Kids don’t smoke because of a camel in sunglasses! Kids smoke because it helps relieve stress and anxiety!”

Even many of my non-smoking friends think the anti-smokers are a bit nutty!

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Um, you guys are just wasting time. Until three weeks ago I was as die hard as you chumps. I was all “blah blah blah”, just, like, you.

Yesterday I had my first non-smoker’s epiphany: I can’t stand cigarette smoke. I was talking to a smoker friend and took a whiff of her Camel and instantly felt like I joined the ranks of all those snooty Californians whom I’ve destained for all these years. I bet your not even going to quit the day you find out you have cancer…I sure as hell wouldn’t if I were you.

It seems kind of retarted to me, though, that you are trying to make some sort of spectacle of yorself proclaiming your stupidity(Geez, I’m surprised those words actually came out of my head). Well, another supporter of the “natural selection” idea.

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jaded smoker who sees eminent death in lots o’ “healthy” activities

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I smoke. I smoke about a pack a day. I smoke about a pack a day of Camel cigarettes. Not Camel Lights, not Camel Filters, Camels. Real cigarettes. I like them. I enjoy every cigarette. And, I’m addicted. I would be happy not to smoke, but quitting hasn’t worked yet. I don’t smoke in your house. I don’t smoke in your car. I don’t smoke in any public place where it is prohibited. So get off my f**king back!

I mean, good God, my four-year-old niece gives me s**t about it. My seven-year-old son used to but my ex-wife and I respected his wishes and quit smoking in the car with him. Neither of us smokes in the house when he is around (he lives with her and she and her husband now smoke in the garage and, occasionally, their bedroom). The price of repsecting his wishes was that he quit badgering us about it. That’s been one of the few things we’ve managed to agree about in the six years since our divorce. If my son can respect my desire to smoke, so can the little brats of nonsmokers everywhere, so long as we don’t force them to put up with it.

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If you don’t smoke, I don’t want to hear your platitudes and ‘wise’ comments. Around half of you puff pot anyhow, which, judging from the residue it leaves in pipes, is going to turn out to be more harmful than tobacco and there’s now a link between it and heart attacks. Think that’s going to stop determined pot smokers. BTW, I haven’t smoked pot since the early 80s. I don’t do drugs, but I figure 1/4 of you nonsmokers do crack or snort coke.

I know because I got a lecture about smoking from a guy who buys $100 worth of crack a day. I also got it from an alcoholic who guzzles a gallon of booze a day. Hard stuff also. I visited NYC on business last week and thank goodness I only had to spend a day there because the sulfur dioxide stink in the place made me afraid to smoke.

You know, there are little known statistics showing that the highest rates of smoker related disease comes to people who live in major cities, where when they smoke, they get to do so in an intensely polluted atmosphere. When they light up a smoke, they get to puff on pollutants from the cars and busses of nonsmokers. Then they get to enjoy a vacation on a lake where in almost all life has been killed by acid rain from catalytic converter sulfur dioxide.

In Chicago, some trees grow so poorly that people have to plant hardier breeds, able to take the intense air pollution. I also know nonsmokers who like to mix a cocktail of assorted drugs and shoot 'em up even if you aren’t supposed to mix a couple. They hate the smell of my smokes but love the stench of burning cocaine and baking soda or bubbling horse.

Booze kills more people than smoking does, because a boozer on the road will take others with him at times, but no one is banning booze. Yet, I hear all the time about second hand smoke. How about second hand booze?

You know, AA has over 4 million active members in the USA, which means the people want to stop the booze but no one else gets the hint. I worked in DETOX for a month, locally, helping out and man, you have to see these drunks sobering up to believe it. The antismoking people have more ads out than antidrinking folks do and no one gives you dirty looks if you have a drink with lunch. Heck, a couple of my bosses have liquid lunches almost daily, under the disguise of business meetings, and they’re hailed as good guys.

Well, I smoke and that’s that. Maybe I’ll see if I can get the Truth people to start putting out antiboozing ads. (Yeah, like that would happen because over half of them drink! I can guarantee you that at least two of their employees will have DWI’s in their records and no one cares.)

See, It’s OK to get blasted and take out a school buss on the way home, but not to smoke in the smoking area and let anyone within 20 feet get a faint wiff, because then we’re poisoning them.

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Thread started by known troll…therefore, it’s getting closed.

Lynn