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09/17/09
And ultraviolet radiation from the earth's sun causes a host of skin cancers.
Also, trees occasionally fall on people.
09/16/09
And I'm sick and tired of the anti-smoking arguments. Yeah, it probably makes your clothes smell bad. Yeah, you probably suck in some second hand smoke. But, so what?
Car exhaust makes my clothes smell bad and I bet I suck in a lot of carcinogens from all the car exhaust in the city than any amount of second hand smoke can produce. And, guess what, in New York City there is no reason for anyone, ever to be in a car. You can get anywhere you fucking want by subway.
That's why I've never, ever owned a car whenever I've lived in any city.
So, here's the deal, I won't smoke in your fucking parks when you ban cabs, buses and private cars. I'll deal with delivery trucks because bars have to get beer somehow, but even those should be electric.
I'm tired of inhaling all you second hard car exhaust just so you can sit in a cab or a limo and not have to descend into the subway with the rest of the proletariat.
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Bloomberg should fix about a thousand other things like the fucking subways (notice his ads say if elected he'll take on the MTA, hey asshole why didn't you do that in your first EIGHT years in office???) and forget about the air in the parks. Geezus Christmas enough already!
signed,
~ your local smoking Nazi who says just say no to smoking bans in the outdoors. and btw, Bloomberg you're an asshole on so many other levels.
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Thank you!
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YES -- Smoke all you want outside, but stop leaving your grubby little filters all over the street as if they aren't garbage!
(But then, these are probably the same assholes who can't walk ten feet to a trash can to dispose of their candy wrapper/chicken bone/dry cleaning bill/crappy free newspaper.)
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I'd really like to ban roller bladers and old grannies in the park. They are definitely more hazardous to my health than smokers. Where do I get this petition thang going?
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However. PARKS? SIDEWALKS? Outdoor areas where smoke instantly dissipates in the surrounding gazillions of cubic feet of air? Give me a fucking break. This is a large, crowded city with poor air quality. Nobody has a reasonable expectation of walking around outdoors without encountering some kind of airborne pollutant. If we're going to pretend this is about public health, cars and trucks should be the first things banned. But it's not about public health, except in the roundabout way that making the life of a smoker impossibly expensive and annoying might encourage them to quit. The health risks associated with getting a passing whiff of secondhand smoke on the street or in a park are beyond negligible, and people who loudly claim otherwise are whiny, entitled and self-righteous cunts who deserve a passing reminder that the world doesn't revolve around them.
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Of course, it's not going to work. "Oh, I can't smoke at the beach, where I go one to two times a year?? I guess it's time to quit." Besides, there is very little chance that they could enforce this with any consistency.
09/16/09
Although a happy medium would be to have a smoker's bar staffed by smokers who don't mind it so much.
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But we all know that they really just want to ban smoking period. Fucking health nazis.
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But come on, outside is outside.
I hate walking behind a smoker on the street. It usually makes me want to vomit when I get hit with a strangers expelled smoke in my face but I just pass them.
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