The evil smokers and their fiendish plot!

[Andres]

I think instead they should make it legal that I can punch and beat everybody who smokes anywhere where I cannot easily avoid their smoke to my heart's content without having to fear any legal repercussions.

I can understand you don't want smoke in your face when having dinner in a restaurant, but I fail to see how it can bother someone if a guy is smoking in e.g. a trainstation

Do you want it legal that you can punch and beat everybody who drives a car anywhere where you cannot easily avoid their smoke to your heart's content without having to fear any legal repercussions as well? While we're at it, let's make shooting rockets at evil airplanes with their evil gasses legal. And blowing up houses of people who warm their houses using non-renewable energy sources, which probably would mean that it'll become legal to blow up about any house. Oh, and punching anybody who has someting in his home that's made in China, because all the evil gasses produced to get that stuff here are bad for us.

Meh, why not make it legal to kill human beings, surely, they're all doing something that could be bad for my health.

[Husar]

I can understand you don't want smoke in your face when having dinner in a restaurant, but I fail to see how it can bother someone if a guy is smoking in e.g. a trainstation

Do you want it legal that you can punch and beat everybody who drives a car anywhere where you cannot easily avoid their smoke to your heart's content without having to fear any legal repercussions as well? While we're at it, let's make shooting rockets at evil airplanes with their evil gasses legal. And blowing up houses of people who warm their houses using non-renewable energy sources, which probably would mean that it'll become legal to blow up about any house. Oh, and punching anybody who has someting in his home that's made in China, because all the evil gasses produced to get that stuff here are bad for us.

Meh, why not make it legal to kill human beings, surely, they're all doing something that could be bad for my health.

I agree about cars, except electric ones, we could have saved ourselves the whole E10 debacle as well.
It's not just about long term health effects, it's about making me cough, making my clothes and my hair smell horribly bad etc. without it being any of my own wrongdoing, just for the pleasure/addiction/weakness of someone else. The disadvantages of smoking balance out the benefits, at least when you're addicted. And someone who can't wait for a minute until they're outside a subway station where noone minds that they smoke, has to be addicted. Even worse if they do it down at the platform or even inside the train because then everybody standing downwind gets a taste of it...
A train station outside is less problematic.

The China thing is something they have to do in China, their gasses aren't affecting me nearly as much as the ones from a smoker 2m away from me. It's him who I want to beat up for my enjoyment and I don't see why that should be banned because my enjoyment is more important than what he thinks about this minor health problem I'm causing.

[Tellos Athenaios]

my enjoyment is more important than what he thinks about this minor health problem I'm causing

That tends to sum up the people who smoke pretty well.

[Rhyfelwyr]

That tends to sum up the people who smoke pretty well.

This thread was never about smoking in public places.

[Strike For The South]

You are keeping Fags in the closet

It's only a matter time before you put Frags in the cloest
I lol

On topic: If you smoke you are a fool, I say we give cigs away so we can be rid of these people quicker

[Husar]

This thread was never about smoking in public places.

Yeah, it's about the horrible fascism of completely ineffective, nonsensical "look, we're doing something" "attempts" by politicians which are about as useful as the outrage about our right to have colourful packages being stripped away from us that follows them.

[InsaneApache]

It's actually about more than that. It's about people deciding what is normal and what is not. That word, "Denormalisation", should have everyone worried. Whether you smoke or not. Who decides what's normal? The government? The local council? ASH? The police?

I don't know either but it's worrying.

They've done the deed on the smokers and are now moving on to "Denormalise" alcohol. After that who knows. Probably fat people. Perhaps people who look a bit different. Maybe even you one day.

[HoreTore]

Uhm.... Denormalization is a technical term, IA, it has nothing to do with politicospeak...

[Husar]

I never thought I'm normal anyway.