Treated like a Queen FOR Smoking at Office Christmas Party

[roguevalley]

253. hangonkids, I am assuming you self deleted after a moment

of thought. Thank you for that. Considering my circumstances I should be allowed to disagree even if I amnot waiting with dread for the news about my sister in law. A couple of things anyway...

1. I said 'fuck smoking', not smokers.

2. Smoking is an addiction like meth, booze and overeating. I feel for addicts because food was once an addiction for me. Just because it is legal doesn't change a damn thing. Its a killing addiction.

3. My sister in law is facing really bad news. That should have been enough to leave me alone. This isn't some bullshit libertarian thing for me, smoking. I lost the following people to smoking:

Uncles: 5
aunts: 2
cousins: 3 that I am currently aware of
parents: my luminously beautiful dad
grandparents: my two grandpas

I HATE SMOKING! I earned the right to say so. I also have ALWAYS had the right to have smokers blow their poison somewhere other than at me. How is it that you can have the freedom to smoke and I can't have the SAME FREEDOM to not smoke? How does it feel to be the minority? Now you understand what it has been like for non-smokers for 500 YEARS. Now you know what it feels like when smokers turned on me when I asked them not to smoke around me MY WHOLE LIFE!

I am old. I remember seeing smokers in the grocery store. I will always HATE SMOKING! I lost my family to cigarettes and the companies who made them and lied. They continue to lie too. This isn't about freedom. No addict is ever free. You are a slave to companies that make a product that kills you if you smoke.

I am entitled to be free of smoke. My compassion is always extended to addicts even if their choice of poison is legal. If you have an opinion about this and can express it freely, so the same should I without fear of being slagged. You and I will just have to agree to disagree.

I pray my sister in law isn't going to be added to my list. I HATE SMOKING! FUCK SMOKING!