Reply #175: You are a grown-up now. I'm sure you can handle it. If not...

[Kingshakabobo]

maybe you shouldn't take part in these discussions. I'm sure you can handle it but you use emotion and hyperbole because your argument has no logic on which to stand.

It's a health issue for me. Your sense of shame has nothing to do with it. Get help if you must.

Poor persecuted smokes forced to face reality that their habit causes health problems for others.
"But, but, but, I've ALWAYS been able to smoke and make other people breath my fumes."

All this bullshit about prohibition is just that. BULLSHIT. No one (here at least) is talking about banning smoking. They are only talking about banning it in PUBLIC PLACES/ACCOMMODATIONS.

I see it as a step forward due to a loosening of the grip that the tobacco lobby has had on this country for years. I grew up in Chicago and watched one of our news anchormen get sued (i think he lost 2 or 3 million bucks) by big tobacco for saying, during one of his investigative reports, that tobacco companies were marketing to minors. Well, years later, it turns out it was true. I wonder if he ever got his money back.

Of course, we have a few tobacco company stooges on this board saying second-hand smoke isn't harmful. LOL.