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The Straight Story (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-23-10 08:01 AM Original message |
Outdoor smoking ban weighed |
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SidDithers (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-23-10 08:02 AM Response to Original message |
1. Good...nt |
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The Straight Story (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-23-10 08:05 AM Response to Reply #1 |
3. Can we ban cars/trucks from the place too? Sit in a garage for 2 hours running a car |
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Nye Bevan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-23-10 08:59 AM Response to Reply #3 |
9. You never saw a "No Idling" sign? (nt) |
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The Straight Story (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-23-10 09:21 AM Response to Reply #9 |
12. Yeah, on the LA freeway during rush hour, ton of those signs around... (nt) |
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Nye Bevan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-23-10 09:29 AM Response to Reply #12 |
14. Sorry, I thought your post said "in a garage"... I must have read it too quickly (nt) |
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The Straight Story (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-24-10 10:15 AM Response to Reply #14 |
65. Sorry, I thought they bars and not parks (which are out doors) (nt) |
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KittyLover (79 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-23-10 07:14 PM Response to Reply #3 |
44. Always agreed with you |
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RegieRocker (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-23-10 08:03 AM Response to Original message |
2. I guess there is no air pollution what so ever in that park |
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Union Scribe (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-23-10 09:58 AM Response to Reply #2 |
20. Isn't any move to reduce pollution a step in the right direction? |
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RegieRocker (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-23-10 10:10 AM Response to Reply #20 |
21. Go after the bigger pollutants first. Do you think it's cigarettes? |
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Union Scribe (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-23-10 11:00 AM Response to Reply #21 |
23. Why not both? Banning smoking in no way precludes "going after" other polluters. |
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RegieRocker (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-23-10 12:16 PM Response to Reply #23 |
27. It's called Freedom for everyone not only you. |
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Union Scribe (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-23-10 12:58 PM Response to Reply #27 |
28. Ah, so it was never about pollution for you. |
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RegieRocker (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-23-10 02:56 PM Response to Reply #28 |
31. Don't smoke but you're not addressing the issue now are you. |
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ixion (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-23-10 08:47 AM Response to Original message |
4. Are they going to ban cars, fast food, chemicals in the water, pesticides, etc, too? |
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LuvNewcastle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-23-10 08:49 AM Response to Original message |
5. The smoking police are coming. |
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taterguy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-23-10 08:51 AM Response to Original message |
6. Good thing this isn't banned . . . |
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-..__... (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-23-10 08:55 AM Response to Original message |
7. Welcome to the nanny state... |
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Xenotime (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-23-10 04:58 PM Response to Reply #7 |
40. So, you support smoking in front of children? |
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FamousBlueRaincoat (141 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-23-10 05:37 PM Response to Reply #40 |
42. the children |
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-..__... (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-23-10 07:53 PM Response to Reply #40 |
46. Loaded question... |
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FamousBlueRaincoat (141 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-23-10 07:55 PM Response to Reply #46 |
48. what about for the troops? |
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Nye Bevan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-23-10 08:58 AM Response to Original message |
8. Excellent. When I am outside I like to breathe clean air. |
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Obamanaut (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-23-10 09:09 AM Response to Reply #8 |
11. Not to mention all the thousands of filter tips strewn about the countryside |
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Nye Bevan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-23-10 09:28 AM Response to Reply #11 |
13. Smokers seem to believe that there is some kind of "cigarette-butt fairy" |
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Recursion (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-23-10 11:00 AM Response to Reply #13 |
24. I don't get it. And it's people who otherwise would never "litter" |
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smiley (602 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-23-10 04:12 PM Response to Reply #13 |
35. I know many, many smokers... |
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FamousBlueRaincoat (141 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-23-10 04:31 PM Response to Reply #35 |
39. a supporting example |
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pintobean (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-24-10 06:08 AM Response to Reply #13 |
63. All smokers are litter-bugs and disgusting animals? |
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DaveinJapan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-23-10 09:44 AM Response to Reply #8 |
16. After you drink your beers and belch and I have to smell it |
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pintobean (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-23-10 09:49 AM Response to Reply #16 |
18. Second-hand suds. |
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Nye Bevan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-23-10 09:56 AM Response to Reply #16 |
19. Absolutely. I only belch where nobody can smell it. |
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FamousBlueRaincoat (141 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-23-10 04:16 PM Response to Reply #8 |
36. i like to breathe clean air too |
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pintobean (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-23-10 09:05 AM Response to Original message |
10. I'm smoking now |
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Nye Bevan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-23-10 09:41 AM Response to Reply #10 |
15. Will you dispose of the butt in a trash can? Or are you like most smokers? (nt) |
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pintobean (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-23-10 09:48 AM Response to Reply #15 |
17. Do tell |
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Recursion (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-23-10 10:59 AM Response to Original message |
22. If smokers policed their own butts it might be different |
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RegieRocker (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-23-10 11:00 AM Response to Reply #22 |
25. Thought this was about second hand smoke not butts? |
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Obamanaut (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-23-10 05:33 PM Response to Reply #25 |
41. Merely different forms of pollution from the same product and its users. nt |
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cherish44 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-23-10 11:30 AM Response to Original message |
26. keep the mosquitos out of the parks too! |
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cbdo2007 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-23-10 01:47 PM Response to Original message |
29. Good. Smokers should only kill themselves in the privacy of their own homes. |
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pintobean (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-23-10 01:54 PM Response to Reply #29 |
30. I'm wishing I was about 5' upwind from you right now. |
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bighart (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-23-10 03:28 PM Response to Original message |
32. If non-smokers really cared about the kids they would be BUYING tobacco . |
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quaker bill (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-23-10 03:59 PM Response to Reply #32 |
34. In FL |
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WinkyDink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-23-10 08:15 PM Response to Reply #32 |
53. It's the "Watch what you wish for" effect. |
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county worker (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-23-10 03:32 PM Response to Original message |
33. Banning smoking outside is a bit much, but I wish smokers outside would not throw butts on the |
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FamousBlueRaincoat (141 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-23-10 04:26 PM Response to Reply #33 |
38. the cigarette butt thing is a bummer |
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Forkboy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-23-10 04:23 PM Response to Original message |
37. Good, they keep blocking all the McDonald's entrances. |
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pintobean (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-23-10 07:01 PM Response to Reply #37 |
43. McDonald's customers should be weighed |
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KittyLover (79 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-23-10 07:23 PM Response to Original message |
45. I'd also like to point out something for the people bringing up the issue of buts on the ground: |
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FamousBlueRaincoat (141 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-23-10 07:54 PM Response to Reply #45 |
47. i pointed that out above |
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Irishonly (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-23-10 08:57 PM Response to Reply #47 |
60. I Walk My Dogs |
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alphafemale (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-24-10 06:51 AM Response to Reply #47 |
64. Smokers on the beach who think that poking their butt an inch into the sand |
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Obamanaut (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-23-10 08:06 PM Response to Reply #45 |
49. And some will argue that inmate labor is 'slave' labor, because they |
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FamousBlueRaincoat (141 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-23-10 08:16 PM Response to Reply #49 |
54. in my city it's not done by inmates |
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KittyLover (79 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-23-10 08:23 PM Response to Reply #49 |
55. Agreed on the last point |
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Obamanaut (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-23-10 08:51 PM Response to Reply #55 |
59. The inmates striking in some of the prisons in Georgia in the last week or |
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Zanzobar (276 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-23-10 08:12 PM Response to Original message |
50. Assholes |
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pintobean (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-23-10 08:14 PM Response to Reply #50 |
52. Who are the assholes? |
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Zanzobar (276 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-23-10 11:49 PM Response to Reply #52 |
62. The goddamned pearl clutchers. |
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WinkyDink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-23-10 08:13 PM Response to Original message |
51. Either allow smoking of a legal product, or make the product illegal. But stop the games. |
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LAGC (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-23-10 08:27 PM Response to Reply #51 |
56. You don't think there's a compromise somewhere in the middle there? |
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WinkyDink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-23-10 08:29 PM Response to Reply #56 |
57. I think "outdoors" goes beyond "compromise." I'd ban "Two and a Half Men" first. |
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LAGC (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-23-10 08:36 PM Response to Reply #57 |
58. Perhaps... |
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Nodak (8 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-23-10 09:32 PM Response to Original message |
61. Smokers |
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