btw......what about smokers rights?
....remember smoking is still LEGAL....
ask yourself WHY it still is?
I say let the people vote on it next election & let the pieces fall where they may.......but that will never happen....why?... $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ & lots of it

I have gear that STILL smells of smoke !!!

t.

Russ,
I hope you recover quickly and completely!

By the way EVERYONE in my Family smoked...I am the only one that never has. Parents are dead..Enphazema & heart. Thanks goodness my brother quit...but smoked for 30 years.

Unfortunatly both my kids smoke...but want to stop. Only they can do it. But, I still bust there butt about now & then.

Lee

Now I hate the smell of tobacco smoke and am glad the clubs and bars I play in around California are all non smoking.

But you gotta understand why a lot of smokers including myself years ago started despite it being so bad for us. Simple .... !!!! we didn't know it at the time. When I started smoking in the early 60s the link to cancer wasn't known about by the general public and advertising we were watching on TV encouraged us all to smoke and made it appear desirable to do so. It is no wonder so many teenagers back then became willing nicotine addicts. It wasn't until much later after we had all got well and truly hooked were we told it really gonna kill us in the end.


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Masters of Manipulation: Tobacco-industry Tactics...
http://www.idrc.ca/en/ev-28826-201-1-DO_TOPIC.html

In europe & beyond smoking is still the norm everywhere........smoking will never be totales illegal because its a billion dollar business with millions of workers & people making tons of money of it growing & sales....thats the bottome line.....they dont care about you or cancer.

Not to hi-jack the thread, but the same goes for the food industry. A while back I was going through some extensive tests for chest pain (cardiac was ruled out, thank God) ... I was taking a 'cardiac preventive maintenance' program and there was a chef from one of RI's high end restaurants giving a talk ... He said "Remember one thing... in a restaurant, our job is to make food taste good ... that means salt and fat ... we cannot be concerned with the public's health issues" ...
t.

Not quite true...smoking is banned in ALL enclosed and semi enclosed public places in the UK (Great Britian) that includes bars, clubs, and just about anywhere where public gather.

Maybe not so much in the UK but more so then the USA at this time. Remember its still LEAGAL>

Yes... this isn't prohibition. You are still free to smoke in your own home, or away from non-smokers.

Just keep it away from me. Or I'm going on an all bean diet