Random Question for Smokers (school essay)

[Viper_Fujax]

I have to do an essay about issues on college campuses and what i\'d do to fix it. Everyone was doing the obvious binge drinking bs, and i had to pick the topic pretty quickly, so i did public smoking on campus.

At my school (san diego state) you cant smoke unless you\'re 20 feet from a building, or near entrences/exits; but everywhere else its alright to smoke. Theres only 2 places that are forbidden from smoking and they arent that big, and smoke can pretty easily get in it if you smoke outside of them. So im pretty much saying to switch it around and make areas for smokers and have the majority of the campus be non-smoking. (im not that adament about the topic..would be nice, but i just picked the topic for an essay..not going to go around getting petitions signed)

Anyway, for smokers, how do restrictions make you feel?..too tired to think of another way to say the question in a non-gay way. Do you get pissed off? or do you live with it and it doesnt really bother you?

None of the people i talk to smoke, so i came here since its the only forum i post at..rough draft is due friday..

i don\'t smoke but hardcore anti-smokers piss me off.

they whine about secondhand smoke yet drive a big fucking SUV pumping 100x worse pollutants in the air.

I can\'t help you since I don\'t smoke, either...

but my only problem with smokers is the indiscriminate flicking of butts.  I have no idea what makes people think it\'s okay to shoot those little stubs out in the street, on sidewalks, in front of buildings, and my very worse pet peeve - the beach.  

The smoke itself doesn\'t bother me.  Here in Buffalo, they\'ve outlawed smoking in bars.  I think it\'s ridiculous.  Smoking is as much a part of the bar experience as drinking, IMO.  Not on a plane, and not in the movie theaters, and I\'m happy.

[Titan]

i don\'t smoke but hardcore anti-smokers piss me off.

they whine about secondhand smoke yet drive a big fucking SUV pumping 100x worse pollutants in the air.

True that. Hardcore smokers are the ones that had the smoking ban implemented here in Jersey. Such a bullshit law. Atlantic City is exempt from is so casinos don\'t lose money. But what about the small businesses? Restaurants and bars and shit aren\'t allowed a smoking section anymore which has smokers pissed off and hardcore smokers are like "well I don\'t like smoke so its better for me". But what about the people who smoke? They have to go outside because these hardcores like the smell of their own farts. Its a called a smoking sectoin for a reason dipshits......sorry about the vent. This is a hotbutton topic for me. I just htink individual establishments should say if they are smoking or not. In Jersey, there are a lot of diners. Its part of teenage diner culture to smoke, as well as just diner culture. What Jersey did up until a couple weeks ago was have certain times where you can and can\'t smoke in establishments which I thought was a decent compromise but now no one is allowed to smoke.

Well, I\'m a smoker.

We have all those regulations in Chicago now too. It doesn\'t really bother me.

The only thing I don\'t like is that I can;t smoke in some bars now. I mean.. It\'s a frickin BAR!

[Titan]

Well, I\'m a smoker.

We have all those regulations in Chicago now too. It doesn\'t really bother me.

The only thing I don\'t like is that I can;t smoke in some bars now. I mean.. It\'s a frickin BAR!

yeah. I mean you\'re already killing yourself with the alcohol. What\'s a cig or two gonna matter?

Tobacco kills you much faster than alcohol... I\'ve never heard of people getting lung cancer, throat cancer, mouth cancer, from alcohol.

I don\'t smoke, but many of my friends do. The legal smoking age in Alaska is 19. I hate second hand smoke, and tobacco in general(especially the industry, and is death profits). I won\'t ask someone to move if their 2ndhandsmoke is bothering me, I will just move myself.

They have just as much right to smoke as I do to breathe clean air.

[Titan]

New Jersey JUST passed a law upping the age to 19. Its bullshit if you ask me. The way I see it, if you can make the decision of who to vote into office, you should be allowed to make the decision if you want to inhale something you know damn well that can kill you.

Tobacco kills you much faster than alcohol... I\'ve never heard of people getting lung cancer, throat cancer, mouth cancer, from alcohol.

i pray that you never have children to share your wisdom with.

[Titan]

I guess (e) never heard of liver disease or alcohol poisoning. Alcohol poisoning I believe will kill you MUCH faster than a cigarette

I never said alcohol doesnt kill...

To die of alcohol poisioning your going to have to consume a lot very quickly.

One of every three smokers will die of a tobacco-related disease. More people drink alcohol than smoke, yet you dont see millions dying every year from alcohol.

To die of alcohol poisioning your going to have to consume a lot very quickly.

One of every three smokers will die of a tobacco-related disease. More people drink alcohol than smoke, yet you dont see millions dying every year from alcohol.

please....stop posting in this thread!

5% of all deaths from diseases of the circulatory system are attributed to alcohol.
15% of all deaths from diseases of the respiratory system are attributed to alcohol.
30% of all deaths from accidents caused by fire and flames are attributed to alcohol.
30% of all accidental drownings are attributed to alcohol.
30% of all suicides are attributed to alcohol.
40% of all deaths due to accidental falls are attributed to alcohol.
45% of all deaths in automobile accidents are attributed to alcohol.
60% of all homicides are attributed to alcohol.

(Sources: NIDA Report, the Scientific American and Addiction Research Foundation of Ontario.)

Man falling off a cliff would suck, I\'m never drinking again.

Thats dumb people under the influence of alcohol. Drunk dumb people = death, Everyone knows that.

I\'m talking about alcohol, the liquid, that you ingest, to get drunk... in comparision to cigarettes and the toxicity of each.