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sherryie browning
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I think this is just taking away one more right for us.
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Jared from Kosciusko
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I don't think anyone should smoke,but dag gumit! Do they really need a ticket for it?
And I doubt very seriously the police want to take useful time from trackng down real criminals, by going after those violent smokers.lol We got more important things to worry about.
Just let them smoke for freedoms' sake! The anti-smoker movement is just a collection of self-righteous nuts anyway.
Have they nothing better to do? Political subject to talk about?
Their "goal" is probly to lower the state's debt by finding new ways to tax the citizens.When the real problem,is that the government taxes us way to much,and spends even more than they tax.
Thus around 5 trillion in federal debt.Anyone know the states' debt though?
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BeeBee
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Hopefully these smokers will realize that they are killing themselves slowly but surely. I am 100% for a smoking ban. Why should non smokers have to be subjected to that foul smelling body destroying disgusting smelling stuff?
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BeeBee
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I guess clean living makes me a self righteous nut huh Jared. So Be It. I like waking up and not hacking up a lung or smelling so foul from tobacco that its putrid.
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Jared from Kosciusko
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Just for the record,smokers know they are slowly killing themselves.Its on the friggin cigarette pack.
You are not subjected to smokers.You have a mouth.So tell them you don't like it.If you don't want someone to smoke around you,then ask them not to.Most smokers are curtious enough to put it out.You don't have to ask big brother to hold your hand and do all the talking for you.
I mean,your not going to catch lung cancer from walking by a smoker outside a store.I don't particularly like the smell of fast food outside McDonalds,but im not going to sue the entire population of fast food customers because of it.
Think about it this way.Do you want criminals to sell cigarettes on the black market and make greater money to buy and sell more REAL and DANGEROUS drugs?Because they are the ones that are going to be making the money off of it.
Young and older smokers will then go to drug dealers to buy cigarettes,and will be offered other drugs as a result.All because you dont want to "smell" it.
So yeah,it is a little self-righteous.
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BeeBee
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Jared: You sound like your only point is to argue. My point is that second hand smoke kills. First hand smoke kills. The smell of McDonalds, while funky, will not kill you. So please remove yourself from your pedestal and act like an adult. We should be (1) encouraging people to live healthier and (2) work on effectively communicating a solution.
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Jared from Kosciusko
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Sorry if im offensive.Im sure i was.
2nd hand smoke will not kill you when you occasionally have to smell it by a store.It might, if you live with someone that smokes inside though.
Also,encouraging and forcing people to live healthier are two different things.Should we regulate how many calories a burger can have at the fast food restraunt?
We can effectively communicate a solution by indoctrinating(bluntly speaking) our kids that smoking is unhealthy and can kill you.
Adults already know smoking is bad,but will do what they wish anyway.
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Mixed Feelings
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Are they going to tell us when and where we can drink a glass of wine or a beer next? I don't think they should have a smoking ban, yet should require bar's and bar/grill/restaurant's to have proper (special) exhaust and ventilation so that if there are those who don't want to breathe the smoke, they won't have to.
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bill
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MS seems the only place left where there is smoking sections in resturants, and people there are too dumb to understand that being next to smoking people is the same as being in a smoking section. When will the people of MS have enough and stop smoking in resturants. Bars too.
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Mixed Feelings
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You are calling people in MS dumb? Don't know where the heck "HOLYOKE, MA" is, but take a look at some of your state laws up there...
- Alcoholic drink specials are illegal.
- Children may smoke, but they may not purchase cigarettes.
- In 1659 the state of Massachusetts outlawed Christmas.
- It is illegal to take more than 2 baths a month within Boston confines.
Things that make you go hmmm...?
Aside from that, I have traveled all over the US, as well as the world, and have seen more cities in MS that have banned smoking in public buildings than most larger metropolitan areas. Do your homework, go somewhere and warm up so that you can thaw out your brain and think straight... or make yet another senseless post... we often are quite amused by left-wing yankee liberals and their jibber-jabber.
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uh oh
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well if you want a smokers opinion on it.............ban smoking in public places. I won't even smoke in a resturant any way cause i do think about the non-smokers.
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Louisiana Perspective
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Smoking bans do one thing only. They prove that the few rights that we have in America can be taken away if you know how to use the system. Louisiana has been "Outlawing" smoking in buildings for a while. Now they are trying to outlaw smoking outside. What next? We also have a law that says you can't smoke in your car if a child 12 or under is with you. What about your house? People need to understand that this country allows citizens rights to express themselves as they fell the need. If you do not want to smoke, don't. That is your right. But, if I want to smoke in my car or in a bar, that is my right. Please stop this Political Correctness stuff and let "Americans be Free"
By the way, I do not smoke. I used to, but I quit. So I am speaking from both sides of the table.
Just my point of view.
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Frank
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Louisiana Perspective, Someone's right to smoke doesn't surpass someone else's right not to have to smell it. Good or bad for you doesn't matter.'When your right effects someone else then you have to look at what's the best solution. People can live without thier cigarettes but why should someone have to smell someone's cigarettes? You say your losing rights, I say someone else is gaining rights. Like the childs right to live without being forced to live in an ashtray of a house or car. But I used to smoke too so I know how it feels. I wouldn't object to area's such as out on the porch for a smoking area, or a special section that is closed off from the main area. At home heat or cool the garage, or make a room for smoking and close the door and put in a vent. Lots of answers but someone is going to give up something.
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Big Fred
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If the smokers want to kill their selves with lung cancer so be it but why do the tax payers have to foot their hospital bill?
Dumb
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John
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BeeBee wrote: Jared: You sound like your only point is to argue. My point is that second hand smoke kills. First hand smoke kills. The smell of McDonalds, while funky, will not kill you. So please remove yourself from your pedestal and act like an adult. We should be (1) encouraging people to live healthier and (2) work on effectively communicating a solution. I have known people that has never smoked a day in there life that has dided from cancer do your history on this you are born with the cancer,also you are so up tight next you need to stay in side out of the sun before you get skin cancer. So go home and get you a oxygen bottle and stay in side off of the computer because you can get cancer from the computers ,cellphones,walmart, radar guns sun light and on and on.
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Teresa
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I smoke and would like to quit. But the issue is that the government dose not stop the sale of tobacco. Have you ask WHY. My thing is they have been sending man to the moon for forty years but there is still no cure for cancer, or is there? If it is illeagle to smoke why sell the product? Why keep on addicting millions of people to tobacco? It IS a drug aand noow they want to take it away, Will the city pay for us to go in rehab or get treatment? No they want our tax money and to punish us for the habbit the government put on the market to make the pharmaacutcal coompanies a little more money. Again I ask what country do we live in. Insurance will pay for erictal disfunction medication( which dooes affect one mind and well being) but will not pay for medication to554 quiit smoking.
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TJD
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As a SMOKER.
I personally do not agree with the smoking ban. I have enough respect for non-smokers to not smoke around them. I never light up in a resterant, I wait and go outside. I live in Mantachie and work in Tupelo. So I get the best of both places. Now since the ban, I do NOT purchase from either place. Why should they get my money? If every smoker that purchases from either place would stop buying from them, their revenue would drop....BIG TIME! If they want to ban smoking, let them ban the sale of tobacco in those places too... They have DRY Counties in MS, isn't that what this is like? Can't drink there so can't buy there, same principle.
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Louisiana Perspecitve
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This is to Frank. My discussion was aimed at the ability of certain people to erode the rights of other people. I agree, people should not have to smell other peoples smoke. Most smokers I know give courtesy to non smokers and do not smoke in their presence. My point is what is next. Why should I as a tax paying citizen have to give up a right just so that another person can gain one? The constitution states that all people are equal in the eyes of the law. If the government wants to make it "safer" for everyone, just "OUTLAW" smoking for everyone. It is just that most Americans are tired of "Big Brother" telling us what is best for us. Just watch and see what happens.
Just a Louisiana Point of View
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Mississippi E
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Ok, as far as the restaurants, the ones who serve Alcohol have smoking, also the restaurants separate the smokers from the non smokers....
If they aim at the smokers , they also need to aim at the drinkers....I smoke but I do not drink.. I can't stand the smell of alcohol.. I also can't stand to be around an obnoxious drunk. so if they "OUTLAW" smoking they need to "OUTLAW " drinking .. people would be safer on the roads with a smoker than a drinker in any case.
um that goes for cell phone users also if we are really going to get into it, they ought to not be allowed on the road or in stores or restaurants. They are irritating!
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Denise
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I very much agree with you E. Cell phones should be intended for emergency purposes only. Nothing aggrevates me more than to be driving down the road and see someone yacking it up on their cell phone while putting tons of people in jeapordy due to their unawareness of what's going on around them. You would think at some point people would run out of things to talk about.
As far as a ban on smoking, I think that's just rediculous. Sure smoking is a terrible habit, but if everyone would just have a little consideration for non-smokers and not light up in a restarant I don't see what the issue would be.
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