Yeah, I always sort of chuckle when somebody in L.A. tells me they don't want to breath second hand smoke.



Hey, if you have to go outside, this ought to cut your risk a little..

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Chantix is an excellent new way to quit smoking. I've seen the success already. You've probably seen the commercials on TV

Chantix is available in the United States right now with a prescription. It's about $100 a month for three months and now some insurance companies are even covering it.

It works by attaching to certain receptors in the brain and blocking nicotine, therefore it doesn't contain nicotine. It basically takes the pleasure out of smoking cigarettes. You start taking it a week before you quit and by the end of that week you'll probably want to quit because you won't be getting any pleasure from smoking.

I also heard on the news that a shot will be available within the next few years that basically does the same thing. I don't know much about the details of that.

I've never been able to understand why anybody would need a drug to stop doing something they do by choice

I mean if you don't want to smoke, don't smoke? It's seems quite simple to me, really.

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I really don't want anybody to smoke around me, I always tell my mates that the door is over there and if they want to smoke they do it outside. As for a girl, been a long while since I've been with a real smoker but I think I would just keep using NLP and hypnotism to get her to quit.

I think smoking outside in public places is a great idea.

Too bad the anti-smoking crusade is never satisfied with that.

Like other self interested and intolerant groups, often spewing misinformation and hatred, pushing their own personal agenda onto everyone else is always their ultimate goal.

If you don't want to smoke, it's very simple. Don't do so. If you want to hate others because they choose to exercise their freedom of choice, it's your problem entirely. Just don't be surprised when such intolerance, that you seemingly advocate, suddenly comes knocking at your door as well.

I'm reminded of a quote by Pastor Martin Niemöller (1892–1984) about the inactivity of German intellectuals following the Nazi rise to power and the purging of their chosen targets, group after group.

"In Germany, they came first for the Communists, And I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Communist;

And then they came for the trade unionists, And I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a trade unionist;

And then they came for the Jews, And I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Jew;

And then . . . they came for me . . . And by that time there was no one left to speak up."

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I think you're missing my meaning, I nor anyone else on this topic is saying that smoking should be outlawed, merely that we would not want to be around someone who smokes. And yeah, living in LA where you can't jump very high without hitting your head on the smog may seem like a bad lifestyle to criticize smoking, but in the end, even a quart of lighter fluid on a forest fire only makes the situation worse.

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My point being;

I think we should be able to separate the act of smoking, from the dislike or hate of a complete person just because they choose to smoke occasionally.

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Comon dude, not one person here has said anything about hating or disliking people who smoke. All I and everyone else has said is that we would not want to be around someone smoking and that we would not go out with a smoker (obviously they will eventually be smoking around you if you're going out, not to mention the health issues).

I hate smoking. Not smokers.

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Then don't smoke.

It's as simple as that.

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That would solve the problem yeah, if it weren't for the fact that breathing 2nd-hand smoke is just like smoking a cigarette yourself. So in order to avoid 2nd-hand smoke one has to avoid someone who is in the act of smoking. It's not out of dislike of the person who is smoking, but dislike of the act itself.

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If my post made me appear homosexual, I want you all to know that prior to sitting down at my computer I slammed 15 shots of whiskey, went balls-deep into my woman, and recited Clint Eastwood lines for 20 minutes.

I'm agreeing with you.

And I think you're a fine fellow Top-ster.

BTW, you got a light, I've got to run outside and see the kitty?

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lol well I do got plenty of matches and lighters left over from my frat initiation

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If my post made me appear homosexual, I want you all to know that prior to sitting down at my computer I slammed 15 shots of whiskey, went balls-deep into my woman, and recited Clint Eastwood lines for 20 minutes.