Holiday World should ban smoking

Nah, like barring the display of the ten commandments in public, the rights of parents to know if their child is undergoing a surgical procedure, and yes, regulating album content

lata, jeremy

--who notes that Tipper Gore was a leading champion in the "anit-rap" days

Uh, you forgot nativity scenes and prayer in schools if you wanna whine about liberals. How could you?

Anyway, I doubt if either side of the political spectrum will beat on the growers and producers of the local, red-white-and-blue, All-American addictive killer with more than a wet noodle. They're all on the take if not the toke.

-CO

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Considering the rate at which some states, and other countries, are decriminalizing the possession of "the other smoking material"....we'll have the same discussion about parks banning weed smoking in about 10 years....and I'll pull this very thread from amongst the rubble just to say "told ya so"....;)

A couple of high school buddies of mine went to Chico State for "college" (Chico's Pioneer Days puts UCSB's Halloween party to shame). As far as I can tell, that area of California is called the Emerald Triangle for much the same reason.

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Smokin & Ridin said:

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You have the right to suck on a butt if you want to.
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I thought this was the smoking thread, not the gay marriage thread...:) (To make this coaster-related, I hope that someday my partner and I can have our commitment ceremony on a coaster....)

In all seriousness, you are correct, a person in the USA has that right - but not the right to endanger anyone else in the course of exercising that right.
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CoastaPlaya said:
Uh, you forgot nativity scenes and prayer in schools if you wanna whine about liberals. How could you?

The same way you left out boo-hooing about the neo-cons' stance on gays in the military and the Boy Scouts, but you dont see me ragging on you for it ;)

But you are right, the tobacco industry aint going away anytime soon.

lata, jeremy

--who can see the tobacco lobbyists from his apartment complex

P.S. How *dare* you send "C.O." after me :)

OK...which one of you drank all my Mountain Dew and smoked all my Indiana ditch weed? Now I'm pissed!!!!

Wood - anything else is an imitation

Better Cap'n Obvious than 'T', who you're just a little more afraid of ;)

CoastaPlaya said:
Uh, you forgot nativity scenes and prayer in schools if you wanna whine about liberals. How could you?

There's a beautiful life-size nativity at Holiday World. Should that be removed? What about the nun dolls? That was one of my favorite parts of HW, the nun doll collection!

I think smoking sections are the answer. When Disney created the designated smoking areas I was very happy, because I knew there were places where I could go and smoke without feeling weird about being by kids who might be allergic, or walking on the paths being overly paranoid about burning someone (let alone a kid!) with the tip of my cigarette. I was a very considerate smoker. Now I'm a non-smoker, and I still think that smokikng sections are a good thing.

I already added my two cents but I just have to add one more thing.

Phillip Morris is now known as Altria. They changed their name because of their increasingly bad reputation.

I'm going to say I know a lot of facts about this issue because I do. I've been learning about it for the past three years. I think it's awesome how informed people are becoming about this issue. It's a big deal.

Oh, and please don't ban Diet Coke. I don't know what I would do without it! ;-)

I see all the people in this forum complaining about having to sniff a second's worth of smoke, and yet they drink tap water everyday. Do you know what the government allows in water? You think cigarette smoke has too many carcinogens? Also, everyone on this forum who wants smoking banned, quit driving your cars to work. You ***** about cigarettes, but as George Carlin says, before he takes a drink of his water, Ahhhhhhhhhh, there ain't nothing like letting government and industry poison me to death.

Point being you have a plethora of other issues to worry about, cigarettes are the very least.

One thing I forgot to mention, I am a NON-SMOKER!!!
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I'll drink to that!!

George also says, "If you don't like the weather....MOVE!"

I have to disagree with you stopher. Cigarettes kill 1,200 people a days, not a month, not a year, a day. That means that 50 people per hour are dieing even as we speak from anything from lung cancer to throat and severe gum disease. Are you trying to tell me that are drinking water kills us that much as cigarettes.. I highly doubt that.

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No, but guns, cars, terrorism, war, and aids probably kills two times more people a day than smoking related illness. Hell, give a kid a gun to take to school, as long as he ain't smoking. I hoped that sounded stupid, because that is how stupid this argument is. I don't want to hear someone *****ing because they smelled cigarette smoke.

Well there are some people, in fact alot of children and adults have asthma. And smoking around them can really affect them. By the way 3,000 people die each year from second-hand smoke. If someone has to ***** to protect there health then so be it.
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coaster-freak said:
I have to disagree with you stopher. Cigarettes kill 1,200 people a days, not a month, not a year, a day.

Personally, I think the nicotine junkies volunteer to kill themselves. At least they help keep my taxes low--they'll pay any and every fee they have to for the privilege of yellow teeth, furnace breath and shivering together outside every winter to suck on those silly little sticks.

Cigarettes vs. water? Gimme a break! At least pick a worthy adversary. May I suggest pork fat?

-CO

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Hey Playa, Pork rinds rule!

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How many of these "1200 people a day" are 85 years old, smoked all there life, and died because of smoking. Good lord, those 1200 people would die anyway.

Dr. Atkins professed such a healthyly long life lifestyle and fell down the stairs and died, it didn't do him any good.

Then we go to legalizing marijuana whose smoke is FAR more harmful and harsh to your lungs and throat then any tobacco.

Next thing these jackasses are gonna do is wanna take away my guns because they kill people. Wait they already wanna do that. Well you know what, the vast majority of all guns used in crime are gotten illegally in the first place. Go to the source of the problem, not guns but education and enforcing the gun laws we have in the books now.

Don't know why I decided to rant on that, I just did.
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If given the choice I'd choose a hamburger over a hotdog anyday of the week.

I don't know what it is like where y'all live but South Florida is way too crowded. I say, SMOKERS...keep at it! In fact smoke an extra pack a day. We could use the extra space down here.