What's going on here ?

[bergall]

I'm starting to hear 'warnings' as the medical community gears up for the latest politically correct attack...once again....on tobacco. They're calling it '3rd hand smoke' and it's being described as 'residual contamination' of one's person, area, and places he or she occupies (wherever he/she walks, sits, etc.) due to smoking. To me, it's the "smell of a smoker'....it's in stairwells, elevators, in a person's hair, clothes, etc.

Now, I'm an ex-smoker but this just fries my 'taters when these mealy-mouthed pukes attack tobacco in the name of 'children' and 'the environment' in order to gain either a political foothold or to validate a position based on hysterics...huge portions of the Southern USA are supported by the tobacco growing industry...it's a legal product and the government makes millions upon millions in tax revenues from it's sale and use.

To me, it's just another potential restriction on the rights of smokers (do smokers have rights ?) by those who may have never smoked, or whom are opposed to the use of tobacco and are looking to throw more legislation at something they disagree with. It's legal, but if they succeed on restricting a person's MOVEMENTS because they smoke and can spread this 'toxic residual zone' about their persons, pretty soon nobody will be able to use a perfectly legal product whose use has been legislated into illegality. Oh sure you can buy and possess it...so the farmers can feed their families and so the government can collect it's taxes on it, but if you can't SMOKE it, what the hell are they doing ?

I'm very conflicted about this issue...I am an ex-smoker and do not like to be 'around' when smoking is going on (specifically cigarettes...I do not object to cigars or pipe smoke)...yet the efforts of PC naysayers who espouse the imposition of limitations on people's use of the product ticks me off...we are supposed to be a 'free' people and yet we allow pukes to dictate to us our freedoms while they limit them. So I guess I'm looking for clarity from the esteemed members of this board on what the consensus is on this issue, assuming the metaphysical certitude that this will rise to the public's consciousness and become a political position sooner or later...

and in the interests of taking things further than that which is considered ridiculous:
http://www.thesharkguys.com/mad-scie...th-hand-smoke/

[etothepii]

So is there proof that a stinky person is a health risk?

[Fieldmouse]

Second hand smoke was a lie and a big stretch now thorn hand. What total BS. Outlaw the fricking product already.

On a side note, still waiting to see my first electronic cig on an airplane flight.

[Terasec]

Originally Posted by Fieldmouse

Second hand smoke was a lie and a big stretch now thorn hand. What total BS. Outlaw the fricking product already.

On a side note, still waiting to see my first electronic cig on an airplane flight.

agree,
havent seen any real science on 2nd hand smoke,
many of our generation grew up around 2nd hand smoke,
smoking in cars, etc.... was the norm,
and havent seen any stats showing those that grew up around smokers had higher rates of anything,
heck, most of the people i know with majot illness's probably had the cleanest cut of parents,
also mentioned to someone as a kid i remember church's pew's having ashtrays in them, people were shocked,

its all about $$$$$ and control,
right now smokers are easy pickins,

[bergall]

Originally Posted by etothepii

So is there proof that a stinky person is a health risk?

Well that's what they're saying....but they lie.....just look at what they did to mandate Steel Shot and you know the crapwagon runs overtime and at full speed on some issues....