Post by TF Admin on Sept 12, 2006 10:24:33 GMT -6
Excuse me?? Your point is?
I choose to smoke outside because I and my wife BOTH do not like the smell of stale cigarette smoke in the house. We made that choice. I have the right to choose what is best for me and my family, just as I have the right to smoke. Restaurant owners NO LONGER have that choice. Our government made the choice for them. That is the real issue here. They took that choice away based on politics and LIES spread through activist groups who believe in LIES and misinformation. They are lemmings and choose NOT to approach the subject with any levity whatsoever or by using plain ol common sense.
I don't have it both ways. I have it MY way. So far the government cannot tell me what to do in my home, but I suspect that will be next. A lawsuit is inevitable, and then we will be told we cannot smoke in our own homes. That won't hurt me, but I would fight just as hard and be just as vocal because that is yet another liberty stripped away from people who choose to do it.
What do you want me to say? That I don't smoke around my child for fear of her getting lung cancer? The answer is no. There is evidence that suggests that Lung Cancer may be cause by weak or recessive genes. Unfortunately it will be years before any kind of conclusive evidence points either way. I do not fear Lung Cancer for my child. As there is not a history in my family. Could it happen, sure. Lung Cancer happens to people in the Himalayas, Tibet, and even the Bushmen in Australia. Where they have little pollution and don't smoke. It is on the increase overall worldwide. With fewer and fewer people smoking or quitting smoking. This is an undeniable fact. Not because I say it or read it on a website, but because dozens of studies and research back it up. Do the research yourself before taking issue with this. Choosing to deny scientific evidence and simple Epidiomology is your choice. I choose to educate myself and not be a lemming to a bunch of naziesque ignorant propoganda.
TF
I choose to smoke outside because I and my wife BOTH do not like the smell of stale cigarette smoke in the house. We made that choice. I have the right to choose what is best for me and my family, just as I have the right to smoke. Restaurant owners NO LONGER have that choice. Our government made the choice for them. That is the real issue here. They took that choice away based on politics and LIES spread through activist groups who believe in LIES and misinformation. They are lemmings and choose NOT to approach the subject with any levity whatsoever or by using plain ol common sense.I don't have it both ways. I have it MY way. So far the government cannot tell me what to do in my home, but I suspect that will be next. A lawsuit is inevitable, and then we will be told we cannot smoke in our own homes. That won't hurt me, but I would fight just as hard and be just as vocal because that is yet another liberty stripped away from people who choose to do it.
What do you want me to say? That I don't smoke around my child for fear of her getting lung cancer? The answer is no. There is evidence that suggests that Lung Cancer may be cause by weak or recessive genes. Unfortunately it will be years before any kind of conclusive evidence points either way. I do not fear Lung Cancer for my child. As there is not a history in my family. Could it happen, sure. Lung Cancer happens to people in the Himalayas, Tibet, and even the Bushmen in Australia. Where they have little pollution and don't smoke. It is on the increase overall worldwide. With fewer and fewer people smoking or quitting smoking. This is an undeniable fact. Not because I say it or read it on a website, but because dozens of studies and research back it up. Do the research yourself before taking issue with this. Choosing to deny scientific evidence and simple Epidiomology is your choice. I choose to educate myself and not be a lemming to a bunch of naziesque ignorant propoganda.
TF
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