If you think we live in a free country...

[bonsaiguy]

Think again...Florida city wants to blatantly discriminate against smokers

http://www.local6.com/news/6786475/detail.html

bonsaiguy Reviewed by bonsaiguy on 02-07-2006. If you think we live in a free country... Think again...Florida city wants to blatantly discriminate against smokers http://www.local6.com/news/6786475/detail.html Rating: 5

[daves19]

Think again...Florida city wants to blatantly discriminate against smokers

http://www.local6.com/news/6786475/detail.html

i think it's good in the way, cigaret smokers will get the same treatment than pot smoker...criminal for health reasons...

[Myth1184]

Uh, thats a good thing. You know how much tax payers pay for Smokers Healthcare...

[bonsaiguy]

Uh, no it's not...you know how much we smokers have already paid in increased car, homeowners, and medical insurance not to mention exhorbitant taxes over the last 30 or 40 years? Erego, taxpayers who don't smoke pay not shit in taxes for it, or smokers are being doubly taxed. It's none of the bosses biz what we do on our own time or to ourselves and that includes the city, state, county and federal govt. As for comparing tobacco users to pot users, you forget that pot is illegal, tobacco is not.

[amsterdam]

I think its good also........ and i'm a smoker.

[bonsaiguy]

You shouldn't, you're certainly entitled to your opinion but you've already paid for it (and continue to pay) several times over. But why do you think a company has any right to regulate what we do on our own time? Unless it somehow makes the comany look bad, (ie, delivering illegal substances in the company van, which a friend of mine made the stupid mistake of doing about 25 years ago) and how long before you are no longer allowed, by law, to smoke in your own home?

[amsterdam]

Where i work we arent allowed to smoke around the building and I agree with the policy. It looks trashy when clients pull up and there are 25 people smoking. Don't get on the kneejerk bandwagon, you will always be allowed to smoke in the house you OWN. I own a house and would never smoke inside anyhow, it stinks.

[bonsaiguy]

Where i work we arent allowed to smoke around the building and I agree with the policy. It looks trashy when clients pull up and there are 25 people smoking. Don't get on the kneejerk bandwagon, you will always be allowed to smoke in the house you OWN. I own a house and would never smoke inside anyhow, it stinks.

I agree that they have a right to set policies that prohibit smoking on their property. It's their property and you're right, for some businesses it looks trashy. I do not agree that they have a right to deny you a job because you smoke based on bogus info about increased health care costs for smokers which smokers have already been paying for years. And it's not kneejerk, where I live the anti smoking nazi's are moving in that direction sure as shit and use every dirty advertising trick in the book to convince folks that smoking is akin to the holocost. They're even worse when it comes to second hand smoke and their silly smoking bans that have closed down more businesses than they care to admit. In california these screwballs have even managed to ban smoking outdoors in some places. It's not governments job to regulate how people run their businesses to that extent and especially bars. I don't smoke in my house anymore either because of my wifes business. I don't like it but she has me on this one.

[Breukelen advocaat]

If the tobacco companies didn't use radioactive fertilizer to grow tobacco, the lung cancer rate would be down to practically nothing - and the laws wouldn't be a strict. Even former surgeon general C Everett Koop acknowledged this fact (radioactive soil) about 15 years ago.

http://www.cannabisculture.com/news/tobacco/

http://nepenthes.lycaeum.org/Drugs/T...th/cancer.html

I stopped smoking cigarettes in 1991, and never regretted it for an instant.

[daves19]

Uh, no it's not...you know how much we smokers have already paid in increased car, homeowners, and medical insurance not to mention exhorbitant taxes over the last 30 or 40 years? Erego, taxpayers who don't smoke pay not shit in taxes for it, or smokers are being doubly taxed. It's none of the bosses biz what we do on our own time or to ourselves and that includes the city, state, county and federal govt. As for comparing tobacco users to pot users, you forget that pot is illegal, tobacco is not.

Pot is illegal? really? oh thanks buddy...dumb ass, i know tobacco is legal, but for what reason??? its about time its getting a lil more criminalized...so yes i compare them! laws are made to be change so don't give me that legal bullshit!:dance: