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JeepNGeorge · 11-10-2003, 08:02 PM

GRRRRRRRR

Yes I'm a smoker.

Yes I know it's bad, but I still do it. No I don't smoke in restaurants I usually wait until I'm outside, but now in the great state of Oklahoma I no longer have a choice.

I realize the concern the non-smokers have with second hand smoke and wanting not to be around it, but to misquote Bill Hicks, it's not a war on smoke, it's a war on personal freedom. Yes your taking away my personal freedoms. Not my freedom to smoke anywhere I want to, but if I owned a business, I no longer have the freedom to let people light up or not. We are the land of the free, but slowly our rights are being taken away one by one. Go ahead ban smoking all together. Make it to wear you can't light up anywhere but inside your locked house, but don't come crying to the smokers when they want to take away your guns, beer, violent video games, <insert your favorite vice here>. Why should we care, we have already lost some of our freedoms. I hope people will soon realize that by lobbying the gubment to make a 'ban' on their most hated slice of society is only making the gubment more powerful, more controlling, and more likely to come after them next.

just my 2 cents.

11-10-2003, 08:02 PM	#9
JeepNGeorge Hand-of-Kindness Extender Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Where am I? Posts: 139	GRRRRRRRR Yes I'm a smoker. Yes I know it's bad, but I still do it. No I don't smoke in restaurants I usually wait until I'm outside, but now in the great state of Oklahoma I no longer have a choice. I realize the concern the non-smokers have with second hand smoke and wanting not to be around it, but to misquote Bill Hicks, it's not a war on smoke, it's a war on personal freedom. Yes your taking away my personal freedoms. Not my freedom to smoke anywhere I want to, but if I owned a business, I no longer have the freedom to let people light up or not. We are the land of the free, but slowly our rights are being taken away one by one. Go ahead ban smoking all together. Make it to wear you can't light up anywhere but inside your locked house, but don't come crying to the smokers when they want to take away your guns, beer, violent video games, <insert your favorite vice here>. Why should we care, we have already lost some of our freedoms. I hope people will soon realize that by lobbying the gubment to make a 'ban' on their most hated slice of society is only making the gubment more powerful, more controlling, and more likely to come after them next. just my 2 cents.