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I wish you could sue smokers!

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  • hartcjhart
    hartcjhart Posts: 9,463 Forumite
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    ShaShaSha wrote: »
    Are you even reading whats being written?? or have u had a nicotine overdose?!?! when did i once assume ur disability was worse than mine, what age do u think I am? 12? and by your lalala comment, im guessing u are....so whos buying ur fags? :naughty:

    Your comments arnt even valid, totally pointless tbh...

    clearly u cant make sense of anyones posts and reply in a manner good enough for a decent debate.....

    you ARE making my life difficult.

    Public places, are just that. PUBLIC. for everyone to share and enjoy, so why should it just be a free world for smokers? Why cant non-smokers enjoy public places too? Why cant non-smokers enjoy the freedom smokers do? U dont see smokers crossing the street to make our lives easier....its unfair and you know it really.

    SORRY but most of these smokers would not be on the streets IF you whinging lot had not forced to go outside to smoke
    I :love: MOJACAR
  • Bettyboop
    Bettyboop Posts: 1,343 Forumite
    hartcjhart wrote: »
    SORRY but most of these smokers would not be on the streets IF you whinging lot had not forced to go outside to smoke

    Point read and understood for the 50th time!


    For God knew in His great wisdom

    That he couldn't be everywhere,
    So he put His little Children
    In a loving mother's care.
  • costapkt
    costapkt Posts: 428 Forumite
    Like a lot of things this government does, it does not think them through.
  • hartcjhart
    hartcjhart Posts: 9,463 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    Bettyboop wrote: »
    Point read and understood for the 50th time!

    thank you,sadly some of the others here do not
    I :love: MOJACAR
  • momoyama
    momoyama Posts: 659 Forumite
    beccam wrote: »
    Do you or any of the other 'anti smoking' posters on this thread have actual statistics or evidence of the damage/trauma/harm done to an individual by walking past a person who is smoking?
    No, not to hand. But why else do packets display "smoking harms you and others around you" / "smoking harms your unborn baby" etc.

    beccam wrote: »
    The verbal abuse towards smokers who have been called rude, stinky, inconsiderate, vile, yellow toothed, smelly, B*stards, ignorant, stupid and selfish (to name just a few) is quite shocking.
    I've used some of those words. I've also conceded that it's not fair to tar all smokers with the same brush. But when you think about it, it IS justified. Those standing in the doorway to WH Smiths such that I can't get in or out ARE unconsiderate. The chap at Bedford River Festival was rude, ignorant and thoughtless. Real life examples.
  • Anthillmob
    Anthillmob Posts: 11,780 Forumite
    !!!!!! give up.

    one word.............BORING

    go troll elsewhere
    There's someone in my head, but it's not me
  • ekkygirl
    ekkygirl Posts: 514 Forumite
    Anthillmob wrote: »
    !!!!!! give up.

    one word.............BORING

    go troll elsewhere

    Im an ex smoker and I like the smoke being blown in my face, gives me a little buzz. I smoked because I liked smoking I stopped because they were too expensive and were potentially gonna kill me...............Miss em tho! 27 years later
  • beccam
    beccam Posts: 962 Forumite
    momoyama wrote: »
    No, not to hand. But why else do packets display "smoking harms you and others around you" / "smoking harms your unborn baby" etc.

    Errrr because if YOU smoke it harms you. If YOU smoke and you are pregnant it harms your unborn baby. If YOU smoke in a room with others around you then it harms them.
    The packet does not say "smoking in open air will harm passers by"

    I've used some of those words. I've also conceded that it's not fair to tar all smokers with the same brush. But when you think about it, it IS justified. Those standing in the doorway to WH Smiths such that I can't get in or out ARE unconsiderate. The chap at Bedford River Festival was rude, ignorant and thoughtless. Real life examples.

    OK well what about the non smokers I know who are also rude and inconsiderate? What about the patient who refuses to have an Indian nurse look after him because "she smells of curry"...is that similar to those who say its ok to refuse a nurse who smells of smoke?
    What about the non smoking ignorant man who managed to bruise my daughters face when walking around an event because he didn't look where his big rucksack bag was bashing?
    Should I then draw the conclusion that the majority of non smokers are rude and inconsiderate, thoughtless and violent, racist and foul mouthed??

    Obviously I would not be so narrow minded and naive as to draw such conclusions because I open minded...I make decisions on people once I have made an attempt to get to know them, I don't judge by appearance or their life choices, I will try to overlook any flaws they may have and find out what they are like as a person and also give people the benefit of the doubt....maybe that is a trait reserved for horrific smokers and non smokers are unable to see the person behind the cigarette??
  • I feel like my brain is about to explode with the utter ridiculousness of this thread... but I can't look away... it's compelling in a very disturbing way.
  • beccam
    beccam Posts: 962 Forumite
    I feel like my brain is about to explode with the utter ridiculousness of this thread... but I can't look away... it's compelling in a very disturbing way.


    It's slowing now though, people are tiring and can't sustain the attack.....come on don't let it die after just 30 odd pages!!:rotfl:
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