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its not my question, i was responding to the fact that you "wanted insight."

the point is, air, like a private business, occurs in the public sphere.  smoke at home - but you have no right to force others into a choice about the air quality in a public environment.

equal access.  smokers loose.  i like the "smokers patio,"  separate ventilated rooms, or some establishments for smokers only.

but since you've addled this thread with half-assed satire... its hard to say much of anything.

bratboy wrote:

registered_user wrote:

The ban on asbestos hasn't created a black market.  Is that what you mean?

Ummm yeah, great.

Can I get an email notice when you start making rational arguments again?

What?  You can compare tobacco to alcohol, and you can flatly assume that I've got a list of other things on my ready to ban list, but I can't compare one banned substance to another?  And I'm the one not making a rational argument?

OK.

Camp David wrote:

registered_user wrote:

  But one person destroying the resource for others is wrong and contradictory to a progressive society...

But you seem to be discriminatory in who you assign blame here... we are all "destroying the resource" with automobile emissions, but that doesn't seem to rise high in your list, but cigarette smoking does? Most would rather put their lips on a cigarette rather than a muffler, so I see a subtle difference...

What I am getting at, registered_user, is that while I conceed that cigarette smoke may be offensive, doing it in ones own home is sorta private wouldn't you agree? And if you so criticize cigarette smoke and wish cigarettes banned, I hope you ride a horse to work rather than a car...

Smoking crack cocaine isn't legal at home either, and I don't feel as though that is hypocritical.

Automobiles are being regulated to be cleaner.  Congress has set forth "green" standards for cars to follow, and the auto industry is responding.  Ideally I agree that such emissions should be eliminated, and I think it's safe to say that we hope that someday they will.  Rome wasn't built in a day, and auto exhaust won't be banned overnight.  But it's being addressed, so you'll just have to be patient as we watch autoexhaust vanish.

registered_user wrote:

bratboy wrote:

registered_user wrote:

The ban on asbestos hasn't created a black market.  Is that what you mean?

Ummm yeah, great.

Can I get an email notice when you start making rational arguments again?

What?  You can compare tobacco to alcohol, and you can flatly assume that I've got a list of other things on my ready to ban list, but I can't compare one banned substance to another?  And I'm the one not making a rational argument?

OK.

Comparing the private use of alcohol to the private use of tobacco makes much more sense than comparing either to asbestos!

registered_user wrote:

We'll just have to agree to disagree then.

Wrong!

registered_user wrote:

We'll just have to agree to disagree then.

Ha.  Okay then.

freakoutjackson wrote:

ShnickyShnack wrote:

freakoutjackson wrote:

Wrong!

You are so full of crap.

Am not!

Are too!

:: rips out freakie's arms & vocal chords to prevent reply ::

Last edited by ShnickyShnack (2005-03-05 1:03 pm)

freakoutjackson wrote:

ShnickyShnack wrote:

freakoutjackson wrote:

Am not!

Are too!

:: rips out freakie's arms vocal chords to prevent reply ::

I'm rubber, you're an idiot.

freakoutjackson wrote:

ShnickyShnack wrote:

freakoutjackson wrote:

I'm rubber, you're an idiot.

http://homepage.mac.com/oatmeal/MAF/max … nt/cry.gif

::hugs shnicky, reinforcing their dysfunctional, passive aggresive relationship::

:: looks up at freakie with mixture of awe and loathing ::

bratboy wrote:

Get a room!

Who said we don't have one?