I'm done hearing the whiny bitching about the smoking bans. Not because I believe in some idealistic vision about personal freedom, but because these people are assholes.
Here in the States we've got people's panties in a twist due to the fascist like bans on smoking in public places. Smokers and business owners everywhere are launching tirades against these laws and ordinances that, they claim, are brazen attacks against their personal freedoms and liberties. While true, that's not going to be the focus this editorial. If someone wants to annihilate their lungs and fuck up their body, fine by me. Your choice. Business owners should have the full freedom to decide what does or doesn't go on in their businesses. What the hell ever.
No, my problem here is these pro-smoking jackasses want to take their alleged right to put whatever they want into their bodies and transform it into a God-given right to become a public nuisance. Smokers, Nod's going to give you guys some insight into some of the reasons we're tired of bringing your disgusting habit into the public sphere.
For starters, you smell like shit. Smoking causes an interesting aura of scents to permeate the atmosphere around the assholes who light up. Your clothes stink, your hair stinks, the air around you stinks. The smells wavering from your drug of choice causes the people in your immediate vicinity to fly over to the windows and open those fuckers in a hurry so they won't have to endure the cavalcade sinus-destroying smoke that you're protruding into the air. Imagine being stuck next to this guy on a bus, mid-summer, in Louisiana.
You'd bet your ass you'll be wanting a different seat. So, pray tell, why must I have to put up with you sitting next to me at a restaurant and ruining my meal because you can't go fifteen minutes without a nicotine fix?
Aside from just the smell, we also have the smoke. It's been
shown that second-hand smoke
does have
detrimental effects on the human body. You can preach on and on about how you're perfectly healthy and it doesn't affect
you, but I know that it does fuck up my sinuses and there's plenty of science out there to show that, yes, your precious fucking habit does harm others, in addition to offending the senses of the people near you. So, fuck you. If you think that you have the right to pollute the air near me with your miniature chemical-warfare experiment then you should have no problem with me conducting my own and coughing all over your food and clothes. "Oh but that's worse because there's GERMS!!!!" you may say, but at least I can
direct where my coughing is going and deposit the phlegm directly into a napkin. Your disgusting smoke goes wherever the fuck it pleases.
In addition to the nostril offending odors and the fact that my health is put at risk by your filth, the main problem I have with the pro-public smoking asstards is this high and mighty double standard thing they have going on. They oppose bans on smoking in public places for myriad reasons including:
- Infringing on their personal rights
- It's more big government in the small man's life.
- Um, more personal rights infringement?
Yet, at the same time, they're completely disregarding the facts that:
- Most people find their habit to be completely unattractive and extremely disgusting
- If someone let out some truly repulsive farts near them or brought in stink bombs at wherever they're eating they'd have no problems getting the manager to toss the fucker out. But, OH DEAR LORD, if someone ELSE has a complaint about how much their making life suck for anyone else you'd better
believe they're crying "CIVIL RIGHTS! CIVIL RIGHTS!" when someone asks them to stop.
- Their putting other people's health at risk. Minor risk, yes, but no more minor than H1N1 and people are freaking the fuck
out about that.
These people want to reserve the right to be public nuisances. They don't want to come to grips with the fact that they're dicks for making everyone else put up with their filthy shit and that everyone should just accommodate them. While I don't agree with the government banning smoking in public places because of health related concerns, I'd be happy to support the laws if they were put in place just to teach these people who decide to smoke in public and be as much of a pain in the ass about it as possible. Fuck public smokers; just as much as they want to fuck up any non-smoker's time out eating, or doing anything.