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Sept. 28, 2004 There's a lot of outcry to ban smoking. I can understand people who don't smoke wanting to have smoke free areas clear of smoke. Unfortunately, that includes everywhere. Yes, I realize smoking is not good for you. I have, however had relatives who did smoke for a long time. My wife didn't smoke and I never smoked around her, or around where she would be and she still got cancer. Go figure. I don't smoke at home, or my mother's house and I don't smoke where I know I shouldn't. I take my habit where I know others are smoking. There are ways to clear the air so people who smoke can cohabit with those who don't. Actually, considering I don't try to make other people smoke, or don't insist nonsmokers go outside in all kinds of weather I am being victomized. I should slap a lawsuit on nonsmokers, or as I like to call them Nicotine Nazis. I mean what is a Nazi? A Nazi is a Socialist. Someone who tried to force other people to conform to their way of thinking, or die. I think it is UnAmerican. Look, you wouldn't put an animal out in any kind of weather (okay, I would, but I'm not a bunny hugger) just because it did something you didn't like, would you? If it was freezing, or raining like Hell (which by the way is kind of an oxymoron) and icy and horrible outside you would feel some compassion for it. Yet, you would treat me as less then an animal and make me go out in terrible weather to smoke. Just because I do something you don't like. If that is the case you are a Nicotine Nazi. Yes, I equate putting some poor soul outside just to smoke, when there are humane ways of dealing with them, and not caring about how you treat them because they have a habit with being a Nazi. I think the mindset of people who would punish someone by excluding them from human interaction and subject them to extreme conditions just for your selfish agenda is criminal and smacks of Fascism. Which is ironic, don't you think?Or do ya? Someday I imagine you self rightious b*st*rds will take to sporting brown shirts with some kind of emblem on it (maybe a camel within a red circle and a red slash across it). I resent you people who think you are better then I am. Who think you have a right to push your opinion and anal retentive way of life on me and other smokers. Don't you cost us enough. You keep raising taxes on us. Every time we turn around we have to pay out the A$$ for cigarettes. What are you doing with the money? You could be paying off the national debt. I know what you're doing. You're spending it on some whacko cause aren't you? Come on, admit it. You're sending it to Dan Rather for research, right? Nuff said, Semper Fi! ------------ About the author: Lee Zelhart is a proud graduate of McKendree College in Lebanon, Illinois. He is the widowed father of two teens and the prospective author of a soon to be published book called: The Ghost of the Cavalier. Sometime in summer 2005, or before. Email: graphicsdoctor1@sbcglobal.net Tell a friend about this site! ------------ |
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