Lexington Smoking Ban Upheld

Post by **Artsay** » Fri Apr 23, 2004 7:50 pm

Sound like it's the ass attached to the back she's watching.

Post by **Meadows** » Fri Apr 23, 2004 7:53 pm

Which is why he's my new climbing partner.

Post by **rhunt** » Fri Apr 23, 2004 8:00 pm

...that right just a new belay slave for Meadows

Post by **pigsteak** » Fri Apr 23, 2004 8:03 pm

a BIG yawnnn........take that one to the bedroom...

rhunt...you called her "babe"..is that from the 1975 Styx's song called "babe"????

just curious...

meadows, we'll belay to the death this weekend to determine who is right in this debate.....never mind, I'll never get your eyes off of his ass...

Post by **rhunt** » Fri Apr 23, 2004 8:06 pm

rrigght..Styx that's it...

Post by **pigsteak** » Fri Apr 23, 2004 8:10 pm

hey I am not liking the fact that I have given ammo to both mia and meadows to quote me....

Post by **rhunt** » Fri Apr 23, 2004 8:15 pm

I know, I have two quotes now and I can't decide which one to keep..I love them both..

Post by **Steve** » Fri Apr 23, 2004 8:15 pm

Now I haven't read this entire thread, I've lived too much of this ban through smoking ban after smoking ban stories, court precedings, and council meetings, etc. That said...

Woooo fuckin' hoooo! I won't have to detox after a night out of playing pool, socializing in a bar, seeing a band, wagering at Keeneland, or eating out. No more will my clothes have to be shed on the back porch, left there to air so that they don't contaminate the rest of the laundry. No more 2 AM showers so I can breathe while sleep. If its someones damn right to smoke, then its my damn right to breathe clean air. I might be a non-smoker, but shouldn't I have a voice in the fight if my tax dollars are going to fund those medicaid/care patients I see outside the hospital stealing a smoke while their hooked up to an oxygen tank?

Post by **Spragwa** » Fri Apr 23, 2004 8:54 pm

First piglet, yes I do support the right to bare arms. I don't agree with amending the constitution on such a clearly stated issue. I do not support the right to bare an AK-47. Nowhere in the constitution does it say that I have the right to smoke cigarettes and infringe on other's freedom to breathe clean air.

Second, anyone who smokes in the same building or in the remote vacinity of a nonsmoker infringes on their right. Non-smoking sections are a big damn joke. You can always smell it, on your clothes, in your hair, on your skin and breathe it as well.

Finally, wanting to protect living beings from smoke is not inconsistent with the right to choose. By the way piggie, pointing out hypocracies in others doesn't make YOU any less of a hypocrate yourself. Even so, I want the freedom to breathe clean. Is it a child? I don't know. Will giving birth to a life changing mistake potentially permanently alter the life of the pregnant woman and the life inside of her? Absolutely!

Post by **Wicked Tribe** » Fri Apr 23, 2004 9:22 pm

A person chooses to smoke or not to smoke. A second hand smoker has their choice taken away by the person who decides to light up. You tell me whose rights are being violated. And don't give me that, "You can go somewhere else" crap. If I don't have to be there or you're there smoking first then I don't really care. But if its a place where we have to share the air (restaraunt, grocery store, gas station, govt buildings, buses, malls, etc., etc.) then I feel smokers should happily defer their "right" temporarily so as not to infringe upon the right of the person who chooses not to contaminate their lungs.

I also think its extremely rude for smokers to congregate immediately outside doors of places that do not allow smoking and subjecting all who enter or exit to their smoke and to crowd entryways. But that is just a pet peeve of mine.