Starting next February, a new Maryland law will eliminate indoor smoking in most public places, including bars and restaurants, as well as in private social clubs and fraternal organizations.
I don’t think the law says anything about the immediate doorways to public places.
The chain restaurant Ruby Tuesday has banned smoking at their restaurant for a few years now. Before smokers would sit in the bar area and blow their smoke at each other. They didn’t bother me. Now because they cannot sit at their table and smoke, they go outside and stand at the doorway and smoke. That means that I have to walk through their smoke just to get into the restaurant. It makes me think twice before going there to have a broiled talupa fish sandwich. They are very good, but I don’t know if they are worth having if I have to walk through a gantlet of disgusting cigarette smoke both entering and leaving the restaurant.
With Maryland’s new law, it looks like I will be faced with this same problem not only at Rudy Tuesday, but at every other restaurant too.
I’m not against smoking. I’m just against doorway smoking.
I’m also against smokers that roll down their car window and throw the butt out the window. Just who do they think is going to pick that butt up? Why don’t they just use the ashtray in their vehicle? I assume it’s because they don’t want anything as nasty and disgusting as a cigarette butt in their vehicle. I cannot say that I blame them for feeling this way. It’s the same reason I don’t want cigarette butts all over the ground. They are nasty looking and disgusting.
I will be totally honest and admit that I used to smoke. In fact, I smoked a lot. I quit about eight years ago. It wasn’t the first time I tried to quit, but I hope it turns out to be the last. Nicotine is truly a powerful and addictive drug. The cigarette companies actually make it more addictive that it is naturally. With that said, I have a hard time understanding why people that smoke just cannot quit like I did. If someone as pathetically weak willed as myself can sever the addiction to nicotine, I have to believe anybody can.
(photo by Justin Shearer )
I used to be against laws that curtailed smoking- you know, people’s individual rights and all. Then I went to a SMOKE FREE bar and came home NOT smelling like and ashtray.
I think that the smokers who argue so forcefully that their rights are being trampled upon should face the fact that their rights were subverted when the tobacco companies made their smokes intentionally more addictive.
Also, fuck smokers!
Smoking is infinitely stupid. But what will kill the 400,000 a year in its place? You have to admit that its a good population control.
The issue of smoking can be thought of from many views as in personal health, environmental, and impact on national health care. All of which have proven to be concrete. Yet, what is first above all, the highest concern, is the immediate effects on smoking victims, the naturally born right to breath descent air.
The human body is not fitted to inhale cigarette smoke. If common sense fails you, perhaps the hard for me to believe effort on your behalf to learn about the respiratory system or at least the reading of the works of others who have will knock some added sense into those needing this knocking. If the nearly endless charts, diagrams, X-rays, documentaries, campaigns, and images of IV totting voice box assisted smokers all which depict the harm of smoking fails to see the error of this way of the walk, then perhaps what follows is just the key to those needing this epiphany. Observe the very process of manufacturing cigarettes. All kinds of toxic chemicals and heavy elements are ADDED to the base of cigarettes to bypass the natural securities of the respiratory system. This is called freebasing. This alone should scare you. Remember all those big long multi part chemistry words in school also seen on the warning labels of house hold and industrial chemicals, well all those are inside cigarettes too. Then on top of all this another whole onslaught of chemical processes are used to mask the masks. All kinds of stuff necessary to just cover over the toxicity of the entire process as a whole. And for what? To brake down and bypass a humans natural defenses against a puff of cigarette! Now if all this is not the preponderance to convince anyone that I and all others who choose not to smoke but yet are regularly and unavoidably attacked from no fault of our own, then I must say I do not and I will not respect you in any way, shape, fashion, or form. You do not deserve respect.
Cigarette smoke is a chemical attack on the human body. Key point here, now listen up and read closely. The attack is unavoidable. Every where you walk, shop, work, and even sleep the non-smoking victims have no choice but to take the blows of the attack. Who gives a she-it about a smokers right, no one no where must have the right to violate the well being of others especially in an environment where this well being would naturally flourish indefinitely had it not been for the universally wrong act of a selfish few disrupting the lives of the many.
The worst is to have no choice but to be attacked in ones own home. Cigarette smoke has a long reach, is dynamic, lingers, and absorbs into the wall, furniture, and carpet of the unwilling. It actually smells different after traveling and passing through barriers. This lingering toxic annoying plum trumps other foul orders like burned popcorn or rotten food. You start to breath differently because the lungs sense something is not right. Once you become conscious of this all bets are off for actually focusing on things or having a god given right to rest unlabored. The source of the smoke can transpire over only a few minutes but the destination will remain submersed in this disgusting evil gas long after. I have more times than should ever exist been denied the ability to freely breath in my own home because some ones smoke has either traveled a long distance (yes it goes a long way) or made its way through walls and ceilings. Cigarette smoke permeates very well and too well if you ask me. Very unconceivable for a person to pick and move residence just because some other selfish person does not give a rats butt of others. No guaranty the next location will be any different. A victim can ask the offender to consider how they are causing lose of sleep, and degraded quality of life. The smoker of course cannot see how this is true. And if the smoker does miraculously stops or the even more unlikely event of doing what ever is necessary on the smoker’s end to keep their stench strictly to themselves, then I applaud that one lucky victim. So how are the remaining victims of the world to protect themselves. We can keep car windows rolled up at stop signs. This works albeit once again a denial of control over ones own property. We can take a different route during walks, keep a good eye on smokers up the way and learn to divert our path while holding our breaths. This works albeit once again a denial of control over basic necessities. We can buy industrial high power air flow filters that kick into gear on detection of being attack at home. This could work albeit expensive, cold, and problematic in its own right. We can wear gas mask in our own homes so that we can experience the pleasure of our comfort in concert with whatever idiotic marketing mass hypnosis produced pleasure smokers are supposed to experience.
Did you get that key point I laboriously typed similar to how I and millions of others are without provocation forced to laboriously breath. Smoking is an attack. Smoking attacks victims in their own homes. Smoking attacks are unavoidable. Just like the laws protecting people from being violated and harassed regardless of location, these laws ought to extend to the violation and harassment of smoking be it private, public, who gives a phuawk.
Maryland kills 5,000 a year in their abortion mills. That’s OK but DON’T SMOKE. Drugs and related crimes are everywhere, BUT DON’T SMOKE. Can’t control the law breakers so let’s go after the one’s that obey the law.
Every time these clowns pass a law we lose another freedom. It’s no law against burning the American Flag in public as that is your personal freedom to do so, but DON’T SMOKE.
With LIBERTY AND JUSTICE FOR ALL. Yea right but only if you two KEYBOARD WARRIORS get your way.
Can I smoke while I get an abortion?
What happens if you get your way?
And what kind of input device are you using that makes you NOT a “Keyboard Warrior?”
Good point Schooly. No smoking in abortion clinics. It might harm one of the butchers.
Kathy,
I believe butchers are prohibited from smoking around the meat. They normally even required to wear white coats and hairnets. I’m sure though that they can go to a designated area on their breaks and smoke like anyone else.
Truthfully, I don’t really care if my baby butcher smokes or not. As long as he doesn’t flick the butts into my ground baby chuck, I don’t give a shit.
I say f **k the CLOWNS IN THE HOUSE. you know 4 one week every body no 4 2 days every body and I do mean every body in this whole country take off or just the smokers only this country would fall apart DADDY GOVENMENT WOULD BE SO F**K UP.