Sioux City Journal

Unless you want to live in a bubble ...

Posted: Tuesday, April 29, 2008

SIOUX CITY -- This is in response to a recent Letter headlined "She's pleased with smoking ban."

The writer's answer was pretty one-sided against smokers. Consider this: Do you own and drive a car or a grill with charcoal? Do you enjoy a fire? Are you affiliated with any farmers who, by the way, poison our waters with pesticides constantly? Do you use or buy products made by factories, all of which produce many more air toxins than cigarette smokers?

If you don't want to be exposed to any of this, you'll need to live in a bubble or move to Antarctica. -- Wes Mahan

Story Comments

FlimFlam wrote on Aug 24, 2008 6:17 AM:

" GROW UP, if you were to just reach out with your left pinky and tap that key labeled "Caps Lock" maybe we'd listen.

The majority has spoken. We don't like smoke, have been complaining about it for years and now finally shafted all you selfish smokers.

This is not government taking away freedoms. This is something that non-smokers finally forced government to do.

And for the hundredth time, you do not have a right to make me smoke what you've just choked up from your one remaining lung. "

GROW UP wrote on May 6, 2008 11:42 AM:

" GROW UP, QUIT WHINING AND REALIZE THAT THERE IS SOMETHING MUCH BIGGER TO THIS BAN. THE GOVERNMENT HAS NO RIGHT TO TELL YOU WHAT YOU CAN AND CANNOT DO. BEFORE YOU ATTACK ME, I AM A NON SMOKER, HAVE BEEN FOR ONE YEAR. YES CIGARETTE SMOKE STINKS, BUT THAT IS NOT THE FLIPPIN POINT HERE!!!!! AMERICANS HAVE THE SAME RIGHT TO SMOKE AS THEY HAVE TO CHOSE NOT TO. THAT IS NOT THE POINT. FOR ALL OF YOU THAT THINK THIS BAN IS JUST WONDERFUL...YOU WILL SOMEDAY BE COMPLAINING ABOUT THE GOVERNMENT TELLING YOU THAT YOU CANNOT ORDER THE DOUBLE CHEESEBURGER ON THE DRIVE THRU MENU OR MAYBE THAT YOU CANNOT CHEW GUM AFTER 2PM...THINK THAT RIDICULOUS? WELL THATS EXACTLY HOW RIDICULOUS THIS SMOKING BAN IS TO AMERICANS THAT HAVE ALREADY OPENED UP THEIR EYES. SOMEDAY THERE WILL BE SOMETHING THE GOVERNMENT IS TAKING AWAY FROM YOU OR TELLING YOU WHAT YOU CAN AND CANNOT DO, I PROMISE, AND UNTIL THEN YOU WILL CONTINUE TO WHINE ABOUT SMOKE. ITS NOT ABOUT THE FLIPPIN SMOKE! "

FlimFlam wrote on May 2, 2008 5:17 PM:

" Wow Mike, Your kind of a puke.

I don't know what to tell you, cigarette smoke is one of those smells that is unmistakable and it only takes a tiny bit to be noticed. Again I say you have no idea how bad your sense of smell has become. I smoked for years. When I finally quit I was absolutely stunned at how well my nose worked and how much better food tasted.

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Kim wrote on May 1, 2008 4:30 PM:

" My you people complaining about not being able to smell cigarette smoke are obviously smokers. It is a smell that permeates everything around it. And no one here was arguing about the other smells such as John Morell or car exhaust, I love how everyone who embraces cigarettes and needs them to live ( they salivate just thinking about it) deflects. That is extraordinarily childish. You pose no credible arguments; you throw the same "crap" around time and time again. People! They stink! They make for nasty litter all over! It hurts to breathe that crap! Am I jaded? Helk ya! I grew up with a mother who smoked and I had asthma..at least until I moved out. I will not apologize for hating cigarettes and everything about them. I am thrilled on July 1 I can frequent places I've always wanted to, but choose not to because the smokers were running the show. And ya, you can smell a burning cigarette in traffic, windows down or up. Give up the cigs, let your noses heal and you'll agree. "

Jamie V wrote on May 1, 2008 12:48 PM:

" Kim - I'm with you. I have been at a stop light, with my windows up, and the smoke from the person in the car next to me will come in through my vent system. Sorry people, it's true. "