Stare at Smokers to Stop Them

gruntlabor said:
:) lol, a heroin addict would laugh uproariously at that statement, which (need I really say it?) is patently untrue. But I do believe you are sincere in your opinion.
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Not just my opinion.. but backed up by experts...

https://www.nytimes.com/1987/03/29/magazine/nicotine-harder-to-kickthan-heroin.html

https://www.ashscotland.org.uk/media/5861/4addiction.pdf

https://www.ucsfhealth.org/conditions/nicotine-dependence
 

The headline of the story was misleading. (Shocking, I know)

Prof Lo, who is also a medical doctor, said smoking was bad for the health of everyone and Hong Kong needed a "culture in society that people are willing to comply with the law".

He added: "When the members of the public see people smoking in non-smoking areas, even if no law enforcement officers can show up immediately, we can stare at the smokers."

He wants the public to ostracize, from a distance, the smokers breaking the law.
 

Yesterday Friday 7/14 was in San Francisco at the SF Giants stadium Oracle Park for the first of three Dead & Company dates ending their tour and playing together. Like all parks, it has a no smoking policy. Didn't smell any cigarette nicotine smoke in the venue but constant... :censored:

Must of been someone burning trash over in Oakland that blew in from across the Bay. :) One of the isle monitors near us wore a face mask. Normally, for ball games or other concerts there is little of any smoke in the air.
 
If you're gonna smoke, smoke Lucky Strike.
20,679* Physicians recommend them.
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My Barber and I were standing outside his shop having a puff.

A teenage girl walked past and spit on the ground at his feet in disgust. My Barber has been standing on his feet cutting hair for 45 years. He's a Working Class Hero...and to be treated as such just because he was having a cigarette (outside) was dispicable.

But that's the campaign now isn't it? Smokers are bad people. The whole thing is ridiculous if you ask me. Most everyone I know has a vice of some kind.
 
Huh? I don’t stare at smokers. I keep them at the greatest possible distance, which is easy these days. Can’t recall seeing my last smoker. Surely by now everyone knows they are addictive and an invitation to cancer.
 
Alligatorob said:
Hard to compare additions, heroin certainly has worse consequences than smoking, but both are hard to quit and withdraw from. This article puts both nicotine and heroin in the top 5. The other 3 are cocaine, alcohol, and barbiturates.

The 5 most addictive drugs in the world
https://www.independent.co.uk/life-...st-addictive-drugs-in-the-world-a6924746.html
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I would consider that some of the legal drugs pushed down people's throats by the medical profession are a lot worse and legal.
 
gruntlabor said:
:) No, Beezer, we should not do that.
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I just shake my head in disgust. Cigarettes will send you to an early grave, at least for some of them. My father started smoking at 14, he was gone a day after his 44th birthday. All of my uncles were smokers, and they're all long gone. I won't stare at them. I'll just wonder why they keep smoking those stinky cancer sticks. Smoking is a smelly dirty habit. You make your bed, you have to lie in it. If I would have smoked just like my father, I would have been gone 30 or 40 years ago.
 
Paladin1950 said:
I just shake my head in disgust. Cigarettes will send you to an early grave, at least for some of them. My father started smoking at 14, he was gone a day after his 44th birthday. All of my uncles were smokers, and they're all long gone. I won't stare at them. I'll just wonder why they keep smoking those stinky cancer sticks. Smoking is a smelly dirty habit. You make your bed, you have to lie in it. If I would have smoked just like my father, I would have been gone 30 or 40 years ago.
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True, but still personal choice.
 
Well I just got to do this....my daddy smoked till he died at 96, died of
complications from a fire, fire was caused by his dropping cigarette down
side of recliner arm, inside by his leg, he went to sleep till the pain woke him
up, in hosp about 48 hrs till he passed.......I am 84 years old and smoked until
about 6 yrs ago, not dead yet, drank like a drunk from age 22 till 42, still here,
so what the heck is going to kill me?!?!?!
 
These days, it can be dangerous to actively or passively confront anyone about smoking. You never know in the U.S. who might be "packing," and have an itchy trigger finger.

That being said, if someone is smoking in a restaurant, in a building, or on public transportation in defiance of posted signs, the person in authority should require them to extinguish it or leave. Your lungs have rights, too...
 
If you do smoke at least be respectful of other people and don't smoke near them if they object to it. If there are designated smoking areas, use them. If you don't smoke, keep your distance, mind your own business, and keep your mouth shut. You have no right to preach to others telling them how to live... or die.
 
hawkdon said:
Well I just got to do this....my daddy smoked till he died at 96, died of
complications from a fire, fire was caused by his dropping cigarette down
side of recliner arm, inside by his leg, he went to sleep till the pain woke him
up, in hosp about 48 hrs till he passed.......I am 84 years old and smoked until
about 6 yrs ago, not dead yet, drank like a drunk from age 22 till 42, still here,
so what the heck is going to kill me?!?!?!
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Most likely a neighbor these days.
 
hollydolly said:
I know the article is about Hong Kong... and in the UK it's also illegal to smoke indoors anywhere... and even in some cafe ''outside areas'' it's banned... .. but I've never heard of police being called if someone lights up..however smoking is an addiction, and if you annoy an addict, you might get your head stoved in..
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I smoked two packs a day for 34 years, so you could say I was an addict. But this addiction had many benefits for me. Something no one talks about! It calmed me, it helped me concentrate, it was a good weapon for coping with unexpected challenges. So, as a cigarette addict I would never have felt aggressive toward anyone who stared at me. I finally quit in 1990 because some of my Baptist parishioners didn't care for their pastor smoking. It was the guilt, and a lot of prayer, that helped me quit with relative ease. But one of the side effects (at first) was a marked crankiness, it was so bad that my daughters begged me to go back to smoking! That's where your aggressiveness comes in, HD! :D

As an aside, during a routine examination, five years after I quit, the doctor checked my breathing capacity and couldn't believe that I had ever smoked! I haven't craved cigarettes for the past thirty-three years except, strangly enough, only two weeks ago when I watched an old movie and felt like grabbing the cigarette right out of the actor's hand and smoke it! Strange, not a twinge for all those years and then that!!!
 

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