should we ban smoking?

My mom is on expensive medication as well. Without insurance it's like $2000.00 a month. Her insurance brought it down to just under $200 a month. Still alot of money. Her insurance just change drug providers/access and I talked her into going mailorder. They now send her the medication in 3 month packages: all for a whopping 5 bucks. It's a tad more aggravating: she spends like an hour a month on the phone but hey! It's either 5 bucks or $200 bucks.

 

Yea; I like bongs too

Thats supposed to be a wink but it's not working for me.....

 

I personally do smoke (still) but believe there should be only a few areas where you can do so. The last thing I need in my life is being allowed to light up each and everywhere I go.
About drinking: try that in the San Diego beach area .... good luck!

 

if they had proper segregation, lets say..seperate rooms in a restaurant...that would be ok for smokers, perhaps its the infrastructure thats dated.

How about some cross atlantic flights...for smokers only.....i would pay a few extra £'s
just to not rip my hair out whilst waiting to take off, flying, landing...and waiting an hour to get my baggage. They could do a similar service for alcoholics...with a police escort waiting

 

lmao ... try cross country flights in the US, 5 hrs of not smoking ... no wonder air-rage has increased since that became a law

 

Hell Yes, no one should be smoking while on Digital Point forums, drinking is fine

 

And I must go one step further. Our God-given free will is the vehicle by which we "walk the walk" when showing we do, in fact, "love our neighbor, as we do ourselves".

Doesn't legislating moral values threaten to cheapen their value?
[Prohibition sucks!]

Unfortunately, being human, it is not in our nature to love anyone except ourselves and there are many who forget the high road.
[Prohibition rocks!]

In a more personal confession, it wasn't the law that started me wearing the mandatory seat belt. It was my children's example. I now see that it is the right thing to do so I do it.
[Prohibition sucks!]

As the member of a rather densely populated area, one should not be forced to partake in another's deadly habit.
[Prohibition rocks!]

(My birthday is Oct. 17.. can ya tell I'm a dead-center Libra? )

Don't legislate morality.. be moral.

 

we should really ban living. everyone who has ever lived has died (or will eventually); so living is really what we should be worrying about.

 

I think it's ok to limit where people smoke due to the health concerns of second hand smoke. There is a ban in NY in public places, and contary to popular belief here, it did not hurt business.

As for other drugs, not so much in favor of it. While Shawn is right, people will use regardless, I think you would have a lot of people more willing to try the drugs if they were legal. For several drugs, you only need to try once or twice before you become physically addicted.

Now this means I should get back to writing my term papers (one of them happens to be about adolescent drug abuse).

 

I agree, sometimes people need to be protected from themselves

 

Wow man, lets smoke a "J" man, right here on Digital Point, wait, I see Shawn at a Greatful Dead concert man, wow man, that is Shawn dancing around the fire man

 

that doesn't sound like J, that sounds more like X

 

Yeah man, one hit and I thought I seen Shawn as a dead head on a great trip, gota quit smoking that ganga

 

That would be spleef.....

 

Shawn is cool, don't let him fool you, ever see that record company he is running

 

Have you asked a waitress? Or a bartender? I worked in a restaraunt that banned smoking. Smokers tend to tip better than non smokers; are less uptight - whereas a non smoker tends to whine about every little thing. A smoker tends to order drinks; wine and after dinner drinks as well. Non smokers don't. I'm speaking in generalities here, not pointing at all non smokers.

When we had a smoking sectiion; I used to laugh at the non smoking waitresses - who whined about the smoking section and whined because they made no money, because they refused to work in the smoking section.

 

I don't know, if one could get crack at the corner store more folks would smoke crack more often, hey, what the hell am I talking about

You can get crack down at the corner store

 

All I can say about it is that for awhile after the ban went into effect in NY, bars had the option to claim the differences made in money to potentially be reimbursed by the government for the difference (at least in certain counties). Bars were unable to prove a lack of earnings. That doesn't speak to tipping of course, just earnings.

 

Only product that is used when directed kills. Its all about money and the money the goverment makes from cig. taxes.