The new smoking laws - Why its ridiculous
Posted on July 14th, 2007 by fizzle in Rants
Now I have been a smoker for well over 10 years. I respect that people don’t like the smell of cigarettes, or are allergic to smoke, etc. Thats all well and fine. But now the government is encroaching on my rights as a human being, to walk down the street I paid taxes for, and smoke a cigarette I paid MORE taxes for. It is getting out of hand.
What are we going to do about it? Not a god damn thing. The last time I checked, there were more non-smokers in law-making positions than smokers. We’re fucked. We’re a dying breed. But while we’re still here, it is starting to piss me off. I recently moved from Detroit to San Diego. San Diego is a pretty laid back city. Until you light up a cigarette. I go outside my office, light a cigarette, and like I said, I try to be respectful of other people. I don’t blow smoke in their general direction, if somebody is walking by I walk the other way, away from them. But at LEAST twice a day some dumbass walks by, no problems. Then they see my cigarette and start to get all high and fucking mighty. They cover their mouth and nose, they start coughing uncontrollably, and they basically act like the quarter millipart of smoky air they just inhaled into their lungs is literally burning their insides.
The first time I went out to a restaurant in California, I was dumbfounded that I couldn’t smoke at the bar of the restaurant we were at. I asked the bartender, “what the fuck? Why not? Drinking and smoking go hand in hand? Don’t you lose business by not letting people in here smoke, and in turn buy more drinks?” His reply? “yeah, but now our non smoking patrons will live longer”.
WHAT?!?! Are you fucking kidding me?! So you’re telling me that these people were ABSOLUTELY going to die from secondhand smoke, BEFORE they died of scirrohsis (fuck spelling that word), or a heart attack from the quadruple-pound double bacon cheeseburger they just ate? Or getting hit by a bus? And that somehow makes up for the thousands of dollars you’re losing by passing a law that lets people not smoke in restaurants?
Heres how I look at it. Stop being all up in my fucking business, government. Fuck you and your mothers. Let the bar/restaurant owners decide if they want to not allow smoking. They know their patrons better than the government. They know if their non-smoking patrons are more than the smoking ones, and they can financially work out which is more beneficial for everybody. This country was built on democracy, but now it seems like the laws are being made by everybody except the people who actually give a fuck.
And now they’re going even further. In fucking EUROPE! Of all places, EUROPE has lost their fucking minds regarding smoking. This article here: from thesun.co.uk describes how some dumb asshats want to make it a law to keep the WINDOWS OF A BAR CLOSED TO STOP SMOKE FROM DRIFTING IN FROM THE OUTSIDE.
Take that in for a minute. Shut the windows. Because people outside, are smoking. And it might drift inside.
Wait for it to set in. Has it yet? WHAT THE FUCK!?!?!?!?
Normally I would chalk this up to another step in the complete pussification of America. But this is happening in Europe. Europe is usually pretty chill. They invented chain-smoking and loving it. They understand people are intelligent enough to make their own god damn decisions about what bar to go to, what to put in your lungs, whether or not to bang a 16 year old while shes on the rag, whatever. How is this even possible to happen in such a laid back place that lets people think for themselves? And since such a ridiculous thing IS happening in such a chill place, what the fuck can we expect here in the states?
Soon, us smokers will only be able to smoke in our bathrooms, no lights on, windows completely sealed shut with silocone sealant, with no less than 4-15lb blankets over our heads. Oh and we will have to apply for a permit to do even that. Which will cost at least 500 dollars. And the fine for smoking in your front yard will be more than doing 30 over the speed limit. Lord knows, SPEEDING never kills anybody, but smoking a cigarette with nobody around on your own god damn property, now thats just a suicide mission for anybody within a fucking 500 foot radius.
This is it. I’m moving to antarctica. Until the god damn polar bears start complaining my smoke is turning their fur yellow, then I’ll have to find some small island out in the middle of the south pacific. But chances are, America owns it, and I’ll be fucked anyway.
In closing, the pussification of America is one thing. I’m getting used to it. Oh you cant do this, you cant do that, we make up your mind for you, because you’re too stupid to do it for yourself. But when the shit starts happening in countries that allow their residents to make their own decisions about their own health and well-being? Well that scares me.
Tags: government interference, laws, ridiculous laws, smoking
