30 Apr 05
Originally posted by trawets113I sympathize, trawets. It's really a shame when a fellow gets all "dolled up" and then is forced into one of those stinky pubs.
Doesn't it wind you up when you put on lots of expensive aftershave and deodrant. then you go into a pub and walk out smelling like an ashtray.
30 Apr 05
Originally posted by DelmerEspecially when you have just washed your hair aswell and the scent of herbal essences is in your hair. Then some selfish SMOKER comes along and recks it all.
I sympathize, trawets. It's really a shame when a fellow gets all "dolled up" and then is forced into one of those stinky pubs.
30 Apr 05
Originally posted by Delmerhttp://www.smokefree.co.nz/facts.htm
And just how did they reach that conclusion?
At the time the legislation came in world wide studies were quoted where people died with lung desease and cancer who had high nicotine and tar levels but had never smoked in their lives. It was found they worked in the liquor industry or in workplaces where there were a lot of smokers. The second hand smoke killed them... it opened peoples eyes to the problem.
Tobacco companies have now been successfully sued over secondhand smoke.
Bars and public places are better places if the smokers simply take it outside. AND if going outside...away from those who don't want to breathe their smoke.
30 Apr 05
Originally posted by Tirau DanOkay, TD, if I ever visit the Shire I'll stick with the injectible hard drugs. Although it seems like I can remember Bilbo smoking a pipe in "The Hobbit." But that was probably before the research was released.
http://www.smokefree.co.nz/facts.htm
At the time the legislation came in world wide studies were quoted where people died with lung desease and cancer who had high nicotine and tar levels but had never smoked in their lives. It was found they worked in the liquor industry or in workplaces where there were a lot of smokers. The second hand smoke killed ...[text shortened]... e it outside. AND if going outside...away from those who don't want to breathe their smoke.
01 May 05
Originally posted by DelmerThere are quite a few ads on TV which I think are effective. They certainly put me off the idea.
Okay, TD, if I ever visit the Shire I'll stick with the injectible hard drugs. Although it seems like I can remember Bilbo smoking a pipe in "The Hobbit." But that was probably before the research was released.
One ad has a surgeon holding an eyeball. The camera zooms in on the eye and then turns into a rather real-looking simulation of a vessel in an eye exploding, while the narrator states "We now know smoking is a cause of irreversible blindness. Every cigarette is doing you damage."
Another has a surgeon holding an aorta, the narrator (the same as the previous ad) says "Smoking causes fat deposits to build up in the arteries. This much fat *surgeon squeezes aorta and empties fat* was found in a person who died of smoking, aged 32. Every cigarette is doing you damage."
Finally, you see someone take a puff of a cigarette. It turns into a simulation of the smoke heading into the lungs (it looks rather disgusting), and the narrator says "When you smoke, tar and many other chemicals build up inside your lungs, increasing your risk of lung cancer. Every cigarette is doing you damage." As he says that you see the lung turn black and begin to rot.
All the anti-smoking ads have a toll-free number to ring to aid the process of giving up.
It's not that you can't smoke, but if you want to kill yourself, don't take someone with you, so smoke outside, away from non-smokers.
01 May 05
Originally posted by DelmerYou'd be super welcome Del and you love the local race track.. it is all prime race horse breeding country round here.
Okay, TD, if I ever visit the Shire I'll stick with the injectible hard drugs. Although it seems like I can remember Bilbo smoking a pipe in "The Hobbit." But that was probably before the research was released.
Plenty of Duct Tape stockists and lots of chemists. Lol
Truely even the hard core smokers who loated the idea...now enjoy stepping out for smoke ,,, it's surprising pretty amiable and social.
Hey we'll even find you a great new hat.... hee hee
01 May 05
Originally posted by Tirau DanHorse racing and a new hat!!!! TD, I'm checking airline schedules as soon as I exit RHP.
You'd be super welcome Del and you love the local race track.. it is all prime race horse breeding country round here.
Plenty of Duct Tape stockists and lots of chemists. Lol
Truely even the hard core smokers who loated the idea...now enjoy stepping out for smoke ,,, it's surprising pretty amiable and social.
Hey we'll even find you a great new hat.... hee hee
02 May 05
I was a smoker, then quit, then smoked again.now quit again! I have always supported bans on smoking. The harder they make it for smokers to be socially accepted the more incentive it gives people to quit. I should know! Restaruants here have now banned it and hopefully bars & pubs will soon follow. In some cities they already have. (No loss to business either I might add) Besides there's nothing funnier than watching someone outside when it's -40C trying to have a smoke! (It gets really cold up here in northern Canada) If that's not incentive enough to quit I don't know what is.
02 May 05
Originally posted by mokkoI find that hard to believe, mokko, but if true I bet that made you laugh even more than watching smokers stepping outside in -40 degree weather. Think of how funny if he'd have suddenly gone up in flames in front of your eyes. I bet that would have made your day. And if his children and grandchildren had been crying and trying to save him... too funny for words.
There's a 5 meter law here too with a $500 fine, which is never enforced, and never adhered to. Was at the hospital the other day and right at the front entrance was an old man hooked up to an oxygen tank smoking beside a no smoking within 5 meters sign. would that be an oxymoron?