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By: Da Sissop
Date: 6/9/98 10:33:50 AM
# Replies: 20
NBC news reported yesterday that the first 5 months of 1998 have broken all heat records since they began recording that sort of data a-hundred-sum-odd years ago. Additionally they had some tree-hugger person who said that according to the tree rings, it's probably the hottest in 800 years (1194 was hot, but it was a *dry* heat).
I know the visible ozone haze hanging over Houston wasn't nearly this bad just a few years ago. Did anything happen just a few years ago that may have accelerated the greenhouse effect? Yep! It was only a few years ago that workplaces were required to be smoke free. It's only in the last few years that smokers have begun "stepping outside" en masse! During the daylight hours! In the heat of the sun! Blowing clouds of smoke! Smoke filled with carbon monoxide! Carbon Monoxide which... er... is bad and probably somehow contributes to ground-level ozone!
It's clear to me that we need to bring the smokers back inside where the AC can filter their pollutants. I know, I know, the non-smokers are going to complain, you say. But have ya ever noticed that there *is* one place where non-smokers don't complain so much about smokers?
To make this idea succeed, the workplace should serve alcoholic beverages, and the company PA system should be hooked up to an employee-accessible CD jukebox.
Response #1
By: Zipperhead
Date: 6/9/98 3:38:10 PM
WOW...A Non-Smoker who cares about me...Thanks Jim I needed that...So in celebration Im gonna go outside RIGHT NOW and have a Butt for You!
Response #2
By: Capt. Spastic
Date: 6/9/98 4:48:45 PM
Hey, I don't smoke, but I'm also not disillusioned enought o believe that I'm going to live forever, no matter what. I don't smoke cigarettes anymore because I got tired of it. (5 years this past May if anyone was wondering. But I will also be the last one to start whining about someone smoking either. It doesn't bother me, and I really don't think that I'm going to add that much more onto my life by refusing to be within a 12 mile radius of anyone that smokes. I think all that is a bunch of hooey! Just a bunch of PC nonsense run amuck!
Response #3
By: Homer The Brave
Date: 6/10/98 3:22:38 AM
Tree-huggers don't know how many rings there are in a tree.
Duh.
Response #4
By: Da Sissop
Date: 6/10/98 6:55:51 AM
Well, okay, maybe there was more than just hugging.
Response #5
By: sooz
Date: 6/10/98 9:03:45 PM
That whole "I might as well smoke 'cuz something's gonna kill me someday" mentality cracks me up. This is probably because I spend a big chunk of time typing for oncologists, and through the printed word, I get to watch long-time smokers slowly and painfully expire.
Yesterday, I typed a report that quoted a study. It seems that lung cancer patients usually overestimate their expected survival rate by a LOT. See, they're still in denial.
Response #6
By: rorschach
Date: 6/11/98 9:01:59 PM
YOU KNOW they are in denial when they are sitting in the hospital room, 100% 02 flowing into thier nostrils while taking a drag from a lucky strike..... the only thing lucky here is that they were lucky they didn't incinerate themselves from the oxygen laden sheets and clothing they were wearing.....
personally, this ad campaign about all the poor innocent workers being put out of work by the tobacco legislation is ludicrous. i mean, its like the drug pushers, the drug lords , the pimps, prostitutes, cops, and the entire ER medical team banding together to prevent the eradication of the illicit drug trade! gimme a break! if these people were not working to make something that kills other people they wouldn't be looking for jobs en-masse!
Response #7
By: Capt. Spastic
Date: 6/13/98 10:35:30 PM
May I point out one tiny little factor here?
Compariatively, industries in this country pour more pollutants in our air in one day than 10 smokers do in a year. When I start seeing the general populas going after them with the same fervor as they do smokers, THEN you'll have a point I'll start listening to. Until, it's just more segrated politics.
(Climbing down off soap-box)
Response #8
By: Homer The Brave
Date: 6/14/98 3:35:09 AM
Yeah, but corporate chimneys have the common courtesy to blow their smoke up, rather than in your face.
Response #9
By: Ralf
Date: 6/14/98 5:03:26 PM
That's probably coming next. Never underestimate corporate chutzpah.
Response #10
By: Zane T. Dark
Date: 6/16/98 6:44:23 PM
There's alot of love in this room.
Response #11
By: Mycroft
Date: 6/16/98 9:37:42 PM
Hey, it's still acceptible to treat rude people like shit, Homey. If someone blows smoke in your face, you can exhale spittle in theirs. Or snort noodles through your nose and onto their top...
Smoking,like any other activity, should be done with a modicum of politeness.
Response #12
By: Homer The Brave
Date: 6/17/98 1:32:18 PM
"Mind if I smoke?"
"Care if I die?"
Response #13
By: sooz
Date: 6/17/98 5:02:33 PM
"Mind if I smoke?"
"Mind if I fart?"
Response #14
By: Capt. Spastic
Date: 6/17/98 5:50:16 PM
In your face or not, it's still in the air, and you are still breathing it.
Some of the worst carcenigens I know smell very nice.
Response #15
By: Da Sissop
Date: 6/17/98 9:33:48 PM
I love the gasoline-scented Glade plug-in.
Response #16
By: Ralf
Date: 6/17/98 9:40:55 PM
Pardon me for being a rude, condescending asshole, but...
Isn't it better to treat rudeness with unfailing politeness? I mean, for so long as is humanly possible? It seems counterproductive to sink to the same level. In effect, *THEY WIN*.
And once society abandons all pretense of polite behavior, it's time for rioting flesh-eating cyborg gangs in the street, right?
So if somebody lights up a stogie and blows a noxious cloud in your face, which response would be more civilized, and hence, more likely to get the results you want?
A) Knock it off mutherfucker, you're pissing me off with that cigar.
..or..
B) Pardon me sir or madam, would you mind smoking that elsewhere?
Response #17
By: rorschach
Date: 6/18/98 12:52:15 PM
or....
C) Just shoot the motherfucker in the forehead and be done with it.
Response #18
By: sooz
Date: 6/18/98 10:33:49 PM
That's the rational thing, Ror.
Response #19
By: Ralf
Date: 6/19/98 5:22:31 PM
But POLITELY, always politely.
"Eat hot lead, sir."
Response #20
By: Mycroft
Date: 6/19/98 9:17:13 PM
Actually, politeness will get you a lot further. unless the person is an asshole (in which case option c is not only acceptable, but legal in Texas I think), most smokers, especially folks who smoke abnormal stuff like cigars or cloves will try to find a way to accomidate someone. As for second-hand smoke in passing? get real. someone smoking in your domicile is bad. hanging out someplace where there's a lot of smoke is bad. eating out at a restrant with someone smoking is no worse than driving through houston furing the smoggy bits with no AC or down 225 anytime. Actually, the smog was much much worse...