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bajachris88 The international telephone dialing code for Antarctica is 6

6,661 posts · joined Apr 2005 ·

#499082
By the way, i agree, everything is bad for you.

Where there is life, there is death. Cause everything living must die one day. Interesting that. Perfect example of ying-yang.

All it depends on however in life, is how fast u die. some things Push ya a little quicker to the end. :jesus
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Schmoburger Baywindow Mafia Godfather and Cement-Shoe Fitter

2,185 posts · joined Oct 2005 ·

#499109
Special wrote:
Schmoburger wrote:Exactly... cigarette companies are run by crooks... always have been... so what better reason to introduce inhibition laws.

They may not work as well as they should in the short term... existing smokers may find ways to circumvent them if they are really that intent on killing emselves... but at least the children will not have such poison readily available to them.

Also the way I see it... brandish a big enough stick and you can stop anything... so if a country introduces draconian punishments for illicit cigarette manufacture, it is bound to cease eventually when such laws have been excercised to their full extent a few times.

The poblem is people are thinking short-term....it wont provide results overnight. That is true... it could take years or decades, but keep brandishing a stick long enough and the culture will eventually be beaten out of society for good...

oh!! i get it, just like illict drug use? 🙄
Nope...because if you use elicit drugs,you are at best given a slap on the wrist and marched off to a rehab clinic, and at worst, fined... cant pay the fine?... oh well... rehab or community service then for you and you have cleared your debt to society. :o

About as scary as a fluffy bunny with a sign saying "BOO!" sticky taped to its backside! 🙄
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MickH Hairy Gutted Sloth

3,389 posts · joined Sep 2003 ·

#499110
Schmoburger wrote:No... as I said earlier... best way to solve the problem is to ban the sale, manufacture, and importation of cigarettes in Australia... but that won't happen unless we have somebody with some balls like Maurice Iemmma as PM, instead of that pansy-ass bitch John Howard, so scare-tactics are the next best thing... :o
No way could they/would they ban the smokes!!!They should ban alcamahol first...it causes more problems and is more widely used/abused. And let me say as a smoker for 19 years,when i gave up in January this year it had nothing to do with the labels or scare tactics used.When you are addicted to something which is supposedly harder to give up then herion no picture is going to break the addiction.I've yet to meet one smoker who enjoys smoking.Ive met many who enjoy "feeding" their addiction which is a different kettle of fish.If people want to smoke it is their right to do so.Good luck to them.People who don't wish to smoke also have a right not to have to.:kiss
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Schmoburger Baywindow Mafia Godfather and Cement-Shoe Fitter

2,185 posts · joined Oct 2005 ·

#499112
bajachris88 wrote:By the way, i agree, everything is bad for you.

Where there is life, there is death. Cause everything living must die one day. Interesting that. Perfect example of ying-yang.

All it depends on however in life, is how fast u die. some things Push ya a little quicker to the end. :jesus
It's not a matter tho of how fast one is pushing oneself to the grave chris... if it were that simple... then we wouldnt give a toss.

It's a matter of a smoker or drink driver is risking putting someone else in the grave sooner than they would care to be put in it. :jesus

Is it fair that say Nick for instance ends up with a chronic lung disease 30 years from now (hypothetically speaking Nick 🙂)as a result of working in a smokey bar, just because the patrons all ignorantly go on thinking... "I can smoke like a chimney if I please... after all its only me im killing!"???
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1976 Beluxe Microbus, "Saphir"... resto.
1974 Kombi panelvan, "George"... shed.
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StenGuns Veteran Volks Folk

2,147 posts · joined Mar 2004 ·

#499114
Bollocks..
How can you equate the social cost of passive smoking to the environmental cost of fossil fuel burning? If you blokes were fair dinkum, you would stop driving petrol/diesel driven cars, stop using electricity and stop buying products that are made with fossil fuels.

Australia is a major culprit when it comes to environmental damage.. Yet the bleeding heart fuckwit's that think that cigarette smoke is a problem, also gag debate (or use scare tactics) on nuclear energy!

No offense to present company.. If you smoke, go outside! Fair enough. But cut out this passive smoking crap.. Thank you
Schmoburger wrote:yep and yep....

Like Anthiron saiid again...I got no prob with you guys as people... but I also have no problem with the tactics the government is using to curb smoking...

It is downright dangerous... quite frankly, I have no problem with people smoking themselves to the grave... but when they are smoking others to the grave, that is a different kettle of fish...

and you DID..ask for opinions 😂

So here they are....

Schmoburger Baywindow Mafia Godfather and Cement-Shoe Fitter

2,185 posts · joined Oct 2005 ·

#499115
Mick H wrote:No way could they/would they ban the smokes!!!They should ban alcamahol first...it causes more problems and is more widely used/abused. And let me say as a smoker for 19 years,when i gave up in January this year it had nothing to do with the labels or scare tactics used.When you are addicted to something which is supposedly harder to give up then herion no picture is going to break the addiction.I've yet to meet one smoker who enjoys smoking.Ive met many who enjoy "feeding" their addiction which is a different kettle of fish.If people want to smoke it is their right to do so.Good luck to them.People who don't wish to smoke also have a right not to have to.:kiss
But many of these addicted smokers blindly went along and started smoking in the first place not knowing the consequences of there actions in the future... as the effects were silenced by the tobacco companies and in some countries by the governments themselves... there may not be any saving existing smokers from their addiction... but that isnt to say the younger generation can't be scared out of ever getting into such harmful habits in the first place. 😘
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1976 Beluxe Microbus, "Saphir"... resto.
1974 Kombi panelvan, "George"... shed.
1974 Superbug, "Schmeetle"... resto.
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Schmoburger Baywindow Mafia Godfather and Cement-Shoe Fitter

2,185 posts · joined Oct 2005 ·

#499118
StenGuns wrote:Bollocks..
How can you equate the social cost of passive smoking to the environmental cost of fossil fuel burning? If you blokes were fair dinkum, you would stop driving petrol/diesel driven cars, stop using electricity and stop buying products that are made with fossil fuels.
There are generally higher concentrations of cigarette related toxins to be found in a pub frequented by smokers than concentrations toxins related to motor vehicles and such in the air outside that pub.

That said... fossil fuel related toxins are still harmful in the long term...but are a necessary evil... smoking is not! :puke

It is better to only have to put up with one lot of shit being spewed out of automobiles than the same ammount of said shit PLUS the crap attributed to cigarettes and so forth... 🙂
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1976 Beluxe Microbus, "Saphir"... resto.
1974 Kombi panelvan, "George"... shed.
1974 Superbug, "Schmeetle"... resto.
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MickH Hairy Gutted Sloth

3,389 posts · joined Sep 2003 ·

#499119
Schmoburger wrote:But many of these addicted smokers blindly went along and started smoking in the first place not knowing the consequences of there actions in the future... as the effects were silenced by the tobacco companies and in some countries by the governments themselves... there may not be any saving existing smokers from their addiction... but that isnt to say the younger generation can't be scared out of ever getting into such harmful habits in the first place. 😘
I was smoking BEFORE you were born.I was well aware of the dangers of smoking when i started the habit.Nothing was hidden as far as side effects go.Any intelligent person new it was a harmfull thing to do to their bodies. The trouble is that when you are at a certain age,say,late teens, you are 10 foot tall and bulletproof.Most people this age think they are good drivers and can't drive for shit.The same with smoking.It wont hurt your body or shorten your life span because you are 10 foot tall and bulletproof. As with anything in life,as you get older you recognise you won't be here forever and yor health which was taken for granted when you were younger,suddenly becomes precious. I grew up when smoking was "acceptable" as a norm and many people i knew smoked.A large percentage of these people gave up when they got older or had kids,as their lives took on a different perspective. As to the original topic....i do think they are ramming the message down peoples throats and because of the high publicity,after some time the initial effect will lessen and people will return to taking up the habbit,which research showed happened after the initial "shock" adds showed many years ago.If you want to stop the "youngins" from taking up the habbit,the best thing would be to give them all a packet and make them smoke them while they are watching a post mortum being performed:puke. Oh hang on thats just another shock tactic........but it would work!!!! Otherwise leave the smokers alone and everyone respect everyone elses rights.:kiss

[ Edited on 10-6-06 by Mick H ]
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weapon Wolfsburg Wizard

439 posts · joined Sep 2005 ·

#499120
just to reiterate!
i wasnt really trying to spark a debate on the health implications of smoking or not. i was attempting to gauge public opinion re scare tactics. another example that springs to mind is the weapons of mass destruction and the consequential invasion of iraq. yet another was the children overboard debarcle.are we as a society happy with this type of behaviour?

MickH Hairy Gutted Sloth

3,389 posts · joined Sep 2003 ·

#499124
Schmoburger wrote:There are generally higher concentrations of cigarette related toxins to be found in a pub frequented by smokers than concentrations toxins related to motor vehicles and such in the air outside that pub.

That said... fossil fuel related toxins are still harmful in the long term...but are a necessary evil... smoking is not! :puke

It is better to only have to put up with one lot of shit being spewed out of automobiles than the same ammount of said shit PLUS the crap attributed to cigarettes and so forth... 🙂
I find the lack of factual arguement and one sidedness of the above statements evidence of you being narrow minded in your expression of opinion. On a "WORLD" scale fossil fuels are not the necessary evils,smoking is:P!!! Most of global warming is from the burning of fossil fuels.Tobacco is not a fossil fuel. If you parked a car in the pub idleing people would die in 20 minutes from the car running.People do not drop dead in 20 minutes drinking in a pub when the person next to them is smoking..that takes time.....:P
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MickH Hairy Gutted Sloth

3,389 posts · joined Sep 2003 ·

#499125
weapon wrote:just to reiterate!
i wasnt really trying to spark a debate on the health implications of smoking or not. i was attempting to gauge public opinion re scare tactics. another example that springs to mind is the weapons of mass destruction and the consequential invasion of iraq. yet another was the children overboard debarcle.are we as a society happy with this type of behaviour?
NO,most definetly not.:thumb But you can't blame me....I DIDN"T VOTE FOR THEM🙄

[ Edited on 10-6-06 by Mick H ]
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Schmoburger Baywindow Mafia Godfather and Cement-Shoe Fitter

2,185 posts · joined Oct 2005 ·

#499131
Mick H wrote:
Schmoburger wrote:There are generally higher concentrations of cigarette related toxins to be found in a pub frequented by smokers than concentrations toxins related to motor vehicles and such in the air outside that pub.

That said... fossil fuel related toxins are still harmful in the long term...but are a necessary evil... smoking is not! :puke

It is better to only have to put up with one lot of shit being spewed out of automobiles than the same ammount of said shit PLUS the crap attributed to cigarettes and so forth... 🙂
I find the lack of factual arguement and one sidedness of the above statements evidence of you being narrow minded in your expression of opinion. On a "WORLD" scale fossil fuels are not the necessary evils,smoking is:P!!! Most of global warming is from the burning of fossil fuels.Tobacco is not a fossil fuel. If you parked a car in the pub idleing people would die in 20 minutes from the car running.People do not drop dead in 20 minutes drinking in a pub when the person next to them is smoking..that takes time.....:P
But what imbocile parks there car in the pub and lets it idle? :P

But hey I love this continued contradiction... this pro-tobacco company propaganda.. its so feckin funny! 😘 😂 Excuse me whilst I go and smoke a pack of gaspers as homage... back soon! 🤪

...

OK..I'm back now.. btw mick, on a closing note, I find your lack of supporting evidence regarding the global warming issue to be very narrow-minded... there is insatisfactory evidence to support your brash claims that automobiles contribute to global warmming... everybody knows it is a natural process which is directly proportiAONAL TO THE cyclic rise and fall of the earths bovine population! :P :bounce... BAN THE COWS I SAY... BAN BAN BAN!!!!

and now I'm just partaking in blatant shitstirring so I will now go drive my bus through the front of a pub and allow it toi idle away for 20 minutes! :P 😘 :bounce 🤪
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1976 Beluxe Microbus, "Saphir"... resto.
1974 Kombi panelvan, "George"... shed.
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bajachris88 The international telephone dialing code for Antarctica is 6

6,661 posts · joined Apr 2005 ·

#499143
be a while before cigs or alcohol gets band.

The tax on em' is huge, and the government only get off there asses when crap hits the fan, or when they want to suck up to get some votes. Since when has it been about us people...

Really, its a very big debate. I got plenty of friends who have a smoke. They don't necessarily like it, and know that i don't, but it helps them in other ways where they need it. Got a few friends that simply need it to de-stress, especially one down the road suffering from obsessive compulsive disorder. I respect smokers, I got nothing against em for it, its their choice, and the ones i have as friends don't blow or let me cope any 2ndary smoke, so its all kool. I still respect em, and they respect how I feel, thats all that matters really.

BUT!! FOR A NEW ISSUE!

How many times have u been to a public place, to find the inevitable cigarette bud dumped on the ground, polluting etc. That pisses me off, but polluting all to gether really.
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helterskelter400 Fahrvergnugen

900 posts · joined Aug 2002 ·

#499146
weapon wrote:just to reiterate!
i wasnt really trying to spark a debate on the health implications of smoking or not. i was attempting to gauge public opinion re scare tactics. another example that springs to mind is the weapons of mass destruction and the consequential invasion of iraq. yet another was the children overboard debarcle.are we as a society happy with this type of behaviour?
i am definatly unhappy with these and the continuing LIES.
:thumb

MickH Hairy Gutted Sloth

3,389 posts · joined Sep 2003 ·

#499149
Schmoburger wrote:[

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OK..I'm back now.. btw mick, on a closing note, I find your lack of supporting evidence regarding the global warming issue to be very narrow-minded... there is insatisfactory evidence to support your brash claims that automobiles contribute to global warmming... everybody knows it is a natural process which is directly proportiAONAL TO THE cyclic rise and fall of the earths bovine population! :P :bounce... BAN THE COWS I SAY... BAN BAN BAN!!!!

and now I'm just partaking in blatant shitstirring so I will now go drive my bus through the front of a pub and allow it toi idle away for 20 minutes! :P 😘 :bounce 🤪

LMFAO:P:P😂 Did you know that vegetarians put more gas to the atmosphere than meat eaters?? If you're gunna do the pub thing you will have to reverse..and it will only take 15 minutes with your old 2 liter carbon monoxide pump..the newer engines have less carbon monoxide output (bloody cat. converters) so it takes longer. LEAVE THE KOWS ALONE
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sinecure Want another... :(

1,031 posts · joined Mar 2006 ·

#499177
Personally, I would have no problem at all with a ban on cigarettes, but where would it stop? Alcohol? Private cars? The plethora of over-the counter medications that can kill you? Pedestrians crossing streets?

And just to clarify, I agree with what most of us have realised:

EVERYTHING is bad for you in some way or another.

The government or powers-that-be should not be forced to protect people from their own stupidity. Thanks to Americans like Stella Liebeck, this is unfortunately the case now for all organisations.
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