Port Orange Florida Votes to Prohibit Smoking in Public Parks

[Scooter]

Originally posted by Woody13
Does anyone think smoke knows how to stay in an outdoor designated smoking area? Secondhand smoke and a hand grenade have something in common. They are both capable of killing anything within a 40-ft. radius.

I'm going to say this and then thats all on this subject.

This is the most rediculous statement I have EVER read on a discussion board in my entire life.

I'm laughing my patootie off here.
:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

 

[Bill]

Crazy, but true. Smoking is the number one cause of non-accidental death in the USA.

 

[TravisMT81]

well I for one do not "fake cough" it is a real cough. Though I still believe that they should never ban it from the parks. That will just make the guest more grumpier if they cannot get their nicotine.

 

[DisneyPhD]

Originally posted by TravisM
well I for one do not "fake cough" it is a real cough. Though I still believe that they should never ban it from the parks. That will just make the guest more grumpier if they cannot get their nicotine.

I too cough, sometimes fake, often real. I am hypervigulant (I so spelled that wrong and am not sure that is word, it is past my bed time after all!:lol: ) about keeping smoke away from my DD and pregnant self at all times.

However today there are many options for people who are nicotine addicted to go without for long or short periods of time. (gum, pacthes etc....) Many avilable over the counter and afordable. (heck if a moderate smoker quit, they would have thousands of extra $ a year.)

If smoker wants to go somewhere smoking isnt alowd, plan ahead, you can get around it. (somkers take long air flights and somehow manage to live.) People who smoke but need to be in the hospital are issued the patch.

I think the day will come where smoking is banned in parks and other puplic places. Saddly I don't see it coming soon enough. It would be nice if it didn't need to be banned, but if the habbit itself died. (instead of the people.) Once again I don't have much hope for that. Having said that there are many many x somkers out there who are really happy to be smoke free today. (and worked hard to make it that way.) And to them I say Yea! :sohappy:

And to the people who had the smarts to never start, double Yea! (exspecailly todays teenagers and college age)

 

[drjny]

Originally posted by DisneyPhD
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I think the day will come where smoking is banned in parks and other puplic places. Saddly I don't see it coming soon enough. It would be nice if it didn't need to be banned, but if the habbit itself died. (instead of the people.) Once again I don't have much hope for that. Having said that there are many many x somkers out there who are really happy to be smoke free today. (and worked hard to make it that way.) And to them I say Yea! :sohappy:

And to the people who had the smarts to never start, double Yea! (exspecailly todays teenagers and college age)

I agree with you on this subject. Smoking is such an unnatural habit, putting a small stick of chemicals into your mouth, then lighting the end on fire. It's like putting your head in a fireplace and breathing in the fumes or breathing in the air from the exhaust pipe of a car. Why would you do it? It's like the same concept, breathing in the chemicals after something is lit on fire.

 

[bdalton]

I smoke where i want.....when i want.........in all the parks. Nobody stops me or says anything........I also don't make it obvious,i go out of my way to keep it to myself and not share it with anyone who would not want to smell/breath it.
I will continue.....law or not............lets see them enforce it.......lol

 

[Woody13]

Originally posted by bdalton
I smoke where i want.....when i want.........in all the parks. Nobody stops me or says anything........I also don't make it obvious,i go out of my way to keep it to myself and not share it with anyone who would not want to smell/breath it.
I will continue.....law or not............lets see them enforce it.......lol

San Francisco Alta California, March 3, 1868

MARK TWAIN ON HIS TRAVELS

I am in Hartford, Connecticut, now, (January 25th), but I am confident I shall get this letter finished yet, if I keep at it. I think this is the best built and the handsomest town I have ever seen. They call New England the land of steady habits, and I see the evidence about me that it was not named amiss. As I came along the principal street, to-day -- smoking, of course -- I noticed that of the two hundred men in sight at one time, only two were smoking beside myself. I had to walk three blocks to find a cigar store. I saw no drinking saloons at all in the street -- but I was not looking for any. I hear no swearing here, I see no one chewing tobacco, I have found nobody drunk. What a singular country it is.

At the hospitable mansion where I am a guest, I have to smoke surreptitiously when all are in bed, to save my reputation, and then draw suspicion upon the cat when the family detect the unfamiliar odor. I never was so absurdly proper in the broad light of day on my life as I have been for the last day or two. So far, I am safe; but I am sorry to say that the cat has lost caste. She has steadily decreased in popularity since I made my advent here. She has achieved a reputation for smoking, and may justly be regarded as degraded, a dishonored, a ruined cat.:lol:

 

[mkt]

poor cat

 

[Brian_B]

I smoke where i want.....when i want.........in all the parks. Nobody stops me or says anything........I also don't make it obvious,i go out of my way to keep it to myself and not share it with anyone who would not want to smell/breath it.

Oh, you think you're so clever and so secret? Got news for you, Mr.Above-the-cuff; Good thing that when someone lights up in a 50 foot radius of me I can smell it as clear as if they ripped a loud fart. Smoking is a disgusting low-class habit, and I have no respect for people dependant on crushed plants. Sorry. Plus last trip out I saw cast members laying the smack down left and right on smokers (thank god)
-Brian

 

[AliciaLuvzDizne]

Originally posted by Woody13
San Francisco Alta California, March 3, 1868

MARK TWAIN ON HIS TRAVELS

I am in Hartford, Connecticut, now, (January 25th), but I am confident I shall get this letter finished yet, if I keep at it. I think this is the best built and the handsomest town I have ever seen. They call New England the land of steady habits, and I see the evidence about me that it was not named amiss. As I came along the principal street, to-day -- smoking, of course -- I noticed that of the two hundred men in sight at one time, only two were smoking beside myself. I had to walk three blocks to find a cigar store. I saw no drinking saloons at all in the street -- but I was not looking for any. I hear no swearing here, I see no one chewing tobacco, I have found nobody drunk. What a singular country it is.

At the hospitable mansion where I am a guest, I have to smoke surreptitiously when all are in bed, to save my reputation, and then draw suspicion upon the cat when the family detect the unfamiliar odor. I never was so absurdly proper in the broad light of day on my life as I have been for the last day or two. So far, I am safe; but I am sorry to say that the cat has lost caste. She has steadily decreased in popularity since I made my advent here. She has achieved a reputation for smoking, and may justly be regarded as degraded, a dishonored, a ruined cat.:lol:

umm
anyone been to hartford lately?
:lol: its just the same :lookaroun

 

[Woody13]

Lowe's (the hardware and lumber store) has banned smoking by their employees ANYWHERE on Lowe's property or within Lowe's vehicles! Wal-Mart, Target, K-Mart and WDW are taking steps to implement the same policy.