seven seas

LOL

Those coffin nails are made just to pollute the universe. Smoke/stink/ash/butts all over the world.
If it's too dirty/smelly for your car, why is it OK for my street?

Smoking encourages scabby behaviour.

crispybacon

Not a do gooder and I can't help thinking you have put this comment on as a wind up. Haven't you? If not I can't say I have any sympathy. Where do you think you ciggy butt ends up once you have thrown it out of the car? Why do smokers not see their butt ends as litter? Glad you bought an ashtray and sorry you don't like the smell but I guess it comes with the territory.

ponyrama

Still a hefty deficit then compared to the cost of smoking related disease - and they'd still have to pay tax even if they didnt smoke so not sure you can add that into the mix really!

seven seas

Coz nobody else but smokers pay taxes right? LOL what a crappy argument.

I'd like to see hospitals just for smokers- we'll see how society feels about it, I bet nobody would even work there.

And nobody says smokers should be left to die. Not seriously.

The Bloke

....... and us drinkers too!!!

JackTheLad

There have been instances of smokers refused translants unless they stopped smoking. i.e. leaving them to die.

Of course, what nobody seems to appreciate is its the thin edge of the wedge. They refuse liver transplants for alchoholics too.

Then it's refusing heart transplants for fat people.

It'll just go on and on until you'll only be treated if you drink fresh mineral water every day and eat raw carrots.

JTL

JackTheLad

Well just as a thought game, I'm not saying its true:

Imagine I've been paying 10 times as much tax as you all my life. But I smoke. And we both turn up at hospital.

Who gets priority?

Does the amount of tax I piled in to the health system mean that others get priority over me because of my lifestyle?

Does that sound right, or do we start a 'means tested' health system?

JTL

BadgeIsBack

Have to admit, can't see how smoking can ever be anything but scabby. I only have to hold one for awhile and the stink transfers everywhere. I did go for a short phase - weeks - where I gave it a go and the stink pissed me off.

I've met some people who are not too shabby in the old deportment department who put on a good show at all sorts of events but you wonder a bit about their homes and what goes on out of the public eye!! Do they revert to the Wayne and Henrietta school of behaviour? Do they smoke in bed? Has this fallen out of fashion - and do smokers now go outside even in their own homes?

But then I scratch my balls when noone is looking.

moneypenny20

Probably even worse then. Had you lobbed it, it would be in the road, with her lobbing it, it's even more likely to start a bush fire.

And saying that everyone who says good is a dogooder is daft. The majority who have said good are concerned about bushfires, the litter issue is secondary, in this respect and in this country anyway.

Geelong Gent

The only smoking I do is friction induced

JackTheLad

Lots of stereotypes in there.

I've smoked on and off for 20 years, but never in a house or definitely not in bed. So I've always gone outside for a puff.

Second nature to me.

And it breaks up the routine, whether its work or home, I get to go outside for 5 minutes.

JTL

and its wayne and waynetta by the way.

and we all know you scratch your balls.

moneypenny20

My dad used to smoke in bed. He'd even light up in the middle of the night, smoke, stub out and I'm not convinced he was really awake. Never burnt a sheet though, or my mother, weird that. When I smoked, up to 25 years ago I wouldn't smoke in my home, always went outside and always sent the Husband outside to smoke long after I'd given up. I did smoke in the car with the windows open. Husband wasn't allowed though but he didn't start until I stopped so he was stuck with the new rules It is a feral habit and damned expensive now but people will never stop.

iamthecreaturefromuranus

Just when was it that it became socially acceptable to class smokers alongside the likes of Attila the Hun?.

They are just people who smoke... they're not throwing babies into the fire... and before anybody asks, no, I don't smoke.

JackTheLad

I think it was about 5 years ago, or depending on the country, whenever they brought in the smoking ban in pubs.

I agree with the smoking ban in pubs, makes them much nicer places, but thats pretty much when it became PC to make smokers social pariahs.

JTL

Burbage

I threw a Molotov Cocktail out the window of my car and only got fined $250. So I do think the OP suffered $50 worth of undue anti-smoker prejudice.