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I've been procrastinating preparing a presentation due tomorrow @ 330.
It's about how ridiculous smoking bans are.
I have a 4-5 page paper that I have to turn in by tomorrow at 5:00 PM (aka I'll be done at about 4, getting there at 4:50). I have an exam on Wednesday, but it should be easy. I'm off work until the 23rd, so come Wednesday night, I'll be rejoicing like a black church choir. <3.
Oh and I need to pay a $40 library fine soon so that I can change my spring schedule to accomodate a class that I have to retake next semester.
I've been procrastinating preparing a presentation due tomorrow @ 330.
It's about how ridiculous smoking bans are.
Hey-oh!
Ohio just passed their Issue 5, which I guess makes it the biggest and most uptight smoking ban in the Midwest. No public smoking anywhere, even in ALL bars and places like that. This entire town is pretty much just craft shops and a shitton of bars (as are most small college towns) so everybody's going apeshit. That, and I'm pretty sure over 50% of the students here are smokers.Originally Posted by Rich
Frankly, I'm all for it. Totally sick of being put in a non-smoking section and then having to inhale the wafting smoke my entire meal. So on that level, yay. I realize it sucks for business owners though and will probably fuck up the bar economy, so... Yeah. I can't stand smoke at all so it's hard for me to feel bad for smokers.
Electronic cigarette.
Felt, a.k.a. Kobalt (lol at it having a "k"), noticed there's no enforcement until next June and so still allow it (I mention that because that's usually where I go). Apparantly part of the lull in the government backing it up is because a chunk of the people that voted for it were unregistered voters. Way to pick a time to vote illegally.
It is really funny seeing huge groups of people stand outside of near-empty bars while smoking.
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Same law passed in Colorado about a year and a half ago. I don't smoke anymore, so the law is fine by me. Plus the bars here use to be so nasty with smoke.
Second hand smoke laws are based on junk science, and they infringe on the property rights of business owners at that. Most smoking bans are based on the EPA93 study... which was a meta-analysis which used the numbers from less than 10 of the 33 studies used... and still found a relative risk well below 2.0 (1.19... of 100 people who would normally get lung cancer, 119 would if counting for second hand smoke)... as has almost every other study ever. The WHO, EPA, FDA, and National Cancer Institute all claim a RR below 3.0 is unreliable, and RRs at the levels that second hand smoke concludes are actually completely insignificant. While I'm not saying that second hand smoke isn't bad... it hasn't really been proven to be all that harmful and it's disgusting that these studies would be used to pass legislation in 2/3rds of the states.
clean air technology > smoking bans
Last edited by Rich; 12 Dec 2006 at 11:58 AM.
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Smoking bans rule. Go home and kill yourself kthx.
Already handed in one 8 page final paper and have my last final tomorrow morning at 7:30.
Hey-oh!
I've had two finals already and they've been total jokes. The only two I need to study for are organic chem on Thursday and psychology on Friday, but psyc isn't even cumulative so it shouldn't count as a final anyway.
yeah. I don't really care for ugly fat women. Can we ban being fat in public places? I don't like watching them, being all fat and unhealthy. They drive up the insentive of food corporations to make crappy unhealthy food, which slowly makes me fat and kills me.
So yeah, no more fat people in public.
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