[Kazan]

http://money.cnn.com/2006/07/19/news/companies/bc.leisure.marriott.smoking.reut/index.htm?cnn=yes


talking point status: pwnd

[Nuke]

wow, for once kazan links to a short article

[Flipside]

Well, it's good to see, but I think I ought to point out that it's a lot cheaper to Insure a building if you are enforcing No Smoking rules.

[NGTM-1R]

Well, since there are more non-smokers then smokers, it's kinda self-evident...

[aldo_14]

Didn't Wetherspoons lose business after introducing it's smoking ban? 

(not that I give a ****; they're a blot on the landscape anyways, and it's scarcely bad if people are drinking and smoking less.....)

[vyper]

Hey they do a damned good Grill after 3pm.

[Grug]

Here in Queensland it's now illegal to smoke in any public place where food or drinks are consumed. No smoking in pubs, bars, resteraunts etc.

[Colonol Dekker]

By smoking, I am keeping tobacco industires employees families in bread and water. If smoking Phails, then millions of children will go homeless.




PS- It good for you
http://www.mendhak.com/thoughts/show.php?id=42

[Kazan]

I hope that "it's good for you" is sarcastic

[aldo_14]

Well, he (the link) didn't exactly make a stellar case for the '20 reasons'.  Some of which included 'it's being banned' and 'but other people do it'.

[Kazan]

not to mention being wrong on the science of it - ETS exposure does have immediately negative effects - otherwise I wouldn't have trouble breathing and get a headache when exposed

[Colonol Dekker]

How many people actually smoke n this place anyway?

<< Is a happy smoker, I quit for 2 yrs and am back puffing again

[Kazan]

thank you for making others participate in your filfthy habits (and if you think you haven't - you're wrong)

[Flipside]

It's like preaching on a soapbox, people have to consume whether they want to or not.....

[aldo_14]

Atmospheric equivalent of people spilling their pint over you, I think.

[Kazan]

Atmospheric equivalent of people spilling their pint over you, I think.

splitting their pint on you is merely rude and makes you need a chain of clothes - it doesn't poison you like ETS does

[Nuke]

i dont smoke, but with my level of mental instability it would probibly be better if i hastened my death. if somoking has done anything its to increase the genetic immunity to carcinagens. i know this guy hes been smoking for 60 years, used to install asbestos, drinks like a fish, and he was in nam. yet hes managed to live to his 70s.

[Bri_Dog]

If they want to prohibit smoking that's cool, I'll just go outside.

[WMCoolmon]

i dont smoke, but with my level of mental instability it would probibly be better if i hastened my death. if somoking has done anything its to increase the genetic immunity to carcinagens. i know this guy hes been smoking for 60 years, used to install asbestos, drinks like a fish, and he was in nam. yet hes managed to live to his 70s.

Correlation != causality.

[IceFire]

i dont smoke, but with my level of mental instability it would probibly be better if i hastened my death. if somoking has done anything its to increase the genetic immunity to carcinagens. i know this guy hes been smoking for 60 years, used to install asbestos, drinks like a fish, and he was in nam. yet hes managed to live to his 70s.

Humans are a surprisingly resiliant species for living through some whacked out stuff.  It doesn't mean that another person could do it too...the odd person will buck the odds, beat the trend, and live on.