Are anti-smokers justified in their criticism of smokers, given that they then climb into their vehicle and churn carbon monoxide and other nasties into the atmosphere?
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ANSWERS: 14
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I don't think they even consider it. I wonder about that too. Also they are the first ones to burn their garbage in their yard and complain about the smoke.
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Hypocrisy in so many places and so many ways......
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I don't think these can be compared. Smoking isn't really a nesicary thing. My car, as a form of transportation, is a nesicary thing.
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I don't understand their reasoning. How many people can they name that died directly due to second-hand smoke related illnesses. How can they proove it was ONLY second hand smoke and not their cars, furnaces, own gas, pollution or any other crap in the air
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People aren't putting their exhaust pipe next to your dessert. And smokers also produce vehicle exhaust, so that's a wash!
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I find this logic a bit odd. I critisize behaviour A which is harmful, whilst engaging behaviour B which is also harmful - whilst I might legitimately be critisized for engaging in B, it doesn't make my criticism of behaviour A any less valid. If I kill someone and then shop you to the police for killing someone else, you wouldn't expect to get off scott-free just because you said "Yeh, but she killed someone too." Generally, unless you're a smoker who doesn't drive anywhere, you're still one step down on the argument I'm afraid.
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I think so. I smoke, and I understand that many people who DON'T smoke don't enjoy being around cigarette smoke - not because it's a pollutant, but because it STINKS like holy heck. Now, if a nonsmoker turned up their nose at me and accused me of singlehandedly creating the hole in the ozone, or what have you, all the while emptying spraycans full of CFCs into the air - that would be ludicrous.
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If you are riding in a smokers car, i would not say anything and just lower the window a little. After all, you are in his cadillac.
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I don't think they think about driving as a bad thing. People are much more aware of cigarette smoke because it's seen as a horrible thing. Car exhaust has yet to receive the awareness it needs.
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I believe criticism should only be given when asked or solicited or you're being paid to do it...or you join AB. Those who live in glass houses.....and we ALL live in glass houses.
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If a smoker is allowing their smoke to invade the space of a non smoker, I understand them getting upset. I smoke...I have never smoked in public places, except for outside and then if my smoke drifted and was bothering someone...I moved. Unless I got there first...then THEY could move. My tax dollars also pay for my right to smoke to be regulated or taken away, as well as for all the damage done by drinkers. Both to themselves and others and drug users. I am sympathetic to those who do not want to inhale the smoke of others and they should not have to. But they are carrying it too far when you cannot smoke in your own car or outside your OWN home or apartment.
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I drive, but I don't drive through cars and bars.
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Depends on what you mean. I have no problem with people smoking in their own house/car/whatever. I DO have a problem with people smoking around me (or children) when they could be doing it elsewhere. I think it's incredibly rude, and I think I DO have the right to feel that way, yes.
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i hate anti-smokers. theyre all facists that want everyone else to do what they do. if someone smokes its not a big deal.
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