22 February 2008

Spectators can now enjoy smoke-free sport

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It’s about time. As of this weekend, Canberra Stadium (and Manuka Oval) will be smoke-free.

Granted, it’s still only a partial ban, since smoking will still be allowed in the outer grounds and the forecourt. But at least I can take my kids onto the concourse without worring about someone’s filthy, disgusting cigarette smoke.

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Agent Provocateur9:11 pm 10 Mar 08

“funny smoking dog” at: AOL Video

http://video.aol.com/video-detail/funny-smoking-dog/2959828526

.. umn.. not EVERYONE’s lost their sense of humour.. ; )

Agent Provocateur8:24 pm 10 Mar 08

Another thing.. $5 billion gathered in revenue from Tobacco a year.. ONLY $24 million OVER 4 years in general ‘re-education’ programs.. no free clinics for smokers.. like there is for ‘substance abusers’ I’ll give up smoking.. if free clinic and medication; AND er.. what’ll the General Population give up if I do? Jack shit, I reckon.. stop driving your cars!? NEVER – stop using non-recycled, biodegradable toilet paper? ..’doubt it.. floral, scented bum-wipers look good in the toilet.. make’s the house look flasher… lolol.. yeah.. WHO are the polluters??

nyssa76 – again you are taking the opposing view – reminds me of Monty Python – looking for an argument.

Is that all you do nyssa76? – pretty boring if it is!

BTW – brathing in a smokers cigarette waste is lethal – ban cigarettes!

hetzjagd1, my sister was and still is a heroin user. She is a waste of space – and I have referred to her, on here, in that way since day 1.

Whilst smokers are treated like lepers, druggies get free needles and an injecting room. FFS, where is the sanity in that?

Smokers are the easy target. No one says to a ‘fat’ person – stop eating or a toothless person to get ‘some falsies’ or a druggie to ‘stop shooting up’.

People easily target smokers because it’s un-PC to say anything along those lines to non-smokers, fatties, toothless people, druggies.

Fair suck of the sav, something should be done to outlaw biased comments by people in regards to smoking. You can’t have it for one thing and not for others.

For God’s sake isn’t there more important things to worry about? Like um… dying abused and neglected children, pollution, peak oil, inflation, greenhouse gases? I am sick to death of the whinging about smokers! What about all those people who have wasted hours of my life complaining about smoking? I will never get that time back you know!!! Its about time they were accountable for the amount of people’s valuable time on earth that they have wasted. BTW – I am not a smoker.

“Funny how we don’t shit on drug addicts in the same way…..” – nyssa76

People who use illegal drugs tend to mind their own business and not be doing them openly in fine dining establishments and other public places. For the most part illegal drug use isn’t something that can adversely affect the health of those in the immediate vicinity.

An exception to this is the issue of used syringes near schools and parks but if you’re going to try tell me heroin users are painted in a more positive light then smokers you can instead direct it to that brick wall over there.

Unrelated to Nyssa76 – until people can smoke marijuana out and about, then cigarette smokers should be able to deal with sticking to their own, and their friends, homes and cars.

Ahh the eons old debate weaves its eternal path.

Nyssa, its true that smokers are steadily becoming the modern day lepers. You do not have to like this fact.

I did not like where the views of those who smoked were heading so I quit…..Mind you I had to quit cheffing before I could quit smoking (Ever seen a chef let off for a 5 minute do-nothing-o as opposed to a smoko?)

All teh same, I did not like the gathering momentum of the anti smoker laws so I quit as soon as I had the ability…

Its great you taste and smell things so much better – and if you make a go of it, you can lose 20 something kilos as well (Not saying you are fat – I was… Once I could breathe easier I could hit up the intense cardio exercise).

Um, are smokers not drug addicts also? Because it’s legal doesn’t mean it’s not a drug and doesn’t mean they aren’t addicted!

I’m with Ingee – if no one calls it in your night at the footy won’t be bothered.

On the other hand the junkie would have spent the $35 on smack and couldn’t afford the footy.

Ingee, most human beings aren’t utter bastards though.

Ingeegoodbee5:26 pm 23 Feb 08

Nyssa, if some sh!tbag druggies carcked it two rows back, the people I sit with would think nothing of covering the maggot with a rug or somthing so our game wasn’t interrupted – if anyone asked we’d simply tell them the guy was “Dead tired”. After the game, we’d simply retrieve our rug and leave the useless dead ar$swipe to be swept up with the rest of the garbage when the cleaners moved through.

Maybe stick with enjoying the indoor dining if you’re that paranoid about smokers.

Kramer, I’m afraid not.

The police and ambulance in attendance for OD’d addict could also force you to move away from the game due to added noise, need for more room and the rubber neckers.

Therefore your ‘comeback’ (for lack of a better word) is flawed.

“Funny how we don’t shit on drug addicts in the same way…..”

That’s because I can still enjoy the rugby while the heroin addicts two rows behind me ODs during the game, but a smoker doing the same would ruin my night.

“We’ll still have to worry about your filthy disgusting kids though.”

Yeah, but smoking will kill you before my kids get the chance.

GnT, I never said you did.

I am sick of people having a go at smokers.

nyssa, I never said anything about smokers. I said cigarette smoke was filthy and disgusting.

HC, I agree. Although a pie and a beer at the rugby could count as an outdoor dining experience.

Holden Caulfield10:45 am 23 Feb 08

Inane comments from both parties aside, how come I still can’t enjoy an outdoor dining experience that is smoke-free, but I can watch a bunch of bum sniffers without inhaling someone else’s smoke fumes?!

Funny how we don’t shit on drug addicts in the same way…..

About bloody time. You filthy disgusting smokers with filthy disgusting kids can go and be filthy and disgusting someplace else.

We’ll still have to worry about your filthy disgusting kids though.

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