N.C. Senate approves small-scale smoking bans - Topix | Thread profile

Judged: 3 2 2 smoking = cancer

My understanding is that one out of four long time smokers die from complications of COPD. Having had friends die that way it makes me sorry for people when I see them smoking, one in four is a mighty high percentage.

Judged: 1 1 Ensight wrote: <quoted text> Hi Mrs. G, I know exactly what you mean! You go out to eat and come home and need to take a shower to get the smoke out of your hair. My parents smoked too and that what's turned me off to it. Kind of elimates the curosity, so to speak, lol! I agree with the previous comment about smoking being related to a lack of education. ...

Judged: 1 1 1 Sounds like a good first step. Face it, smoking is something that is done for the most part by people who don't know better. Anything that can be done to correct the problem is a step in the right direction.

Judged: 1 1 1 Hi Ensight!!! I wish they would ban smoking everywhere!! I grew up in a household where I was the only one who didn't smoke and yes - I was a tad bit obnoxious about it!! It would be nice to go into a bar or restaurant without coming out smelling nasty...

Judged: 1 1 Ensight wrote: Ugh, I guess it's a start, but I didn't realize that smoking was allowed in goverment buildings in the first place? Hell here in NJ 2 state senators who passed the smoking ban got caught smoking in their state office. DAH

Judged: 1 Mrs G - SPR wrote: Hi Ensight!!! I wish they would ban smoking everywhere!! I grew up in a household where I was the only one who didn't smoke and yes - I was a tad bit obnoxious about it!! It would be nice to go into a bar or restaurant without coming out smelling nasty... Y'all still are!

Mrs G - SPR wrote: Hi Ensight!!! I wish they would ban smoking everywhere!! I grew up in a household where I was the only one who didn't smoke and yes - I was a tad bit obnoxious about it!! It would be nice to go into a bar or restaurant without coming out smelling nasty... Hi Mrs. G, I know exactly what you mean! You go out to eat and come home and need to take a shower to get the ...

Judged: 1 Ensight wrote: <quoted text> Hi Mrs. G, I know exactly what you mean! You go out to eat and come home and need to take a shower to get the smoke out of your hair. My parents smoked too and that what's turned me off to it. Kind of elimates the curosity, so to speak, lol! I agree with the previous comment about smoking being related to a lack of education. People are ...

Yeeees dear, back the day Hollywood made smoking glamarous....remember Betty Davis??? Nowadays I dooon't know why anyone would ever start with all the educuation and warnings on the box....there simply must be reasons that I doooo not understand...tee, hee, hee......ooooh weeeeell, to each his own!!!