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ORIGINAL: SpinnerofTales

~FR~

There is an explanation for this that has gone unmentioned. There are many smokers who feel extremely picked on right now. Let's face it, smokers have become very much second class citizens. Accepting that being a smoker is a stupid thing indeed (and I say this as a smoker), it's a hard addiction to break. Now, in addition to the other harmful effects of this condition, smokers have to deal with a society that seems determined, while not making tobacco illegal, which would help some, if not all, break the addiction (if only by not having it available in every drug store, deli and gas station) to make life as unpleasant for smokers as possible.

While I know that this is an all but impossible request, put aside the fact that smoking is indeed a destructive thing and take a look at it from the smoker's point of view:

1) Cigarettes are now taxed to the point where the taxes are about 3 times the cost of the product
2) There is virtually no indoor public place where smoking is allowed. (a very pleasant thing when it's 2 degrees, snowing and windy)
3) There are efforts being spoken of to ban smoking in the hotel rooms rented by smokers
4) There are plans to start banning smoking in places like parks and beaches and other outside locations.
5) There is a very large group sentiment that smokers don't deserve such things as health care because they are "doing this to themselves" (as if everyone else was living on tofu and jogging to work every day)

Now, I am pretty sure this is going to turn into a "look how bad smoking is" thread, but the point I make is simply this: There are some smokers who feel very picked upon. Hence the bumper sticker.

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ORIGINAL: KYsissy

My favorites
"If you are going to ride my ass, at least pull my hair"

"My leaf blower can beat up your Smart car"

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I have no problems with smokers. (I actually have a minor attraction to women who smoke) But, I just have to ask, are smokers REALLY happy shucking out $40 bucks a week on cigs? Do they really LOVE how everything in their house smells like a stale ash tray? Do they really enjoy knowing they are carving years off their family's lives?

Hey, I'm all for personal freedom, but as they say, "your freedom to suck burning tobbacco ends where my lungs begin."
ORIGINAL: MarsBonfire

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worse, far worse, is planned. ORIGINAL: HatesParisHilton

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ORIGINAL: SpinnerofTales

~FR~

Just a quick aside. Take a look what they're doing to smokers in this society. And if you are not slim and trim, be very afraid. Fat people are next and it's already starting.

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I'm not sure I buy that about fat people being next. Apart from anything else, it'd cost too much to start using cane sugar instead of HFCS in the food, and unhealthy people make the medical insurance companies a lot of money.
ORIGINAL: Moonhead

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Interesting. I have a bumper sticker that was given to me, depicting Hitler returning the stylized "Sieg Heil" salute, with a caption of, "all in favor of gun control, raise your right hand." It's not on my car, for a number of reasons, but I put it on a locking chest that contains items best kept secure.

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ORIGINAL: SpinnerofTales

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I'm not sure I buy that about fat people being next. Apart from anything else, it'd cost too much to start using cane sugar instead of HFCS in the food, and unhealthy people make the medical insurance companies a lot of money.
ORIGINAL: Moonhead

It's already started. The airlines are already starting to try to charge overweight people more for airfare. The government is already starting to try to add "fat taxes" to foods high in calories with the stated intention of making them more expensive as a means of fighting obesity (forgetting the fact that it costs more to eat in a healthy manner than to stock up on whatever high calorie crap one can find). The health care debate is already bringing out things like "why should the 'healthy' lifestyle people pay for the fat people who don't care about their health"

This is the same thing they did before they cracked down on smoking. It is coming. Don't fool yourself that it isn't.

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ORIGINAL: MarsBonfire

Spinner, the "Hitler" response has lost any bite. It's become a joke, a punchline to any political statement. If you pull the Hitler out of the bag, then you've tagged yourself a nutjob.

When the fools in the teabagger movement started carrying around posters of Obama with the requisite Charlie Chaplin style moustaches drawn on them (usually in crayon), they pretty much branded that insult as something only an uniformed, socially inept retard would use... Something that a Glenn Beck listener would resort to.

(sigh) It's sad. A perfectly good insult, gutted by the overuse of right wingers.