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ORIGINAL: ScooterTrash

We are all adults and we really can make our own decisions..for better or for worse. I can tell you one thing though, it's people like you that make people like us keep smoking...at least we will have one less thing in common.
   As for the comparisons, I think what scares you is that it does make sense. Certainly we could say screw it,  we're going to smoke no matter what a portion of the populations says, but it lends more relevence to show example of how the entire anti-smoking crusade is nothing more than a witch hunt, in a large populus of witches (no offense to witches, just using that as an example). I don't have to justify what I do, I really don't care, smoking in public was accepted way before segregating the smokers from the non-smokers was. What I do care is that this, as well as any other form of personal expression is in peril because of the select groups that think everyone should be the same.

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ORIGINAL: juliaoceania

First of all, Marie is not responsible for your addiction. You are not a smoker to prove anything to nonsmokers. Secondly, your expression of who you are could hamper my expression of who I am. I am a clean smelling nonsmoker that spent money to wash my hair and launder my clothing. Health risks aside, I have the RIGHT to not smell like you.

I used to be a smoker, and I guess what bothers me about someone professing the RIGHT to litter someone else's airspace is just screwed up, I never claimed that right as a smoker, and I will not accept others claiming that right now I am not.. it is called being RUDE. If I peed in your water I bet you would bitch even though drinking my pee probably wouldn't hurt you, and I could even claim that I couldn't find a convenient toilet and it was cold outside so that gave me the RIGHT to pee in your water. It isn't rational or civil to pee in somone else's drink, why are you pissing in my air?