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I don't miss any of the "joys" of having to deal with cigarette smokers. The streets of Melbourne are no longer littered with butts. Waste bins no longer catch
by beedogs 10y ago
I don't miss any of the "joys" of having to deal with cigarette smokers. The streets of Melbourne are no longer littered with butts. Waste bins no longer catch fire from careless half-stubbed cigarettes falling inside. I can walk along the footpaths here without having to smell the acrid stench. I can go to a pub and not have to wash my clothes when I get home to get the smell out. It's incredible. Every country should do it.
- wtbob 10y ago> It's incredible. Every country should do it. Yeah, it sure is wonderful to repress a hated minority. How dare they befoul our pristine public spaces with their benighted culture and their foul customs‽ Of course, the victims of your repression might feel a bit differently than you do.
- sanswork 10y agoSmokers choose to be smokers. Smokers choose to inflict their smoke on others when they smoke around other people. Smokers make excuses for not dealing with their butts properly(oh they didn't provide an ashtray so it's not my fault).
- refurb 10y agoSmokers choose to be smokers. Cigarette's are addictive. They choose to smoke as much as an alcoholic chooses to drink or a heroin addict chooses to shoot up.
- sanswork 10y agoShow me the dangerous side effects when a smoker quits smoking and I'll allow you to include it in the addictive category of alcohol and heroin.
- Clubber 10y agoWhat difference does that make? I've read where tobacco is one of, if not the most addictive substances. I think you just have no empathy for people addicted to tobacco because you've been subjected to a relentless barrage of anti-tobacco propaganda over decades.
- angry_octet 10y agoThat is as fallacious as saying 'people choose to be crackheads'.
- vacri 10y agoDiddums.
- tallanvor 10y agoYou aren't born a smoker. There's nothing in your genes that says you have to smoke, and there's no medical conditions that would prevent someone from smoking. As such, smokers can avoid feeling repressed simply by quitting smoking, and they can save money and improve their health in the process.
- angry_octet 10y agoA typically insensitive comment from someone who has never had a serious addiction.
- wtbob 10y ago> smokers can avoid feeling repressed simply by quitting smoking What gives you the right to oppress people for the behavioural choices? What gives you the right to tell someone that his health is more important than his happiness? I don't believe that you have that right.
- Mao_Zedang 10y agoWhat gives you the right to smoke near people who arent smokers.
- soundwave106 10y agoIn this case, this behavior choice affects me personally. Back when I played in bands, one of the aspects I hated about it was playing in the bars that allowed smoking. That very habit you are talking about caused my clothes and hair etc. to stink of tobacco smoke after the gig. Instruments would likewise smell like an ashtray and have to be aired out. I'm sure that wasn't good for my lungs, either. I no longer play out, which means thankfully I can avoid any establishment that still allows smoking. I value my health and happiness too; second hand smoke isn't very healthy, and stuff that stinks of tobacco doesn't make me very happy.
- beedogs 10y agoYou need to get over yourself.
- dang 10y agoYou've been posting many unsubstantive and/or uncivil comments to HN. That breaks the site guidelines and eventually gets your account banned. Please up your game when commenting here. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html