[fdpaq0580]

Originally Posted by LeRoySmith

You can love dogs.

🙈🙉🙊

[dewilson58]

Was raining sooooo hard at Brownwood last night, I couldn't get my cigar lit.

[fdpaq0580]

Originally Posted by dewilson58

Was raining sooooo hard at Brownwood last night, I couldn't get my cigar lit.

Rain good! Smell clean, fresh air. 😃

[Vinscalese]

With all the challenges in the world today is this really one of them ? Smokers have been for the most part isolated from those who don’t want to have that around them. However I believe most of us in the villages love the freedom America provides us. So completely eliminating something those already have significant restrictions to comply with just doesn’t seem like the American thing to do.

[OrangeBlossomBaby]

Originally Posted by oneclickplus

Well, I would counter that 0.5% (one half of one percent) of people in the USA consider themselves transgender ... have gender dysphoria. Why do we allow 0.5% of the population to change the culture ... men in women's sports ... drag queen story hour for kids ... demands by men to use women's locker rooms and rest rooms? It's insane / unnatural / perverted.

What's a little cigar smoke among neighbors who aren't trying to pervert the next generation?

You know what's REALLY perverted/insane/unnatural - is being SO upset by only .5% (one half of one percent) of people in the USA, that you'd have to find a topic about smoking to complain about it.

[fdpaq0580]

Originally Posted by Vinscalese

With all the challenges in the world today is this really one of them ? Smokers have been for the most part isolated from those who don’t want to have that around them. However I believe most of us in the villages love the freedom America provides us. So completely eliminating something those already have significant restrictions to comply with just doesn’t seem like the American thing to do.

Different point of view. Doing what you want is great. You are free to do that until what ever it is negativly impacts someone else's right to do what they want. You can walk anywhere as long as you don’t walk over others. You can drink as long as others don't have to also drink. And you can use tobacco/nicotine as long as no one else has to us it. Smoking in public puts others in the position of being forced to breath the smoke that needn't be present. Even if it's only one breath, one drink or being trodden on one time. Only the addicted "need" their fix. Do it in private or wear a patch or eat a nicotine gummie. Smoking is unnecessary and does no one any good.
Next?

[OrangeBlossomBaby]

Originally Posted by PugMom

you tolerate it because it's a free country, & you also tolerate it because we do not impose our life styles on other people. ty. don't get me started.

When the smoke is drifting halfway across the square and entering my nostrils, the smoker IS imposing their lifestyle on other people. That is an imposition. I'm minding my own business halfway across the square - and YOUR smoke is imposing on my breathing. I shouldn't have to move. You should have to keep your smoke to yourself. Y'know - so it doesn't impose on other people.

[fdpaq0580]

Originally Posted by Notsocrates

I am educated, medically trained and I smoke about 4 or 5 cigars a month.
I enjoy it, and if I'm not driving, I enjoy a Scotch with it.
I will soon be 90, I can walk a treadmill at 3 mph at a 10 degree incline.
And it's due to cigars and Scotch.

WOW! I'm convinced! We should start toddlers in preschool on scotch and cigars so they will grow up strong and healthy and live long lives, just like you. 😏🙄

[Two Bills]

Originally Posted by asianthree

So I don’t mind when someone smokes an expensive cigar, and sometimes cigarette smoke can trigger maybe just a moment..

I haven't smoked for near 40 years now, but occasionally, when someone lights up nearby, usually with a match, not a lighter, I get that urge to have a 'ciggy' one more time.
The rest of the time, they just stink!

[dewilson58]

Originally Posted by dewilson58

Was raining sooooo hard at Brownwood last night, I couldn't get my cigar lit.

Ready for tonight.

[fdpaq0580]

Originally Posted by Two Bills

I haven't smoked for near 40 years now, but occasionally, when someone lights up nearby, usually with a match, not a lighter, I get that urge to have a 'ciggy' one more time.
The rest of the time, they just stink!

Good for you! Keep fighting the addiction.

[golfing eagles]

Why are we still tolerating smokers around the squares???

For the same reason we tolerate gays, transgenders, sun god worshipers, communists, etc. This is America and we recognize the rights of minorities, that's why we "tolerate" them.

[LeRoySmith]

Originally Posted by golfing eagles

Why are we still tolerating smokers around the squares???

For the same reason we tolerate gays, transgenders, sun god worshipers, communists, etc. This is America and we recognize the rights of minorities, that's why we "tolerate" them.

I find it pretty easy to tolerate most groups, big or small, mainstream or fringe. I have even fought for those groups right to speak freely (something a lot of people with green or purple hair can't claim). Where I have difficulty is when I'm expected to advocate for a group I don't believe in. If I fall to fully advocate for theses outliers I'm a biggot.

I again call bs.

[fdpaq0580]

Originally Posted by golfing eagles

Why are we still tolerating smokers around the squares???

For the same reason we tolerate gays, transgenders, sun god worshipers, communists, etc. This is America and we recognize the rights of minorities, that's why we "tolerate" them.

😄😆😂 Hahaha! No! No! No! Not the same at all, silly rabbit. Not unless all the above named happen to be the smokers spreading their noxious fumes around the squares.

[golfing eagles]

Originally Posted by fdpaq0580

😄😆😂 Hahaha! No! No! No! Not the same at all, silly rabbit. Not unless all the above named happen to be the smokers spreading their noxious fumes around the squares.

What if they are spreading their toxic ideology to my grandchildren?