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Originally Posted by _Richard_
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How does you drinking booze harmful to me just standing next to you as you drink?
Under the influence of a drug is not the same as doing it.
You can drink a bottle of tequila get in a car and kill people, but that's not a result of the tequila, it's the result of bad choices while under the influence and the tequila didn't kill those people.
But you smoking a cigarette while standing beside me in public could result in me getting lung cancer.
Now if any other "drug" can do that, I'd be interesting in hearing.
Meth, Heroin, Coke, whatever can do that if I'm trying to suck in every single bit of smoke you exhale, and to be honest how many of those people stand outside their jobs every couple hours for 15 minutes doing it? None... So it's less harmful to average people than cigarettes.
I would have less hate towards smokers if they were more considerate of others. There's laws in place, no smoking in public places, must be 25 feet from a public building to smoke, etc... But smokers don't obey those laws, they stand right outside of the doors of buildings and chain smoke. Why can't they go 25 feet? It's too cold, boohoooo!!
Let me just ignore the fact that I can get lung cancer, because you know, don't want a smoker who has bad circulation to get cold while they kill themselves!