Drugs, smoking and the right to post opinions.

[fiery_roses]

So I was debating on QC forums and the thread got locked before I posted even half of what I think on the subject.

The subject was stupid laws, someone claimed not being able to smoke indoors or to do drugs fell under this category. The thread is here. It was locked by Trollstormur when he claimed it had "degenerated into shit slinging, it most

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[nlxth]

My dear, that isn't quite fair. You have engaged in a battle of wits against an entirely unarmed opponent.

*sarcasm to follow*

Only a single, mismanaged study was done to determine that second hand smoke is dangerous? Quick! Let's go tell the Canadian Surgeon General to take all those warnings off the cigarette packages, and warn the Cancer Society and Lung Association that all those studies they did never actually existed!

People like him have the unquestionable right to blow cancerous fumes at us. If we don't like it, we should have to leave the restaurant. If the waitresses and cooks don't like it, they should just quit and starve to death, because asking someone to go an hour without inhaling tar and arsenic is against their basic human rights.

*sarcasm ends*

We will make sure you have a flail or something, and if anyone ever blows smoke at you, you may beat eight kinds of hell out of them.

[fiery_roses]

You flatter too much. ^.^

[misspennycarrol]

The points you raise here are excellent. I hate people smoking, except in films, as in films they are nowhere near me and passive smoking does not apply. It drives me crazy that I have to be constantly on the watch out at uni for people walking around puffing like a chimney. Or at the train station. I am sick of having to hold my breath just because they decide they want to poison their bodies with something that is proven to give cancer.

One of my friends told me an interesting story. Her best friend's parents died in a car accident last year, and after they died an autopsy was performed. The girl's mother was a smoker, yet her lungs were clear. Her father was a non smoker, and his lungs had evidence of cancerous growths. The doctors said it was due to passive smoking. I think that is a pretty powerful statement as to the effects of passive smoking...

Drugs are good for healing, but why add to your body things that effects it in a way that harms it in some way?

Keep on the case. In my mind, you are on the right side.

[fiery_roses]

Thanks, Mel!

[wrai]

http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=581#comic

(Boo with drugs and smoking and such, btw)

[fiery_roses]

Ha ha o.o;

[__sevas_tra]

i'm glad i never bothered to read that topic until now. i would have said things that would make people angry. and it would have been basically along the same lines as what you are saying. i kind of feel bad for ally being attacked like that on the last page by philosopherqueen. that was a very low thing to post.

[fiery_roses]

Agreed :(

[adalricbrandl]

The only thing that you seem a little sketchy on the details of is wounds inflicted by flails. A flail (for those that do not know much about ancient weaponry) consists of a stick, (not too dangerous on it's own,) with some chain on it, (that could hurt a bit, yes,) with a really heavy iron ball on the end, (oww! My skull!) that has spikes on it, (flesh wounds!) Even against armour, a flail could seriously damage an opponent with it's sheer momentum. The spikes are just there to give that little bit of extra pain. A direct hit with a flail could crush many ribs and turn a lot of the inner wobbly bits to goo. Not very pleasant. Now, that I've stroked my own ego with that, I must say that you seem dead on. I really dislike smoking too. Several of my co-workers smoke and I tease most of them about it regularly. I'm just glad that we have a lot of bylaws in place to keep public smoking to a minimum. I'm not sure what the laws are like down there. This whole post makes me want to carry around a flail now, and just give it a few

[fiery_roses]

It was only a little flail, not more than a pound, and I wasn't swinging it deliberately at anyone, just around myself a bit. But yeah, your regular flails are pretty damned deadly! I think I chose flail because I was wearing a shirt with one on it at the time. Only this flail was being swung by a cat and it was made from a dead rat tied to a stick by it's tail!

:3

[adalricbrandl]

Rat-flail! I love VG Cats.