Come to New Zealand, where "you can marry a fag but you can't smoke one"

[Alan]

Gabriel Sechan wrote:
> 
> Unusual physical handicap?  NOBODY is able to stand smoke.  Hell, even 
> smokers can't stand the smell of second hand smoke, it makes them cough 
> their lungs up. 

Ok, now you are just making crap up.
I haven't been a smoker for _years_, yet being surrounded by smokers has 
yet to make me cough up a lung. Hell, it has yet to even make me get a 
tickle in my throat.

> 
> Pulp mills aren't doing it where I'm eating dinner, and are regulated 
> for polution content.

Actually, the mulch plant downvalley from me is.
Quite frankly, sometimes(in the summer, natch, I'm not using the patio 
now the rains have come) I can't sit on my patio and eat because of the 
stench. I'd imagine for someone with allergies/asthma, it would be quite 
a bit worse.
Would I expect them to stop? No, because I knew it was there when I 
moved in.
Similarly, if a person with breathing trouble walks into a smoke-filled 
bar, and doesn't immediately turn and walk out, well then, they get what 
they deserve.

>>
> Yes, but with laws like they are in California, I can go to a bar, 
> concert, or restaraunt.  In other states, I'd never consider going to a 
> bar-  I couldn't physically take it.  And there's some restaraunts which 
> I wouldn't go to either.   Why?  Because of a few inconsiderate pricks 
> who thought they had a right to pollute our lungs.

As opposed to sanctimonious asses who think they have a right to tell 
people they can no longer enjoy a legal habit?
What's next, Gabe? You're allergic to peanuts, so Denny's can no longer 
have Reese's sundaes? Strawberries make you vomit uncontrollably, so no 
more strawberry shortcake?
If you are allergic to seafood, don't go into a Sushi joint, if you are 
allergic to smoke, don't go into a juke joint. Drink at home, it's 
cheaper anyway.
It's really that simple.


Does anyone know if there has been a serious challenge to these laws in 
any of the states that have them?
-ajb