And they might've figured that out if y'all'd spent less time passing socialist legislation, and more time frequenting bars and restraunts that already didn't allow smoking :2wave:
And just for reference, I only throw cigarettes to the ground places where it makes a difference.
For example, beautiful country side, quaint small towns, etc, I pocket my butts till I get home. Downtown Iowa City, I honestly don't give a **** (and Indiana, you can shove your $10,000 fine up your ***. Yeah, it's the cigarette butts that makes northwest Indiana disgusting, not all of the poverty and industrial waste :roll: )
Now I won't go as far to say that you all deserve to die...yet :2razz:
I understand where you're coming from, I remember when I was young I'd go to these punk rock shows, and although I was already a smoker, I was 13, thus not much of a smoker, and being in a closed space that's completely filled with smoke isn't fun when you're not used to it.
The problem with this whole situation is no one on either side feels compelled to extend the kindness and respect that could alleviate the tension.
Like, those on your side are assholes because you don't give a **** about us at all.
And those on my side are assholes because relatively few of us give a **** about you.
We could work together, and come up with a fair solution, but no one wants to do that (because everyone wants legislative proof that their side is right). For example, if you want to ban smoking from the workplaces, that's fine, but then don't complain when we need cigarette breaks. We shouldn't drop our cigarettes on the ground, but it's disgusting to carry cigarette butts (which smell about 10 times stronger than actual burning cigarettes) in our pockets all day, so why not set up more public ashtrays?
We could set up nice outside smoking areas in bars, heated, sheilded from the elements, have tables and ashtrays, make it nice, and then smokers would have no excuse to smoke inside.