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Which country smokes the most? {Gadling}
May 13th 2008 11:27AM Aunt Julie may have sounded a little bitter and she may not have been as "to the point" as she could've been in her comment but she does hold a particular view that many Americans share. I too am an ex-smoker. My husband and I both recently quit. And both of us believe that the anti-smoking laws enacted in most US states are inherently WRONG and go against everything this country stands for.
The United States of America is a country that was founded on the freedom of CHOICE. The choice of which religion to follow, which candidate to vote for, which career path to take, etc. etc. etc. Smoking is a personal choice. Before the smoking ban was passed in my home state, there were non-smoking bars, non-smoking restaurants and non-smoking sporting events/concerts/festivals. When a person decided to go out, they made a CHOICE of whether to visit a smoking venue or a non-smoking venue. Now there is no CHOICE. Our state has told us what to do. I might feel differently about the laws, if we were given the chance to vote on them. But we weren't. We were told, like little children (or sheeple, if you will), what we could and could not do.
I understand that smoking is an unhealthy habit and that many people find it digusting. But there are also, many other unhealthy habits that this country engages in that I or the state for instance might find disgusting. You tell me if you will like living in a country where you are told is against the law to drink alcohol, to eat fatty foods, to go out in the sun for too long, to spend too much time on the computer, etc. That kind of totalitarianism is where the anti-smoking laws will lead us. Wait and see.
And as for the second hand smoke argument. Seriously. Is sucking on the tailpipe of a running vehicle as harmful as sitting in a traffic jam? Seriously.
Will Posh's jeans pass the J-Lo test? {Stylelist}
Apr 12th 2007 1:16PM To August: Curvy is okay. Obese is not. There is a difference. Women are supposed to have a layer of fat to nuture the babies that come from their wombs. We are not supposed to be stick thin. I am a curvy woman and I am proud of it. And when I say curvy I do not mean fat. I mean curvy, like I have hips and a butt and a chest. Don't feel bad August. Not everyone can be so vivacious and bodacious. Have a lovely day!
