Extreme Non-Smokers?

[sweet angel]

Last night, while driving to the mall, I was behind a PT Cruiser with the following message written on its back window in soap or shoe polish or whatever...

"YOU HAVE NO ARGUMENT -- SMOKING IS MURDER!!!!"

I thought that was kind of extremist.

Discuss....

 

[bananiem]

Technically, second hand smoke is murder.
Smoking in general is suicide.

 

[dadto1]

Technically, second hand smoke is murder.
Smoking in general is suicide.

Yeah, what he/she said!

 

[AllyandJack]

I've seen many bumper stickers that I thought were extreme. That's the beauty of being able to drive by them.

I saw one that said, "I don't eat anything with a face." Well, what about a HEAD of lettuce or an artichoke HEART or a potato with EYES.

Just chuckle and step on the gas.

 

[sweet angel]

Yeah, but it wasn't a bumper sticker....that's what I thought was so strange. Someone actually took the time to write it on their window. I don't smoke anymore, but holy crap, that's a bit ridiculous. Honestly, do they think a smoker will see that and say, "You know, he/she is right...I think I'll quit now. Thanks friend!"

 

[AllyandJack]

Yeah, but it wasn't a bumper sticker....that's what I thought was so strange. Someone actually took the time to write it on their window. I don't smoke anymore, but holy crap, that's a bit ridiculous. Honestly, do they think a smoker will see that and say, "You know, he/she is right...I think I'll quit now. Thanks friend!"

Either that, or they're doing it because they think it will make them look superior. You'll look at them in awe and think, "Wow....that person is amazing and I want to be just like them when I grow up...." I don't smoke, but if I did, I'd light one up and drive by slowly while taking a big, long puff.

 

[bananiem]

Personally I don't care what anyone does in their own space. I just want to control what is done in MY space. Our city has no smoking most restaurants unless the majority of their business is in liquor sales. Since I don't barhop anymore it means I can eat at any restaurant without smoke wafting into my space.
Our state also has a no smoking in public buildings law.

 

[CheshireVal]

You want to find extreme non-smokers, look no further than the Resort or Theme Park boards.

 

[bananiem]

Back to the OP-
My thoughts on seeing this is more on the lines of "How much of their life are they wasting having to re-write that every time it rains?"

 

[L107ANGEL]

Either that, or they're doing it because they think it will make them look superior. You'll look at them in awe and think, "Wow....that person is amazing and I want to be just like them when I grow up...." I don't smoke, but if I did, I'd light one up and drive by slowly while taking a big, long puff.

 

[mickeyfan2]

I can handle this comment. I do not smoke. Now the male body parts hanging from the hitch is offensive.

 

[sweet angel]

I can handle this comment. I do not smoke. Now the male body parts hanging from the hitch is offensive.

I can honestly say I've never seen that, but I'd probably laugh my butt off if I did.

 

[L107ANGEL]

I can handle this comment. I do not smoke. Now the male body parts hanging from the hitch is offensive.

 

[grimley1968]

I've seen things like this, and I try to ignore it. However, I'm not a smoker, but I do think that sign sounds a bit extreme.

I put this in the same category as those ubiquitous car brand-bashing signs on people's vehicles (Calvin urinating on a car logo of a disliked brand, etc.). I just don't get why people go through the effort, time and expense of putting something on their vehicles that attempt to insult the lifestyle/car brand choices of a certain percentage of other drivers. If I want to beautify my vehicle, I wash it. I just don't understand why what brand of car I buy makes any difference to anyone else in the grand scheme of things, at least insofar as requiring Calvin urinating on my car brand's logo. It's a corporation! I'm a big Coke drinker and don't like Pepsi at all, but I'd never waste my time putting a big sign on my car showing Calvin urinating in a Pepsi can. I realize Coke is just as much a money-grubbing capitalist company as Pepsi and they would probably laugh/worry at such antics. Same with car companies, IMHO.

Why people need to put their opinions on their vehicles escapes me. That's why we have mouths.

 

[goofyforlife]

I really don't care how extreme it may be.

I'm tired of smokers making my world their "ashtray". Leaving butts all over the place. Flicking ashes towards my car at redlights. Having to close my windows on a nice day because I don't want to smell like that.

I have to pick up butts off my front lawn and sidewalk every week. It's gross. Hey, if you want the habit. Take it home with you.

 

[sweet angel]

I really don't care how extreme it may be.

I'm tired of smokers making my world their "ashtray". Leaving butts all over the place. Flicking ashes towards my car at redlights. Having to close my windows on a nice day because I don't want to smell like that.

I have to pick up butts off my front lawn and sidewalk every week. It's gross. Hey, if you want the habit. Take it home with you.

Complaining about smokers making your world their ashtray and referring to them as murderers are two TOTALLY different things.

 

[FroggyinArk]

i'll send you pictures of the several sets of those "body parts" running around our area sweet angel..

as to the moron with eth window


thats the kind of non smoker i will intentionally light up around. as close to as i can get.

whats next,, one reading if you are drinking and see this you are going to kill someone?


reminds me of hte moron we ran into at wdw on 4th of july 03.. we were in the smoking area. the only smoking area that you could see the casle and fireworks from.

was packed.

dw was siting on ground at the railing next to thepond.

guy and wife sit at table behind her with all 6 chairs piled full of thier stuff to keep anyone else from sitting there...dw lights a smoke,,, guy starts sliding his chair over towards her , trying to make her move. when he had moved his chair two feet.. i was standing behind him at this point,, i grabbed hte back of the chair, told him not very nicely,, if he hit my wife and kid with that chair trying to be an (add censored explicative here) i would put him a nd his chair in the pond with the ducks.

then his wife starts this seriously fake hack and gag noise.. so i stood right there between the backs of thier chairs and chain smoked hte entire time the fireworks were going on. when the rude couple letf.. before the fireworks w ere actuallyover btw, all the smokers around us started clapping and made sure we got that atble..lol

 

[AllyandJack]

I'm tired of smokers making my world their "ashtray". Leaving butts all over the place. Flicking ashes towards my car at redlights. Having to close my windows on a nice day because I don't want to smell like that.

That drives me crazy. I work odd hours to try and avoid traffic sometimes, so I'm driving in the dark. I am so sick of driving and having someone toss a cigarette out the window. It flies back in a flash. It causes a stress reaction and it takes a minute to realize "Oh, it's just a cigarette." For a few seconds, my brain is trying to process what the heck this flash is that's coming at me.

If you're going to smoke in your car, shut your windows. People hold it out the window because THEY don't want to smell it - neither do I. So, roll up the windows and inhale YOUR cigarette and leave me out of it.

 

[ChuckB]

I am a smoker, I can see where it would be in bad taste to smoke, around hospitals, someone trying to eat in a resturant, but when it comes to the outside, and you dont want to smell it, hold your breath .......

 

[kimmikayb]

Until we spend a day walking in that person's shoes we'll never know the reason. Maybe he/she is an extremeist or just maybe he/she just lost someone very dear to their hearts to lung cancer and it was their way to express their anger? Maybe he/she was just diognosed with a diesese caused by second hand smoke? Nobody will ever know.

I just watched a smoker dump his entire ashtray out on the road this morning. Last night I was behind a person who flicked one smoke after another out his window, still lit. No respect.

I almost lost my dad because he smoked. I lost both grandfathers because they smoked. A dear friend of mine is dieing right now. I applaud places who are going smoke free. And I wouldn't be so quick to judge someone who is trying to get a message across, we just don't know what he/she has gone through.