Hatred of Tobacco Smokers is Not a Right

By Steve Hartwell, published Sep 28, 2007
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September 27, 2007

I smoke tobacco.

For that, I am personally hated by a LOT of people.

I recently Googled the Web for 'smoking' content and, not surprisingly, found 110 Million anti-smoker web pages.

What is surprising, shocking, is the amount of hatred I found.

I found an overwhelming number are full of misinformation, and all-consuming putrefying hatred, not just of tobacco and smoking, but vilifying de-humanizing hatred of tobacco smokers.

Do you know what it feels like to be the target of that much hatred ?

Can anyone even comprehend that much hatred.

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I legally smoke legal tobacco cigarettes, freely choosing to do so, because, it gives me enjoyment and pleasure. If it did not, I would not smoke it.

Butt, because I smoke. I am accused and branded guilty of mass murder, by 'kangaroo court'. In violation of the Constitution of my country, I am denied the guaranteed right of legal representation and trial by court of law, and other guaranteed rights are also denied me.

I am being totally persecuted and ostracized from society, and even my own home will soon no longer be my last and only haven-prison.

I am a target of an irrational out-of-control lynch-mob witch-hunt, a Pogrom against Tobacco Smokers.

110 Million anti-tobaccosmoker web pages.

That's a lot of hatred.

It is very terrifyingly scary.

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110 Million anti-smoker hatred web pages.

I wonder - Is how so much hatred of me makes me feel, the same as or very close to how it might feel to be a bug ?

I feel widespread opinion is that I am Not Human. Eradicating me is a Public Service.

I feel like a West Nile virus blood-sucking-infecting mosquito. Kill me before I kill you.

If those bugs have feelings similar to humans I suspect they would feel tremendously hated, as I feel so totally hated by anti-smokers.

I feel de-humanized, and that millions of anti-smokers would gladly treasure the honour of squashing me flat underfoot, then scraping my squashed flesh and blood and guts from the bottom of their soiled shoe.

Would you want to feel like that ?

 
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you are a liar.....This did not happen to you.simply shut up you idiot.

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Posted on 05/11/2008 at 11:05:00 AM

 
Right on baby!

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Posted on 04/07/2008 at 9:04:44 PM

 
Wow, I'm not a smoker, but I never realized that there was so much tension against the anti-smokers and the tobacco consumers. The anti-tobacco people make these stupid acts of hatred and don't want to respect the people who do smoke. Smokers should have rights. They choose to smoke, knowing the risks they are going to take. If your going to hammer down on tobacco, do it to alcohol, too. I mean, don't even think about banning tobacco, it never caused traffic jams or crashes. It didn't cause 9/11 or keeps people from thinking or reacting the way they used to. If the government wants to better my life they should leave tobacco alone and socialize healthcare, lower prescription drugs, and try to seek a cure for cancer by funding stem cell research. By the way, I'm only fourteen.

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Posted on 04/07/2008 at 9:04:13 PM

 
Monday, October 1st, 2007 I thought I understood what bizarre is. Today I'm driving home on the 401 -- smoking, I passed a small car full of teenagers, which suddenly sped up, over the speed limit, to 'lodge' behind me, so close I could not see the front grill. I could see them waving arms and hopping up and down excitedly, weaving, driving recklessly, and very distracting me. I went around a slow truck, and the car quickly followed me. Right after that was my exit, I took it, the car sniffing my bum. On the street the car sped up beside me, I could hear the kids yelling something, and they were all putting 2 fingers to their lips, and I thought I heard 'murderer', but I figured - naw, can't be. Just as the car made to turn left and leave me, one fellow stuck his head out the window and screamed several times, along with the others also screaming, "CANCER STICKS" and "MURDERER" And then they turned and sped off.

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Posted on 10/01/2007 at 7:10:00 PM

 
Oct. 1st bizarre chase story continued... It so made me think of Hitler Youth chasing a Jew. It all felt bizarre beyond reality, and very very frightening. Hatred of Tobacco Smokers is NOT a Right !

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Posted on 10/01/2007 at 7:10:00 PM

 
I find it amuzing that they are raising Federal Excise taxes to pay for uninsured children's health care, while at the same time, making smokers feel so guilty (and relegating them to criminal status), they quit smoking. So once they start jailing all the smokers for the crime of smoking, who I ask is going to pay for that health care? Also tobacco is one of the USA's leading imports, so by criminializing smokers, and attempting to bankrupt tobacco farmers, I have to wonder what is wrong with the world today. Mass insanity.

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Posted on 09/29/2007 at 10:09:00 AM

 
I do not condone smomking. Smokers that do not use alcohol are usually the healthiest people around. Their inhaling is a form of meditating. I liken it to "taxation without reprentation", which caused the "Boston Tea Party". What most smokers know, is that when you vote to take away other's freedoms, somewhere down the road, you are gonna lose a freedom you hold dear. Like Los Angeles, is in process of outlawing Fast Food restaruants because "they cause obsesity".

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Posted on 09/29/2007 at 9:09:00 AM

 
It all started with a Surgeon General who lost a loved one due to cancer. It started with banning peanuts on airplanes because a few are allergic to them. It started with taking away citizen's "rights to bear arms". (Read an AC article that a school is going to ban peanut butter in the cafeteria.) That a person could believe that breathing a whiff of smoke on a city street will give them lung cancer is absurd. The air pollution in cities existed long before smokers were forced to take it outside. So now Santa Monica is not allowing smoking on the streets.

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Posted on 09/29/2007 at 9:09:00 AM

 
curried rice continued - I know there is so little risk of my dying from exposure to curried rice gases, that the risk is so miniscule that it is Statistically Insignificant, butt, I hate curried rice so much I might even ban it, eradicate it, if, I had the right to do so. I hate curried rice - butt - I have no right to ban nor eradicate curried rice. I hate curried rice - butt - I have no right to hate all curried rice eaters. My hatred of curried rice does Not make me hate those human beings who do enjoy it, who derive pleasure from eating it. I do Not think that all curried rice eaters are evil sub-humans. Hatred of all curried rice eaters would be irrational, or at least totally wrong. It would be a form of bigoted racism. The same is true about Tobacco Smoking - in a real democracy.

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Posted on 09/28/2007 at 2:09:00 PM

 
Darn, afterwards I realized I want to modify the "curried rice" part. So, here's the modified "curried rice" part: No curried rice eater has ever forced me to eat curried rice nor forced me to be exposed to it. I respect that. I totally hate curried rice. The very smell of it makes me ill, I cannot breath in it's exposure presence, so, I don't eat it, and, I don't go anywhere curried rice is served. There are restaurants and bars that serve curried rice, and other places that do not serve it. I am free to choose which place I will go in to, so I go in to the places that do not serve curried rice, and curried rice eaters who enjoy curried rice go to places that do serve curried rice. IF I ever chose to go in to a place that serves curried rice, that too would be my choice. That is how a Freedom of Choice Marketplace Democracy works. I do whatever can be rationally done to avoid exposure to curried rice. I know there is so little risk of my dying from exposure to curri

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Posted on 09/28/2007 at 2:09:00 PM

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