let's all smoke pot so the gov can earn more from us and we can be more productive, pain free and hallucinate more.

what's going to jump start my day if i don't but coffee outside for $3-5 when i can spend that and make a nicer cup at home that will last through the week/more.

cigarettes: quit if you wanna complain, don't smoke near certain buildings in QLD coz you can get a nice big fine.(why aren't there more signs for this). there are other ways to but cheaper tobacco(online).

they're all ganging up here.. carbon foot-print? yea, the planes and buses and everything is going to stop soon. Greener Fuel(natural gas) is more and more used to lower it down. Whether or not consumers decides to buy cars that are more friendly to the environment is up to who? Electrical transportation then if you care, or just walk and run. Not your problem aso. Planes are the worse, so everyone stop flying? how about making time stand still then?

don't like other people smoking and driking? look and walk the other way

Smoking doesn't kill and stink you say Constance. Iam I surprised that you smoke; not at all. You were just sucked in like the rest of the poor saps in campaigns like ANY HOW HAVE A LOOSER_FIELD and Mr hogan loved you for it.lol.

"And am considered more or less an outcast, and people are continuously surprised and shocked when they find out that I am a smoker."

Yes and YES. Just light up another one while you watch this.

http://tinyurl.com/2dsr57b

Look! Be a drain on the health system..... and give it to fat people!lol...like they haven't got enough problems:)

http://tinyurl.com/2euetgk well give the fat kid a pack too Cono.

http://tinyurl.com/245swmw

But hey! If you want to stink and smell, plus throw 1000,s away each year....well go for it.

As Cono said...........its good for you "with benefits.

Oh dear.

BLUE

B,

Predictably, another fanatical wet blanket who close their ears to something that could really rock their very powerful campaign.

Thanks for your unconstructive thoughts. I know this positive light on smoking must have been too tough for you.

It's funny, I've never been told that I stink - in fact, when anyone has commented on my smell, it has always been complementary.

I know Hoges didn't inspire me; I think it was more innate than any cigarette advertising. Have never been the impressionable kind. And I don't consider myself a loser. I enjoy the stuff.

B,

Predictably, another fanatical wet blanket who close their ears to something that could really rock their very powerful campaign.

Thanks for your unconstructive thoughts. I know this positive light on smoking must have been too tough for you and beyond your imagination.

It's funny, I've never been told that I stink - in fact, when anyone has commented on my smell, it has always been complementary.

I know Hoges didn't inspire me; I think it was more innate than any cigarette advertising. Have never been the impressionable kind. And I don't consider myself a loser. I enjoy the stuff.

As an ex-smoker, I find myself strongly aligned with Constance on the topic of smoking. The holier-than-thou attitude that Hasbeen mentioned, that seems to be the natural stance for a particular breed of person, grates on me like nails down a blackboard.

[sidebar: any thoughts on how to update that simile for the computer generation?]

The aggression shown by this breed is out of all proportion to the "sin". Through taxation, smokers are net positive in the health equation, both by providing over $6 billion p.a. to general revenue, and by "leaving the system" at an earlier age. The pollution they cause is minuscule, compared to the amount of other evil stuff in the atmosphere - I'd be more impressed by that argument if non-smokers also refused to drive cars.

I do agree with the ban on aeroplanes, though. That's simple courtesy. But pretending that smokers are by definition society's pariahs is simply the worst form of nanny-ism.

And hey, the smoko and coffee breaks were never about "malingering", as 579 calls it, always about the improved productivity that regular short breaks provide. Even in sweat-shop call centres, management knows that they can't get the best out of people without the safety-valve of planned sanity breaks.

Pericles:"any thoughts on how to update that simile for the computer generation?"

Feedback through your headphones
A slow connection
The blue screen of death
Running out of credit at i-Store
Too much lag
People using "aimbots"
etc, etc, etc

Or so observation of my children would suggest