The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #66221   Message #1097028
Posted By: kendall
20-Jan-04 - 09:17 AM
Thread Name: Should our folk club be non smoking?
Subject: RE: Should our folk club be non smoking?
I wont hide behind "Guest" on this one. I smoked for 47 years, and what did it get me? CANCER! Smoking is stupid, expensive and fatal. If you must smoke, have the decency to take it out of the room as you would if you had to take a shit!
I MUST breathe, you dont have to smoke.
There is a fine folk gathering at a pub in NH that I dont go to because of the smoke. They have a "smoke eater" but it has a small appetite.I have a dear brother who wont come to my house because he is too damn lazy to step outside with his toxic fumes.
The fact is, in this country at least, only 25% of us smoke. Now, who can argue that the other 75% have no right to breathe clean air?
Your right to kill yourself doesn't include me.
I just lost a good friend to throat cancer, 53 years old. He put off getting examined too long. I'm lucky thay caught it in time, and after 1 1/2 years, there is no sign of it returning.
If I visit a friend who smokes, that's his business, it's his house and his health. I can stand it for a while, but, I firmly believe that smoking should be banned in ALL public places.