KLRU
Exhaust Fumes Should Be Banned Next
RECEIVED Thu., May 19, 2005
Dear Editor,
One last point regarding the the smoking ban: I'm a guy who rides a bicycle everywhere – I don't even own a car. Everyday I have to inhale exhaust fumes as people drive by my home or pass me as I ride my bike to work or to the store. Now, I'm certain that almost all of the ban supporters drive cars and SUVs, etc. Now, take your car/SUV and park it, while running, in your living room, and you'll be dead in short order. Contrast that reality with me sitting in my living room smoking cigarettes, and still alive! Yet here these bastards are telling me that I can't smoke in a bar with mutually consenting adults while they (or people like them) drive up and down my fucking street without my consent every damned day. Not to mention that they're damaging the entire ecosystem far more than any smoker. I'll stop smoking if you stop driving! Motherfuckers! Talk about toxic factories!
One last point regarding the the smoking ban: I'm a guy who rides a bicycle everywhere – I don't even own a car. Everyday I have to inhale exhaust fumes as people drive by my home or pass me as I ride my bike to work or to the store. Now, I'm certain that almost all of the ban supporters drive cars and SUVs, etc. Now, take your car/SUV and park it, while running, in your living room, and you'll be dead in short order. Contrast that reality with me sitting in my living room smoking cigarettes, and still alive! Yet here these bastards are telling me that I can't smoke in a bar with mutually consenting adults while they (or people like them) drive up and down my fucking street without my consent every damned day. Not to mention that they're damaging the entire ecosystem far more than any smoker. I'll stop smoking if you stop driving! Motherfuckers! Talk about toxic factories!
Thomas Boggs
