Thursday, August 04, 2005

Smoking Sucks

I am on a bit of a smoking rampage right now.
Every morning I have a shower and get ready for work. Every morning I have to clean the tea machines at work and it is in the smoking area of the 'refresh area'.
Every morning I end up stinking like smoke and I havent even started work yet.

Japan has started to slowly get on the no smoking band wagon. They have been slow to start and the government has actually done very little. Most of the non smoking signs that have been put up have been done by individual organizations and not so much because of government ruling. A lot of the reason for this is because the Japanese Government holds a VERY large share of Japan Tobacco Co. Hmmm...

I dont smoke and quite hate it, but I generally keep my mouth shut and stay out of the political garbage that surrounds smoking. But, because of the new anti smoking movement that has started here there have been a few reporters writing some annoying articles about how we should all leave the smokers alone. We have pushed them around so much, they have no where left and it is their democratic right to smoke and all that SHITE!
Well I have decided to state my reason why I hate cigarette smoke.
I have friends who smoke, so I dont hate smokers, but I do get the impression that they (my husband included, or was) really have no clue as to how disgusting their habit is.

This is my theory:

Smoking is a vice, just like drinking alcohol, but there is a huge difference between the two.

Drinking alcohol does not affect me personally. If you want to drink a beer, fine, go for it. I dont mind. Your consumption of that beer does not harm me. Get behind the wheel of a car and now you could harm me, so now your are breaking the law. Drink a beer and become an obnoxious puking shit and now you could harm me, so you get thrown out of the bar, or I leave your house and never talk to you again.
As long as your beer does not harm me or my kid, fine, drink away. Kill your liver, it is your right. I love a drink every now and then as well. (In fact I would LOVE a nice cold one right now but I am breast feeding.)

Smoking, on the other hand, can not be kept to you alone. There is smoke!!!!! Smoke spreads!!! Now you are harming me. Wear a bubble so that the smoke never leaves your bubble and fine - smoke away. Take that bubble off so that the highly toxic, cancer creating disgusting smelling smoke is going up my nose and onto my person and ya I will start to bitch and complain. That and the damn ash!!!! IT GOES EVERY WHERE!!! Aaannndddd, throwing cigirette butts on the ground is a form of litter. They are a fiberglass based filter that DOES NOT BIODEGRATE. They are contributing to the destruction of Mother Earth. (Beer cans can be recycled. )

Basically you can have what ever bloody vice you want, whether it is alcohol, smoking, chocolate, fast cars drugs or sex. Have at er, I dont care. But if your vice can harm me or affects me directly then ya, sorry, I will start to push for no alcohol laws, no smoking laws, no chocolate laws, no fast car laws, no drugs and god help me no sex laws ( well maybe ).

My vices.....
chocolate
these wonderful vanilla pudding things that they sell at Seiyu,
blogging (bloody addicted to this thing)
an over organization of the useless shite in my life,
my daughter,
my husband,
and sex.
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