spauldo

The fact that you don't know what it is is proof enough that the prohibition against it works. I have no interest in watching your video.

And besides, you're missing the point. Prohibition of tobacco is coming. I'm not arguing in its favor. I'm suggesting that if they must prohibit tobacco, they phase it out instead of banning it outright.

Well, I guess we'll just make it illegal for everyone and the old timers like me just have to deal with it. Thanks, I hate it.

Oh, you're a mind reader now? You don't know me, buddy.

Maybe things are different down under, but here in the states they very much do use the "keep kids from smoking" excuse. Every. Single. Time.

I don't mind going outside or whatever so much. That wasn't the point I was making. When I started smoking, you could still smoke in restaurants, airplanes, offices, etc. They still had ashtrays at the end of every aisle at the supermarket when I was a kid. Picking up smoking wasn't a radical thing to do.

They've pushed us out to the fringes, but that's fine. But their goal is to eliminate smoking. What I'm saying is that enough is enough. Let us smoke off away from everyone and die out.

Prohibition works most of the time. Do you know where to get your hands on some black tar heroin? I don't, nor do most people.

Prohibition of alcohol took something that was popular and made it illegal. Of course it failed. Making tobacco illegal would fail if they did it for everyone. I'm suggesting they make it illegal for people who aren't already addicted to it.

Edit: heroin, not heroine. Thanks, autocorrect.

I've been suggesting they do this in the states for a while now.

I smoke. I like smoking, and I don't plan to quit. But it's obvious that most people want smoking to go away. They keep increasing the price of cigarettes, they keep banning smoking in new areas, and every time they'll tell you it's to keep kids from smoking. It's a lie - they want everyone to stop smoking.

So fine. Set a date, and make it illegal for anyone born after that date to smoke. Then leave us smokers alone. If it's as bad for us as you say it is, we'll all die soon anyway.

Will some people born after that date smoke? Sure. But the majority won't. And it'll be a constant annoyance for them that they can't just go buy a carton at the store, which will encourage them to quit. I'd feel sorry for them, but I was told it was bad for me, not that I'd be standing outside in -50° weather puffing as fast as I can because I can't smoke in my hotel room, or that I'd spend more on cigarettes than I do electricity. They at least know they'll never be allowed to smoke.

Especially inverse psoriasis. When I carpool I have to tell my coworkers, "yes I shower, no I can't do anything about the smell." Fortunately it doesn't smell bad so much as weird.

I miss Wordperfect, although I don't miss the templates everyone had on their keyboards.

I mostly wish Word had "show codes."

Depends where you lived. Where I spent most of the 90s, the worst you could reasonably expect would be some kid yanks out your ashtray looking for loose change.

I once listened to a Harry Dresden book that was read by text-to-speech (back before they went back and had James Masters read all the books). It always said the word "wizard" (Harry's a wizard) sarcastically. It made it seem like all the other characters were making fun of him all the time and really changed the feel of the book.

Try listening to a book from the Library for the Blind. They read everything. Every written word in the book. Only the page number gets skipped (although they tell you what page you're on when they change sides).

You're trying to pick a fight with the entire state of Oklahoma there, buddy.