Opinion piece on smoking and vaping bans (The Guardian, UK)

[Tom09]

Peter Guillam: Don't let society scapegoat smokers (guardan.co.uk, Friday 24 June 2011)

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The news that some American states want to ban electronic cigarettes and the practice known as "vaping" is the latest illustration of what has become a moral crusade against smokers.
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[JustJulie]

Excellent, thought-provoking piece. Thanks for sharing it, Tom.

 

[Crumpet]

I was also tickled by the comments, many of which throw it back to the anti zealots. I like reading non-smokers' comments about saying that 'enough is enough' in regards to the demonization of smokers and the paranoia about third and fourth hand smoke. Someone said it best on the boards a while back, but I cannot remember who the poster is......something to the effect of it's like the antis have jumped the proverbial shark and the absurd is all they have left.

This was a good piece and generated lots of discussion, although it seems that e-cigs always get lost in these discussions. Even if you have 'electronic' in the headline, many bozos just jump in with their uninformed nonsense about second hand smoke and how you can vape all you want but they don't want to be forced to breathe in your smoke, lol.

 

[rothenbj]

Good find Tom. The comment count is at 666, the number of the beast. Will someone break it?

 

[cookiebun]

My favorite was this:
"28th hand smoking
Talking on the telephone to someone who lives with a person whose brother once had sex with a

person who was married to a smoker's cousin.

That $#*& kills you know."