Exactly when did smoking go completely beyond the pale?

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Watching the local TV news about new initiatives banning cigarettes everywhere, the vox pops are quite extraordinarily hostile. "Good, they shouldn't have any right to spread their filthy pollution anywhere", etc. When was the major "tipping point" where it stopped being a debate and turned into a legitimate floodgate-opening for all this vitriol? Well, maybe it never really was an actual 'debate', but people used to be more polite about it.

― chthonic for the people, Thursday, 11 August 2005 22:41 (twenty years ago)

This was supposed to be on ILE! Sorry

― chthonic for the people, Thursday, 11 August 2005 22:43 (twenty years ago)

I've had it up to here with these mistakes. Seems to me like a lack of discipline.

― Mark (MarkR), Friday, 12 August 2005 02:20 (twenty years ago)

it will be banned everywhere in 20 years.
it's banned in pubs here in melbourne.
finlly i can visit a pub again.

― ramona bruland, Friday, 12 August 2005 02:23 (twenty years ago)

These things run in cycles. It's due for a comeback.

― Curt (cgould), Friday, 12 August 2005 02:51 (twenty years ago)

i have asthma and smoking bothers me a lot, but i think you know its just one of those things people can feel morally superior and indignant about. its like the people who inhabit the office building where i work complaining about the smell of mcdonalds in the elevator-same attitude.

― Susan Douglas (Susan Douglas), Friday, 12 August 2005 03:01 (twenty years ago)

smokers aren't leppers ,leppers are a higher class of people.
To those idiots who say smoking relaxes them , do what i do . Take their their cancer sticks away and film them then show them how mad they got.

― fred schneider's chrysler, Friday, 12 August 2005 04:08 (twenty years ago)

ever notice that ex-smokers get as big as a whale?

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Friday, 12 August 2005 04:53 (twenty years ago)

it's smoking at gigs in small clubs that bothers me the most (to make this more of an ILM topic). In London, it still looks like a long long way til there's smokefree gigs in clubs.

― thomas, Friday, 12 August 2005 08:11 (twenty years ago)

incredible. i just hope none of you drive a car.

― marc(drums) (marcdrums), Friday, 12 August 2005 08:14 (twenty years ago)

well, i smoke the cigar and i find it pretty smooth...

― AleXTC (AleXTC), Friday, 12 August 2005 09:12 (twenty years ago)

thread on I Love Everything is here:

When did smoking go completely beyond the pale?

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Friday, 12 August 2005 09:14 (twenty years ago)

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