Area 4:51

For those of you who don’t live in Ohio, we just passed a state-wide smoking ban last fall. The new smoking ban bars smoking from most public areas. Now all the smokers are comming out of the wood work crying about “lost freedoms” and “why isn’t there a junk food ban?”. Whatever.

Thing is, first and foremost, the ban passed by a 58 – 42 percent margin. So where were all of you smokers at on election day? Yeah, that’s right, sitting at home, watching survivor or whatever it is that has your attention, thinking you were too cool to get involved in the political process, and what happened? You got pimpslapped by reality. So you have no one to blame but yourself.

Second of all, as far as your ‘junk food ban’, there isn’t any junk food ban becuase the candy I eat dosen’t make your teeth rot. end of story.

Third, about your precious “lost freedoms”? What freedom did you lose? Hmm? The freedom to pump yourself full of carcinogens? The freedom to blow smoke in my face? I don’t recall seeing that anywhere in the constitution, but you can still do it at home, or in your car, so stop whining. Besides, if someone proposes a law banning loud stereo systems, then are you gonna stand up for my right to blast my music in your ear?

Fourth, how many of you smokers voted against the gay marriage ban? Or does it apply only to you and things you like? Hmmm?

For the record, I’m not a smoker, but I voted no on both bans.