Omaha/Nebraska Smoking Ban

DTO Luv · Post by **DTO Luv** » Tue Mar 17, 2009 3:45 pm

Good. Baby formula is made in China. He's buying American!

TechnicalDisaster · Post by **TechnicalDisaster** » Tue Mar 17, 2009 4:00 pm

There is no need to vilify GUN MANUFACTURERS. Jesus, it's one of the few all American owned, operated, employers left and people constantly try to limit the sale of their product. Genius!

Fixed that for me.

DTO Luv · Post by **DTO Luv** » Tue Mar 17, 2009 4:05 pm

But guns kill people that don't even use guns!

TechnicalDisaster · Post by **TechnicalDisaster** » Tue Mar 17, 2009 4:05 pm

DTO Luv wrote:But guns kill people that don't even use guns!

2nd hand smoke doesn't kill people who don't use cigarettes??

DTO Luv · Post by **DTO Luv** » Tue Mar 17, 2009 4:10 pm

I haven't seen anything other than junk science like global warming showing that 2nd hand smoke ever killed anyone. If it was a regular exposure to, I'll by that it causes problems but not death.

Big E · Post by **Big E** » Tue Mar 17, 2009 4:11 pm

DTO Luv wrote:But guns kill people that don't even use guns!

Bullet = secondhand gun.

The responsible use of guns does not kill anyone (assuming we're not talking about hunting and non-wartime here). The responsible use of cigarettes, on the other hand...

How 'bout that? Bet you didn't think I'd be on the pro-gun side, did you? (NRA zealot freakazoids, however, are a different thread entirely...)

Big E · Post by **Big E** » Tue Mar 17, 2009 4:15 pm

DTO Luv wrote:I haven't seen anything other than junk science like global warming showing that 2nd hand smoke ever killed anyone. If it was a regular exposure to, I'll by that it causes problems but not death.

I suppose Jesus is junk science, too?

There is no need to vilify prostitution. Jesus, it's one of the few all American owned, operated, employers left and people constantly try to limit the sale of their product. Genius!

Whee! This could be fun.

DTO Luv · Post by **DTO Luv** » Tue Mar 17, 2009 4:16 pm

You just want to shoot smokers.

All of the anti smoking nonsense in the country has gotten out of control. I know we've debated this to death already (I seem to remember me winning) so I'll just drop it and kick you in the balls the next time I see you Big E.

Big E · Post by **Big E** » Tue Mar 17, 2009 4:23 pm

DTO Luv wrote:All of the anti smoking nonsense in the country has gotten out of control. I know we've debated this to death already (I seem to remember me winning)...

Kind of like you win drinking contests? First one to pass out wins now, huh?

DTO Luv · Post by **DTO Luv** » Tue Mar 17, 2009 4:28 pm

Yes. I'm the undisputed haveyweight lightweight of drinking.

Bosco55David · Post by **Bosco55David** » Tue Mar 17, 2009 4:32 pm

bradley414 wrote:
So it is the $7 that is making you rethink your habit and not your newborn child's health? Daddy of the |expletive| Year here, folks.
I was once in a checkout aisle of the grocery store and the guy in front of me was buying a pack of cigarettes, a case of bud light, and the smallest can of baby formula they sell. When the cashier read him the total, he came up short. Guess which item he passed on?

The baby formula.

That's disgusting.

DTO Luv · Post by **DTO Luv** » Tue Mar 17, 2009 4:55 pm

Maybe the mother could still breastfeed? Why should the parent give up what they want. They were here first.

DTO Luv · Post by **DTO Luv** » Wed Mar 18, 2009 8:45 pm

I don't buy any of it. There's so much money being made from anti-smoking groups the the "studies" are so slanted that they can't be taken seriously. What person is even around second hand smoke that much? Really.

Big E · Post by **Big E** » Thu Mar 19, 2009 9:50 am

Yeah, more junk science. You'd make a good fundamentalist evangelical Christian.

You could sell Holy Smokes (now with 0 tar!) at the gift shop at your Cavemen Riding Dinosaurs True Real Exactly As It Happened Science Museum.

DTO Luv · Post by **DTO Luv** » Thu Mar 19, 2009 10:30 am

Big E, why do you hate Amerrrca and Baby Jezuz?

Big E · Post by **Big E** » Thu Mar 19, 2009 10:45 am

DTO Luv wrote:Big E, why do you hate Amerrrca and Baby Jezuz?

Hey, I would support the legislation that keeps Daddy Jesus from smoking in a car with Baby Jesus.

Post by **Brad** » Wed Apr 01, 2009 10:40 am

I knew that Omaha had a lot of non smokers, but I did not think it was this tilted:

www.omaha.com wrote:Some smokers stocked up before a hefty tax increase became law. What about you?
• Yes, I stocked up on cigarettes
(62)
• I smoke, but didn't buy any extras
(121)
• I smoke, but I'm quitting
(70)
• I don't smoke
(1011)

DTO Luv · Post by **DTO Luv** » Wed Apr 01, 2009 10:51 am

Thank you fascism.

Big E · Post by **Big E** » Wed Apr 01, 2009 11:56 am

Brad wrote:I knew that Omaha had a lot of non smokers, but I did not think it was this tilted:

Its not that tilted. All the smokers were standing in line at Sam's to buy pallets of Marlboro's and weren't able to vote in the poll.

DTO Luv · Post by **DTO Luv** » Wed Apr 01, 2009 12:10 pm

I've been smoking more than usual lately. My bf does so they're around a lot more. I love how all of these government agencies want to tax the |expletive| out of cigarettes and use the money for projects, but then do all they can to make smoking problematic.

Post by **Brad** » Wed Apr 01, 2009 12:15 pm

Big E wrote:Its not that tilted. All the smokers were standing in line at Sam's to buy pallets of Marlboro's and weren't able to vote in the poll.

A pallet of Marlboro's, Awesome! May be its because I see all the smokers standing outside now, but I thought it was way more than 15% to 20%, more like 30% or more.

Bosco55David · Post by **Bosco55David** » Wed Apr 01, 2009 2:36 pm

I approve of this tax.

the1wags · Post by **the1wags** » Wed Apr 01, 2009 4:29 pm

Regardless of your stance on smoking, taxes go up, more people quit, repeat. Then where do we get those revenues from eventually? The 1% of the population that buys $65 a pack smokes? I don't think so.

Garrett · Post by **Garrett** » Wed Apr 01, 2009 9:47 pm

Current Poll Count

Yes, I stocked up on cigarettes- 141

I Smoke, but I didn't by any extras- 249

I Smoke, but I'm quitting- 159

I don't smoke- 2,268

Post by **Brad** » Wed Apr 01, 2009 10:36 pm

Its encouraging that more people plan on quiting than people that stocked up.

DTO Luv · Post by **DTO Luv** » Wed Apr 01, 2009 11:11 pm

How is it encouraging? It's just a bunch of people being bullied into quitting. Pretty much everything is bad for you but smoking gets portrayed as Satan incarnate.

Bosco55David · Post by **Bosco55David** » Thu Apr 02, 2009 11:33 am

DTO Luv wrote:How is it encouraging? It's just a bunch of people being bullied into quitting. Pretty much everything is bad for you but smoking gets portrayed as Satan incarnate.

Probably because nothing good can come out of it.

DTO Luv · Post by **DTO Luv** » Thu Apr 02, 2009 12:04 pm

What, like you mean stuffing your face with Dairy Queen watching 14 hours of digital on demand cable a day?

Big E · Post by **Big E** » Thu Apr 02, 2009 12:17 pm

DTO Luv wrote:What, like you mean stuffing your face with Dairy Queen watching 14 hours of digital on demand cable a day?

That's an option? Sign me up!

DTO Luv · Post by **DTO Luv** » Thu Apr 02, 2009 12:30 pm

I actually had you in mind when I wrote that.

Post by **Brad** » Mon Jun 01, 2009 1:39 pm

Well after working in a bar for about a decade... Last night I had to call "Last Call for Smoking.... Smoke em if you got em"

People were smoking like chimneys that last 20 min, they were even clinking smokes together like they were cheersing before a shot...

30 min after the ban took effect, Mother Nature greeted the smokers with a heavy storm in LaVista.

DTO Luv · Post by **DTO Luv** » Mon Jun 01, 2009 1:46 pm

Goodbye freedom. Goodbye America.

Big E · Post by **Big E** » Mon Jun 01, 2009 1:53 pm

Oh come on... like you're not ruining America by recruiting to your agenda. Whatever, commie.

DTO Luv · Post by **DTO Luv** » Mon Jun 01, 2009 1:55 pm

As soon as someone dies from second hand gay they'll come for us too.

the1wags · Post by **the1wags** » Mon Jun 01, 2009 2:04 pm

You can die from that? I'm done hanging out with you! And here I thought it just made you more fashion savvy.

Post by **nebugeater** » Mon Jun 01, 2009 2:05 pm

DTO Luv wrote:As soon as someone dies from second hand gay they'll come for us too.

What did you do with the first hand?

DTO Luv · Post by **DTO Luv** » Mon Jun 01, 2009 2:12 pm

nebugeater wrote:
DTO Luv wrote:As soon as someone dies from second hand gay they'll come for us too.

What did you do with the first hand?

Got my house paid for.

Big E · Post by **Big E** » Tue Jun 02, 2009 12:12 am

OK, proponent or opponent, you have to laugh at this:

http://www.journalstar.com/news/local/d ... ogcomments

On Monday morning at The Depot in Ainsworth, just two people came in instead of the normal, early-morning crowd of roughly a dozen that has guzzled coffee, eaten breakfast and lit up cigarettes for years, restaurant manager Michael Lurz said.

The area’s district court judge, he said, was among those who told him he wouldn’t be coming by because of the ban that went into effect first thing Monday morning.

“Let’s just say that yesterday by this time I had $900,” in sales, Lurz said around noon. “Today, I’m lucky if I have $50.”

Assuming "roughly a dozen" actually means "one dozen", are you trying to tell me that ten people in |expletive| Ainsworth ate and drank $850 worth of breakfast and coffee?

In Ainsworth?

They serve $85 breakfasts in |expletive| Ainsworth?

Garrett · Post by **Garrett** » Thu Jun 04, 2009 11:04 pm

DTO Luv wrote:Goodbye freedom. Goodbye America.

Oh darn, you can't make people smell that weed known as tobacco, that must ruin your day.

thenewguy · Post by **thenewguy** » Fri Jun 05, 2009 3:58 am

Axel wrote:
DTO Luv wrote:Goodbye freedom. Goodbye America.

Oh darn, you can't make people smell that weed known as tobacco, that must ruin your day.

dude. why are you pokin'? Not saying i agree or disagree with the smoking ban (i believe in people's right to smoke, but then again i also believe in people's rights to not deal with it---quite the conundrum), but it seems like you're pickin' to just to pick. FYI--one aspect of maturity is knowing when not to say things...