Well, we’re at day three of non-smoking, again.
Although I’m quitting smoking I still find the current sentiment against smokers to be a little alarming. On the other hand I think that some of the places were smoking has been “banned” a little ridiculous.
I think that you should be allowed to smoke where ever you are not endangering the lives of others. And I meand “endangering” in a rather here and now sort of way. If you smoke around your fellow diners, for instance, you aren’t endangering them, you’re inconveniencing them.
However, if you smoke while shopping for fireworks, you are endangering your fellow man. But I don’t think there should be a ban on that, per se. Our government shouldn’t have to say, “don’t blow yourself up.” I think that anyone that walks into a fireworks outlet with a lit cigarette should get a free pint of Nitroglycerine. By the third year we wouldn’t be handing any of those out, and most neighborhoods would be much quieter.
Granted, in the fourth year, we might have a huge leap in free Nitro given out to those folks clever enough to handle high explosives safely. I still think it’s a worthwhile incentive program.
Tune in next time when I try to remember just what it was I intended to really talk about today.
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