Pennsylvania Man Tries to Quit Smoking, Goes on Rampage
1-liner, Drugs, Mental Illness June 26th. 2009, 4:45pmNicotine Rampage: A Pennsylvania man rammed his lawn tractor repeatedly into his own house and threatened “to tear the house down with his wife inside.€Â He thinks trying to quit smoking may have had something to do with it. (The Morning Call)
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June 26th, 2009 at 4:47 pm
It’s a bitch to “commit smoking.”
/cthomashowell’d
/welcome back ty
June 26th, 2009 at 4:51 pm
Seeing as how all bars in Dallas have banned smoking indoors, I bet ‘Commit Smoking’ is actually a criminal description now.
/former smoker.
June 26th, 2009 at 4:53 pm
Sorry for the typos. It seems my brain is still jet-lagged.
June 26th, 2009 at 4:55 pm
Doug Gottlieb on his radio show earlier talking about Michael Jackson:
“I liked his duets with Paul McCartney. Ebony and Ivory”
/sounds like somebody needs to borrow some credit cards and buy “Thriller”
June 26th, 2009 at 4:57 pm
If the guy’s wife was one of those sanctamonious, self-righteous, holier-than-thou anti-smoking types, then I can see why he rammed the tractor repeatedly into the house. Even as a former smoker, almost no other set of people in the world anger me more than those ’smoking is bad’ blowhards.
June 26th, 2009 at 5:00 pm
gun control ass wipes.
June 26th, 2009 at 5:00 pm
obama is making no friends with the anti-smoking stuff. good thing i chew
June 26th, 2009 at 5:00 pm
Was he trying to quit smoking?
June 26th, 2009 at 5:02 pm
gun control ass wipes.
Agreed. They are definitely a similar breed.
June 26th, 2009 at 5:04 pm
My position is this.
1. I don’t care if people smoke in privacy, but they should not be allowed to in an enclosed space in public. Even if you don’t buy the second-hand smoke argument, it’s still filthy and unpleasant for those around you.
I like to walk around shirtless, but I can be courteous to those around me in public.
2. It’s not a purely private issue. Smoking cigarettes increases your chances of getting any disease significantly. Your increased healthcare costs saddle insurance companies, public funds and hospitals and, consequently, drive up the rest of our premiums.
June 26th, 2009 at 5:07 pm
i think people should be allowed to smoke in bars. but in places where people eat no. i mean when people think drinking in bars they think smoking in bars. but i dont want to smell cigarettes while i eat.
June 26th, 2009 at 5:08 pm
I only smoke when I’m hanging out with the Comic Book guy from the Simpsons.
June 26th, 2009 at 5:53 pm
My position is this.
1. I don’t care if people smoke in privacy, but they should not be allowed to in an enclosed space in public. Even if you don’t buy the second-hand smoke argument, it’s still filthy and unpleasant for those around you.
I like to walk around shirtless, but I can be courteous to those around me in public.
2. It’s not a purely private issue. Smoking cigarettes increases your chances of getting any disease significantly. Your increased healthcare costs saddle insurance companies, public funds and hospitals and, consequently, drive up the rest of our premiums.
I agree wholeheartedly with your first point. I disagree with the second part of your argument however. People with drinking problems saddle our nation’s healthcare system as well, but this is no more a reason to make alcohol harder to get or more restrictive in where you can consume it.
The health of individuals is based in large part upon personal choices that each makes. This ability to make a personal choice is largely what this country’s political philosophy contained with the Bill of Rights is based upon. And no I am not saying that smoking is Constitutionally protected, but what I am saying is that personal choice is.
Ty, I agree that it should be removed from most public venues because this allows for the personal choices of others to be respected in the public forum. But I cannot buy into any argument regarding smoking’s supposed draw on healthcare resources. I am an ardent follower of John Stuart Mill when it comes to things like smoking and drinking and so healthcare resources, particularly in a society where much of healthcare is privatized, is at best peripheral to any anti-smoking argument.
June 26th, 2009 at 9:40 pm
My position is this.
1. I don’t care if people smoke in privacy, but they should not be allowed to in an enclosed space in public. Even if you don’t buy the second-hand smoke argument, it’s still filthy and unpleasant for those around you.
I like to walk around shirtless, but I can be courteous to those around me in public.
2. It’s not a purely private issue. Smoking cigarettes increases your chances of getting any disease significantly. Your increased healthcare costs saddle insurance companies, public funds and hospitals and, consequently, drive up the rest of our premiums.
My position:
1. This is tricky becasue I understand what you’re getting at: non-smokers don’t like being around smoke. But I would offer that they DO like being around SMOKERS.
while I’m definitely not an Adam-Smith-invisible-hand type, this is one that truly confounds me: if so many non-smokers don’t want to be in smoking bars, why don’t (didn’t) proprietors open non-smoking bars? Wouldn’t non-smokers go to non-smoking bars and smokers (who don’t give a shit about first-hand smoke, much less second-hand smoke) go to smoking bars? Problem solved, right?
Well, then they bring up the public health and employee protection issues. Having bartended for 10+ years, I can tell you that most bartenders/servers smoke (tobacco and/or other things) and don’t give a crap.
BUT, if they did, would he market bear that out, too? I mean, smokers are, by most accounts, 10% or so of the population, leaving 90% of customers and potential employees desiring non-smoking establishments and workplace, right?
So why doesn’t/didn’t the market work? Seriously, I’m asking.
2. as for a public health issue (removing 2nd-hand smoke from the equation, as I outlined above, with those rules anyone who was around 2nd-hand smoke chose to be around it), there are myriad lifestyle choices and policy decisions that impact public health and the cost of private health insurance. Say, for example, health insurance policies that don’t encourage (or discourage) preventative medicine (e.g., the high-deductible, critical care policies that many poor and low-wage people actually get), media rules that allow crap food to be attractively sold to children (childhood obesity, juvenile diabetes, etc.), cities planned so people never have to walk anywhere except froma store exit to their car (though with air quality such as it is, maybe that’s a good thing), corn subsidies that make adding a little *punch* of high fructose corn syrup to anything cost nothing, etc., etc., etc.
Our whole system in America is begging (or at least tempting) you to live unhealthily…cigarettes are the Boogyman that lets people feel like SOMETHING is being done.
If you don’t think so, tell me why 99% of non-regulated restaurants/bars (not that there’s that many anymore) cater to the 10% of smokers and not the 90% of non-smokers who hate being around smoke? Shouldn’t smoker have been relegated to those nasty smoking-allowing restaurants/bars while everyone else gets to hang out in non-smoking establishments?
/end waaaaaay too long post
June 27th, 2009 at 3:54 am
All I know is this: people who say “I only smoke when I drink” are worse than Kathy Griffin.
June 27th, 2009 at 9:20 am
used to be me, then i found the wonders of smoking a bowl.