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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Another thing to think about. People who smoke are hurting those around them with their habit 100% of the time. Second hand smoke is toxic and hurts me even though I have never touched a cigarette. If I drink 1 beer I am not hurting anyone else unless I am pregnant. Breaking the law is breaking the law and that goes for underage drinking and smoking, but this isn't the topic of this post, so let it go. We all get why OP is upset.

OP, your neighbors get to smoke on their property, you get to avoid them when they're doing it and teach your DC you don't like smoking. [/quote]

Driving hurts people 100 percent with the exhaust put out.

The secondhand smoke thing seems a moot point, given that smoking indoors in public spaces is not longer allowed.  if someone smokes in their car or on their property, it doesn't affect you (at least not anymore than someone operating a lawnmower or running an engine on their property).

The drinking thing was brought up not as it hurts people but as an example of letting kids see bad habits.

I would add as well that lots of people still do drink and drive.  how many people drinking in a bar do you think aren't driving home?[/quote

Your reasoning is flawed. Everyone who drinks does not drink and drive. I have never once gotten behind the wheel after drinking even one drink. EVER. If you have let that be on your head. 
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No, I have never gotten behind the wheel after drinking.  Actually, I hardly ever drink.  My point is that the logic that a smoker is hurting someone else  100 percent of the time is flawed as well.  My best friend smokes, but he never does it around other people.  he does it in his back yard, far enough away from his neighbors.  And whenever I'm over, he says he won't, but I tell him it's okay.  I'm at HIS house.

I'm tired of people demonizing smokers.  He is one of the most polite people I've ever known.

I can't believe someone has nerve to be upset because their kids are playing in their neighbor's yard and the neighbor is doing a legal activity that they don't approve of.  Have we really become that ridiculous?  Does she get upset about an idling bus in front of the house?

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