- "Though it was shot down last year by local businesses,
on Tuesday the city reintroduced legislation that would bar
the merciful release of nicotine "near the doors, vents and
operable windows of any building, including restaurants, shops, offices
and housing complexes."
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- Supervisor Eric Mar, who sponsored
the cigarette hate, says he's doing it to protect "San Francisco's
most vulnerable residents from secondhand smoke."
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- 'Supervisor' Mar is taking his title a little too seriously.
We do not yet live in Shanghai; and the government here is not "all
powerful" by a long shot. The pollutants coming from cigarette-smoke
pale by a factor of one-hundred to one whenever one considers the
emissions from motor vehicles, buses and trucks that happens everyday throughout
the city, and almost always in front of every business in this city. These
"laws" are based on no actual findings but are rather based on
conjecture from some political "doctors" that want to eliminate
cigarette smoking altogether.
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- If this is the desired goal then OUTLAW cigarettes completely;
but if they did that, they could no longer get the HUGE amount
of tax money which smoking-cigarettes brings into this city. So instead
the classic-cowards like Mar are attempting to allow the use of something
that is supposedly LEGAL but cannot be used legally within the city: And
Mar's way of making up for the lost revenue is the $500 dollar fine that
is attached to his very nasty little back-door-piece of illegal legislation.
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- Obviously the "supervisor" doesn't get out
much in the city he SUPERVISES. If he did he would know that it is not
possible to get fifteen feet from a business in order to legally smoke
unless you're standing in the street: And this of course was and
is his purpose in passing this trogledian piece of political-correctness
on to the rest of those of us that still live here.
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- The other issue not addressed by this piece of trash
from the "San Francisco Public Health Department" is the lingering
stench of urine and excrement which now wafts though the air in almost
every neighborhood. Unless this city is willing to steam-clean the sidewalks
and the first floor levels of every building in the city at least once
a month then what this city is demanding, where smoking is concerned,
should not be legal: Because it is not cigarette-smoke in this very windy
city that is polluting what this public breathes it is politicians
like Eric Mar that are stinking up the entire process for a purpose which
he hasn't the guts to even name: Which is to OUTLAW CIGARETTES ENTIRELY!
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- Also there is this minor fact. Most of those going to
the restaurants and shops that are supposedly being served by this new
outrage do not have to walk to the places of businesses which are
being targeted. Most of these deranged Puritans drive there and back, or
they take the fume-emitting buses; all of which emit enough carcinogens
to kill anyone that came into direct contact with an exhaust pipe (not
over a span of forty years or so) but in just a few minutes time
in fact inhaling carbon monoxide is a very popular way to commit suicide:
Death by second-hand cigarette smoke is not even on the chart: And NEVER
HAS BEEN, except in the perverted minds of those that want to regulate
the habits of every other person on the planet.
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- The FACT that this "Supervisor" cannot tell
the difference between what is a real threat to human life from something
that has been adopted by a bunch of worthless politicians that have done
nothing for this city, except to make it far worse, since the days of Willie
Brown and his pack of thieves - makes this further intrussion into the
lives of those of us that choose to smoke - even more obscene.
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- Sincerely,
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- Jim Kirwan,
- San Francisco
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