On Oct 12, 9:53*pm, PeterL > wrote:
> Dan Abel > wrote :
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> > In article >,
> > *PeterL > wrote:
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> >> "Dave Bugg" > wrote in
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> >> > Now if he would just give up tobacco....
>
> >> I *hate* chefs who smoke!!
> >> How the hell can they taste their food properly if their tastebuds are
> >> so screwed up by smoking??
>
> > Good point, but a lot of them do.
>
> >> And I've seen *plenty* of chefs/cooks go outside for a smoke then go
> >> straight back in and start messing around with food, without washing
> >> their hands.
>
> >> I don't eat at restaurants where any of the cooking staff smoke.
>
> >> It limits the number of places I can go to, but it's worth it in the
> >> end.
>
> > I would think so. *Maybe that explains why you do so much cooking
> > yourself? *
>
> LOL!! Most likely :-)
>
> I do have a couple of places left in Brisbane that I can go to.
>
> > If the food tastes of tobacco smoke, I'm not going back, but
> > most chefs I know are smart enough to go elsewhere (even if it's just
> > the back room) to smoke.
>
> It's not so much the food tasting of smoke, it's the fact that the dirty
> so'n'sos don't wash their hands.
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> It's bad enough being in the same room as someone who has just had a smoke
> and come back inside, let alone have them touching my food.
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> > Let me guess, you used to smoke? *
>
> Nope. I'm 53yo and a cigarette has never touched my lips. I was actually
> the 'odd man out' at High School (back in 69/70) because I was the only
> kid at school that didn't, and wouldn't, smoke. It was all the craze back
> then.
>
> I saw so many of my friends start it, just to be cool, and get hooked on
> it. I saw it was a filthy habit then, and decided if that's what you had
> to do to be 'cool' I was going to be 'un-cool'.
>
> > It's the ex-smokers, in my experience,
> > who are most opposed to smoking.
>
> Yeah, I've seen it also. My SO is now a non-smoker. She used to when we
> first met, till I gave her a choice. She could continue with her 'habit'
> (even at only 4-5 a day, she still "needed" them), but she would be doing
> it without me around.
>
> It took her a couple of go's to finally kick it, but she's been smoke free
> for nigh on 15&1/2 years........ and we'll have been together for 16 years
> next month :-)
>
>
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> >> I no longer eat at my favourite pizza place (Panchos... at Bulimba)
> >> because they hired a couple of cooks who smoke. Their loss.
>
> > In a couple of senses. *They don't call them coffin nails without a
> > reason. *They are losing part of their life.
>
> Yep, too true.
>
> It's quite pathetic to see these groups of people huddled outside of
> office buildings in the city nowadays. And it's an assault on non-smokers
> senses to have to walk through a cloud of bloody cigarette smoke to get
> inside one of those buildings.
>
> But, try telling some 2 pack a day 'junkie' that the second hand smoke
> they give out is worse than the shit they suck in, and that's what the
> rest of us have to deal with, and see what "sympathy" you get.
>
> It's now against the law for anyone to smoke in a car that is carrying
> kids, and I'm hoping that they will make it illegal to smoke in any car,
> *period*!!
>
> If I use a mobile phone while I'm driving I can cop a rather large fine
> and loss of demerit points off my licence.
>
> It is blatantly obvious that anyone who smokes while they are driving is
> 'impaired' to a higher degree that if they were to just be using a mobile
> phone.
>
> That, and the fact that I have yet to see a smoker driver use the ashtray
> in their car. Why dirty their ashtray and stink up their car when they can
> flick their butts out the window and litter the country, and in some
> cases, start a bush fire.
>
> But anyway........
>
> --
> Peter Lucas * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
> Brisbane * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
> Australia * * *
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> If we are not meant to eat animals,
> why are they made of meat?

What I find scary about the anti-smoking people is that they support
anti-smoking laws. Here in Ontario a cigarette vendor is not allowed
to display cigarettes. ALSO, last week a truck driver was arrested
for smoking in his cab because he was in an enclosed workspace and
smoking is not legal in enclosed work spaces. So this makes the
farmer ploughing his fields(if he/she has a cab)a culprit if he/she
smokes. What about someone doing combine work? Same thing. Cab
drivers? I can see a cab company forbidding smoking because they
don't want their cabs reeking; it's understandable. But the
government doesn't need to be involved. A courier? A private
courier? I've been cigarette free since 1983 btw. What about a pilot
that flies a single seater sport plane and gives shows for a fee?
What if he is taxiing down the runway and decides to light up? Uh
oh. Better call the cops.
Last week a clown wrote into my home town newspaper and said he wants
to have tobacco made illegal because he can't quit smoking. Well
excuse me, but there will be a black market(there currently is; 'they'
can sell cigarettes cheaper than you can buy them in stores)and
cigarettes will still be available. The cigarettes are home made but
lots of folks buy them.