On Oct 13, 5:01*pm, "Bent Attorney Esq." >
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> On Oct 12, 9:53*pm, PeterL > wrote:
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> > 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....
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> > >> I *hate* chefs who smoke!!
> > >> How the hell can they taste their food properly if their tastebuds are
> > >> so screwed up by smoking??
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> > > Good point, but a lot of them do.
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> > >> 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.
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> > >> I don't eat at restaurants where any of the cooking staff smoke.
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> > >> It limits the number of places I can go to, but it's worth it in the
> > >> end.
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> > > I would think so. *Maybe that explains why you do so much cooking
> > > yourself? *
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> > LOL!! Most likely :-)
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> > I do have a couple of places left in Brisbane that I can go to.
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> > > 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.
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> > 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? *
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> > 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.
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> > 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'.
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> > > It's the ex-smokers, in my experience,
> > > who are most opposed to smoking.
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> > 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.
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> > 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.
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> > > 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.
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> > 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.
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> > 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.
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> > 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*!!
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> > 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.
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> > 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.
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> > 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.
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> > But anyway........
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> > --
> > Peter Lucas * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
> > Brisbane * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
> > Australia * * *
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> > If we are not meant to eat animals,
> > why are they made of meat?
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> 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.

I goofed here. The truck driver I don't think was arrested. He was
just given a ticket: $305.00.