Portrait of a tobacco Nazi

Help me understand something, if you would indulge me please... why did you decide to smoke in a place where smoking was banned? Was the response you received not simply because you were smoking in a banned place?

All bars have a smoking ban in Ireland. If someone started smoking a pipe in a bar here they'd get the same response, because there's a ban on smoking in bars.

Although I live near to Vegas, I only go once a year... smoking is still so accepted, that I wouldn’t think about going anywhere and being confronted.

As far as HOA’s, I live in one and it functions really well, they just give you a reminder that your weeds need attention, and you cannot paint your house purple, that looks like a poor drunk lives next door. Our HOA fees are only $80.00 every 3 months. And they are pretty conservative in keeping the common areas nice without trying to build things that don’t need building. Most decent people just want to live their lives, control freaks gravitate towards getting themselves on something like an HOA board to build themselves up... fortunately for now that doesn’t take place where I live.

Florida is called “God’s waiting room” for a reason...a bunch of old crabby farts in your situation that think making hell for everyone, somehow ushers their entrance into heaven.

Given your experience, I get it.

Nicely done!

AndyFromBoston 2 days ago
Perhaps if Mr. Stawar got out his old pipe and spent an hour with it on the porch he would settle down enough to stop judging others over a bit of harmless fun like a slow smoking contest. Pipe smoking carries about 10% of the cancer risk that cigarette smoking does, because the smoke is not inhaled and good pipe tobacco is not made with artificial additives. It is a fine way to relax, and an evening ritual with a book, a pipe and a drink can be excellent therapy for the stress that is surely just as hazardous for a man of his age.

While 20 cigars a day could certainly cause health risks it is extremely unusual to find anybody who is even capable of staying awake long enough to smoke that much, considering it takes an hour or two to smoke a cigar.

They never raised the HOA fee in 20 years?

There’s no one so radical and pushy, as a convert.
They think they now see ‘The Truth’, and they are determined to spread it.

Frankly, I don’t care what the guy thinks or writes.

A recent government study (sorry I don’t recall the particular agency) found no significant impact on health with ‘moderate’ cigar smoking. ‘Moderate’ defined as one cigar per day. Of course, a cigar isn’t a pipe. Given the relatively tiny population of tobacco pipe smokers today , no one has bothered to do a recent study on pipe smoking that I am aware of. A cigar isn’t a pipe, but it isn’t a cigarette either. The study didn’t examine usage rates greater than one cigar per day.

Given my very modest volume of cigar & pipe smoking, I’m not concerned. These activities are a pleasure which I find relaxing. Are there Absolutely Zero risks? Of course not. But there are risks getting into your car or in having sex, and I don’t intend to give up either of those either. Getting out of bed in the morning is a risk.

I intend to leave a young(relatively), fat, scotch-soaked corpse behind- It may as well have a pleasant room note.

Just like my guns, they will have to pry my pipe from my cold dead hands. I know what is bad and good for me as I am 47 years old. My pipe is one of my great enjoyments in life. I hate to say but this is why I am trying hard to build my cellar up now. I can only imagine what tin prices will be in the years to come not to mention the regulations involved. 

What we might be missing from this thread is inspiration.  I believe trailboss has the right idea. We should, politely as possible, respond to such articles, threads etc. anytime they are written. This is a small part of the battle each of us can partake in to make our voices heard. 

My first job was working on a golf course and all the stuff we sprayed without respirators or skin protection and had one chemical that was loaded with mercury, lots of nice things I inhaled there. I then went through a series of jobs in factories as maintenance and all the grinding of lead based paint, welding fumes and cleaning chemicals not to mention just trying to avoid getting killed by machinery. I did a long stint in an electro and electrostatic painting facility and the fumes from baking the paint on not to mention the caustic solutions and cleaners were pretty awful. I'm pretty sure I have inhaled. ingested and absorbed way worse things than cigarette and pipe tobacco smoke.

I have stood in a rice field while crop duster sprayed on rice and me luckily I left S Asia before they sprayed DDT Still it got my good buddy from Oklahoma. Working at the Exxon Chemical plant I washed my hand at a benzene pump, via bleeder valve, how strong was it, we put 2 paint brushes hard as a rock, in a bucket with benzene, 2 days later good as new. Guage glass blew out covered me totally in Sponge oil, noted for its carsengens, got home took off clothes in back yard, boots too, my chow dog never chewed on those boots. Handled almost every type of bad chemicals, explovies while hot shoting with my UD Truck. Now my pipe and Tobbaco at 75 gonna kill Me HaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaHaaaaaaawwwwwww.!

My father studied under one of the fellows who invented DDT. Guy was literally up to his elbows in the stuff for years, ate without wasting his hands, and lived to be 95.

The bad press for DDT has been proven false and the good has been forgotten, such as eradicating bed bugs during WWII peace talks. If we used DDT today the birds would still breed and how many people would we save from malaria, but no one wants to handle the PC football.