You know what's even sadder............
I'm in New Orleans for a few weeks. Been to Buffalo's a few times. Today I ask my wife to drop me off at the corner pocket for some practice. Sorry Jamie, but I'll never go there again. It's so smokey I can't hardly breathe. I walked a mile in the rain to Starbucks and wait for my wife.
What the help is wrong with people that they want to slowly kill themselves.
I'm glad Michigan and most other states have banned smoking.
I was in a Waffle house down south and I sat in the non smoking section. I was only about 10 feet from a guy that was in the smoking section. He blew the smoke away from me like that was going to do any good. The place was only about 25 feet wide. I got sick to my stomach.
This person knew how offensive his smoke was but he's going to do it anyway because he can.
I wonder if he would have cared if I brought some old chicken liver that I used for fishing back in the day that stunk real bad as long as i kept it in my section. I'll bet he couldn't finish his meal then.
Some smokers pretend to be considerate and some really are. Then there are some that just don't care. It's their right to kill people with their filthy habit. And their going to continue doing it until they are stopped.
But it's not really their right, it's just that the whole world really didn't know how bad it was on a persons health a long, long time ago. Like the 50's and 60's and 70's. In the 70's cancer insurance was flying high. All my friends were selling it. It was big business.
I can't believe they are still in the stone ages down there as far as protecting innocent peoples health.
I quit playing pool in wisconsin for 8 years. I could not be in the smoke anymore. I would be deathly sick for a week. If I played i drove to Minneapolis, about a 1 1/2 hour drive. They got smart way sooner than Wisconsin.
Anyone that has any health issues at all can't afford the chance of a poison like cigerette smoke in their lungs. They just can't deal with what the smoke does to their body on top of what they already have going on. It's devastating. it is so rediculous that it is still accepted anywhere in the USA.
If a person is diabetic the smoke is just to much. My friends that are diabetic that smoke are really going downhill fast. Pretty soon they'll be getting stuff cut off if they don't die first. What a shame. They are addicted and can't quit. I feel bad for them. It's proven over and over that second hand smoke is just as bad for you. What do people think? That by sucking it in and then blowing it out they are purifying the smoke. How rediculous.
I could go on and on.
I pray for all the smokers out there and hope that some day you can kick this terrible habit.
They say you got to die sometime but you might as well try to feel as good as you can as long as your here. The people that I know that die from cigerette related heath problems suffer a long time before they finally die and it's not pretty.
That's not for me. Life can be tough enough................
Many of the good tournys around the country , many players won't go to because of the smoke.
I've tried. Second or third day I can't even function right. My whole body is out of whack. If a person smokes or is in the smoke they are just used to being out of whack. But once your out of it for a year or 2 nobody can handle it well.
Those cig companies must pad the polititions pockets pretty well.
Do ya think?
Someone should do an investigation on this. There might be alot of dirt dug up. 60 minutes or some show like that.
