When I was a child, doctors on TV smoked cigarettes, mothers drank beer, infants drank Coke, and wives were barefoot and pregnant and spanked when they needed it.
Yes, it is possible to offend someone with your behavior if they can see you doing it.
If they become popular enough then imagine you are at a baseball game and a few thousand of the crowd are using these faux-butts - how is security supposed to detect those puffing on real cigarettes from among those using fakes?
What business is it of mine what you do during pregnancy? Hey, if you are a pregnant whiskey-swilling. drug-addled, cigar-smoking fat pig in the wilderness of British Columbia and your child will never come to America and drain our resources and fill our prisons, then I say, go at it, have a dozen little retarded social misfits, I don't care.
When the human species lived in caves there were very few rules of etiquette. You could let loose a flaming fart, sneeze directly into your cavemate's face, pick cooties out of your hair, or even extricate a large booger from your nose and pop it into your mouth; no one would complain.
I went to Catholic school for the fourth grade and it was then that I made my Communion (yes I am an atheist Jew who made Communion). I tried to get out of it by reminding my teacher, Sister Melody, that I was Jewish; I still had to go, according to her, "Don't worry - it's good for you." Earlier in the year I tried the same tactic to get out of Catechism classes and attending mass.
My company will not hire smokers and I mean not just smoking on the job, I mean even if they smoke while on vacation in DisneyWorld (although smoking there is getting harder to do) or at home. I believe the government has no right to interfere in your private life, except... if you abuse your wife, children, or even your own body or property if it harms others.
Circumcised males are less likely than their uncircumcised peers to acquire a sexually transmitted infection, the findings of a 25-year study suggest.
Since the poor and less educated have the highest prevalence of smokers and obese among them, the very people who were supposed to be most in need of health services will end up not getting them.
French smokers say c’est la vie to ban, PARIS - A ban on smoking in public spaces came into effect Thursday, a change that may alter the image of a country defined in part by its smoky cafes and cigarette-puffing intellectuals.
