Idiot Extraordinaire - Doug Saffir

[AnCap Dave]

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They say that technology is always at least one step ahead of legislation, but the time has finally come for Connecticut's laws catch up.

Thursday, October 1 marks the beautiful day in history that Connecticut has put some restrictions on the use of e-cigarettes, according to a report from WFSB. What kinds of restrictions? Well, you know, most of the same ones on regular cigarettes since they're both pretty terrible for the people who use one and anyone who is near someone using one.

That includes: No e-cigarettes near or in state buildings. No e-cigarettes near or in schools. No e-cigarettes near or in health facilities.

That's all well and good, but businesses that serve alcohol are not on the list of places to ban smoking, which is absolutely ridiculous. If we've learned anything from Walter White and Breaking Bad, it's that there should be "no more half measures."

I'll tell you, as a non-smoker, e-cigarettes in a bar are just as bad as the real thing. I'm not fully educated on all the differences between cigarettes and e-cigarettes, but they both seem pretty obnoxious and not good for you. I've been to trivia nights at bars where one minute you're enjoying a beer and testing your knowledge of world history and the next you're in a cloud of somebody's second-hand smoke.

Electronic or not, that's pretty damn gross, and the fact that we're still allowing it is a travesty. Being in a bar does not mean we're consenting to inhale addictive or dangerous vapors. Bars should do their best to ban e-cigarettes on the own and hopefully the law will develop into a full-measure eventually.

It's anti e-cig garbage, but this is worse than usual. Not only does the guy admit to not doing the research on the topic in the first place, but his biggest reason for wanting them banned is...he just doesn't like them.

[AdeptusHereticus]

And he doesn't want to have to take the responsability to choose a venue based on wether or not they allow clients to used e-cigs. He just wants the law to force everyone to conform to his tastes to avoid the displeasure to be faced with people with different opinions and habits. That reminds me how I hate the fact that the law in France also bans cigarettes in private venues. There's also the ridiculous facts that I can't smoke on state owned property when it's OUTDOOR.

Why did you remind me of that Dave ? God that makes me want to slap a public servant ...

[Ibrahim90]

calling for the banning/heavily restricting E-cigs should be considered sufficient grounds for the legislators/lobbyists to be dealt with the way Friedhelm Winter was dealt with after attracting a Russian airstrike...(no, not the death penalty: I can't find the clip--it's from Generation war).

Because they have the nerve to compare E-gigs to normal cigs, and make life harder for those trying to smoke. they spread misinformation and paranoia--and in this case, it plays with people's lives. And at the end of this, tell you that they never bothered to look into the facts, nor do they care for them.