"Where Indy residents can vent."
Let it Out Indianapolis
To you smokers
Jan 6, 2009Jess - Indy
I'm a smoker, but I respect others. I don't sit and blow it in other peoples faces. However, as a mother myself, I see cars with their children in the back, windows rolled up or barely cracked, smoking. How do you find this ok? What's wrong with you people? This should be considered abuse. Nothing makes me more sick in my stomach then seeing a child having to breath in this disgusting air due to poor parenting. Some may say, "Well I blow it out the window..." Well, it doesn't matter! They're still inhaling disgusting second hand smoke that they can't escape from, all because you can't wait 10-20 minutes for a cig? I can't even smoke in my house because of my child, it's not fair to him. And what makes the government say that throwing out a cig from your car is illegal but yet we can suffocate our children who can't speak????
Re: To you smokers
Jan 7, 2009Pearl - Indy
I doubt if you are really a smoker. More than likely a disguised smoker critic. You speak of driving in the car noticing smokers with kids and want more laws to protect them. The car you are noticing is probably behind a semi or a bus spewing far more chemicals into the air or maybe they are driving right by an unprotected pond they could slip off the road and drown in.... as, sadly, many do everyday. That is a far worse dangerous and immediate situation!! What about the thousands of "real" child abuse cases which laws dont protect the children from death or suffering and happen everyday? Or what about the fact you are not paying attention to your own driving and you are posing a risk to the car with kids because you are so busy noticing what the drivers are doing and if their window is rolled down? Do you talk on your cell phone when driving while also taking the time to notice what others are doing or not doing in their own cars? If so, you are unlikely to admit that you do, but you are a greater risk than a smoker with their window down smoking a cigarette. You choose to not smoke around your kids, okay, but why do you want a "law" to force people to do what you think is a good idea? If you need an idea to champion the cause, there are plenty of serious life threatening things to lobby against. I cant stand someone who wants a "law" for everything they dont agree with.
That Just Happened
April 2, 2009Asanti
Ok, so here's the thing, How much does one have to go through and endure?! The big get bigger... the skinny keep throwing up. The drunks hate Sunday's last call. Yet, all of most need a square. Especially if you don't require a joint.
So cigarettes went up like gas prices did a year ago. All of the sudden, without notice, like a robbery. Ok, if you watch the news, then you had noticed, but to the average Joe, walking up to that counter and getting that $6.41 price when you counted out $5.05... talk about surprise.
I get it though, habbits should have consequence, but why the price? When things get tough, addiction grows stronger, yet those who are addicts are most likely broke.
So why do the broke always pay and suffer more? The "GM" from GM retires, but he gets to go on vacation now and smoke cigars... and we have to pick up more shifts, and go on the patch.
Why Are You Whining?!
April 14, 2009rusty - downtown
I've heard some pretty awful local commercials on the radio, and I've always had a distaste for PSAs, but what I just heard on 92.3 almost made me pull over and vomit.
Smokefreeindy.org made one of the most godawful commercials I've ever heard. Whatever the organization is doing, I don't really care, I'm pissed off that they wasted money and airtime on such an annoying piece of schlock. It starts with a grown man WHINING at his presumed date (yeah, it's his tone, not just his words) "looook at how much smoke is in heeere..." "yeah I can seeee it, it's blue..." "I thought eeevery place would be smoke freee by nooow..." "me toooo, they shoooould be..."
Then the two go into the usual scare-stats inherent to this type of propaganda, of course while still standing in the place complaining they should leave. Ya know what? Yeah, you should leave! Or better yet, you shouldn't have come there in the first place... IT'S A BAR! The only places in Indy that allow smoking are 21 and older... freaking BARS! Do you go to the same places and bitch about why people are drinking?! IT'S A BAR! Don't go if you don't like the atmosphere. I don't go to strip clubs because I don't care for the atmosphere... I don't go to one and then whine about naked skanks grinding me for dollars! Do you go to the butcher shop and bitch about them not having vegan options? Get the fuck out of my bar and off my radio.
I'm not even a smoker. But I know what I get when I go to a goddamn bar.
