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In this photograph taken on Saturday, Mark Bushnell holds a cigar while watching former Spokane Valley, Wash. mayor Michael DeVleming putt at Esmeralda Golf Course in Spokane, Wash. The city of Spokane recently tried to ban smoking on its four public golf courses, only to be stymied by an outcry from players and smoking rights advocates. (AP Photo/Young Kwak) Question: Do you smoke cigars? And/or: Should cigars be banned on golf courses?
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marmitetoasty on May 07 at 9:37 a.m.
I only smoke cigars in the bath lol
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raymond_pert on May 07 at 9:58 a.m.
Golf courses are the epitome of an enclosed space where those not smoking are trapped in a miasma of second-hand smoke, putting their health at great risk.
*turns of irony-a-tron*
raymond_pert on May 07 at 9:58 a.m.
Make that *turns off irony-a-tron*
toadman on May 07 at 10:03 a.m.
“Should cigars be banned on golf courses?”
No. Golfing should be banned from golf courses. Someone once said, golf is a pleasant walk, ruined…and I agree.
PatrickH on May 07 at 10:35 a.m.
I dispise smoking, cigarette, pipe, or cigar, but its legal. If lawmakers want tobacco banned then have the balls to stand up and do it, otherwise quit passing these laws that just cost money to enforce and don’t actually do any good to get people to quit smoking.
dc10man on May 07 at 11:51 a.m.
A while ago I explained to my grandchild that the reason I smoked cigars was to keep the elephants away. I think the good people of Spokane (and golfers in particular) should thank me for keeping said animals off the putting green. Apparently smoking cigars is working!
Cis on May 07 at 2:47 p.m.
I use to smoke, and I really don’t like to be around someone who does, now…BUT with saying that… leave the golfers alone and let them smoke. They are out in the open… same with parks and beaches, as long as they get rid of the butt in a proper way, I don’t care if they smoke out in the wide open.
Besides who is going to be the smoking police? Surely our paid ones now don’t have time to run down a smoker…
Charlie on May 07 at 4:19 p.m.
As a former smoker and golfer, I don’t know which is worse. One ruins your lungs and the other your blood pressure. I say my piece to smokers about quitting and it’s up to them. Smoke in a confined space bothers me but out in the open, well I don’t have to much to say. Give up golf and smoking! ;-)
Stickman on May 07 at 8:29 p.m.
Toad, it was Mark Twain that said golf was a good walk ruined. Cigars and cigarettes should be banned from all mankind, such a disgusting habit. Of course we have individual rights to do as we please, but smoking, no further comment.
Stickman on May 07 at 8:33 p.m.
I have a neighbor friend that believes that it is his right to go for a walk on Tubbs Hill and smoke his cigar. Of course it’s his right, but the hill stinks for hours afterwards and sometimes it forces me inside. Such a stink raised from someone that enjoys his smoke.
WoodstockLibertarian on May 12 at 12:56 p.m.
Patrick obviously does not recall what this country stands for. People settled on these shores because they did not want to be dictated to. And yet he proposes dictating to others… which is fine by him, because it affects him not.
Soon, Patrick, something YOU like to do may be on someone else’s hit list.. maybe it’s your morning coffee… someone who knows whats better for you will find all sorts of statistics that they can manipulate to convince the sheeple around you that it’s bad for your health and should be banned…
The “surgeon generals” report, and the EPA report it was based on have been proven to be false documents - documents where only data that lead to their desired end is used… There are exceptionally few instances where 2nd hand smoke can harm anyone (asthmatics are one case, but not all asthmatics are bothered by second hand smoke…).
In fact, the british medical journal did a 39 year study on 2nd hand smoke exposure… You’ll never hear it from the “I want to control your life” media or political class… but:
Conclusions The results do not support a causal relation between environmental tobacco smoke and tobacco related mortality, although they do not rule out a small effect. The association between exposure to environmental tobacco smoke and coronary heart disease and lung cancer may be considerably weaker than generally believed.
You can read it yourself here:
http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7398/1057
Sorry if smoke “offends” you, but liberty is not fractional. you don’t have a right to “not be offended”, because claiming that right necessitates infringing on the freedoms and rights of others.