Friggen Idiot: Milwaukee Radio Commercial

So there is this gay-ass nonsense radio commercial running on Milwaukee Radio stations. Some selfish freedom-comprehension-lacking doctor is narrating the commercial telling us how he got lung cancer... But he's never smoked...

OOOOH no... He got lung cancer from second hand smoke.

He goes on to talk about the ills of second hand smoke and makes the following comments that make my skin crawl. Mostly because non-thinking idiots probably hear it and think "yeah, that makes sense".

This idiot says in the commercial: "You could change your social habits [to avoid second hand smoke] but WHY SHOULD YOU HAVE TO????"

"You could change jobs... But WHY SHOULD YOU HAVE TO????"

And he goes on to ask that you, the listening public please support smoke free workplaces. (translation: Please support taking away the rights of bar and business owners to decide what is allowed on their PRIVATE property)

Look... I can't fricken stand smoke. I hate it. And when someone is smoking around me I feel like shoving the cancer-stick up their nostril...

But I'll never support smoking bans in private places. And NEWSFLASH Mr. DOCTOR MAN (in the commercial) and any idiots who think he made sense...

Bars ARE PRIVATE PLACES. They are owned by private individuals. Telling Bar owners they must ban smoking IN THEIR PRIVATE ESTABLISHMENT is no different then telling them they can't smoke in their own house.

Noone hates smoke more then I do... But I'll fight smoking bans in private establishments til I'm blue in the face.

Same thing with 'workplaces'.... Whomever owns that company has a right to decide if people can smoke there or not.

So to answer this boneheads question "You could change your social habits, but why should you have to" Well you should change your social habits because just because you don't like smoke doesn't give you a right to tell anyone else what they can allow on their PRIVATE property.

I HOPE bar owners would choose to make their bars smoke free. I really do... But the choice is theirs. Not anyone elses but the person who owns the bar or owns the business.

Its easy to support rights and freedoms you utilize. The ones that benefit you. How hard will you fight for rights that don't 'benefit you'...

How hard will you fight for peoples right to do things that you don't like?

Freedom baby.. Embrace it!

FFHL