Just caught this article on the Smokers Club forum for Illinois, and it makes me extremely annoyed someone would act this way. This is a bar in Naperville, where it happened.
The press ridiculously stereotypes smokers and any issue related to smoking, and I can't help but fear this'll make them try the tired stereotyping more. I'm actually surprised nobody has come up with a drinking game, for every single time some TV news program, or commercial exaggerates the lies on SHS, and other dubious claims from anti-smoking groups. That would make a hell of a drinking game!
Well anyway, joking aside, here's the article:
http://www.examiner.com/cultural-oddities-in-national/crime-chicago-man-caught-smoking-bar-arrested-security-gaurd-stabbing
Smokers are tired of getting pushed around. Unfortunately as with all groups, some are unstable. here is another one.
ReplyDeleteA HOMELESS man allegedly stabbed a Manhattan subway passenger in the head with a pen after she angrily snatched away his cigarette lighter today.
http://tinyurl.com/5r44o4e
Indeed, I read about that incident on the NYC subway. Personally, it never fails to amaze me how anti-smoking the media is, and focus so much attention on unstable individuals who smoke, to the point that it paints a false stereotype that those who smoke are poor, mentally unstable, etc. Sure a few are, but there's no doubt that the vast majority are NOT that way whatsoever.
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