If it sometimes looks as if I keep harping on one topic, it is at least because the Tobacco Taliban just won’t agree that enough is enough, never mind more than enough.
I might ask them, “Don’t you have any sense of decency left? Has your bigotry so obsessed you that cannot ever let people live in peace?”
Of course, they have demonstrated very clearly what kind of people they are and what kind of answer they would give.
The latest thing they want to attack is people smoking in their own private residences, trying to get landlords and/or government to outlaw smoking in apartments and condominiums. [It seems that the plural should be condominia, but my spell checker doesn’t agree.] While condominiums may be disproportionately inhabited by the affluent, rental apartments are disproportionately occupied by lower-income, working class people. It may be that those in the Tobacco Talilban have overlooked this or it may be that they seem to have some strange concept of noblesse oblige which makes them feel that they need to enlighten us tenants on how to live.
It is becoming very hard to keep a tolerant attitude toward them. Maybe that is because they have been making it so hard. I am aware that history has a lot of stories of both saints and sinners who have suffered a lot more without bitching, but I guess I am not made of the same fabric.
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