Policy on Smoking in the Cab?

I am not rude or stupid, I dont smoke in public, what I am upset about is my smoking in private. I am talking about my right to smoke in my truck. which is my private space because that is where I live most of the time, I am only home a couple days a month or will be. I never smoke where there are children and older people even before the law. So the public places law doesnt really affect me just the fact that they are trying to say I cant smoke in my truck/home does affect me.

 

I'm currently working for a Driver Lease service so I have the varied opportunities to drive many different trucks AND I smoke cigarettes.
At the most recent company, the General Manager asked if I smoked because they were assigning me a smokers truck, where I left the truck as I found it.
I don't have a problem driving a non-smokers truck HOWEVER I will not drive without smoking and Febreeze is only so much of a cover as cigarette, cigar, and pipe smoke/fumes seemingly enter EVERY type material and do not leave very well.
The only alternative to smoke free interiors would be if ALL the components were made with an outer skin of rubber, yet this idea presents other problems.

I have yet to get into a truck after a chewer that left his/her chew spit container or has spit on the floor or dribbled in the sleeper. I believe I would refuse to drive such a contaminated vehicle.

I'm waiting until the (health, automotive, etc.) insurance companies decide not to cover people that smoke because of the obvious blight to "society".

California, Texas, Florida and the rest are not completely anal in that one can still imbibe Alcohol just as long as one is not using Tobacco products.

This smoking thing reminds me of a line in "Escape From L. A." : Cliff Robertson as the president:
"No smoking, no drinking, no red meat, no fornication, no drugs, no crime, no perversions, no homosexuality".
Snake: "Yeah, land of the free".

Cigarette manufacturers used to tout smoking as a relaxation idea as well as it is good for one. Nowadays they have reversed their approach, sort of.
"Winston tastes good like a cigarette should" and the Marlboro Man died of Emphyzema.

Cancer kills more people yearly than ALL wars since time began.
I am a Cancer Survivor yet mine was NOT smoking related, it was Male genitalia related--Testicular Cancer--.
Even if I had the remaining genitalia eliminated, I would still be susceptible to Cancer as I'm still eligible for Prostate and/or Colon Cancer.
Smoking doesn't help yet there have been quite many people die of Lung Cancer among other Cancers that had NEVER smoked, so go figure.

We do what we do until we do something else!!

BEst of WELLness 2-u-n-urs-n ALL (ad)ventures!!

 

You make statements like this, then call someone else "vain"? Trust me, if I could stay out of Ohio, I would, but unfortunately, running "Midwest Regional" that isn't going to happen. As a solo in a company truck, I am going to smoke because my company doesn't have a problem with it, and they are the ones who pay me. If I'm in Ohio, I will smoke in my truck. I just won't buy ANYTHING while I am in Ohio, and I sometimes spend several days there. But you and the rest of the mighty 2/3rds wouldn't mind I am sure, because my money probably smells like smoke. What's next on the agenda, a law against "passing gas" so your fresh air isn't polluted by that?

 

Flatulence isn't anything when compared to the foul stench of Diesel smoke or the unburned exhaust of most Gasoline engines, yet we smokers are the worst of the lot??
I won't miss Ohio yet if I need to travel thru that state, I'll continue to smoke in the truck I'm within regardless of what simple-minded anti-smoking effect some "people" are trying to enforce.
NO cop or anyone else will remove my cigarettes or ashtray from my vehicle in O-high-O without duly submitting a portion of their body "to science".
Effects will be the same as if they're breaking into my house of which they literally are.
"Trespassers will be shot, survivors will be eviscerated!"

 

Look, the fact is that it is our law. Whether you buy anything in Ohio or not, I think we will be ok. That is the exact thing that every smoker that lives in Ohio said before election day. "If it passes then Ohio is going to go bankrupt, blah blah blah". The ban has only been in effect a few weeks, although many businesses started following the rules November 8. The official numbers aren't out yet, but businesses seem just as busy as ever to me.
My assumption is that everyone better get use to it quick. This law is going to spread across the country like wildfire. Smokers are going to have to learn that they are the minority. You are making a decision to smoke, it should be your responsibility to find a way to do it without having any effect on ANYONE who doesn't want it. Just like someone who works in an office, they have to stop working, go outside, and light up, a trucker is going to have to change their routine to find time to smoke.
I really don't think there is going to be a problem with truckers in the first place. I know I am still seeing a lot of sparkers flying out of windows of trucks every night. I think the only people that are going to be upset are those who share a truck, and if they complain then there should be consequences.
I keep reading the same thing over and over. The smokers rights are being taken away. Nobody has ever answered the question I asked. What about the rights of the person who doesn't want to smell smoke? Any one of you PLEASE tell me why you think it is ok to force your bad habit on people who don't want it? If anyone can give a legitimate reason that smokers rights are more important than non-smokers (the majority of voters, not counting all the children of Ohio who don't have a vote), then I will ask to have my vote changed and will buy them a carton of cancer rods of their choosing.
My answer to smokers rights: You are more than welcome to smoke as long as there is zero chance of your choice being forced upon people who do not want it to be. If that means that you can't smoke in restaraunts, bars, buildings, or even trucks, then so be it. It is up to you to find a suitable place to endulge yourself.
Now, it is your turn to give me your solution. Please, no "they will have to take it by force". Let's hear your honest solution to this problem. And it IS (was) a problem to people who don't smoke. You have the soapbox.

 

Brad,you should call Hillary.I think you would be great for her election team.You really have the pulse of the people.Next time I drive thru Ohio,I`ll let you know so you call Drop A Dime .:smt025

 

As I posted early on in this thread; don't worry about it. Smoke to your hearts desire. No one in authority is going to stop us because we are in our "home away from home". If they do (least with me anyway), it won't be pretty.

As also mentioned in my early post, OH will be like CA in that they won't target us. When in CA, I smoked as normal and no authority came and gave me a citation. OH will be the same.

I don't smoke in public places where a law has been past. But when I'm away from the affected "Zone" of No Smoking, yes I do light up. It is my choice to and as long as I continue to smoke, I will abide by the "No Smoking" laws and smoke where I can. But when it invades my home or "my home away from home", that's gone to far.

So next time that finds me in OH, I'll do as I normally do everywhere; including CA, and smoke when I want when I'm in my "home away from home".

 

Brad, trust me, I don't think my rights to smoke are any more important than your right to not smell ciggarette smoke. If that is the impression I made, I am sorry. I told you, I wouldn't smoke outside of the truck, for fear that someone else who didn't want to smell it would. What I found totally illogical and mind-boggling was reading that I wouldn't be able to smoke in my own company vehicle within the state. Now it sounds like you are saying not all truck drivers have to worry about it, only those who slip seat and might offend a non-smoker who uses the same truck. So which is it? All trucks, or just those where drivers share them? If it's only for shared trucks, then I withdraw my objections to the smoking ban, because mine is a solo, operated only by me, and I don't have to worry about the smokey smell offending someone else. I was concerned because I thought there would be a smoking "gestapo" installed that would pull me over and ticket me for lighting up in my own truck. Outside the truck, I have NO PROBLEM complying with the ban, after all, I am a nice and courteous person if you ever meet me. All I am concerned with is what goes on IN my truck. That should be my business, not some state's.

 

I don't think anyone is going to pull you over for smoking in your truck, but unfortunately it is a workplace and smoking in the workplace is banned, so I guess if you were pulled over for something else and were inclined to give the nice officer a hard time, he would have another thing he could harass you about!

 

My question is: "Where does it stop??"

Are WE THE PEOPLE going to have Campground Police telling us that the Smoke from our fires are violating others in their Campsites??
The Cell phone Police aren't very evident yet the Anti-Smoker Police will be??
Spreading Lies and misconceptions about another country in order to INVADE and attempt to conquer it are acceptable yet Smoking is harmful to this nation??
We're a bunch of "wannabe do gooders" with no logical reasoning and since when HAS Logic ever been a useful tool in this country except the "logic" of Profit and Mayhem!!

First it was Drugs in this country, then Booze, then Drugs AGAIN.
Now it is Smoking (of which Nicotiene IS a Drug rather akin to Heroin except not in the same League and only affiliated when one is trying to stop Smoking).
Sure Smoking isn't good for people yet neither is STRESS however no one seems real concerned about this.
STRESS (see Road rage) can cause far more problems quicker than Smoking can and when I haven't had a Smoke in a while (of say a few hours), then I tend to get kinda STRESSed about it which ain't good at all.

I'M NOT RESPONSIBLE for the direction of the breezes and/or winds when I'm Smoking outside a vehicle or building.
If some individual cries foul because my exhaling has somehow offended them, well that's TOO BAD!!
I'll move around some to accomodate the non Smokers however I'll NOT BEND OVER BACKWARDS in doing so, they'll just have to move and quit whining.
Here in North Carolina we can still Smoke in most restaurants and in doing so when the Smoking offends the non Smokers, well that's too bad, call the Police like they can do anything. When Smoking is banned in this state in ALL buildings as I'm sure it will be despite the Tobacco business here, then I'll Smoke AND offend near the front door or the entrance where I practice when in other states.

At least I'm NOT a Pedophile, or a Rapist or a Murderer, so back off!!

Sure, NON Smokers have every right NOT to be offended, harrassed, bothered by Smokers, yet in the same frame, Smokers have every right NOT to be offended, harrassed, bothered by NON Smokers.
It's a two headed coin!! Yeah I know, someone call a whambulance, thank you.

So in essence we have:

>It IS okay to imbibe Alcohol just as long as one "drinks responsibly" whatever this is and as long as one isn't Smoking.
>It IS okay to talk on ones Cell Phone while driving and disrupt traffic as long as one isn't as well Smoking a cigarette or related.
>It's okay to go Camping as long as one doesn't Smoke and somehow bother someone else.
>Smoking in Public is NOT okay because the Smoke might bother someone who doesn't want it around them.

We do what we do until we do something else!!

Here, take this pill like soooo many of your peers are doing because it'll make us ALL THE SAME and we'll never again have any problems!!

George Orwell was correct: "One nation under surveillance".
"Your papers please!!"