User:Lquilter/quotes/me, annoyed

at smoking in a hotel room described as a "human right"
Talk:Human_rights_and_the_United_States, last diff

On a recent holiday to the beautiful state of Arizona I was refused a motel or hotel room everywhere in the town of Sedona simply because I am smoker. I only wanted to smoke in my own private room. Imagine if I had been refused because I was Jewish or gay! In the light of this would anyone object to me adding a section in the minorities sections under smokers? It seems like we are the only minority that is not only acceptable but even fashionable to discriminate against.  SmokeyTheCat   •TALK•  12:41, 21 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Hi. I reversed the edit. Your personal experiences are what is called original research, and it is expressly not permitted on Wikipedia. Material needs to be independently published in verifiable, reliable sources. See Reliable Sources, Verifiability, and No original research. Inclusion of material needs to be from a neutral point of view, and not given undue weight to its relative value. If you would like to propose a new section about smoking be added to the article, then you need to find independently published, verifiable, reliable sources that describe treatment of tobacco smokers as a human rights violation. Then draft some text that does not give that material undue weight and from a neutral point of view -- a task that I see as difficult, since restrictions on smoking are not generally considered human rights violations. (As for the personal opinions you express regarding smokers being "the only minority" acceptable to discriminate against -- you have got to be kidding me. When two black friends recently had racist insults hurled at them just for walking down the streets of Madison, Wisconsin; and when I pay more taxes every day and have to pay thousands of dollars in legal fees to guarantee that my chosen partner and I can have some semblance of the basic rights to care for one another and our family that straight people can have for $20, drunk, in Las Vegas; and when people who smoke pot are sentenced to decades in prison -- a tobacco smoker is unhappy because a hotel refuses to permit smoking in its rooms, a behavior that is a fire risk and leaves a lingering smell? Please.) --Lquilter (talk) 15:13, 27 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Well, thanks for discussing it anyway. I may try and find a source. For now I will leave the article alone.  SmokeyTheCat   •TALK•  15:28, 29 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Okay. --Lquilter (talk) 16:20, 29 February 2008 (UTC)