Why are people upset with smoking bans?
It is a fact that less than a third of the country smokes. It continues to go down. Therefore, smokers are a minority. Plus, it is a fact it causes cancer...especially second hand smoke. In Washington State.. we have a statewide ban. Including bars. Everyone seems alright with it so far. Besides, smokers should not have rights...the people who don't spread the cancer smoke around have all the rights. Don't knock on people who don't smoke!!
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You're gonna get a lot of angry responses -- "smokers should not have rights" is gonna p!ss 'em off. But I'm right there with ya in the non-smokers camp, and I enjoy going out to a restaurant, bar, or club & coming home without smelling like a friggin' 1950's Rat Pack casino. If smokers wanna smoke, then smoke all you want -- at home without endangering young kids who may happen to live there.
I live in Washington state and I would really like to know how people can smoke at the fairs...I don't know HOW many times I got smoke blown in my face.
I have to admit that I am happy about the smoking ban because being around smoking gives me migraines.
Because if you are addicted to tobacco you are restricted to a certain place. It's almost like segregation except we really should get rid of tobacco
And why are people upset with heroin use by people in power? Who knows. And no matter what is said to prevent it's use, it gets laughed under the table, cigarettes never caused a person to go insane like heroin or other social drugs.
because there are soo many addicted smokers that HAVE TO HAVE THEIR DAILY smoke!
and when you take away places for them to do so, they now are excluded from such place because of their personal choice of habbit to smoke!!
then they also get mad because it raises the $$...
Pardon? "especially second hand smoke"? One case is not enough to establish that as fact. That's how many people are suspected of dying from second hand cigarette smoke- one. She sang for 30 years in a smokey jazz club. Are you actually surrounded 20 hours a day in a literal cloud of cigarette smoke? Car exhaust should be far more of a concern.
And who the hell are you to say that smokers don't have rights?! That's why people get upset with smoking bans. Second hand cigarette smoke is not instant cancer, and I defy you to offer any evidence.
I don't knock people who don't smoke, but I do knock people who are easily frightened by obvious lies, and act intrusively into other people's business. Cowardly busy-body.
As a smoker in NJ, I can tell you I don't appreciate going outside to smoke (at a bar of all places, long notorious for being a smoky atmosphere) when it's -20 degrees.
I disagree that non-smokers should have more rights, and second hand smoke is not nearly as dangerous as they say, but logically if the smoker wants to smoke, and the non-smoker doesn't want smoke around them, then the only way to appease both is to make the smoker leave. I understand the law's logic, but I still won't agree with it.
Why should I suffer for someone else's addiction?
Second hand smoke is more dangerous than the initial inhilation. They should be banned from smoking at restaurants too!
You may need to read up on fundamental human rights. The fact the you choose not to smoke is not enough reason to antagonize those who want to. People die of lots of other ailments other than cancer.
So we say that prisoners have rights, but smokers don't?
The assumption that because they are a minority does not mean they don't have rights as well.
Most of the cities enacting smoking bans in bars and restaurants have so far experienced a reduction in those services. All the non smokers citing smokey environment as why they do not patronize establishments have yet to show in the force they implied would occur once bans were enacted.
Attached is a link showing the impact to some areas as a result of the ban.
The debate regarding the effects of secondhand smoke is still being tested. Any counter studies have been dismissed without discussion.
I'm not upset at all, I think smoking bans are great. The way I see it, you should have a right to do any kind of damn drug you want, but you don't have a right to put it into other people's bodies the way smokers insist on doing when they light up in public places. It's the equivalent of an alcoholic forcing some of his booze down the throats of the people next to him. At least drunks, heroin users, cocaine users, etc. have enough courtesy to keep their crap inside their own bodies.
By the way, there is no such thing as "Smoker's Rights". That's just bullshi+ propaganda invented by the tobacco companies back in the early 1990's. They don't give a damn about the rights of their customers, they're just putting a leftist spin on their marketing to try to protect their business.
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