Banning smoking? Why not ban obesity?

Question

It's just as dangerous as smoking, If not worse. I am just as offended by their gluttony as they are of my cigarette smoke.

You're sitting by me while I smoke. Sure, You might get cancer after a few years of sitting there. I'm sitting by you while you shovel more waste into your mouth. You're unknowingly teaching my children that it's okay to be overweight and feed yourself to death.

My 'weak example' had nothing to do with second hand fat. It's simply saying smoking is banned, it teaches people, well maybe it's not so healthy if they banned it. But when society accepts obesity like a normal day thing. It teaches people, mostly kids, that it's okay. Something like that can stick for generations.

Answer 1

It is all objection and judgment! I want to ban women in public on their period! There are hospitals full of sick young fat people who can not stop putting food in their mouth.As their are old dieing smokers.We foot the larger portion of the bill for the long term sick fat addicted people.Do some research and you will have to agree with him it is a very similar PROBLEM.

Answer 2

OMG if i hear this dumba** argument one more time i'm gonna freak out. Obesity doesn't hurt other people, second hand smoke does. The problem isn't about smoking in a private residance or something like that, but most non-smokers don't want to have to sit there and inhale cigarette smoke just because you have a bad habit, no one gets fat because they are sitting next to a fat person, okay, get it?

Answer 3

You are absolutely correct when you say obesity is just as dangerous as smoking but you are incorrect about the reason. Smoking affects not only the person smoking but it affects the people around them literally. Second hand smoke kills innocent people. Obesity while being dangerous does not affect anyone except the obese person. Sure it may inconvenience some people who try to sit next to an obese person or it may not be pleasureable for someone who is shallow to look at but it does not harm anyone literally. That is the difference.

Answer 4

Listen its not always a fact that gluttony leads to obesity I'm overweight but I eat half of what my friends who are normal eat. Listen you have problem with someone eating then don't look but when you smoke can you keep your smoke to yourself rather than bellowing it out. If you can then ok smoking should not be banned. who cares if some ignorant smoker dies early. But about banning food first ban advertisement of Coke Pepsi McDonald's etc. For ex:-
here they air an ad that claimed eating a 6 inch SUBWAY sandwich daily helps you lose weight!!!

Answer 5

i think because them being fat cant kill you in the way your cigarette smoke can kill people (via second hand smoke which is an absolute killer!)

here they have banned smoking inside workplaces, and its really good. If you want to smoke that totally ur choice, but not of ur workmates to have to go home and wash their clothes a trillion times to get the smell out heeheee. Just like the fat people have to go all the to the staff room to eat ;) smokers have to take a short trip to the balcony. no major really?

although if they were going to try and ban smoking althogether that would be stupid.

Answer 6

Smoking is an action. Actions can be banned.
Obesity is a conditon. It can't be banned.
Smoking is not required to live. It's not a biological imperative like eating is. You might as well try to ban sex or sleeping as eating. And that's REALLY want you mean. You want to ban eating. You want to ban people who don't meet your standards of physical appearance.
I'm a fat person and here's my opinion of what smokers are like:
Cigarette smoking makes you ugly. You get wrinkles around your mouth and eyes. It stains your teeth and your fingers, makes your breath putrid, and your clothes and environment stink.
My eating habits won't make YOU fat. They won't make your children fat either--it's up to YOU as the parent to enforce how and what your children eat. But your smoking can give me and my children cancer. There's a huge difference.

Answer 7

It is way harder to lose weight than quit smoking.....you have to eat to live, you can't quit it altogether and get it out of your system like you can tobacco. A very large part of the obesity problem is due to the FDA. They are all in cahoots to get and keep people fat so that they can keep them going to the doctors and get their drugs. It is no mistake that the Food and Drug Administration are lumped together.

Answer 8

Banning smoking is miles away from banning junk food. If I am sitting next to you in a bar and you are smoking, I am forced to smoke as well. If I am sitting next to you in a fast food restaurant and you choose to order super-sized portions of whatever glutton is on the market, I am not forced to ingest any of it.

Answer 9

Now now, let's at least give them a tiny patio outside for them all to go and be fat. Their gluttony, by the way, at least doesn't make my jacket smell like Courtney Love.

Answer 10

It's the danger it poses to others in the same atmosphere. You may be offended, but it doesn't have the potential to kill you years on down the line simply from being in the same room.