Why is the goverment so anti-smoking now? Will they go anit-alcoholic next? Watch out beer industry?

Answer 1

they are not anti smoking they just act like it. they dont want people to quit smoking where would they get billions of dollars made from smoking taxes

Answer 2

I don't know, but I think its a good thing. I have asthma, and had to leave a track meet because someone was smoking and it gave me an asthma attack. In the middle of my first race, which my family said I was doing well in, I suddenly couldn't breathe. I finished, but got last. I also had to miss my friend's birthday party later that day. It also made my asthma a lot worse because my medicine was in the car and I couldn't take it immediatly. Since then I've not been able to run a single race without an asthma attack. I've gone two whole seasons in track and not been able to run a single race as well as I should, with many preventative medicines, all because of a little second hand smoke. Smoking is horrible, and I guess I can see you should have the right to choose but why anyone would give themselves lung cancer and a bunch of other problems is beyond me, besides, what about the right of everybody else to breathe clean, un-polluted air?

Answer 3

God Bless the government on this one. Where I live, there
is a smoking ban in all public restaurants and buildings. It
is now a pleasure to eat in restaurants and not have to breathe
someone elses 2nd hand smoke. As for the alcohol, it too has
caused more deaths (mostly from car accidents) than our
wars, but people would rather protest the war than quit drinking
alcoholic beverages. Ironic, isn't it?

Answer 4

First, yes I am for a ban on smoking in public places. I don't care to breath the fumes. The government is trying to reduce the huge impact of health services in the country and the effects and costs of smoking are high; I know as my mother died of lung cancer at 57. But they do receive a bundle on the tax from these products. As to anti-booze, we tried that in the 1930's without success. Don't look for a repeat. Oh, CANTCU, Pres Bush doesn't drink. He gave it up after some early DUI's in college. Accuracy, please.

Answer 5

well for a good reason... smoking affects the health of other people who are non-smokers, so it's a public health nuisance. Alcohol is a nuisance to public health only inasmuch as people drive drunk or act obnoxious and annoy the world with their patheticness.

But smoking is a hella-dirty habit, and i get violent when people come around me with a smouldering cancer stick waving around my airspace. Or especially around my daughter's airspace.

It was an ok thing back in the day when we were ignorant, but i think it is time we outgrew smoking as a culture because, yeah, it's nasty and it's harmful to other people. I would say it's fine if you keep it in your own home, but that's how i contracted chronic bronchitis, from growing up in a smokey household (thanks dad, thanks bro! thanks a mil!)

So yeah, I have no pity on smokers, and I don't think smoking is a "right" of any sort anymore than kicking a stranger in the face is your right, so get that absurd thought out of your head. Sorry.

Answer 6

Well, when a person drinks next to me, it doesn't trigger my asthma, or put chemicals in my lungs. Their smoking will.

I think since basic courtesy didn't win out, government crackdowns on behavior have. Personally I wish that smokers would've just chosen to smoke in a way that didn't harm others in such a direct and immediate way.

Not all non-smokers are Nazis...some just need help in finding safe air indoors.

Answer 7

Because everybody should have a chance to be in a smoke free environment.
The city I live in banned smoking in public places such as, restaurants, bowling alleys, even bars!
If you want to smoke you have to go outside and do it.
And since our winters are pretty harsh and we get around 15-20inches of snowfall every winter, a lot of people prefer to wait til they're in the car or at home!

Answer 8

The antismoking rally arose because of the extreme health care expenses that have developed in relation to tobacco usage. Until alcoholism and drunk driving are taken more seriously, you won't have to worry about your Bud.

Answer 9

Not as along as Bush is in the white house. He may not smoke, but he sure drinks!

Answer 10

Which is really strange, considering all the subsidies and tax breaks they give the growers.