Where are my rights as a non-smoker?

Question

I used to like restaurants but having a non-smoking section in a bar is like a no peeing section in a pool. Walking past people smoking in a building entrance, baseball games and the list goes on. I have to smell it everywhere. I would like an honest answer on how my rights are diffused by smokers.

Answer 1

Where are my rights as a smoker???
If you don't like it you can stop going to bars, baseball games, and the list goes on.

I don't crap on your habbits

Answer 2

I don't smoke and I don't like the smell either but I haven't had any situations where I was offended or felt my rights were violated. If I don't like smoke I don't go around fire. Its simple I feel the right of a smoker to smoke is the same as the nonsmoker to choose not to be exposed to smoke. If everyone uses respect for others then most of the time we can get along ok. Consider if you smoked and really loved a cigarette with your beer and someone said you can't smoke here in this bar because you might offend that one person over there in the corner that doesn't. I think that the majority rules in most situations and if an establishment has a nonsmoking or smoking area it is to accomidate everyone with regards to wither the smoke or not . But also think if you will if the establishment your in has no regard for non smokers and you love the chicken soup they serve and you set down and the guy 3 feet away is fogging the room with a cancer infested cigar smoke that is remenisent of the boiler on a coal burning locamotive of yesteryear and you just can't taste the soup then that isn't right either. I think balance and respect for others goes a long way in making the world a better place.

Answer 3

Not to be funny but: how would you like to be in an elevator or small room when someone chooses to fart, and you have to smell it ? It may not give you cancer, but what right do they have to make you smell it ?, or someone that may drive to work in there stinky vehicle and drives by another person that chooses to ride a bicycle to work. What right do they have ? The smoker has rights too. In fact: Most of our great leaders were smokers.
It's all in the politics. The government gets big bucks from tobacco companies "taxes". The most from any other corporations or companies. " even oil " The same as alcohol. If I were in power, I would say screw the money, and develope better programs to help people stop smoking and drinking and become a achohol and smoke free America. Smoking is an addictive drug and so is alchohol. That leads to other drugs, wich causes other issues like crime and dependency, and so on and so forth. The government needs to try to help these people by giving either free or discounted patches, gum, and free support programs to help these people quit.
It's all a government racket and politics that makes the world go around. If you look at the statistics from people dying from cancer in the US it would shock you. What shocks me the most is that they know. They have for a long time. Just think of all the medical jobs that would be lost do to people not having cancer from smoking. The medical field is one of the top tax payers in the US also. It would ruin the economy in some regions in the country.
My advise would be to: have pitty on the addicted smoker. He or she may die before you, because of it. Help them in anyway you can because, they didn't invent them, even though they chose to use it. It could have been from all sorts of reasons why they started. One may be that their parents smoked. It's proven that second hand smoke will cause addiction in children, and most likely, the child will be a smoker when they are an adult.
So just walk away, or what ever. Blame the government and tobacco companies. They know there killing people. They have for a long time. That's another issue.

Answer 4

The smoking in restaurant ban is illegal to the most insane degree in my opinion.

It's a violation of the rights a business owner. It is his restaurant, he should decide if it is smoking or non smoking, not the government. Not the state, not the town.

As far as I am concerned if it's a privately owned restaurant, it's private property and no one has the right to tell you can't allow smoking in it.

Just because you don't like something doesn't mean it should be illegal.

Of course by the same token, just because something is legal doesn't mean you have to like it.

The sidewalk is as much mine as it is yours. I have the right to smoke on that sidewalk, and you have the right to ask me to stop, or ask me to move. I have the right to refuse. You have the right to protest.

Instead of trying to make smokers look like bad people, (Not meaning that was your intent...but that's what these always turn into.)
You should work on getting people to quit. Help anyone you know quit smoking, encourage the cessation of smoking.

Also, if they don't want to quit. no biggy.

I agree having a smoking section in a restaurant is the same as a peeing section in a pool. If a restaurant wants to have a smoking section, it would probably be good for business if whole nother room was for smoking. Preferably upstairs.

Hmm, I think I have rambled enough.

Answer 5

It is unpleasant and deadly breathing in second hand smoke. I don't enjoy enhaling another person's cigarette. There are many places where I can walk away and other places, I have no choice but to enhale it. Yeah, I do think that it's unfair, but yet it is unfair when someone is told that they do not have the right to smoke their.

I think that places should come to a happy medium to where those that enjoy a good smoke can do it and not disturb those of us that don't smoke. There are restaurants here in Arizona that have separate rooms. They have a bar and where people sit and drink and smoke and a main dining area where people can still have their drinks, watch their sports or whatever and not enhale the smoke. Everyone is happy. More places need to consider that.

Because, everyone has the right to do what it is that they wish to do unless of course a law is passed and it seems that nowadays when new laws and bills are past it is not in favor of EVERYONE. Something should be done to where everyone can have their rights and everyone can be happy.

Answer 6

I am a habitual Quit er, agree the smoke is bad. Why does the Government allow me to buy Cigarettes that can kill me, I am a Addicted, I can not buy my meds with out Doctors approval. but The Government allows Cigarettes and Alcohol for Taxes. If I were you I would just go sit right down in the Smoking Room. I would show them.

Answer 7

You need to speak to the manager of any rest. or business that has people smoking directly in front of the entrance. They can move the ashtrays farther away from the entrance and make it inconvenient for smokers to congregate at the entrance to smoke, they can also post signs that it is a non-smoking area and info directing them to the smoking area. then the smoker has no excuse, except inconsideration for smoking at the entrance.
If you speak to the manager, and get no help-if it is a chain rest.or store contact their boss, and then their boss and their boss till you get your rights seen to.

Answer 8

I never did understand why they have the smoking section up front and you have to go through it. Here in Florida if you serve food in the bar you are then a restaurant and you don't smoke. Its a wonderful thing.

Answer 9

You have the right to ***** and moan like most of the Californian non-smokers. Overtax the smokers then tell them they're the scum of the earth.

Next time you have an opportunity to chat with your Congressmen or Senator, ask them why the federal government still send federal tax money to the tobacco growers! During this administration alone, we've donated over 500 million bucks to these "growers of death". In my opinion, these tobacco farmers are more lethal than your corner drug pusher.

Answer 10

Some of you are so full of **** , im a non-smoker , never picked one up a day in my life , but i was raised 18 years in a house with 2 smoking parents , i couldnt be healthier , ive never had a lung problem in my life , my best friends grandmother passed away last year of lung cancer and never smoked , you just want something to ***** about