Do smokers have rights?
2006-08-16 05:37:56 · 38 answers · asked by Cap'n Donna 7 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
Doesn't seem like it anymore. I've paid my taxes, it is a free country, we're all entitled to happiness, you would think I'd be allowed to smoke when and where I want to.
Instead I'm forced outside into alleys during winter where I still can be publically heckled. You don't see people heckling fat people like they do smokers. Obesity has replaced smoking as the number one preventable cause of death and causes around eighty more health problems than smoking. Why not go after them as well?
I figure what I chose to put into my body is my business. Everyone is well aware of the dangers of smoking, after all the warning is right on the box, so if I chose to smoke that's my business and my choice.
What next, am I going to be limited to smoking in my house, behind black-out curtains, in my closet?!
2006-08-16 14:09:28 · answer #1 · answered by anonymous 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It sure doesn't seem like it anymore.
The second-hand smoke study was debunked almost immediately after it was published. However, they've been using it to trample all over smokers for decades.
Now they're trampling on the rights of business owners to choose whether or not to allow smoking in their establishment. It's gone way too far, and someone needs to stop this runaway train.
I notice that none of the anti-smokers seem to care about spending the huge taxes on smokes for their pet projects. If they were really so adamant against the evils of smoking, then wouldn't they refuse the "blood money?"
Typical liberals. They want to have their cake and eat it too.
2006-08-16 05:42:00 · answer #2 · answered by Robby216 4 · 3⤊ 1⤋
That has to be the most ignorant thing I have ever heard in my life. Yes you have the "choice" to smoke. You have the right to make any bad choice you want. As long as that choice doesn't cause harm to other people. And smoking does. Over eating and obesity cause NO harm to others in the area or building, smoking does. Someone eating too much food at a table next to you doesn't stink and burn your eyes, smoking does. So no, you do not have the right to force others to breath your smoke. But everyone does have the right to breath clean air. Why should we be forced to leave the area because of your choice? We don't have one, you do.
2014-09-17 15:12:03 · answer #3 · answered by jpekarek2000 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In michigan, not a single penny of the cigarette company lawsuit money was spent on smoking cessation programs, or anything else to help smokers. Cigarette taxes are used to fund healthcare, but insurance is more expensive for smokers. It's like they want people to quit, but they still count on the money. Bunch of crap.
2006-08-16 05:54:21 · answer #4 · answered by hichefheidi 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Smokers have the right to stand outside in the rain or the cold and smoke. They have the right to be excluded from jobs because of smoking. They have the right to pay higher and higher taxes on cigarettes. Other then those, not really any.
2006-08-16 05:44:10 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 4⤋
No non-smoker in the history of America has ever been forced to patronize or work for an establishment that allows smoking.
What is truly sad is the non-smoking Nazi party is trying to eliminate the few businesses left that allow smoking.
2006-08-16 05:46:00 · answer #6 · answered by sprcpt 6 · 4⤊ 1⤋
I have both a right and a left, as anyone who tries to take my smokes will quickly find out.
The people who are actively engaged in things like banning outdoor smoking are no better than the busy-body prohibitionists of the 20's. They feel that their right to convenience outweighs mine. Folks, there is no right to convenience. If I have to listen to your babble, then you have to occasionally smell my smoke. I really want to organize a group of smokers to go to these activists homes loaded with Taco Bell, and fart all day. Maybe then they could leave my cigarettes alone, and start campaigning against gassy foods. Better yet, they could live their own lives, and leave me to mine.
2006-08-16 05:45:45 · answer #7 · answered by Beardog 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
That depends upon the individual state to determine the rights of smokers.
2006-08-16 05:43:32 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋
It depends on where you live. In some places, you can't smoke in restaurants, in some places, not in taverns, in yet others not in public places such as parks. I am not a smoker, but I do object to people inflicting their beliefs on others' rights. I will fight with the smokers as long they don't blow it in my face.
2006-08-16 05:48:31 · answer #9 · answered by shermynewstart 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Doesn't seem like it.
I can go to a bar, drink poison, eat questionable food, engage in risky sexual behavior, perhaps get a beating with a pool cue and you have to take that cigarette outside because it could hurt someone?
I'm not a fan of smokers, but they are not social pariahs.
2006-08-16 05:45:42 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 6⤊ 1⤋