Non smokers have a right to clean air???

Question

Alright, I wont smoke near you, but you need to stop driving your gas-guzzling, air polluting SUV past my house when i am sitting outside. Is it a deal? If not, then I have just as much right to smoke on in public as you do to drive. You car emits more smoke into the atmosphere in one hour than i will in a lifetime. Arent all thse ani-smoke nazis a bunch of hypocrites?

lets not forget either, folks...I pay much more tax on my pack of smokes than you do on your gallon of gas. If i quit smoking, the goverment is coming to YOU for the extra tax bucks. You ought to thank me.

Answer 1

All individuals, both smokers and non-smokers have a right to clean air, and inversely, both do not.

In the illustrated context of relative effects, the right becomes relative to the capped limit, in this case, a smoke, over which anything else is intrusion. (ie SUV, factories)

Answer 2

This is just the typical smoker's logic.

Like somebody else said I bet you smoke and drive- driving is a necessity and smoking is not so unless you ride a horse to town you don't have an argument.

Smoking is banned from all public places where I live- Thank God!! I don't have to be exposed to that stinky crap. I don't want my daughter breathing in that toxic stuff!!! Or thinking that smoking is ok because it's not. Smoking is a sign of low class.

Answer 3

Well, I've never had an asthma attack from a car, even driving (okay, creeping) on I-95 near the Mixing Bowl.

Someone smoking nearby, or being in a smoke-filled restaurant, however... Turning blue and not breathing is not fun, to say the least. Do you feel that your right to smoke includes a right to potentially kill me?
It's a matter of particulate concentration. If you want to smoke outside, away from entrances and air intakes, go ahead...

Answer 4

I agree, non-smokers must realize that just as you had the right to choose not to smoke, I have the right to choose to smoke. I am willing to do my smoking where it will not bother non-smokers, so basically you reformed and never smoked complainers need to get on with your life and stop violating my rights. Discrimination is illegal in this country, in any form. It is outright discrimination to infringe on my right to smoke. All your complaining in the world will not change my point of view on this. If you wonder why I don't quit, start smoking and see how easy it is for you to quit, especially if you have been addicted to nicotine since before you were born! My mother smoked when she was pregnant, I grew up in a smoke filled house, rode in a smoke filled car and never started smoking until I moved out on my own. You really want to blame me for a nicotine addiction and for not being able to quit? My rights were violated when I had no control over the choice, now live with the results and stop your whining!

Answer 5

Someone after my own heart!

ANY CAR, ANY CAR that uses gasoline or Deisel fuel.

I'll give cooking oil and hybrids some slack.

LEt's take it a step further, ALL Chrisitans with cars are killing God's world, bit by bit.

Christians, I demand you justify that! I demand you tell me how dumping a ton of posion into the air each year makes you so holy!

I haven't owned a car in over 30 years.

I don't finance Islamic Terrorists

I don't finance Big Business like Standard Oil, GM and even that silly little Geko!

I walk 5 miles a day to and from work.

Yes, I enjoy a ride sometimes, but then it's carpooling and at least the amount of posions is shared and yes, I'll agree to share part of the blame.

Answer 6

Not really:

1.) Driving a car serves a useful purpose (getting people and supplies from one place to another) in a way that smoking does not;

2.) The places where non-smokers have a problem with smokers smoking are enclosed areas where the smoke doesn't dissipate easily, in a way that a car's exhaust does not.

Answer 7

I assume you don't drive at all and don't use electricity? Since ALL cars, busses, planes, trains, and power plants contribute to the dirty air you're moaning about. And many of those "anti smoke nazis" are simply trying to prevent further disease... how horrible!!

Hey Earl -- unless you're running that computer with your own hot air, I suggest you shut up. You're so self-righteous and smug you should come with some sort of warning label.

Answer 8

Actually, you're missing a main point. You are aloud to smoke in your house (because prohibiting that would be ridiculous) or outdoors, but not in a bar or a closed atmosphere where you harm others, since the smoke concentrates. Cars are not driven indoors, so the smoke doesn't harm you becuase it just disperses into the air, so your comparison doesn't make sense.

Answer 9

Wow i didn't realize oxygen was a part of the constitution, I must have missed that part, no i really don't see it. Non smokers if smoking bothers you in restaurants, go somewhere else and tell the manager you wont eat here until they do something about it. stop wining to big brother. I agree with the questioner. and I am a non smoker.

Answer 10

What do you drive, buddy? If you drive anything at all, then you are polluting the air more than me. But a "patch" already. Do your lungs a favor.