Smoking Bans- Good or bad?

Answer 1

100% Good

Answer 2

Good! Unfortunately I smoke and I would go to a bar or clubbing and it sucked because people would be blowing the smoke right on your face, throwing the lit cigs onto ur feet etc.. I feel better now that no one is smoking around me while inside an establishment.
I don't mind going outside and lighting one up. I don't agree with some towns banning smoking all over town - they should have assigned parts. Even though I am a smoker(who wants to quit so bad) it is very hard. I know people are like you can do it.. but it's not that easy. Anyways, since smoking causes so many deaths... and if they want it banned all over why the hell are cigarettes still legal?! I think they should make them illegal and see how many people (including myself) who would quit just like that - just cuz they aren't available. Tobacco is one thing but when other ingredients like nicotine are added it should become an illegal drug. I guess legalize weed since it is suppose to help out in so many medical situations and ban cigarettes for ever!!!

Answer 3

While I agree that there should be some smoke free areas, I think the bans being put in place are way over the top.
I really think we should let the market decide.
If restaraunts and bars want to allow smoking, have a smoking section.
If the non-smokers don't like it, they can go somewhere else.
But to pass a law that you can not allow smoking is pure bull dung.
Nearly 25% of people smoke.
If we tried to discriminate against any other group of that size, we'd have a revolution!
I think the rabid non-smokers should just go to California.
We can then nuke the San Andreas fault, let it float out into the ocean, and let Hilary become the first President of the Peoples Republic of California.

Answer 4

Oh smoking bans! What wishful thinking they are! It's a nice thought, but it won't work. Too many people smoke or have come to the conclusion that it's taking away some Constiutional right (no, I don't know which one) for the bans to really take hold. It'd be nice for people like me who have asthma, but I'd put my money on them being reversed within a very short time of their instatement. It seems to me it'd be a bit like the Prohibition in the 20's.

Answer 5

I am a Non Smoker and believe that a person should be able to eat their meal without having their lungs polluted by others. Second hand smoke is more dangerous, then what the smoker risks. I think Smoking Bans are Good, Bars would probably be the exception, since most drunks smoke and bars would go out of business..

Answer 6

Smoking bans are the latest liberal pretext to make everyone live the way they think you should. Colorado passed a smoking ban this last summer and now there is a vote on decriminalizing marijuana!! Libs don't want you to smoke, eat meat, own guns or have free speech, but they claim THEY are the party of civil rights!! People need to take responsibility for their own actions. If you don't want to smoke, then don't! Don't let the government decide for you!

Answer 7

Smoking bans 50-50

Good for indoors at public places. Some people don't want to be forced to breathe second hand smoke.

Banning smoking outdoors? You'd have a better chance of banning volcanoes from erupting. Second hand smoke is less concentrated outdoors, so the person with the cigarette is really only hurting him/herself.

Answer 8

It is very good to ban smoking (publicly)---

The argument is that we shouldn't impose on anyone's right to smoke when in fact, smokers impose on the rights of everyone else, I can't take my kids bowling because we'll all smell like an ashtray. If one has asthma, it is a problem for them to even be near. It gets in my hair, my clothes, they blow it in your face when you walk down the street, and makes me cough and yet I don't smoke.

When a smoker can tell me how my non-smoking affects them then maybe we can have a discussion, thing is, they can't. If you want to smoke and have a disgusting habit, do it in the privacy of your own home or property.

Answer 9

Just another topic to piss people off one way or another. It's bad for you, whether you smoke or not! I know people die because they smoke ,but people also die if they don't smoke. RESPECT is what we need not bans on issues we can't agree on. We're not at war with each other or are we?

Answer 10

The government bans smoking, but endorses abortions. Go figure.

Answer 11

Good. People who smoke violate the rights of everyone around by stinking up the air and polluting the environment. Whereas people who DON'T smoke don't harm or annoy ANYone. One person is selfish and intrusive while the other person is considerate and unoffensive.