Smokers are you getting sick of being?

Question

Told where you can and can not smoke? What happened to our rights as americans any one else feel this way?

Answer 1

All though I think a lot of the ranting and raving regarding second hand smoke is greatly exaggerated; the fact is cigarette smokes smells really bad and the public exhaust systems do not fight the order very well. I can understand why people out to enjoy a meal do not want to smell it or for that matter, I understand why non-smokers don’t want to deal with the smell anywhere.

Lets face it, those of us that smoke (myself included) are not benefiting at all from our decision to smoke. With the cost of cigarettes going up and the damage we do to ourselves, why do we continue to want to defend our choice to smoke? This is a really low point on my list of priorities in the US today.

This of course is just my opinion.

Answer 2

As a smoker I am tired of being told where I can and cannot smoke. However I must say this.. Smokers are to blame for the smoking restrictions that we face. If smokers would have stood up for their rights and protested all of the new smoking ban laws it might have made a difference. I mean after all smokers are voters too, and we have the right to freely voice our opinions. Personally I now avoid any and all places that discriminate against smokers to the best of my ability. I realize that my lack of visits to some restaurants will not result in a massive impact, but what if every smoker in the world stopped eating in non-smoking restaurants? Think about it smokers.. Actions are most often a result of an attack on the wallet!!

Answer 3

I used to smoke a pack a day. I now smoke occasionally - when I have a few drinks - they just seem to go together. When I was in 8th grade, a policeman came to our class and I'll always remember one thing he said. "Your rights end where the other guy's begins." He went on to explain,"In other words, you can swing your arm any way you want to but it better stop before it hits the other guy's nose." In the case of cigarette smoking, you have the right to smoke, but not in most public buildings, because there are people there who can be negatively effected health wise because of the smoke, and frankly, it smells bad. Non-smokers do not want to smell smoke any more than you would want someone to let go a smelly fart in your vicinity. Sorry to be crued, but it's the best example I can think of. I think the only exception to the public place rule should be bars. Bars are a mecca for smokers, but a lot of non-smokers like to go to bars too. I think each establishment should be able to choose whether it is a smoking or non-smoking bar, then the market decides.

Answer 4

I'm an ex-smoker and I don't, and didn't, have a problem with not being able to smoke in a restaurant or other indoor area. Owners of restaurants and bars, should have the right to decide on their own, if their establishment will be smoke free. I do think it's wrong to ban smoking outside. Outside there should be smoking and non-smoking areas for public events, but smoking should not be banned completely. Tobacco is not an illegal substance. Smokers have rights too.

Answer 5

im not a smoker but i agree that it is getting hard to smoke in public

but i also see why

passive smoking has killed a few people in my family just as much as my mother watched my grandmother die of emphasemia from having smoked all her life

so im really torn on the subject

it is your life and if you want to smoke then by all means smoke

but there is also people who dont smoke that dont need to suffer for the choices that other people make

either way no one person is the same so i do disagree with the law instead maybe they should do something about having a certain place for smokers?

Answer 6

I believe there should be no restrictions as to where and when you may smoke. I have believed this since about thirty years ago when a Democratic governor of Pennsylvania declared that for an extra seven cents a pack we could provide health care for poor, uninsured children. If that's a good reason to sell deadly drugs to your fellow citizens for a profit, I think you should face the smell and secondhand smoke issue in this way: just suck it up. You've been paid for it, and if you don't like it you can take your complaints and stuff them up where the light don't shine.

Answer 7

I just tell non-smokers, that complain about my smoking, to quit breathing when I am smoking and you won't have that problem.

Answer 8

yes i get sick but the goverment is thinking of all the non smokers because the surgeon general thinks that smoking is bad for you when the Indians was smoking years before we even had a surgeon general and lived a long time.

Answer 9

Hey, as an ex-smoker, I can sympathize with you.....a little.

But as an asthmatic, and a child whose father died of lung cancer, let me turn it around a bit for you:

What happened to the rights of non-smokers to live, work, play and enjoy public space without the danger and annoyance of second-hand smoke?

Answer 10

Yes I'm sick of it. There are so many self-righteous prigs who are always complaining and nobody even smokes around them anymore! I have always been polite and asked when in doubt about the people I was around and about to light up. But no more. They are rude, crude, and generally disagreeable people. Alot of them are still just mad 'cause they quit and still crave it. Look to your food and your environment if you want to advoid cancer.