Should the laws on smoking be more stern?

Answer 1

yes

Answer 2

Oh for the love of heaven! You know that slippery slope all those liberals keep blaming the Republicans for losing our civil rights? Well, here is a first step. Okay I agree you should have to inhale someones secondhand smoke got that okay fine. Well guess what I'm allergic to Avon perfume you know that old lady perfume they wear in church...so should I start a bill in Congress to ban Avon from all public places? Now that laws have made PRIVATE business dictate what can and cannot be done. A smart restaurant owner could simple say no smoking and gain all the customers that don't like second smoke. Now it's regulated. Well since that was so easy now the government is dictating about use of trans-fat. Next, your ice cream, or your contact lens etc... One so called for your better good by Big Brother many make you happy but you have now let the rest of so called rights open for destruction.

Answer 3

I think the Smoking/No Smoking laws are getting a bit rediculous.

A law becomes an imposition when it dictates to a buisness owner how he/she should run their business and who he/she should allow in. Restaurants and Bars are suffering greatly because of the smoking bans. If this were not so, then why are the Casinos in Atlantic City EXEMPT FROM THE SMOKING LAWS while the local bars and restaurants cannot allow smoking IN THE SAME CITY!!!!

Answer 4

They are already ridiculous.

Instead of making smokers pay for all the new stadiums and art facilities, why don't they just take cigarettes and cigars off the market OR just leave smokers alone.

We look like a bunch of duffasses with these crazy laws and standards that they've come up with for smokers.

Answer 5

no they should be abolished..
A free society cannot limit the rights of people to chose what they eat drink or smoke...

And don't bother with the health hazard data..the "studies" that report hazards of secondhand smoke are :
likely "funded" by a private organization looking for paper support for their agenda
--often taken on small sample sizes with other variables ignored as it will scew the "expected" data that confirms the hazardous theory..

Mankind has inhaled smoke from campfires candles, volcano's, forest fires for generations and been irradiated courtesy of our "life giving" sun ..damaged cells from whatever including alcohol makes them susceptible to all sorts of microorganisms that can kill us..
People in free societies will always choose things that others don't like, think are risky (nascar driving) so what ....the government cannot regulate every choice individuals make with the pretense that it will protect ones health or not offend others
We all know that what is offensive today will with time change just as we know that the latest "medical" fact can change tomorrow...

Answer 6

As much as I hate breathing in smoke it's not really the governments job. There're plenty of laws about it, but unless they want to ban cigarettes they have to give people some sort of freedom with it.

Answer 7

i personaly quit,went through hell to do it! so my kids wouldn't be around it. now my ex smokes in the house with my daughter and i want to be able to make her not do it around my daughter but this wont happen anytime soon..i hate sending her there for 2 days! but she has been going outside to smoke but my daughters clothes smell like a ashtray! my daughter isn't old enough to make up her mind about smoking and she shouldn't have to be around it!

Answer 8

If you had the severity of Asthma Attacks as some of us out here do -- you would KNOW why we don't like having inflicted on us someone else's disgusting, filthy habit - - because when we are exposed to the exhaust of the smokers, we are literally ENDANGERING our health -- and could easily die without proper medical treatment.

Answer 9

No they are already in overkill mode give me a break

Answer 10

Like what?