Should smoking be banned in bars?

Answer 1

No. You are already walking into a bar to harm your body with liquor or beer so why bother with cigarette smoke? If you want a drink do it at the house away from smoke or at a restaurant that does not allow smoking.

Answer 2

No, not in bars. I agree that smoking should be banned in places you have to go, Court, Jail, DMV, or is owned by the public, Library, etc. then they should be non-smoking.

But I believe that this is a voilation of the Fifth Amendment, when a law is passed that would require private business to be non-smoking. Here they take private property rights away and force him or her to run their business a certain way. I say the 5th because they are taking away something of value; their right to run their business a certain way and letting the public decide how it should be done in doing so they are taking their property for public use and not giving them just compensation.

Imagine if the owner had decided to make his business non-smoking, yet the government forced him to have a smoking section. Would they pay for the damage the smoker's cause? Cover losses when his non-smokers refused to go to his business? And if enough non-smokers stay way and he goes bankrupt would they pay his debts? I don't think so.

Now if a business decided to have smoking and is willing to pay for the damage to their business, carpets, cleaning etc, why shouldn't they? Then if people don't come and they go bankrupt, then it’s because of their own decision. Same thing if the business was non-smoking.

Now the non-smoking crowd is saying that you should have a smoke free work place. What if I don't want one? I looked around and guess what no-body here had a gun to their head and was being forced to work here, if you work in a business and they allow smoking and you don't like if find a different job. Don't say it the only job out there, just look at the unemployment rate.

Ok I'm starting to go off on a rant here, and I think I made my point, for the record I don't smoke and don't like it. I think it's a silly waste of money, but you want too, go ahead light up.

Answer 3

I don't think they should be banned completely, but I'm sure eventually it will come to that. Before you could have a smoking/non-smoking place of business if it was a separate well-ventilated room and I have seen some restaurants in my area that have added on for that reason, and then they just ban smoking in buildings completely. Personally, I thinks it's discriminating smokers, but what do I know. The thing is, people go to bars to relax (or whatever else) and have a good time and I just don't think that people what to keep going outside to smoke a cigerette. (That could also mean grounds for public intox to.) So, my answer is no I don't think they should.

Answer 4

Absolutely not. What retard is going to, or working in, the bars for their health? If you've been to a bar in a state that's enacted such a measure, you'll find all the patrons standing outside smoking, instead of buying drinks. It's terrible for business because it's an inconvenience to the majority of the customers, and wholely unnecessary.

Answer 5

Smoking should not be banned anywhere. Freedom gives us choices. When we start limiting choices, we loose freedom. Leave these types of choices up to the business owners. The more we let government regulate what we do and where, the more power they have and the less freedom the citizens have. The Constitution and Bill of Rights were designed by our forefathers to protect the freedom of choices. The answer here is tolorence for others choices, not to regulate and limit them. If you don't want to be around smoke, you have the choice to not go where people are smoking. You don't have the right to regulate what you want or don't want others to do.

Answer 6

I don't think it should be banned. I think it should be the owner's choice. Then you can have some smoke-free bars and some for smoking. I know sometimes I go to bars, as a non-smoker, and then end up going home early because I get a headache and can't take the smokey atmosphere. But sometimes there is nothing like going to a smoke-filled honky-tonk. It's just the atmosphere you look for sometimes, even if it is bad for you, I think you should be given a choice. So I think it would be great to have an option, but I do not think it should be completely banned.

Answer 7

Happened in Houston, City Council just passed a ban on smoking in bars, the law goes into place next september, thank goodness I have a year of lovely smoking with my drinky-drinks.

Answer 8

HEL* NO you people that don't smoke think you have all the rights and that we have none.You are in a bar where drinking and smokeing is going on.What I can say do not go in the bar.You kind of people need to stay out of places like that.Who the hel* are you to tell me what i can do or not do.

Answer 9

I believe so. If I want to go and have a drink, I should not have to expose myself to an unknown amount of carcenogens because others are too selfish to keep their killer habits to themselves. I choose to be a non-smoker for a reason.

Second hand smoke is very dangerous and has been proven as such. We put limits on air pollution because it's dangerous, why not secondhand smoke?

Answer 10

Absolutely! We have a ban on all smoking in all bars in Boston. It's GREAT! You can go out for the evening and not come home stinking like an ashtray and coughing your lungs out.

I'm all for personal freedoms. Smoke if you want to! However, I firmly believe that my personal freedom to BREATHE trumps your personal freedom to smoke. You can always go smoke somewhere else.

Additionally, the smoking ban hasn't hurt anyone or anything. It's improved the health of restaurant and bar workers and it hasn't damaged revenues in bars or sent smokers home in droves.