is it fair to ban smoking in bars and etc?

Question

i feel it is not fair for those who are addicted to nicotine
they should open smoking non smoking bars etc

why dont they ban drinking ?
so u can go home and drink?

or why dont they ban driving cars ?

Answer 1

I will assume you mean a government-enforced ban on smoking in your question.

To whom are such government decrees fair?

Are they fair to the smokers: definitely not.
Are they fair to the non-smokers: definitely not.
Are they fair to the bar owners: definitely not.

Such bans are not fair to the smokers because they should have the right to smoke in any place where the owner allows them to smoke.

They are not fair to the non-smokers because the ban removes the choice to go to a smoke-filled bar or a smokeless bar. These environments may have very real differences in price and quality, both of which are lost in forced homogenization.

Finally, such bans are most unfair to the bar owners, who have their private property (and thus their freedom) infringed upon by bureaucrats who have no financial stake in their business. Just as your home is your property if you own it, so would your bar be private property. The government has no more right to control your business than it does your home so long as you are not violating anyone else's rights.

Answer 2

Cigarettes r legally sold everywhere and yet bans on smoking r spreading beyond reason. If it is so deadly to all, why r they being sold ? No one is forced to patronize a bar, if people don`t like cigarette smoke, stay home and drink. If more effort was placed on making efficient smoke eaters, and less effort put into banning cigs. perhaps a happy medium could be reached between the smokers and non-smokers. The air is polluted with many other substances beside cigarette smoke. If people think they r going to breathe clean air by banning cig. smoke, they had better wake up and smell the roses. The pollution spewing out of coal burning power plants, factories, automobiles,etc r just as bad, yet nothing is done about those factors. I believe there should be separate rooms in restaurants for smokers and non-smokers and of course, places one must go to out of necessity, hospitals, public offices, stores,etc smoking should be banned, but bars, clubs, casinos........NO !!

Answer 3

Yes smoking should be banned in bars. Until they invent a way to stop non smokers from having to breath in the used smoke from a smoker then in needs to be banned. I have a drink when I go the a bar, but I do not go and take a leak up the persons leg who is stood next to me. Would that be acceptable if we called that "passive drinking"?

Answer 4

I feel it is completely fair. I am a smoker and it has made very little difference to my life to have to go outside to smoke. In fact, I feel that it is better. I feel uncomfortable smoking in a bar around non-smokers as I realise the dangers of passive smoking and also the smell is often disgusting for them. I have never smoked in a restaurant because it puts me off my food when someone is blowing smoke in my face so I can only imagine how non-smokers feel. In Ireland, the bars have adapted for the mostpart by developing outside smoking areas with those big gas heaters - often, the smoking area is more fun and more comfortable than inside.
Imagine working in a place where, essentially, you are smoking for your entire 8 hour shift whether you want to or not. This is the best law that has been introduced in this part of the world in a long time. For once our respective governments have got their heads out of their arses.

Answer 5

Heatheruk wins the thread.

Nothing like getting drunk and sweaty and filling the bar with a gym-like atmosphere.

The obvious answer here is to make your bar into a "private club", charge .10 cents admission at the door to your "private club" and then make your rules governing smoking.

Then put a big fat sign outside that reads: If you're hypersensitive about a little secondhand smoke, beat it. We don't want your snobby @sses here anyway.

Below is a link for the World Health Organization who funded a huge study that noted that secondhand smoke has NO calulatable proof of hurting the "passive smoker".

Answer 6

I am a non-smoker, and don't particularly like excessively smoky atmospheres. However, if I was out, drinking in a bar, I would expect it to be smoky. It has been banned in Scotland for several months now, and although it does have benefits to our health in that we are not inhaling other peoples' smoke, we are still in a bar intoxicating ourselves with alcohol!! and therefore, still damaging our health (by our own choice) when we visit these places.

Having been out on various occasions since the ban came into force, I have found that the atmosphere in the pubs and clubs is totally different, and the smell of B.O. (usually disguised by the smell of smoke) is unbearable!!! Surely inhaling other peoples' B.O. is just as damaging to our health?!!

Answer 7

It is not fair to ban smoking in any privately owned and operated establishment. If a bar or restaurant wishes to allow smoking at the risk of offending non-smokers, that should be its right. If a non-smoker doesn't want to eat or drink at a place that allows smoking, he/she has the right to go elsewhere. Likewise, if a smoker doesn't like the fact that a bar or restaurant doesn't allow smoking he/she has the right to go elsewhere. Such decisions should be left to the people who are most directly affected -- namely, the establishment owners and their customers (or non-customers).

Answer 8

We've had a smoking ban for about a year now and it seems to be going okay.

I personally think people should have the right to decide what to allow in their place of business, but there just aren't that many nonsmoking bars out there, so I like the ban.

Besides, who really goes out just to drink? Most people I know go out to see a band or socialize with certain people, that sort of thing, not just because they want to drink and/or smoke.

Answer 9

This ban will definately come into force in England next year. Scotland was the trial run and has been very successfull...although met with horror as you can imagine!
I think all these open plan bars have not helped. Pubs should bring back the old Public Bar and Lounge bar..one smoking, one not.
I do feel that smoking in restaurants should not be allowed.

Answer 10

As a smoker, I completely agree with the ban on restaurants and other public places.
I have always considered it 'my' law that I can do anything provided it doesn't hurt others or infringe on their same right to do anything they wish.
( there is a proviso where I could be convinced of a law through commonsense - but that's off topic. )

However I do not as yet agree with a ban in bars and nightclubs, they are set up primarily by smokers and drinkers for smokers and drinkers. It's those people who allow themselves have fun, that provide the attraction - if you can't handle it go to a winebar.