If ther is non-smoking places or rooms to be made smoking why can't everyone just get along?

Question

I just feel that my rights as a smoker has been stripped.This is a free country last I heard.I try to respect others and they try taking my rights.There can be smoking and non-smoking places.As for a business I think it should be up to the owner to make that choice.

Answer 1

I am assuming you live in Nevada, where THE VOTERS just ELECTED that into the law. So, nothing you can do about that. If you voted, thats all you could so. If you didnt, its your loss.
There will still be smoking in casinos, strip clubs, brothels, and anywhere else minors are not allowed.

Answer 2

I smoke and I agree with places being non-smoking..At first it bothered me when the city I live in enforced no smoking in resteraunts etc..Bars especially but I can understand non-smoker's view on second hand smoke..

It would be nice if there was smoking places...Sometimes I wonder why they don't and I agree it should be the owner's discretion but at the same time say an non smoker's favorite place became a place where they allow smoking the buisness could lose a lot of customer's

Answer 3

You have the right to do anything that you want, provided it doesn't hurt someone else. The air a smoker breathes out has around 80% of all the harmful chemicals still in it. If you are allowed to smoke in the same room as me, I don't get a chance NOT to smoke - I have to breathe the same air as you.

Having smoking bans in public areas is no different than stopping an oil company from belching poisonous smoke from a refinery over a town. Just as the clean air act protects the public from hazadous chemicals used in industy, so a smoking ban protects us from your waste smoke.

I have no problem with you smoking at home, in cigar clubs, private members clubs, or other designated areas. But in an area open to the general public, you need to stop polluting the air I have to breathe.

Answer 4

they are non-smoking rooms for a reason. There are people (like me) that have extreme allergic reactions (mine fairly to tobacco products. i'm going to get bronchitis genuine undesirable if i'm around tobbacco smoke in any respect). You smoke in a non-smoking room, that sh*t gets into the carpets, bedding and each thing else. So think of approximately that throughout the time of the previous you go lights up. you elect to smoke, effective, yet do no longer make others pay to your habit too. Get off your duff and go exterior, downstairs, or anyplace smoking is permitted. once you're afflicted with the aid of it that a lot, ask to alter your room to a smoking one.

Answer 5

Smoking sections don't really work. I mean smoke doesn't just stay in that area, it moves around. Last time I checked (and i check often) the Constitution doesn't provide Smoker's any rights. You are allowed to smoke if you want to, but you certainly don't have the right to do it. When you smoke in a building you are forcing others to breathe in your smoke, what about "non-smoker rights".

Answer 6

Ohio is a smoke free state as of today. WOOOHOOO!

Course this does go a little far in some ways, IE truck drivers cant smoke in their rigs anymore...

I am a non smoker and I have rights too.. I have the right to not be exposed to carcinogens.. be it from cigarette smoke, lead paint, mercury thermometers, asbestos etc.

Tobacco is the only drug that if used as directed will kill you. if you want to kill yourself, that's your decision, but your not gonna take me with you.

My mom was a heavy smoker for years.. when I moved out of the house.. I had smokers cough.. AACKKK.. was gross.... and I have NEVER Smoked. Its a nasty, smelly, unhealthy habit.

If a person cant go out to eat and wait an hour or so w/out lighting up... they have a problem.

now maybe I can go out to a bar or club and not smell like an ash tray when I come home.

Answer 7

No one has the right to cause harm to others.

When you smoke, not only does your smoke cause harm to others, but the harm you do to yourself hurts the rest of us as well. That's because the 'extra' you pay in taxes on cigarettes and the increased health insurance premiums do not cover the costs created by smoking.

Think of it this way: One smoking related illness will cost a minimum of $100,000. Probably much more. Each smoker will cause at least one smoking related illness over a thirty year period, either to themselves or to others through second-hand smoke.

If you were to pay that $100,000 debt off through a 30-year mortgage at 6% interest, you would have to pay $599.55 per month. That's $19.71 per day, and we haven't even begun to think about the punitive damages owed to victims of second hand smoke!

Answer 8

I for one have severe asthma and on the rare occasion I do go out and eat or go shopping or whatever, I would LOVE to be able to breath..yes, they have a smoking and non smoking section but how would you like to have a breathing disorder and have to use the bathroom really bad and know that you are going to have to walk thru the "smoke" to relieve yourself...On top of that,I don't care IF there are different sections, smoke doesn't stay in one spot..it moves and ALWAYS in the non smoking direction..There is nothing worse than trying to eat when you can't breath..makes it kind of hard to chew when you are breathing out your mouth.. If you can't go to a restaurant for 30 minutes without a cigarettes order it to go and respect the fact that we are not being mean to you some of us just want to be able to breath. PS I got asthma from growing up in a home with a father who smoked

Answer 9

For 1 If you have smoking in a place or business you can't have smokers and non on the same ventilation system It will suck right though the walls and ventlation sysyem into the non smokeing wall.


See the problem is is when people get lung cancer and lets say they all went to this smoking bar they could say well it was the bar that gave me cancer and I am going to sue you for it later on in life and do sue you.


Philip morris company even says its bad
Secondhand Smoke


Secondhand smoke, also known as environmental tobacco smoke or ETS, is a combination of the smoke coming from the lit end of a cigarette plus the smoke exhaled by a person smoking.

Public health officials have concluded that secondhand smoke from cigarettes causes disease, including lung cancer and heart disease, in non-smoking adults, as well as causes conditions in children such as asthma, respiratory infections, cough, wheeze, otitis media (middle ear infection) and Sudden Infant Death Syndrome. In addition, public health officials have concluded that secondhand smoke can exacerbate adult asthma and cause eye, throat and nasal irritation.

Philip Morris USA believes that the public should be guided by the conclusions of public health officials regarding the health effects of secondhand smoke in deciding whether to be in places where secondhand smoke is present, or if they are smokers, when and where to smoke around others. Particular care should be exercised where children are concerned, and adults should avoid smoking around them.

We also believe that the conclusions of public health officials concerning environmental tobacco smoke are sufficient to warrant measures that regulate smoking in public places. We also believe that where smoking is permitted, the government should require the posting of warning notices that communicate public health officials' conclusions that secondhand smoke causes disease in non-smokers.

Used to be a smoker
Diane

Answer 10

Smoking is sick. It is proven to kill people especially second hand smoke. It is not even ethical to consider mixing people who don't want to smoke with people who do. There are places where you can smoke, it is called outside, in your car or home.

I do agree that if the business owner wants their establishment to be a smoking place that is their right and it should not be taken away because there are plenty of places where people who do and do not smoke to go.