Smoking in resturants..........?

Question

I don't think, smoking should be banned, but besides it going against freedom, affecting buissness, and other things can also harm you but we are not banning them, what are some other reasons smoking should NOT be banned.
Thanks

Yeah you all are giving me lots of good answers but i need to know why it should NOT BE BANNED.

Answer 1

i think it's just rude to smoke in confined places....
sure, some people don't mind the smoke, but i do....if it's outside & away from a restaurant that banned smoking, go ahead....smoke.
but if it's inside a restaurant ,take into consideration the people that would rather not inhale that smoke...







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Answer 2

I'm a smoker and I used to be against the ban but since the ban in NYC, I've changed my mind and I think it's a good idea. I doesn't make sense that people had to inhale smoke when they didn't want to just because they wanted to go out and be social. I do wish there was another way to do it rather than all or nothing. It would be nice if there were a few places left that allowed smoking. I think having just just one or two coffee shops, bars, clubs and restaurants in each city that still allows smoking wouldn't bother anyone. I don't see how anyone could feel it's a violation of their rights when they have a choice between 500 restaurants that don't allow smoking and 2 that do.

I really don't think there is a good reason not to ban smoking in public places since there is no way to really contain the smoke and other people breathe it in no matter what. The business owner should be able to make that decision. Maybe they should have to apply for a smoking license.

Answer 3

I see everyone has good answers except the guy who says ban smoking period end of story!!! Smoking in public places should be banned if the owner of the place wants to!! I don't smoke, but I do own a nightclub and I know I will lose a lot of buissness when it happens. I think smokers and non smokers have just as much rights. Why can't you have a seperate room within the buliding, completely seperated and with a good ventaltion system. Those that want to smoke can go sit in the smoking bar and those that don't can sit in the Non-smoking bar? If anyone wants to move back and fourth to either fine. Ever been to Vegas?? They have smoking pretty much anywhere but the ventalation systems are outstanding and most people can't even tell that people are smoking around them! Just my opinion, not saying anyone is wrong or right, just saying whats on my mind!!

Answer 4

Whether or not to allow smoking should be up to the business owner. As long as it is legal to purchase tobacco products, I see no reason why there should be government-sanctioned bans on where those products can be used. When smoking is allowed by the owner of a business/restaurant/bar/etc., non-smokers may choose to either patronize the business or not. Non-smoking sections are made available in most if not all of these places, and while I understand some smokers will argue that it's like having a "non-peeing" section in a pool, if they really feel that way about a particular business, then they do not have to use that business - they may use another. Just as a smoker wouldn't have the option of smoking in a business if the business owner chose not to allow it (no one enforces that businesses do provide a smoking section!) - therefore, smokers can choose whether to use those businesses or not.

Answer 5

Tobacco is a legal substance. Some bars and restaurants lose money and customers when bans against smoking are enacted. I do not smoke but do not care if others do. I find that non-smoking activists are usually fanantics that are filled with anger and hatred - this is the norm not the exceptance. People do not have to go to or work at places that allow smoking - it is that simple - do not go. However, when I drive on the freeway, I may encounter a drunk person who may maim or kill me for life. I have to drive but I do not have to enter a restaurant that allows smoking. If people do not like smoking being legal in the USA, then try to get Washington D.C. to outlaw tobacco, but quit griping and complaining in the meantime. Quite frankly, there are more important things going on in the world.

Answer 6

As a non smoker, why should I have breath in someone else dirty addiction when I want to go out for a meal to a resturant?
Yes other things can harm you but most other things are more parctical and useful, like cars for example, sure they kill but they are very useful and important.
how is a smoking parctical? its not. its just an addictive drug, its causes cancer, kills thounsands of people and often people are too lazy to dispose of there smokes after awards and just put them on the ground which ends up in our oceans, killing our animals.
I dont smoke because I want to live a longer life and I give a damn about my health, the only reason smoking is banned in places like resturants is because people who do smoke dont care about the above, and obviously dont care about the health and well being of others around them, because if it did they would not be smoking something that causes so many problems, even death.
smoking should be banned every where , except the smokers own private property.
When my grandfather was in hospital for treatment for skin cancer for 12months, he said that there were people in the hospital dying from lung cancer caused by smoking, they had been there longer then him, and they still smoked, some smoking a pack a day. what a waste of tax payers money, trying to save someone who does not even care, because if they did ,if life ment everything to them , then they would not smoke.

Answer 7

Just because all other harmful substances aren't banned, is not a legitimate argument.

I don't know what freedom would be violated from banning smoking. The freedom to destroy your health and that of others?

Even as a heavy smoker for over 20 years, I couldn't deny the scientific evidence that my smoke was not only hurting myself, but innocent others including children.

As for the effects on businesses, there have been no negative effects in Los Angeles, since smoking was banned in all public buildings including bars.

I can find no good argument why smoking should NOT be banned.

Answer 8

There are a few good reasons to allow smoking in restaurants. I know that these will be disputed, but they are from my personal experience:

1.) Smokers tend to eat more. Always a plus if you're the proprietor of a restaurant.

2.) Smokers tend to stay longer. Not always a plus, but it is when they are ordering.

3.) Smokers tend to tip more. I know I'll get blasted on this one. However, I have seen it quite often, as have many servers in my area.

4.) Smokers tend to drink more. Always a plus where they serve alcohol. Smoking and drinking seem to go hand-in-hand in my area.

As for non-smoking sections, solid barriers (glass, etc.) and good ventilation go a long way.

Answer 9

It violates constitutional rights, the constitution states that a law cannot be enacted that would make ordinary law abiding citizens into criminals. If they start giving fines to smokers they will refuse to pay those fines and eventually be arrested thus making them criminal. People who smoke are already talking about starting smoke-easy's. During prohibition when they banned alchohol people started what was called speak-easy's, a smoke-easy is based on the same principles. Smokers will stop going to restaurants and bars and start doing eating, drinking and smoking in each others homes, private property where nothing can be regulated at all. I smoke but I don't drink but I don't try to push my beleifs onto others otherwise there would be no bars and no drinking which kills many more people than smoking does and in some cases instantly like when a drunk driver runs into another car and kills a man and his wife and their five children instantly. I've smoked for over 30 years and now people are blatently discriminating against me and other smokers and trying to make us criminals. If this continues on this path soon no one will have any rights including freedom of speech.

Answer 10

Smoking should not be banned because the more people who die of cancer caused from cigarettes will give me more room on this planet. Smoking should also not be banned so I can get into restaurants faster. While all the cool smokers are outside puffing away I can get to my table faster.

Answer 11

A better solution that banning (from a moral, ethical & business perspective) would be to allow (or perhaps even require?) that restaurants offer patrons the choice of smoking or non-smoking.

From a health perspective, though, there are no reasons NOT to ban smoking in restaurants other than "habit" (the argument that people have been allowed to in the past). Smoking causes far more deaths among tobacco-users than does, say, methadone among smack-heads. Would you argue restaurants be required to provide areas for patrons to shoot up?