QWhy are people so up in arms about getting 2nd hand smoke in a bar?

Question

Second hand smoke doesn't show any health problem til very late in life and even then there's people who don't smoke or are around smoking that get lung cancer too... how many of those people who do smoke would have gotten it anyway? It's just like people who don't drink can still get cirrhosis of the liver!

I love the people that are so concerned about 2nd hand smoke when they go to a bar bc they're so afraid for their own health they're drinking themselves to death......... I can see it now "that @ss gave me lung cancer, i was specifically at the bar to get cirrhosis of the liver!!!"

In response to abqdan...

Actually my father went on vacation to NJ last summer and got approached by a very huffy woman who complained bc your not allowed to smoke in any public place including out doors in NJ... you also cant smoke in hotels or in some places you cant smoke in a half a double even if the other people in the other half smoke too.

Answer 1

I smoke, I like it, I will continue to do it... I figure like this, if the establishment says no smoking... I don't go... so if it is a smoking establishment, why don't the non-smokers stay out. Obviously they just want something to complain about... People who live miserable lives, have nothing better to do than attempt to make others miserable as well.
Here you go... another complaint for those who like them.. People wear extreme amounts of perfume/cologne, it effects asthmatics horribly... it can cause an immediate asthma attack that could result in death... why don't all the people who wear perfume/cologne stop, and shouldn't we all join together and sue the companies that produce perfume/cologne????
See how ridiculous all this can get.
Leave the smokers alone and we won't flick ashes on you!

Answer 2

Some people that complain of second hand smoke are not complaining because of the future Lung Cancer that they could possibly get.
My mother has Asthma. If she went into a bar to see some friends and have a little alcohol, which she drinks occasionally, but not much, that would be her choice. She would be intaking the alcohol on her own free will. The second hand smoke around her would be against her will and possibly prohibit her from breathing right then, not in the future. It could be automatic and without her knowledge that someone around her lights up a cigarette when before there was no smoke around her. She could be sitting there drinking a little, laughing, and a cloud of smoke suddenly be blown in her direction by the fans or the smoker.
Alcohol is the intaking of a substance on your own free will, second hand smoke is not. If it is your choice to smoke, you should be courteous to the ones that are allergic to smoke, which is another issue, and the ones that have asthma and step outside when you smoke.
The reason they shouldn't have to leave is because you are the one changing the environment within the bar. The smoke you release from the cigarette can remain in the building for a while even after you are gone. You should smoke outside so that it travels away from the building because you are the one changing the environment of the other 20+ people within the building that may not want to be around the smoke. If they wanted to inhale the smoke, they would smoke themselves. Just like it is their choice to drink.
I passed by someone the other day on the sidewalk that was smoking and the smoke they exhaled went right in my face. I hadn't been paying attention because I was talking, but I was only walking outside where the air should have been fresh. That was rude of them because they blew smoke into my lungs basically.

I have NOTHING against smokers. My boyfriend and his whole family are smokers, my brother and many of my relatives smoke, but a public place should have a common environment and air condition so that everyone can enjoy themselves. That is why the smoking laws have been put into place.
If you come into a bar with a cigarette, you are changing the condition of the air that many others have to breathe, against their will. They have as much of a right to be there as you, but you are the one that is imposing the health hazard on them, so it is your responsibility to step outside if you decide to smoke.

-Miranda

Answer 3

The flap over smoking is based on junk science and outright lies. When a business (or any private place) is ordered by others to ban legal activities, it amounts to tyranny, certainly not freedom.
People who are anti-smoking are the first to jump in their highly polluting SUV and drive to their anti-smoking rallies to prohibit others from making choices.
The garbage told about second-hand smoke is just that.
Little by little, the American citizens are losing their freedoms. Mexico has fewer guaranteed rights but far more freedom, go figure.

Answer 4

It is interesting, but second-hand smoke is different. I am a former smoker and cannot stand the smell of smoke now. Even when I did smoke, second-hand smoke made me sick to my stomach and irritated my eyes. I just dealt with it before, but since the new Ohio law was passed, I have noticed a major difference! I walk into a restaurant and do not have to worry about the smoke anymore. It is wonderful! At first, I was wary of the law because, as a former smoker, I hated the thought of anyone restricting the rights of smokers. But now I think, who cares? Why do you have to smoke at a restaurant? I never did. I never smoked in my car or in my house. I smoked outdoors on my own property or in smoking areas outside my place of employment. I would do it in below 0 temperatures and I did not care. I wanted to smoke, so I made that sacrifice in order to protect the health of others. Even if you have your own car and your own home and do not live with anyone, you are making your home less desirable to visit and your car less valuable if you try to sell it. Look at all the eBay listings that say,"from a smoke-free home." People do not like smoke. Smoke causes damage. It is just a fact. So, I never smoked indoors anywhere other than bars and tobacco shop smoke rooms. (The tobacco shops can still legally allow smoking under the new law, which makes sense. If a person does not like smoke, why would he be in a tobacco shop?) As far as bars go, I think that is a bit extreme to outlaw smoking there, but then again, I do not go there all the time to get drunk and destroy my liver. I go on occasion to have drinks, meet people and have a good time with friends. Why not be able to do it in a smoke-free environment?

Answer 5

Secondhand smoke affects the health of everyone it comes in contact with, but especially the employees who are forced to inhale it for 8 to 12 hours a day in bars and restaurants. That is why Ohio passed one of the most restrictive laws on 2nd hand smoke, which prohibits smoking in all Workplaces, including the cabs of semi trucks.

There are thousands of documented cases of people who do not and never have smoked dying from smoking related illnesses as a direct result to exposure to this poisen.

I have no sympathy for someone who has no regard for not only there own life, but those around them as well.

Answer 6

I just think a business should be able to say its a smoke or non-smoke facility....solves all problems....

And yes, you are right to the health issues....we see it all time, in fact we are treating a man that he has never been around smokers, never smoked but is battling lung ca now.....then my stepmother was probably a 2 pk a day smoker and died in her 80s of something else....figure that one? 2nd hand smoke for her? if that was the case my Dad said he would have died long time ago...he lived to 85 and died of gall bladder trouble and no other health problems but arthritis.....Its the smell most non-smokers complain about though....so thats why I say let the business oweners decide what they want, they pay for their business and keep gov't out of more and more of our lives

Answer 7

So if my behavior isn't going to harm you for years, that makes my behavior acceptable? That's poor reasoning and must come from someone pretty young or with no with no sense of the future.

Just because a disease has many causes doesn't mean we shouldn't do what we can to limit an individuals exposure to those causes if it wasn't their choice in the first place to be exposed to those causes.

I do not condone drinking in excess and there is no physical benefit to that. As opposed to smoking which has neven had any proven health benefits, having a drink a day has been proven to improve your heart and have other proven physical benefits.

Answer 8

Second hand smokes makes my chest hurt in just a few hours. The smell permeates everything it comes in contact with. I personally stay out of establishments that allow smoking. If people want to smoke they can, but I won't be there. If they want to visit with me I will be down the road with the rest of the crowd in the smoke free establishment.

Answer 9

I don't like it when people say they don't want to go to a smoke filled bar! Don't go. You have no right to tell privately owned businesses how to run their bar, bowling alley, restaurant. If you think it would be a great investment, start your own business.

Answer 10

Second hand smoke has now been reliably linked to cancer in non-smokers. While you are welcome to take risks with your own life, you are not welcome tot take risks with mine. That's why smoking needs to be stopped in public places such as bars. You can still smoke outdoors, in your car or your home.