Smoking - Banned in Public ..Now they want to Ban you Smoking at Home !?

Question

UK News - Soon the whole of the UK will be smoke free in public places .. and in Scotland they have raised the purchasing of cigarettes to 18. Now ..Big Brother is now creeping into our homes ...A council is investgating a couple for smoking in their own Home ! Do you think this is right - or do you think Smoking should be Banned ..period !

http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30100-13560789,00.html

Thank You for all your Answers ...Now we can only but wait for the plumber to pop round and install a smoke detecter in your Loo...incase you fancy a fly ***...

Answer 1

They should not be able to tell you what to do in your own house. Smoking is not a good habit, but neither is drinking. Or doing drugs, or a number of other things. But this is just getting ridiculous. Smoking is not the cause for everything. If they are so worried about it, why then do they accept the taxes for them? And why not ban driving cars? The exaust from all cars is way worse than smoking! But too many non-smokers drive, so they won't ban that. It is getting just as bad here in America too. My husband drives a semi-truck, and is not allowed to smoke in it anymore because it is considered a "workplace"! Duh! He's the only one in there! Who is he bothering?! And he doesn't haul flamable stuff or explosives, so it is safe to smoke in the truck. They need to quit blaming cigarett smoking on everything. But then who would they attack?

Answer 2

kappalokka - the number of smokers may have gone down, but the number of smokers reaching an age where their life-long habit is really affecting their health has probably risen. When today's young, less-smoking generation gets older, your argument might work a bit better. If you sit next to someone who's drinking too much, are you going to get liver disease just by being there? No, not if you're sensible about your own drinking. If you sit next to someone who smokes, could you get lung cancer by breathing in their smoke? Quite possibly. Is their smoke bad for your skin? Yes. For these very simple reasons, smoking in public should be banned. No-one has the right to make others sick and potentially cause their death.

Answer 3

In New York State, all public smoking is banned, including the work place, and many companies have eliminated outside smoking areas as well. Smoking is also banned in your own home if you have a housekeeper or other domestic employee. Of course, enforcement is another thing....
Personally, I'm in favor of it. As someone who never smoked and a father of an asthmatic child, I can't even imagine why anyone would want to start such a dirty, disgusting habit in the first place.

Answer 4

I hope big brother also has a lot of money. The problem with banning smoking is that cigarettes are still legal to purchase. No one can force you to stop smoking in your home as long as it's legal. Until they ban the tobacco companies for making these harmful cancerous cigarettes, they will never be able to stop smoking everywhere. I'm sick and tired of the people suffering and the tobacco companies getting fat off of the profits. Of course, your government is probably as corrupt as mine. The people over here come last and money will always be first. As long as they can make money off of it, they will continue to allow it. They don't care about their people and never have. Thank you and GOD bless.

Answer 5

You know what - I think this whole smoking thing is being drawn out of context. I do agree - smoking is BAD, UNHEALTHY, FILTHY, EXPENSIVE and every word of disgust you can think of regarding the habit. BUT - has anyone EVER bothered to have these big campaigns and debates and spending MILLIONS on anti-drugs or anti-alcohol??????????????? I think if you add the expenses between the three you will find that SMOKING has been the MOST EXPENSIVE little exercise!!!!!! What about alcohol?? How many children and women (and men for that matter) have been killed, raped, abused because of alcohol abuse? How man have the same been done to by SMOKERS?? Same goes for drugs - yet I have noted that in the UK and in SA where I live MILLIONS UPON MILLIONS are spent on the smoking ban whereas all those millions could have been spent to do something about the drugs and alcohol. And before anyone asks - YES, I am a smoker - THAT has nothing to do with my views on all the money and effort being spent on the anti-smoking campaign!!!!!!! Think about it!!!!!!

Answer 6

I've answered another similar post to this earlier. The people concerned were smoking outside their home I think, and the smell of their cigarettes invaded the home of the next door neighbour. I think it's about compromise in a case like this.
I live in between two families of heavy smokers, one neighbour is in and out of hospital with bronchial problems and often laughs about the fact he 'isn't long for this world' according to his doctors.
My oldest child is an asthmatic, I don't smoke and when people visit it is accepted that I won't allow smoke in the house.
having said that, at weekends and some evenings our house smells of cigarette smoke as if there was a smoker living here and while I have not complained it presents me with the problem that my sons health is at risk. For that reason I have had to decide to move house and hope that wherever we go, we don't have this same problem.
So before everyone condemns this neighbour who has complained, maybe try and imagine what it feels like to have your own home invaded by cigarette smoke when you yourself choose not to smoke and your childs health suffers because other people choose to. It is all about compromise, but it is only recently notice was taken of people who didn't want to breath in other peoples smoke anyway, before that smokers had it all their own way

Answer 7

i smoke and i smoke in my home and will continue to do so regardless of whatever laws the freedom hating government implement in fact i may even smoke more or upgrade to cigars the reason being i live near a road alot like the rest of us and more pollution and fumes come from the traffic on that road than my smoking will ever cause

Answer 8

I have answered a few questions similar to this one, and I suspect, like me, that you are outraged by their proposal.

I have formed a theory about why Governments', and their acolytes, push their controlling agendas to the extreme. If, for example, they can ban smoking in public, and then in your own home, followed ultimately by an outright ban. Then, what does that tell you? and more importantly, what does it tell them? Well, it provides us all with a measure of the DEGREE of control that they have achieved over us. And that is the point; they have proven, particularly with something as addictive as tobacco, that they have a very tight control.

People who support a smoking ban, simply because it compliments their particular predjudice, miss the big picture. Because, Government now knows the degree of power that it can exercise over our PERSONAL habits (hitherto totally acceptable ones), it can now be confident, preceded by a programme of carefully thought out propaganda, that it can start to exercise control in other areas of our personal life. Alcohol, comes to mind, but the potential is almost endless.

Government, can be even more devious than this in pursuing a particular agenda. (Currently, we are living with a budding left wing totalitarian government) Through destructive social policies, such as, attacks on marriage, promoting single parenthood, weakening the law, etc, it creates circumstances (symptoms) in society, that appear to justify further invasions on our privacy and freedoms, in order to clear up the mess that they have deliberately created. For example, allow illegal immigrants/terrorists into the country, and then, use the obvious problems that that creates, to insist that we all carry I.D. cards.

So, I would say to all those intolerant control freaks, who can't wait to support the Governments' desire to control our personal habits, "be careful, they are coming for you".

Answer 9

I think it's a reasonable thing to ask smokers not to smoke around those who are not yet old enough to smoke. I've seen some people who worryingly think it's okay to keep small babies and children in the same room as them while they puff away on their cigarettes. That's obviously wrong.

Other than that, I don't really care if people smoke at home. :-)

Answer 10

It has definitely overstepped the line of decency. The council should keep their noses out, however, they have a duty to investigate complaints. I just think that it is now like communism, where people spy on each other then report them to the relevant authorities. In communism, people used to be afraid to say certain things in case the 'walls have ears'. In a free country like the UK, you should have some freedom and choose what you want to do in your own home. This is disgusting and violating your human rights to live your life the way you want in your home is just absolute ridiculous. If I was that person who's been reported I would take the council to the European Courts of Human Rights and get some form of compensation for hurting my feelings.