I see now in many places smokers have to stand so many feet from a building to smoke. And many places have huge taxes on buying a pack of smokes. Some people I see on TV news said they were annoyed by smokers near buildings and it's unhealthy. How bout we put a huge tax on obese people buying lunch at Mcdonalds. It's unhealthy for them and helps raise the cost of insurance for us all.
2007-01-23 07:19:11 · 6 answers · asked by boxerslive 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
I see now in many places smokers have to stand so many feet from a building to smoke. And many places have huge taxes on buying a pack of smokes. Some people I see on TV news said they were annoyed by smokers near buildings and it's unhealthy. How bout we put a huge tax on obese people buying lunch at Mcdonalds. It's unhealthy for them and helps raise the cost of insurance for us all. I would like to know what the chances are of someone getting cancer from 2nd hand smoke and dying compared to the effects one might get from chemicals to preserve foods, or maybe deaths by jaywalkers, or sledding deaths, ect.....
2007-01-23 07:28:25 · update #1
i am a teenager and me and most of my friends smoke, but even if i was of legal age and didnt want to be caught by my parents, i still would want to smoke outside, i know how crappy it is when someone smokes indoors around you, and so i would always go outside, even in the snow, like today, and yes, the taxes are very high, but the government just use any excuse to get money off us
2007-01-23 07:28:59 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I used to have this understanding also, but after being with my ex-wife who tried to quit being a chain smoker many many times, I've changed my mind. These people are addicted, very addicted. They will kill themselves if only to get one more puff. It steals the color from their skin, the taste from their tongue and pollutes their body, and second hand smoke is very capable of doing the same to non-smokers. I'm not willing to die for someone else's weakness.
2007-01-23 07:51:54 · answer #2 · answered by mykl 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The whole smoking thing has to do with smoking 'second-hand smoke' which is deemed as harmful, if not more harmful than the harm done to a smoker.
It's banned, because no one wants a lawsuit when someone gets lung cancer from se con-hand smoke.
2007-01-23 07:26:40 · answer #3 · answered by poutine 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The difference is that people's smoke goes right into my lungs and it can be, and is, harmful to me, and especially young kids. I don't care if they smoke in their homes away from people that it can hurt. Second-hand smoke can cause cancer and I don't feel like dying anytime soon.
On the other hand the fat person at McDonald's is only hurting him/herself. I can't get any disease from that person eating fatty foods.
Edit: The chances of second-hand smoke causing cancer are probably very low (I haven't looked it up yet but I'm going to) but even very low is too much. If my child has a 1 in 300,000,000,000 chance it is too much.
2007-01-23 07:23:15 · answer #4 · answered by Laura 5 · 2⤊ 2⤋
You're right. We shouldn't discriminate amongst the unhealthy activities. However, how else can you possibly treat people who wantonly destroy their own bodies? Really, why should we tolerate people doing something so stupid as smoking?
2007-01-23 07:24:16 · answer #5 · answered by Phoenix, Wise Guru 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
So true... Let people do what they want to do.. I'm fed up of this pathetic nanny state we live in.
2007-01-23 07:23:13 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋