Smoking in public, why not?

Question

If you don't like ciggarettes, just don't go to a smokey bar.

If you want a bar to ban smoking, open your own bar.

Who are you to force your will on others?

If you anti smoke fascist get this to happen in Kansas City, I will make you regret it. (somehow)

Answer 1

I agree with you completely, and I am not a smoker. I think many governments have crossed the line in telling private business owners what they can do in their establishments. If they allow smoking, and you don't like it, take your money elsewhere.

There is a man in Houston that has basically been put out of business over this. He owned a cigar bar. People went there solely to smoke cigars and have a couple of drinks. That was the whole reason you would go there. Now, he cannot allow the people to smoke in the bar, and his business is basically going to fail.

But, no one wants to say anything because it deals with smoking. It is like defending the rights of the KKK, or some other racist organizations right to express themselves. While they should be allowed to, people don't want to be linked to those types of things.

Funny story, as I use smokeless tobacco. I had a woman call the flight attendant and "turn me in". Then, she got mad when the flight attendant said that only smoking wasn't allowed on planes. There is no "second hand" anything from the use of smokeless tobacco.

The government is doing wrong by this. I don't think smoker's right are necessarily being infringed upon, more tha private business owners.

Answer 2

It is what they call tyranny of the majority. I agree that if people want to get together and smoke they should be able to. I know some restaurant/bar staff that are upset that they can no longer smoke while bar-tending along with their smoking customers. There should be some clubs or bars where smokers could go as customers and smoking staff could work. People do not like to be told how to live. How would all the vegetarians feel if we took their soy and seaweeds away from them.
And one of the stupidest thing that somebody can say is that second hand smoking is more dangerous than smoking. How could that be possible since it is impossible to be a smoker without being a second hand smoker (between puffs), that is just propaganda to use to guilt the smokers. Smokers get cancer and emphysema way more than non-smokers even second hand ones. A lot of propaganda in the West is based on guilting people for all kinds of things.
I am allergic to all kind of perfumes and air-freshners but I would not demand that people remove them, I'll avoid them my self.

Answer 3

I don't see why people are like that. To the people who say they don't want to walk down the street choking on cigarette smoke, they already do when it comes to the smog and everything that comes out of cars, fires, etc. Besides the smoke dissapates quickly outside.

About the bars, I agree with them. A few bars should be smokeless so they will be happy, but the others should be left alone.

Answer 4

A snail lived near a railroad track. Each day, the train thundered by, disturbing the little snail's peace. The snail finally decided to stand up to the train and make it quit the bothersome behavior. Here he sat in between the rails, waiting for the train.
The train approached noisily and kept right on going, ignoring the little snail, who turned to look after the rapidly leaving train, shouting angrily: "You coward!"
I think the smoking bans are ridiculous, but neither you nor I will halt a development which is geared to remove yet another self-help tool from the public's hands. Tobacco is a mild mood stabilizer and therefore competition for the growing Prozac industry ...

Answer 5

I agree with you.

I find it humorous, actually. We have some restaurants here than have hopped on the anti-smoke bandwagon, and banned it from the building. It's laughable because the smoking sections in these particular establishments, when they had them, were in the back where non-smokers wouldn't even pass by it on the way to being seated. Now, instead, the smokers stand outside the front door to have their fix - where EVERYone has to walk through it. In my opinion, they're getting more second-hand smoke now after all the whining than they ever did before. Way to win there.

Answer 6

I've never smoked in my life and have no intention of ever starting...but it seems to me that if smokers were a little more courteous, non-smokers wouldn't be clamoring for laws banning smoking.

I don't care if you smoke, just don't blow it in my face. You have the right to smoke, but I have the right not to breathe it in.

That being said, the decision to allow someone to smoke should be left up to the establishment's owner. I'm a firm believer in property rights.

Answer 7

Smoke where it is legal if you choose. I would rather see a ban on alcohol. But govt. reps drink in the majority and smoke in the minority

Answer 8

i agree, if cigarretes are dangerous for health they should be illegal, marijuana and another drugs are too, but they leave smoking as a people choice just because is great amount of taxes and bussines, dugs are too, they should be illegal , they want to prohibit the fact of smoking but is allowed by law to produce and sell cigarrettes.
is just stupid

Answer 9

Look around you next time you are at the bar. You will see that the MAJORITY do not smoke. Your friends that say it's OK, when you light up in front of them are lying, just so you know.

Answer 10

smokers tend to be painfully ignorant of the misery they inflict on others, until the ban was passed here in canada, I was unable to go to bars, because I am so allergic - I had to go through one once to use the bathroom, but didn't make it, passing out by the pool tables. Smokers walk down the streets poisoning everyone they encounter and think it's ok.
If I ever meet you, maybe I'll spray some pesticide in your face and laugh, eh.