I don't smoke but isn't it worrying that everyone has accepted a smoking ban?

Question

Isn't it our choice to make and not Tony Blair?
Another legislation I'm not too concerned about, foxhunting. Okay, whatever, but at least here people have fought for what they believe in. In years to come, demonstrating will be outlawed at this rate. Posters will promote how great Labour is and denounce other equally bad parties (possibly). The EU will tell us further what to do. Does everyone just obey the daleks without question these days?

We're even going to be having 'Smoking Police' taxing us £50 for violations via the councils according to a tabloid source. Don't we get taxed enough on wages, processing our wages in a bank, then on wages in VAT?

What is the solution to it all? Bet if certain parties knew they wouldn't get votes so easily be a lot harder to impliment a police state. Unfortunately people like to live like sheep and be guided safely into their pen and wrapped in cottonwool from the threat of terrorism.

...so they can track our movements with identity cards/chips.

Answer 1

Yes. Even if you are not a smoker this is one of the most important issues. Its a matter of if those in power should be allowed to take away personal choice and mold people to fit their liking. First it is smoking, but whats next?. . a totalitarian society where all personal behaviors are strictly controlled by the government even more than they already are. Soon the government will be telling people what to eat, how to dress, what music to listen to ect.. Everyone has a vice therefore everyone is at risk. it is important to stop this immediately before its too late.

Another problem is personal responsibility.. Don't like that a restaurant allows smoking? they aren't forcing anyone to eat there . The solution which the anti-smokers are too inept to see is to eat some place else. If i don't like something about a restaurant or business i simply go elsewhere, why are anti-smokers so much less competent? and why should laws favor people who are that inept?

Answer 2

Right!!! I'm sick of being treated like a leper, I smoke okay deal with it! When smokers were the majority we accomodated the non smokers. Now its the other way around they treat us like crap. Give smokers somewhere to go and they will go there. How dare they say we can't smoke in the street they don't own the air. Do you call this freedom???
You know what though? If everyone quit smoking, where would the taxes from the cigs have to come from? My cigs say UK DUTY PAID. Drink will be next. They have already started on it. Smokers don't fill up E&A every week end. I can still drive home. I would rather sit next to someone who's had ten cigs than ten pints. But that's not the point is it. The more you tell me not to, the more difiant I will be about smoking just because I can, it is my right as a human being to do what I like.
Spending millions on an advert and all you see is someone with a fish hook through his mouth! Like that's going to do it. Bare in mind... there are worst thing I could be doing.

Answer 3

I was a heavy smoker for years and quit nearly 14 years ago. I was the type who smoked more when someone told me I had to quit. I realized that the only person who could make me quit was me. I didn't start by smoking two packs a day, so I quit the same way I started, slowly. Every person who is addicted to nicotine has their own way that they will or won't quit and it's hard to push them without pushing them away. You love them and that's so important and approaching the subject with love and without making them feel guilty will likely get you a better and less defensive response. If they are smoking in your presence, leave the room or open the car window. You don't need to say anything, they'll get the hint eventually and hopefully will realize that if they want your company, they will have to refrain from smoking near you. The hardest part of quitting smoking is leaving the "friend" behind. Ironic that this "friend" is also the thing that can harm them most. But if you notice their smoking habits, it's usually increased or in response to certain situations including sadness and joy or accomplishment, and mostly boredom. Hang in there and try to show love and learn from them that smoking is extremely addictive and if it was easy to quit, most people would.

Answer 4

Yes, I couldn't agree more. I have answered this sort of question many times before so I wont give you another long answer. This issue has been a top down initiative from a nannying totalitarian regime. I am a non-smoker not an anti-smoker, and I deplore the intolerance that has come with this ban, particularly in pubs. I can live with the ban in most other areas, but, for goodness sake, let those pubs whose owner doesn't want to ban smoking carry on with it. It is plain vindictive to do otherwise.

Let us be clear about one thing, pubs are not in business for the benefit of their staff, it is the customer they are there for. Also, the effects of so called passive smoking have been deliberately and grossly exaggerated and the financial argument definitely doesn't stack up.

This sort of intolerance spreads, and it is promoted by bullies, and followed by mindless sheep.

The introduction of the smoking Police is beyond parody. (smacky hands and legs). But, it will improve the crime detection rates wont it?

Answer 5

I am a Christian, and here's it how I look at the new smoking band law. It is not right. It says in the bible that smoking is a sin {yea} But first off that was never the governments point for trying to ban smoking in the first place. Also 2nd off my mom smokes. And my brother, sister and dad. and my aun't's and uncle's. See in the bible God in Genesis God gave people the right to choice. Either to be with Him or against Him. So banning cigerests is a sin. So I believe it is unconstitutional. So they need to stop all this, {Amen}, and get back to the meaning in life and that is God........

Answer 6

I do smoke and can accept that other people should not have to breathe the smoke from my cigarettes if they choose not to. What irritates me is that there is no choice, if it is a workplace, there is no smoking and no exceptions. The main impact on me is that I no longer go to pubs (as I don't drink I now have no reason whatever to be in one) and I very seldom go to restaurants. There is the danger of loosing the baby with the bathwater. In improving workers conditions they may also become redundant. Spain has a better approach with the size of the premises and the owners preferences for smaller premises allowing some choice.

Answer 7

Well I live in scotland and we have had a smoking ban for over a year now and it is the best thing that could have ever happened. The goverment are not asking people to stop smoking just in certain areas , why should people who don't smoke have to inhale lungfulls of fags smoke??

I think if you ask anyone in glasgow they would say that it is a good thing and glad it's happened.

Answer 8

I don't smoke, but laws against it are going to far, out of resturants and some public places is respect, I can see, but in bars on the streets and everywrhere else is a real invasion of ones privacy..

Answer 9

Let those who smoke put their weight behind it.
I stopped about 8 years ago and I believe in live & let live, but if it's so important to an individual, then they should ensure they make their opinion count..

Answer 10

Now that you have found the meaning of sheeple, it is time to get active. It is not a good thing that the people of the world are gladly handing their freedoms over to ensure safety. We must all fight for our freedoms, this means going back to a Conservative way of life. one in which we take personal responsibility for our own lives.
The formation of socialist governments and the loss of European liberty and sovereignty will bring the end to western lifestyles every were. It is not your government responsibility to feed and cloth your poor. In fact it is the poor persons responsibility to do for himself. In fact, in the united states, welfare is unconstitutional, yet it exists.
We are now privy to the end of another great civilization. I don't know what the historians will call us, But i am sure it will be a western/christian/freedom kind of name. Unlike the Persians, Egyptians, Greeks, and Romans. This civilization was not based on an oppressive government that ruled by brute force. Instead it was evolved from the Christian idea of equality and love that bread freedom and liberty. It spread across the globe, sometimes by war, other times by pure will of a people to choose freedom. And it crashed down when the educators themselves started to look to an idea of socialism and government rule of the people for few would ever admit that Hillary Clinton could be as evil as the anti-Christ.