It is RUDE and GROSS to smoke in a public resturant. Why do you do it?

Question

Here's the "A" I forgot.

"Stand up for your right to cause SECOND HAND smoke?" You got to be kidding me.

Answer 1

Even when I still smoke, I never smoked inside. I always smoked outside away from doors and windows. It was my choice to smoke, not the passerby's choice. Why hurt everyone else. I didn't smoke in my car when I had nonsmokers with me. I have more respect for people I guess. I haven't had a smoke since the 3rd of this month.

Answer 2

That's your opinion. Not everyone thinks smoking is rude and gross.

Why do people in public restaurants chew with their mouths open and sit with their elbows propped up on the table? Personally, I think THAT is 10 times more rude and gross than smoking ever will be. If I want to see what you're eating, I'll look on your plate, thank you. :)

If you're this concerned about smoking in restaurants, you should consider moving somehwere where smoking is banned indoors. I live in Atlanta, and there is no smoking allowed in any restaurant here.

Answer 3

There's not many restaurants you can smoke in anymore. It's not gross if your a smoker. It's only rude now because that's what everybody tells you to think. It used to be rude to not open a door for a lady, or not help out your neighbor. When's the last time you helped an elderly person with their bags, or shoveled the snow off their driveway, as my husband did today. Us terribly rude smokers. It's probably rude to eat meat in front of a vegitarian at a restaurant too, isn't it? I'm sure thats pretty gross to them. I bet you don't have a problem with that. This "free" country is trying to take all of our rights away one at a time and people like you are amplifying the problem. We should stand up for our rights, all of them, or we won't be a free country anymore.

Answer 4

I don't think it's particularly rude or gross. It used to be so common that nobody noticed. The only reason you notice now is because so many fewer people smoke than used to. The only reason you deem it "rude" and "gross" is because the anti-smoking crowd deliberately turned a public health issue into a moral issue--gets more people excited that way (witness YOU).

I feel sorry for smokers. They're stuck with an almost-insurmountable habit, and reviled for it. Not fair.

I am a lifelong NON-smoker. My grandmother was eaten up by cancers caused by her smoking. But I refuse to jump on the "bash smokers" bandwagon. That's crap.

Answer 5

Actually it was never considered RUDE or GROSS until some non-smoker decided to cause trouble for smokers who truly enjoy smoking.
I smoke because I enjoy it but I would never smoke around anyone who had a problem about it and I for one am tired of listening to those non-smokers whine about those who smoke.
For many years people had declared this country to be a free country but how things have changed and not all for the good of the people either. I'm not saying that smoking is good either but a person should have the right to smoke or not to smoke.
This is my answer and you did ask the question.
I may get blasted for my answer but I tell it like it is.

Answer 6

No you're honestly no longer the in effortless words one. i imagine that eating places ought to no longer hav smoking sections, or in the journey that they do, they favor to be a recommendations sufficient away so we cant scent it or be a sufferer of second hand smnoke. it would get rid of a few deaths a year if we decrease the places the position actually everyone looks in a position to smoke. Now it really is a disgusting habit sure, notwithstanding it remains their nasty proper to smoke, so per chance if we also had specified smoking parts in public homes. interior the Las Vegas airport, they have a tumbler enclosure with slot machines and bogs which will pass in there and smoke like chimenies in the journey that they pick to. So if we placed those interior the dep. shops and eating places and all that, per chance that ought to help too. i comprehend it soundds harsh and perhaps slightly discriminant, i locate it confusing to discern out what it really is that makes it proper to smoke round those who do no longer favor to be round it. Congratulations on your pregancy and earnings from the subsequent few many years of your life with your baby, they're going to be the acceptable you should ever imagine.

Answer 7

The People's Republic of California hasn't allowed it for 3.5 Centuries (counted in Nicotine-Fit Time.)

Move here and see what else we need to refrain from doing. How about caloric intake to stop obesity? Personally, I think that plants and animals are our friends: don't eat them.

Remember, you can always flush twice to get the job done with the new toilets, and you can always wire up 2 CFLs to replace one evil incandescent. Here in Cal, we're way beyond anybody else when it comes to making new laws. High production of new laws is proven to reduce global warming, according to experts.

(PS even when I used to smoke (before re-education camp) I never smoked in a restaurant or in an enclosed surrounding. We called it "courtesy" back then, but the government has replaced the concept with what is now called a "mandate." )

(But I miss the old smokey bars. Tobacco and single malt Scotch just loved each other so much....)

Answer 8

The rude & gross wouldn't bother me so much, that it's truly a threat to my health, does. There's a difference between an annoyance & something that's been proven time and again to cause cancer to others! So no, I don't smoke, in restaurants or elsewhere, and I do think people who do so are inconsiderate. Fortunately smoking is banned in many public places already here, and it will likely be banned in bars & restaurants soon too.

Answer 9

Carmen,

I smoke, and I happen to agree with you.

I do not smoke while dining...never have. In a lot of locales, it is now illegal to light up in a public establishment.

I for one think it's a good thing.

THEN I see a post from a self-proclaimed "genius" below...who isn't smart enough not to make broad generalizations. That person I would put in a smoker...and treat as a piece of salmon.

Answer 10

yes i do smoke and no i dont smoke in public restaurant in the uk you cant anyway but also if other people are eating its not fair to be smoking it called curtesy mind that is one thing an awful lot of smokers havent got a lot of