smoking inside house is crime or not?

Question

if a house has a asthamatic chid a allergic person, or a pregnent women,then only if the smoker is not handicap i mean he cant walk out of the house then it must be a crime.what is your opinian.

Answer 1

ndia ups the stakes in the fight against tobacco



In a major boost to the anti-tobacco movement, India’s Supreme Court has banned smoking in public places.

The court directed central and state governments as well as police commissioners to take effective steps to enforce the ban in public places, especially auditoriums, hospitals, schools, libraries, court buildings, public offices, and public transport.

The order was passed on 2 November as part of an ongoing case, in recognition of "the adverse effect of smoking on smokers and passive smokers." A comprehensive bill against tobacco use is still pending before a select committee of India’s parliament. Meanwhile, several states, such as Goa and Rajasthan, have already passed legislation against smoking.

India is the third largest producer and consumer of tobacco in the world. Survey data from the early 1990s showed that 43% of rural and 28% urban Indian males aged 10 years and above used tobacco in various ways, such as smoking or chewing it or taking it as snuff. In contrast, only 11% of females (aged 10 years and above) in rural areas and 5% in urban areas used tobacco.

"Currently, about one fifth of all deaths worldwide attributed to tobacco occur in India," said Monika Arora, programme manager of the Delhi based anti-tobacco group Health Related Information Dissemination Among Youth. More than 800 000 people die and 12 million become ill as a result of tobacco use every year in India, she added. Among men, tobacco related cancers account for about a half of all cancers in India and about a quarter of all cancers among women. "The rising oral cancer rates in India are among the highest in the world, and 90% of these can be attributed to tobacco use," said Ms Arora. Citing World Health Organization studies, she said that the proportion of all deaths in India attributable to tobacco is set to rise substantially, from 1.4% in 1990 to 13.3% in 2020.

"This judgement is a big leap forward for all people involved in tobacco control in India," Ms Arora told the BMJ. But she warned: "Although the state governments of Delhi, Goa, and Rajasthan have already enacted laws banning smoking in public places, the implementation of such laws has been inadequate as most people are unaware about the existence of such laws."

Despite implementation bottlenecks, activists are enthusiastic about the ruling. "Smoking can surely be reduced in public places by imposing such restrictions, fines, and stringent punishments, because these legislations give a platform to non-smokers to stand up for their rights," Ms Arora suggested. The Supreme Court has sought a compliance report from various government agencies within five weeks.

Answer 2

Sorry, in a home, smoking is not a crime. But there is a thing called manners. And good manners means that a smoker should smoke outside the house if it hurts someone inside the house. Or in the worst case, you could ask a judge for an injunction to force a person to smoke outdoors for medical reasons. And if someone inside the house becomes ill due to the smoke. You could always sue but would you sue a family member? T-Bear

Answer 3

if theres a child with an allergic reaction of course its wrong, not a crime but wrong. The same applies to any allergic reaction to anything. However no study has ever shown any risks associated with smoking and pregnancy. Allot of the anti-smoking propaganda was thought up in an instant and spoken as fact by over extreme perhaps well meaning anti-smoker would-be "do-gooder's" and that makes it near to impossible to decifer between the lies and reality.

As far as the supporters of anti-smokers, they may not realize that a very important part of the government induced anti-tabacco hysteria is for the government to condition the population to accept prohibitions on personal freewill, this is a very important step in regards to that. The smoking war is not a war against a particular minority but rather a war against the entire population. So many people are willing to sell out their own rights thinking that they're just jumping on the banwagon to persecute some minority they aren't part of but in reality are fighting a war on behalf of their opressors that will inevitavely end with them being oppressed too.


WAKE UP ALREADY


And if health is really a concern, check out the ingredients of the food you eat.

Answer 4

Personally I don't smoke in my house at all! I go outside even if it's 30 degrees BELOW 0! My b/f has asthma, plus I don't like my house to smell or my walls to turn brown.

I don't believe it's a crime, but why would you be so inconsiderate to others?

Answer 5

It is not a crime, our governemnt has not started regulating what activity we can do in the home.

Family and Children services may look at it as endangerment and see about taking the child out of the home.
Different from being a crime

Answer 6

Smoking at public places alone is barred & prohibited in Indian laws, hence an offence. A house is not a public place, hence smoking therein is no offence. Offence means some commission or ommission in violation of law of land.

Answer 7

Definition of "crime"
An act committed or omitted in violation of a law forbidding or commanding it and for which punishment is imposed upon conviction.

It might be morally wrong but definitely is not a "crime"

Answer 8

if he can't walk out side then it isn't a crime because u have the right to some in your own house and the same time u have to respect the rights of others.

Answer 9

IN MY OPINION SMOKING AT ANY PLACE WHETHER AT HOME OR OUTSIDE IN ANY CONDITION IS A CRIME BECAUSE IT NOT ONLY HARM OTHERS BUT ONSELF TOO.THE LIFE OF AN INDIVIDUAL AFFECT OTHERS VIZ HIS FAMILY.SMOKING CAUSE HARM AND RISK TO ONE'S HEALTH AND LIFE. THEREFORE IT INDIRECTLY AFFECTS THE OTHER PEOPLE.NEVERTHELESS SMOKING WHETHER INSIDE THE HOME OR OUTSIDE THE HOME POLLUTES THE ENVOIRNMENT WHICH IS DEFINITELY NOT IN THE FAVOUR OF NATION , NATURE AND IS A SUBSTANTIAL REASON FOR GLOBAL WARMING.HARMING INTEREST AND INJURING SO MANY PEOPLE HENCE IS A CRIME THEREFORE SMOKING IS A CRIME NO MATTER WHERE IT HAS BEEN DONE.

Answer 10

Smoking inside the privacy of your own home is not a crime, its your house and you can do anything within it, no law can tell you othewise.

Answer 11

Of cOuRsE iT is........ smoking can be cause by burn and even if youre smoking outside, you just dont know that if we will continue doing these.... the time will come that the ozone laYER wILL eventually cracked and as a matter of fact, nobody will p0rotect the earth from the suns heat thats why,,, for me,,, smoking is a CrImE....