SMOKING! Allow me to decide. Right or Wrong?

Question

U.S. District Judge Sam Sparks said the businesses must post "no smoking" signs and remove ashtrays and other smoking accoutrements. However, the OWNER can no longer be held liable for not taking additional steps if patrons continue to smoke.

Please note: This makes ALL smoking bans ILLEGAL unless your State or town wants to train you, supply liability insurance, sign you on as police AND make it a law that anyone they want must be forced into police duty. Your 16 year old son washing dishes in a restaurant would have to go to the police academy because he may have to uphold the smoking ban law. Remove these un-enforceable laws from your books NOW to avoid law suits. Every worker has the right to sue you when hurt, your ban opens you up for liability.

I’m an adult, I make my own choices. Government has taken my social life, my freedom as an adult to decide what’s good or not for me, they’ve shoved their inaccurate statistics in my face for too long. Give me a doctor that will cite that smoking was the MAIN cause of death, they can’t because cancer can be caused by many contributing factors.

I’d like the return of smoking in bars, let me go back to bars where I'd enjoy a good night of dancing (free exercise) and a smoke along with my beer. And for those who oppose this, well, you can stay home, that’s a choice that you have. As to those who have to work in such an environment, let them be smokers so that we don’t infringe on anyone’s right on a smoke free environment and while your at it, all those against smoking you might as well build your self a cocoon where you alone can live, the quality of air outside is questionable even more than smoking a cigarette. What do we face on a hot summer day, standing at a corner waiting for the lights to change, ughhh worse is the inhalation of all those fumes from the vehicles. And the list goes on.

Allow me the courtesy of introducing you to a web site that will perhaps change your mind on the matter of smoking.

http://encyclopedia.smokersclub.com/116.html read it all with special notice to the Ban Damage Page.

And allow me to finish with this thought that’s been nagging, I’ve smoked since the age of 13yrs old and I’m 51 now, hard core smoker, lol, Why did I start? I was given permission to do so. Played within the rules all my life. Push comes to shove, if I had not subjected you to my smoke you’d probably be dead by now because when you inhaled that poisonous smoke of mine you were coating your lungs with a protective layer, protecting your lungs from much more harmful pollutants, smog that’s prevalent in ALL of our major cities, exhaust fumes that can be found at all street corners, hate those dam lights that take forever to change forces me to stand there and inhale all those fumes ugh.
Funny how statistics are showing a rise in lung cancer when most of the population has quit.

And yes the tobacco producers can increase the amount of nicotine they put into my little smoke because government has decided to restrict my usage, infringe on my rights when they should be putting into policy strict governing policies for all Tobacoo Growers (in regards to additives in the tobacco).

Answer 1

You can decide if you decide what's right.

Answer 2

Oh, get over it. I'm a smoker, and it hasn't done anything to my social life, and I still smoke as much as I did before (and I think my state was one of the first to enact a ban). If you need a hit that badly and can't get one, slap on a patch and go out and have a good time. Or take some nicorette to give you enough of a hit so that you can still go out. Stop whining. Smoking is not a fundamental right.

The fact is that smoking is a HUGE factor for causing cancer (not the only one, yes, but it is), and plenty of people are allergic to the smoke. The government tells you where you can and can't do things everyday -- so unless you want to try to drive on the left hand side of the road, get over it, and move on. Join the rest of us huddled outside, taking in polluted air with our nicotine.

And you have A LOT to learn about the law, if you think one decision by one judge makes the bans illegal. This judgment doesn't even invalidate the ban, so to speak, just the language of the ban to enforce it. Besides, Sparks decision is hardly binding, only would be persuasive in the district and circuit that he sits and would have little to do with the other circuits and their districts.

Answer 3

I am 46. I've been smoking since 13, everyday since 19. I have been recently experiencing some bad things medically, having gone to the ER for chest pains, blood pressure 200/60 a Heart Cath done, heart is fine. This Thurs. same thing occurred, 199/103, now they have put me on high blood pressure med's. What did I just do 5 minutes before typing this, smoke a cigarette. Why, because the doctor in the Heart hospital says it is as addicting as Cocaine or Heroin. Hmmmm. Isn't that wonderful....It was my choice to smoke, but the tobacco industry and government KNEW how addicting it is, and continued to make cigarettes with all the crap they put in them....Since it is Legal, and the government gets kick backs from the Tobacco Industry, let alone the TAX money they get, seems to me a bit crazy to on one hand say, NO smoking, but continues to let the tobacco companies produce a deadly substance....NOW, I work in a Bar/Grill, if my boss was to ban smoking, he may as well shut his doors!!!....Where I live it is a huge crop here. You can smoke in many public places here. I am a smoker, but if someone is eating, I can surely wait till I am done with my meal and have a cig on the way home. I won't die if I don't get my cig in the restaurant. But a BAR, where people are pouring POISON into their bodies, cigarettes hardly are the least problem in a Bar to me..If the place is an upscaled Club where linens are used for example, and the owner makes it a non smoking establishment, people have a choice, go there or to a place where they don't ban smoking....I don't think smoking is good, I wish I never started, but, I don't think Non-smokers should make the rules for everyone!....It is a Legal substance, and if you don't like it, go somewhere else. If I don't like the non-smoking sterile atmosphere where I have to smell 15 different kinds of watered down perfume and cologne by people dressed up to try to "hook up", I won't go there.....It is a crazy cycle of BS. where the government on one hand says its legal, but no, can't smoke here, but we want the tax revenue from the sale of it.....I can understand a non smoker not liking the smell, but to compensate one person, for 50 others that would patron a place, a BAR, is stupid....AND you are right about the LUNG CANCER thing, lots of people have quit, or not smoked, and lung cancer has not lessened!!!!! POLLUTION, is ungodly, and people beoch about cigarettes....Look at all those smoke stacks and the crap that comes out of cars, what's it smell like at a gas station, we breathe and eat more crap at the hands of others than cigarettes could ever put out.....just read one label on the grocery store's shelf!......It is never going to be a compromisable situation.....

Answer 4

I think everybody should have the freedom to decide for themselves it they smoke or not. In public places you can easily make smoking and non smoking places.
People who say that you should not pollute the airway of others, should stop driving a car. And if it comes to the personal health of the smoker, then people should also stop drinking alcohol, eating unhealthy food, be too much stressed out, etc. etc. etc.
But to be honest, I don't think that anti-smokers care about MY health as a smoker. I find it very hypocrite. It's a mass-psychosis, this whole anti-smoking thing.
Again, there are much more polluting things, and if there are smoking and non-smoking areas then no-one has a problem.
If there is anyone around me who really gets a bad effect of my smoke, like someone with asthma, I just don't smoke. I don't need to be pampered with rules for that.

Anti-smoking campaigns are no more then hypocritical witch hunts.

Answer 5

Unfortunately for you smokers are a major minority so its the majority saying if you dont like the smoking ban you stay home and smoke,I cant preach I smoked for 17 years and have been off them for almost two but man do they disgust me now,before I would get mad just like you but it is an offensive thing to do near people that dont want to be subjected to it.If you think it isnt harmfull than that is a dangerous though in your head and something that is harmfull should not be forced on unwilling people.By the way anyone who wants to quit buy The Easy Way To Quit Smoking by Allen Carr it is an amazing book.

Answer 6

My brother and I spent every summer on our uncle's dairy farm in Kentucky and also helped plant the tobacco. I quit smoking when I was pregnant. Later, our mother died from lung cancer. My brother refused to quit smoking. My brother only recently quit smoking because he had a heart attack just before Thanksgiving.

It is your decision whether to smoke or not. But it should not be your right to subject others to the second hand smoke. Before last Thanksgiving, my brother would have joined you in your quest but he caved in when his mortality was threatened.

Answer 7

issiah 42; 3 explains the why
messianics and neo cons worried about it declared war on all who ;'' smoking flax he will not quench'' because he could mix it with tobacco why
'' he will bring forth justice for truth ''
but they forget 42; 2
and 41 1 41 ;4 , 5-10 ,14 ,16 ,18-23
43;19 ,25-18
for 44;2425
51;1-7 ,12-13 ,21-23
531-8
547-11 ,13-16
55;1-3 ,6-11
56;1-2 ,7 ,10-12
571-4,10-14 ,199999-21
59;all
60;17-18
well you get the idea the neo cons had to be stopped
the messianics needed thier proofs etc
but your right to stand up bro
tell them we are pisssed and not taking it any more
set our people free
66;6-9 ,12 ,18 ,22-23
then jeremiah 2;19 -21 ,26 ,29999-30
but they know most of it allready

Answer 8

I don't agree with the ban either, and it's a clear case of an overbearing state dictating to its citizens. However, I do want to quit smoking one day, and I guess that's when I'll start appreciating the ban.

Answer 9

it's your choice, your life. there are so many problems in the world right now, yet cig haters continue to pick on the smoking habits of others. people get cancer regardless if you smoke or not. for example, christopher reeves wife, lung cancer. she didn't smoke. you think people who smoke don't know what the risks are of smoking? yes of course they do, and im sure they are not deliberately trying to blow a load of smoke in your face either. if you wanna ban cigs everywhere, then you might as well ban fast food, alcohol, the chemicals used in shampoos and conditioners, the chewing gum EXTRA which has been proven to cause cancer on laboratory animals, gasoline because you smell it at the pump, shall i continue? hopefully you get my point. there are so many 'dangerous' things in this world, and still you choose to pick on smokers, i think people fuss because of the smell. i especially hate when your smoking like 30 feet away from someone and they do that annoying fake cough. ugh!!! so bottom line is: light up!

Answer 10

Totally right. Everyone mind your own business and quit trying to run my life! What ever happened to private property rights in this country. The pleasure police aren't going to stop with smoking. Next it will be fast food, caffeine, and eventually mandatory exercise. Hello 1984

Answer 11

I agree with you. And now the government and judges are telling us we can't eat french fries and hamburgers because we're gonna get fat! I think it's high time the government and the courts butt the hell out of our lives!