Should public smoking be banned all together?

Question

Including outdoors ie bus stops high streets ect
how about in bars/clubs and restaurants...
Passive smoking is becoming more and more of a problem... what are your views?

Yes I agree with what the majority of you are saying, everyone has a right to smoke if they wish to. Equally non smokers have the right to party, and go to bars ect, without endangering their lives. Passive smoking is a major problem today, I know several people who have died as a result. However, my main point is that, surely, considering the environmental AND human dangers smoking brings, some sort of action should be taken for the sake of our lives?

Don't get me wrong, I don't dislike/hate smokers, I just want to live... I think I am entitled to that, and these days it hard to do anything withoug being surrounded by smokers. Someone comented that if i don't like it I should stay at home... is that fair?

Fujen has made a good point! thank you

Answer 1

your my hero. I agree

Answer 2

No.That's what's so good about the USA.FREEDOM!!!!!!!!The non-smokers may have rights.While us{the smokers} have no rights.It's unconstitutional.&,like in the bars...A bar is a smokey,crowded place.If u don't want 2 b around people,drunks,or smoke...stay at home!!!*

Answer 3

I think open air places like bus stops and parks is okay- places where the people not smoking can get away from it, but not right at the door of a business where the smoke whiffs back in or at outdoor resteraunts. It doesn't make any difference if your outside and the table next to you is smoking. I especially hate it when people smoke inside public buildings or resteraunts where the smoke can roll around freely.
It's nothing against smokers or anything and it's not that I just don't like the smell-- I'm actually allergic to cigarett and cigar smoke! My nose itches, throat hurts, wheezing, eyes itching, hives, the whole nine yards. Please, understand I actually like the smell of a Black and Mild, but I'm allergic to it.
My family had to leave an Outback Steakhouse the other day before our meals got to the table. We were seated not far from the bar in the NON smoking section but because the bar did allow smoking, I got sick. It's like having a peeing section in the pool! Even moving to the other side of the resteraunt did not help. Can you image how embarrassing that is?
I do wish, people who smoke would understand it's nothing personal against them. It's their choice to smoke but if they can't be polite and considerate of those of us who can't be around it, then rules need to be made about where people can and can not light up. We non-smokers in this debate are just asking to be able to share the same places without having to break out emergency inhalers and have our eyes swell shut! Is that too much to ask for?

Answer 4

I think smoking is a personal choice and although I personally don't like it, it is not the governments business to regulate it. Bar and club owners have the right to choose their clientel and non-smokers don't have to patronize those clubs if they don't want to. There are plenty of other places to go.

Answer 5

I totally disagree. I am a nonsmoker. Why should we tear at the rights of adults? Next to banned is alcohol. Are you up for that as well?

If you don't like the smell, don't go to bars and sit in nonsmoking. These people pay for their cigarettes, including taxes that fund schools and more, let them smoke them.