Smoking PROHIBITION.?

Question

Do you think all this smoking prohibition is a nonesense? I like to smoke and think its COOL. I don't want to give up.

Answer 1

I support smoking bans in public places for one reason.

My daughter is asthmatic, and cigarette smoke almost always triggers attacks. In fact, the only times she has attacks are when she's exposed to cigarette smoke, stressed or sick. That's it.

I am so thankful that Salt Lake City just passed a law banning smokes in public parks? Why? Every time I took my daughter to the park last year, she would have an attack because of people smoking in the children's area.

At one point my daughter started wheezing, and the mother next to her that was smoking blew it in her FACE and told her to shut-up! I about went ballistic. If it hadn't been for the fact that I had to get my daughter her inhaler and help her breathe, I probably would have been arrested for assault. And that witch didn't even apologize when my daughter turned blue!

Do you smokers that are screaming about your rights care about those you hurt? Is it COOL to cause a child's asthma attack?

And crap like that happened ALL the time when I took my daughter out. I am so thankful she can go to the park with her friends now, and not have to worry about her having an asthma attack due to ignorant, cruel adults that think it's COOL to smoke around children.

Just because you want to smoke doesn't give you the right to make those with respiratory illnesses miserable! They have as much right as you do to go in public areas, and guess what? You can go without a cigarette for an hour. They can't go without air for that long.

Answer 2

When we suddenly prohibit legal behavior such as drinking or smoking and do not provide for the long term addicts, we endorse criminal profiteering as Al Capone has proven.
Smokers and beer drinkers pay more taxes than anyone else, and just what is going to happen to education when the smokers and drinkers rebel and decide as a large force to no longer support the yuppies and the US Government troglodytes?
Why in the Hell should I work for $13 an hour and give $8 per hour to Berkeley, California School of Beemer Basket Weaving when I can provide cartons to Canadians and make more money than George Bush can spend on Iraq and my income would be tax-free? A ban drives up the sales value of any proscribed substance and there are quite a few folks in Colombia whom would agree as they take the CIA money and run to laugh darkly at the Smoke Nazis' expense.
Seriously, question initiator, unless you think emphysema, ostracism and higher insurance premiums because you smoke are "Cool," you have more issues to resolve than I do this year.
Stop smoking if you can and don't have a 50 year old habit to kick. I am an addict; still find it more economical and enjoyable to smoke despite the fact I have a progressive lung disease which is more a genetic ommission than the fault of "Big Tobacco," and my war cry has been, "Turn in your polluting auto for a bicycle and then we can talk about my 'emissions' as rational beings."
My generation which produced Rosa Parks and Dr. Martin Luther King as well as "Moonday, July 1969" will be gone and forgotten by the time your kids enter First Grade in school. We defend our rights to continue to smoke because the anti-smokers call us nasty names rather than offer a comfortable method to solve our addiction; they are willing to do more for the illegal aliens whom steal our wallets and they take payments from tobacco lobbyists.
Currently drunk drivers have more respect and rights than we smokers as illustrated by the mayor of Carson City, NV whom was busted but can afford a competent lawyer to conjure up "justice" as all politicians seem able to do in AD 2007.

Answer 3

Yea, I do agree with you. Just cause I have that liberitarian ideology- where I beleive people should be allowed to do whatever they want as long as they don't hurt others. Sure smoking can kill you, but thats when you choose to smoke 3pack a day-your fault,your body, your grave.
The truth is if smoking is outlawed then so should alcahol and fast food, because all of these can kill you. But you and I know thats not going to happen.

I Live in San Francisco, and it is illegal here to smoke in any restaraunt, bar, store, public place including all parks and even at a bus stop. Many cities are starting to follow. The truth of the matter is that since they cant make smoking illegal, they want to make it virtually impossible to do so and enjoy it. The excuse and justification is 'second hand smoke kills'. However, the real truth is seond hand smoke doesn't kill at all. In 1998 the E.P.A let out a repor and the only report to this date that linked 80,000 deaths to secondhand smoked. It is now known that the report was false and was released to scare the general public and serve the E.P.A's agends-Ban Smoking. The way the report worked is they linked lung related deaths and then saw if the person that died had a relative like an uncle or a close friend that smoked and if indeed then they classified the death as a cause of second hand smoke. It's ridicolous and stupid, Im not making none of this up, I challenge anyone to prove to me that second handsmoke really kills. I know, as a non-smoker myself I couldn't beleive it either.....but I did my own research and talked to the experts myself. I can now honestly tell you...SECOND HAND SMOKE DOESN'T KILL YOU.

P.S- I hate the smell of smoke myself, but just because I hate the smell doesn't mean it should be outlawed. If you are not smoking in my house or property then you as an individual in and American in the public have that right, regardless of who likes the smell or not. If I am a restaraunt owner and I wan't to have a smoking section and a non smoking section then so be it, governemnt should not dictate over it.

Answer 4

I smoke too - and would love to give it up - but as for the prohibition? It will not work - more and more people are starting to smoke.
How come all the smoking side of restaurants are full - non smokers choose to sit there with friends that smoke - and we all have a good time.

Answer 5

The government has no right to make laws like that effecting our bodies. 2nd hand smoke is a myth, not a single study has ever proven any link whatsoever with anything life threatening, so if the smell offends them than maybe they deserve to be offended.

Restaurants should have the right to make their own policy in regards to smoking. If people don't like it they can simply eat some place else. No smoker has ever tried to ban nonsmoking restaurants. The same applies to all businesses.

No laws should be made to make life easier for people who are too f_cking inept to choose where they eat.

Its not only about smokers though, the invasion of smokers rights might seem fine to nonsmokers and rabid anti-smokers but they will be taking more rights in the future. And everyone has a vice of somesort . By allowing the government to ban smoking it will allow them to ban other vices in the future. This society will be one of perfect robots who all think dress and behave the same - by law.



Also, I dont see how smoking triggers asthma attacks. I used to have really bad asthma id have to take my inhaler with me everywhere and now i haven't had an attack in 3 years . if anything smoking has helped my asthma, i just think some individuals relate smoking to asthma because it is convenient.

Answer 6

What's cool and what's not is hardly something I would discuss, considering a hippies and Hare krishna sects were the in thing a few decades ago, Goths perhaps they are cool. The type of clothes my parents wore when they were young, I would not wear even if I were paid to( And they thought they were cool).

Who gives a damn what's cool or not? Smoking is, well, smokin hot, if you like it and do it around like minded ppl.

But if someone doesn't like smoke, or smell ( Strangely, I wasn't much bothered by the smell when I used to do it. ) they shouldn't be subjected to it, any more than I would like to be forced to watch Texas chainsaw, or Hostel , Or those gory Saw type movies. Believe me, People think those torture typemovies are cool, those child soldiers in Africa and Srilanka think they are cool ( Yeah, just watched BLood diamond).

I started because of peer pressure, in reverse, cos everyone in my peer group were scholarly type non smokers who would have a heart attack if someone blew asmoke ring into their faces, And i did just that! No one should have the right to enforce their choices on others.

We all have the right to choose, and frankly, its not the length of life but what you do with it that matters, Doesn't it?

Smoke all you want, but plz avoid it when people don't want your passive smoke. Afterall , they have as much a right to not smoke, as you have to do it, right? Not to mention all those people with asthma and respiratory problems, isn't smoke from the commute enough, that they should risk more attacks in restaurants or public places?

Answer 7

The sale of cigarettes is still legal, and smoking is still legal. For those people who see these bans as a victory are not looking at the big picture. It is about another loss of freedom. Compromises can be made that would work for both sides of the smoking issue, but there are some who do not want any compromise at all.
This erosion of our freedoms bit by bit is really troubling. Before long, it will affect each and every one us and something we like to do.
You must be very young when you say you think it is cool though. Either that or sarcastic.

Answer 8

Well, I smoke too, but trying to quit. I don't need the government to help me though, or tell me if I can or not.
I can't understand why it's illegal in bars now. Where is
the logic in that? Not like it's a health club or something........"Hey bartender I'm trying to get good and drunk so I can drive home with that hot chick over there and have hot unprotected sex, but that jerk is over there smoking!" What's next? Are we all going to be forced to step on the treadmills and run like little hamsters until we reach the government's ideal weight standard?

All these haters don't get that riled up when Islamo-Fascist blow one our countrymen up, but puff some second-hand smoke on them and they declare a Jihad on you. Wow!

Answer 9

I don't smoke. But I think it is a bunch of hooey!!! Liberals never give up on forcing more and more laws on us. People need to control there own lives without the government telling them what they can an cannot do. Its only getting worse I'm afraid.
Give it up when your ready. You know in your heart of hearts its not good for you, so mentally start preparing for your day of freedom!
Nice post!

Answer 10

It always amazes me how bitter and hate filled the anti-smoking crowd is. Most smokers are respectful of other peoples sensitivity to the issue, but those opposed to smoking literally spew hate, ... just read some of the posts here, ... sadly, they are about as bigoted and anti-american as any other hatemongers. Perhaps they'll only understand our position when something they choose to do is taken from them by an angry, vicious mob of mindless do gooders.