Do you agree or disagree with the smoking ban that is coming in soon....????

Question

What do you think to the smoking ban that the goverment is bringing in........???? Do you agree or disagree with it....????

Answer 1

Hi Farrah,

I am a smoker but I do agree with banning smoking in eating areas such as restaurants. I hate it if someone smokes near me when I am eating.

On the other hand the non smokers should remember their beliefs every time they start their cars up! This is just as deadly.

Answer 2

I don't agree with it but it's coming. Remember when all that the anti-smoking people wanted was a "separate" area in a restaurant? That wasn't good enough. Then they wanted a complete separate room to eat in. Soon, that wasn't good enough either. So the government in their wisdom, banned smoking altogether in restaurants. Next it was stores, airplanes, bars, offices, and any other indoor place. Now even truckers who drive for a company can't smoke while driving.....smoking in the workplace is illegal. Here in CA, you can't smoke at any OUTDOOR arena, you can't smoke in many parks (can't let the poor kiddies see you), and you can't even smoke on the beach. The City of Calabasas has instituted a city wide ban on smoking.
Sorry, but last time I looked, tobacco was still a legal substance. The smokers are really getting shafted. But since the smokers are now the modern day lepers.....how can anyone in good conscience vote for Obama??? He's a smoker.

Answer 3

Personally I don't get it!! Meaning there once was a time everyone who smoked did so in the same restaurants as the non- smokers. Then non-smokers changed those public places into non-smoking and smoking sections regarding the separations by the division of those places with walls and air ventilators. Now they have the smokers outside those places when they should have their own set of smoking establishments. And posted as such. Smoking Only or Non-Smoking Only

So the only smoking ban I agree on is the one for the children. No smoking in your car or home when around them. Whether your own children or others. And a smoker(s) should always show courtesy when in the presence of a non-smoker(s) by being polite and asking if we mind. And honoring our answer if we happen to.

Answer 4

1,000 bars have closed in Ireland since they adopted the smoking ban.

In Scotland it is obviously affecting trade - the 'Publican' party are putting candidates up for the Scottish Parliament to try to get smoking areas in pubs.

The real problem for smokers is that they don't want a cigarette then their drink - they want them at the same time.

Pubs without beer gardens have had it. You may as well shut them now. Your country pubs, well, you can forget them too.

That's what the upshot is.

Oh, by the way you'll also notice a large increase in the prices for food in most places as they try to recover their lost revenue.

Smoking also used to mask a lot of smells you are going to notice now - at least they'll have to clean the pub now.

Answer 5

Why the hell not. We may as well give the anti-smoking Nazi's everything they want (because we all know that they are the only ones who's rights mean anything).

And if the ban is successful in making most of the smokers quit, we can sit back and see where the states will get money from.

It's amazing how people aren't connecting the price of cigarettes with the decline in the number of smokers. It's not the cigarette companies that are raising the prices, the prices are from taxes. I wonder what the next taxable socially unacceptable habit will be. My vote is for fat people or for people that wear too much perfume or cologne, if they shouldn't have to breath smoke I shouldn't have to smell their nasty asses.

Answer 6

I completely disagree. I believe that one of the unnamed rights protected by the Constitution is the right to be an idiot. It is not the job of the government to protect us from ourselves. However, if the government would like to pass a law prohibiting smokers from being treated for smoking related illnesses with taxpayer money, I would not disagree. Until then, leave my Marlboros alone!

Answer 7

Disagree.
Those places in which I might smoke are quite capable of making decisions about whether or no I am allowed to do so.
If they decide "no" then I will either go there or not.
Why does Government even begin to get involved?
We are living in an increasingly legislated and retriscted society, and that happens because "it doesn't affect me so it doesn't matter" -
IT DOES.
Because I might not be too bothered about the infingement on your heartfelt freedom tomorrow.
We all need to look out for one another.

Answer 8

I would have to agree even though I am a smoker. Although I don't think smoking should be banned from bars, clubs or taverns. That's the major resaon why one goes there, to have a drink and smoke. People who don't like cigarettes should not enter those places.

Answer 9

I don't understand why restaurants, bars or pubs cant have the choice as to whether they want to ban smoking. or maybe there should be a selecting within the local area's so that smoker and none smoker have the choice, after all this is suppose to be a free country isn't it ?

Answer 10

As an ex-smoker I disagree with it. If people want to smoke then they should smoke. The government should not regulate these kinds of things.