2007-03-18 13:55:36 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Entertainment & Music ➔ Polls & Surveys
rights to smoke wherever they please...
2007-03-18 14:00:33 · update #1
No it's bad for them and everyone around them!
2007-03-18 13:59:00 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Yes smokers should have rights, but not to smoke wherever they please.
I am a smoker, I am a considerate smoker but don't tell me I cant smoke in my car when I'm by my self ,or that I cant smoke in my home.
Now pay for my car or/and my house and I my think different about that one.
2007-03-18 21:41:35 · answer #2 · answered by ღ♥ஐcookie1ஐ♥ღ 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Everyone has rights, but smokers should respect the rights of others and the U.S. should place a nation-wide smoking ban.
Anything that harms another person should be regulated by law. That's why we put the legal/judicial system in place. For example:
- You can drink, but the second you get behind the wheel you put others' lives in danger. That's why it's against the law to drink and drive.
- You can get pissed and punch a hole in your wall, but the second you take your fist and hit someone, you've put their life in danger. That's why it's against the law to assault someone.
- You can smoke your life away, but when you do it around others, you put their life in danger. And that's why smoking in public should also be illegal.
2007-03-18 21:05:30 · answer #3 · answered by Brntte3078 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes, I think smokers have the right to smoke in their own homes, cars, or porch areas. But not out in public places where they are exposing their filthy habit (in a closed-in environment )to people who choose to live a healthier lifestyle by avoiding being addicted to nicotine or having to have a lung removed, their tongue cut out, their teeth a lovely shade of "tobacco-stain yellow", etc.
If smokers want the right to give themselves cancer (possibly resulting in death), make themselves stink like an ashtray, their teeth turning putrid yellow, their breath stinking to high heaven, their homes walls getting that lovely smokers tinge shade on them, nicotine stains between the fingers that hold that lovely cancer stick repetitively, by all means do it in their own home or car!
Yes, that's what rights they should be allowed.
2007-03-18 21:05:43 · answer #4 · answered by Jen 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I'm a smoker, and it is getting kinda annoying that in some states i can't smoke in restaurants but if that is the rules we have to follow them... when they start to make it where i can't smoke in MY OWN car, then i will be upset..
2007-03-18 21:08:29 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
no. if smoking did not pollute the air I breathe, then I wouldn't care. but I don't want to get cancer despite the fact I don't smoke. (I used to smoke but not a lot) and all the illnesses and deaths that result from smoking are really taxing our health care system, which drives the cost of health care up. I don't think they should ban smoking but they should tax cigs at like $50 a pack. that would get a lot of people to quit. they should tax gas the same way and get people to ride a damn bike.
2007-03-18 21:00:46 · answer #6 · answered by Danielle 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Of course, they're human beings so they must have rights. I hate it when a smoker lights up around me and doesn't ask if it's ok, feels like I don't have any rights... but everyone should have rights.
2007-03-18 21:00:34 · answer #7 · answered by Caramella 4 · 0⤊ 3⤋
You have the right not to smoke inside. There ya go!
2007-03-18 21:00:09 · answer #8 · answered by Cool Shoes 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Not when it means taking away the rights of others. You can go outside, you can take a walk, just keep your nasty habit away from me and my kids.
2007-03-18 21:03:12 · answer #9 · answered by ? 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
They should have the right to give themselves cancer if they want - not the right to give it to anyone else.
2007-03-18 20:59:40 · answer #10 · answered by Zabes 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋