How would you feel if smoking were BANNED?

Question

I'm not advocating a position, I'm asking a question, so don't start comparing me to Hitler like people seem to like doing on here.

Answer 1

I live in CA - where it's as close as you can get.

But when I travel I have a heck of a time understanding how people can smoke in restaurants, or in close public quarter where kids play, etc. After years of no smoking it's just weird. Even in clubs and bars, it's infinitely better without a constant cloud of smoke.

I guess as long as it's kept away from me, I don't care. But my medicare taxes might go down if people stopped dying of lung cancer at 50.

Answer 2

I would feel angry and betrayed by my own country. Freedom of choice is once of the principles this country was founded upon.

I'm a smoker. I have been for many years. However, me being against banning smoking has little to do with my own habit. Yes, it is destructive. I wish I had never started. However, as a long time alcoholic (sober 15 years), I simply cannot see the logic in banning smoking and still allowing the consumption of alcohol.

No one will ever convince me that smoking is worse than drinking. They are both equally destructive. Many people die each year because another person had too much to drink and got behind the wheel of a car. I have never heard of someone wiping out a family because they had too much to smoke.

This will be a controversy for a long time to come. We are supposed to be a nation of equal rights with freedom of choice. I can understand banning smoking in some areas. I respect that. But to ban smoking completely is denying rights.

Answer 3

Smoking should not be banned at all. It is our rights.

We are Not Demanding that Smokers can Smoke Everywhere again, nor that Non-Smokers must be exposed to our Second-hand Smoke. We respect their Right to Not be exposed.

On the issue of Second-hand Smoke, most common sense people realize that the fanatic anti-smokers' alleged claims are grossly over-exaggerated.

Kids and adults today are exposed to more pollution every day, than from an entire life-time of Second-hand Smoke exposure. Talk about the haze from burning forest all around the world

The increasing volume of cars lead to more air-pollution.

The increasing prosperity of a country also results in increasing demand, demanding factories to produce more things, and in turn factories air-pollution!

Answer 4

The problem with the previous answers is everyone thinking that it would be a utopia if smoking was banned. If anything, it would be the opposite.

I'm sure that some have heard of the time period from 1920 to 1933, when alcohol was banned in the United States. It became like any other illegal drug, and the Mafia became huge because they were essentially the biggest traders of alcohol. Basically, it is a nice idea, but it would never work, and people would still do it.

Answer 5

To each his own. But I dont like seacon hand smoke, and if there was a possiblity that I wouldnt have to worry about inhaling second hand smoke from someone else's bad habit, I would do it. I dont think it would be fair to smokers, but I dont think it is fare for me to have to breath in someone elses smoke either. I think the answers you will get from this question will be 50/50.
I lost my father to lung cancer when I was 18 and I take many meds everyday for my lungs because my parents smoked around me when I was younger. Therefore I would be happy to see it banned from public places, but I think there should be a designated area, a room or terase for smokers.

Answer 6

Hehe..know what you mean about people being rude and jumping.....Well I was a smoker for 20 yrs..I quit 4 years ago.
Do you mean banned all together? I would like for people to see the lungs of a smoker and see someone suffering from lung cancer from smoking..or all the kids that have asthma from second hand smoke...or even the parents that smoke in the house in front of there kids not caring what its doing to them. They either know and don't care, or don't know what it does to these kids. I wouldn't mind if was banned but there would probably be a riot! hehe

Answer 7

I am NOT a smoker, but I am not in favor of an outright ban on smoking.

This country is slowing allowing all of it's freedoms to be taken away. We cannot let ourselves reach the point of complete governmental control, or we will greatly regret that decision.

Again, I am not a smoker, I don't like the smell of cigarettes, and I don't like smoking in general.

Nevertheless, if someone wants to have a cigarette (an adult) I say that is their choice and no one elses

Answer 8

I don't want it outright banned, I just want smoking to be banned where I might be affected by it. I would love a smoking ban in restaurants and public places, so that I don't have to suffer because some people think they have a "right" to smoke. But I do think that people should be able smoke in their own home if they wish.

Answer 9

In N.Z it is prohibited to smoke in a work place - this includes restaurants and bars. I think it is fantastic to not come home from a night out on the town smelling of stale ciggy smoke - yuk!
The one draw back is that smokers can smoke outside and therefore you can't sit outside either.

I think as long as the smokers have to pay for their own health care and not be a burden on others then they should be allowed to smoke away from other people in their own homes.
I would point out that I believe in the govt. paying for health care for other health problems, just not the ones caused by the irresponsibility of an individual.

Answer 10

I'm allergic to cigarette smoke, so it would be a nice change of pace to be able to not have to check out a restaurant's smoking policies before going in.

If you're talking about banning in public places, I'm all for it. I'd also like a ban on smoking within 50 feet or so of an exit (it really sucks when you leave a restaurant and walk right into a cloud of smoke!) I respect a person's right to choose to smoke, but when you smoke around me, you're not respecting my right to choose NOT to smoke. You can smoke in your car, your home, any other PRIVATE property, but I think if you're in public, don't smoke.