What is a good way to stop the spread of smoking bans?

Question

Perhaps my question may have been confusing. I am also a nonsmoker, but that is beside the point. The issue is not about health risks or quitting. It's about the spread of smoking bans and how to stop them. If you do not have any ideas how stop smoking bans, I am not interested in your opinion.

Answer 1

You can either write to your local congressman, petition against the laws, or become a politician.

Answer 2

You could stop manufacturing tobacco in the form of cigarettes , thus there would not be a need to ban it.

I support the ban on smoking esp in public places.

Why should the general public suffer the effects of second hand smoke?

There has been enough research done, even the tobacco companies themselves claim the best way to prevent smoking related illness is to never smoke at all.

So good luck getting support on this, more and more communities are enforcing these well overdue bans.

Finally I can breath again.

Answer 3

write to your local congressman, petition against the laws. However as a non smoker I am all for the ban. And will not eat in a resturant that is not a smoke free place. Back home there are smoking bans and I am fully supportive some resturants realize that this could have cost them customers that chose to light up so they added rooms onto their establishments for ppl that smoke and there is an air filtration system that sucks all the smoke out of the room a few times per minute but there is no entrance to the regular resturant through that room so the smoke doesnt pass through. I am also married to a smoker {gag} and he's not allowed to smoke around me or the kids and must even when its -50 outside smoke outside no excpetions. He can also not smoke in the cars..My choice because its my right and both my childrens rights not to have to inhail that damn second hand crap.

Answer 4

Good luck with that. I don't think there is much support for stopping the spread of smoking bans. I'm in favor of them. I have asthma and can't be in a place where smokers are puffing which used to rule out malls, restaurants, just about everywhere until Thank goodness, people started passing smoking bans. With cancer & asthma on the rise, you may want to just hang out in bars with other people that love cigarette smoke. That seems to be the one place left that I truly can never go....or maybe just move to Vegas. The casinos still allow smoking almost everywhere.

Answer 5

Until there can be anything positive to be said about the health affects of smoking, I feel bans will continue and spread. My mother-in-law dies a very long and painful death from smoking, and was smoking the day she died in hospice. I believe that private businesses/bars should have the ability to choose, but the the vast majority of society trying to stop the habit, I doubt the trend will slow anytime soon.

Answer 6

Maybe flagrant disregard for the law by you and all your smoking friends would work. Worked for the blacks with sit-ins and whatnot. Maybe it could work for smokers too. Just smoke everywhere with a group of people with you until they drag you off to jail and spray you with fire-hoses in front of video cameras. Who knows. You could change the world.

Answer 7

Clearly these other answerers don't understand the many benefits of smoking. Maybe you should explain that to them.

Answer 8

I LOVE and SUPPORT the smoking ban!!! I can't stand people who smoke, especially in places that I eat at.

Answer 9

Hmmm...If cigarettes were banned we wouldnt have to worry about banning smoking.

Answer 10

Hmm, a good place to start is to stop smoking in places where people don't want you to.