What u think?

Question

Should cigarette smoking be banned from all restaurants?

Personally I hate cigarettes, and I hate to be around people who are smoking.

Answer 1

yes. Nothing against smokers, if they want to smoke they could do it somewhere else, without contaminating our lungs with those poisons. It has nothing to do with freedom. If smoking was not harmful I would say go for it. I understand it is a person's choice, however, since it's very harmful, smokers should not make non-smokers suffer. If they want to smoke, they can do so in a different room, or designated area. It's their choice to slowly kill themselves, however, they should not enforce their poison on others.

Answer 2

As an ex smoker, I believe there should be separate rooms, not areas for smokers. Even in non smoking sections, you can still smell the smoke sometimes when your eating. I really don't see the problem with waiting for the cigarette after you leave the restaurant. Having respect for what other people don't want in their lungs shouldn't be that much of a problem. I am dealing with my ex inlaws in a different smoking situation where my daughter is asthmatic and they won't curb their smoking just while she is there. I'd be happy if they would just take it outside. Smokers will say its about their rights, but our rights as nonsmokers aren't hurting anybody else. Afterall, second hand smoke is more health hazardous then the smoke that is inhaled. Another thing is, nonsmokers don't wanna go to a fancy restaurant that smells like a bar.

Answer 3

Tobacco cannot be banned. Yes, it should be regulated where one is free to smoke in certain areas. I don't like restaurants with smoking sections because the air still smells.The air in some places, like LA is as bad if not worse as second hand smoke, yet people don't fight that. And what about drinking? Check out the statistics of people dead or injured from a drunken driver. It's not a low number. So no alcohol either? I enjoy a glass of beer or wine maybe four times a year. Even though, I would hate to have it made illegal. It would go on and on from there until we have nothing but do nots around us.

Answer 4

Yes, I do. Even when I smoked, I did so away from non-smokers if I thought, or knew, that s/he/they wouldn't like it, even my husband. When my husband and I moved into student housing of his grad school (which is a seminary, but not really relavant), I would let people come to me, if I were outdoors smoking. This way, I would not feel as though I was offending if they came to me, seeing that I was smoking.

Why should my "freedom" (a word used by another poster) be compromised if i have to walk through the smoking section of a restaurant to get to the non-smoking section, or to the restroom? Before my pregnancy I would at least hold my breath going through the smoking section to the restroom (and still smell the smoke in the restroom), but now I won't tolerate it.
Two Christmas Eves ago, my husband and I went to his parents' for Christmas. One of his brothers and his wife and kids were also there. We went to the local Bob Evans for brunch. We sat next to the smoking section and it was one of the most horrible meals I experienced, having to inhale second hand smoke. (I don't know if my meal tasted mediocre because of the smoke, or just because it didn't taste good.) Last year, the chain went smoke free on weekends and the manager at the one in my in-laws' town (where my MIL goes every Sunday before church) said that weekend business went up.

The best, though, was last November. Ohio has gone smoke free. My husband I are in Michigan for a year while he is doing his internship. We thought we would have trouble finding smoke free restaurants, but we have found a couple. It has been weird to ask for not only non-smoking but to be as far away from smoking as possible. Like the poster from California, it seems wierd.

Columbus, OH and many surrounding suburbs went smoke free a couple of years ago. It was wonderful. Well, is, especially since we plan on moving back in August so my husband can finish his classes for graduation.

Just my two cents.

Answer 5

They are here in Calif. unless that restaurant has a public outdoor licence. Only outside can people smoke here. Makes me feel weird when I visit other states and have to pick a smoking or non smoking section......

I guess I'm just weird though....smoking affects everyone around them.

Answer 6

I am a smoker and I think that smoking should be banned from all public places. I do not smoke in my house b/c I do not want to expose my child to the smoke (although I know it's still on my clothes). I think that it undermines those who are trying to help better their health, by trying to quit, and that if they walk into a resturaunt and there are smokers in there it makes it that much harder on them.

Answer 7

ABSOLUTELY, Tobacco of all sorts should be banned! If everyone could see how I live from smoking for a long time you would not even have to ask that question!

Answer 8

YES YES YES! Why should I as an asthmatic be doomed to my own kitchen for meals the rest of my life because of someone else's addiction? In the long run---this person would gain by not smoking anywhere!

Answer 9

Yes! It is better to ban also the manufacturing and sale of cigarettes

Answer 10

yes, i think it is very unpleasant to smell cigarette smoke while eating. this is coming from a smoker.