Your opinion of the new smoking ban?

Question

Hey hey! Chicago joins the right team, and a city-wide smoking ban has been issued for all restaurants and bars. It's about TIME!!



I'm so sick of going out somewhere, having to digest smoke and gag, and then smell like it the rest of the day until I take a shower. I can't go bowling on a friday or saturday night, because the place is an Opium Den of cig smoke. Do people actually think that being 10 feet away in the "Non-smoking" section of a restaurant makes a difference?

Get away from me, and stop forcing your cancer habits on me. If you want to smoke by yourself, fine. But just don't do it around me where I have to personally deal with it (by gagging and smelling like smoke).



So if you smoke, GO AWAY.

Answer 1

right on! and i know the canadians in windsor stopped smoking in public places and lots of other places in the United States.

Even in smoky Europe the people are starting to see the light. I visited Germany and they are starting to see the effects of a smoking ban..not all Europeans smoke..also the Asian countries are the heavy smokers are trying to educate their people to this plague on humanity.

I think that smokers should be able to smoke but they can't smoke where there is a public place..at work, play or a home environment with children or non smokers.

Also, if smokers persist in this nasty habit..they would have to consent to paying their own medical bills if they became sick with cancer or any other smoking related illness..no public or private funds available to thes addicts..

but thre should be liberal amounts of smok enders programs and rewards for the non smokers....

Answer 2

I just left Chicago after 35 years there and LOVE the city. There was talk of it when I was there and I support it. I know the restaurants and bars say there will be a drop in business.

The way I see it, there will just be a different KIND of business. People who don't smoke will come; thousands of people who were kept away by the smokers; but I think the non-smokers out-number the smokers.

Have always maintained that SMOKE KEEPS MANY AWAY. Don't know how many times I'd come home and have to air out my clothes, wash just cleaned hair.

And this isn't even speaking to the health hazards of smoking which are MAJOR (heart disease, hypertension, stroke...). Don't get me started on this one, but suffice it to say that this is an idea whose time has come.

Now, I'd like to see if Daley has what it takes to enforce it; think it's being used to attract the Olympics to Chicago? Having restaurants set aside a 'non-smoking' section was a joke; second hand smoke it just as dangerous.

Answer 3

I agree. I smoke, but I don't want my habit to hurt others. You're right, the smoking and non-smoking sections of restaurants really don't work. Secondhand smoke is dangerous, especially for children. I know it sounds strange coming from a smoker, but I like going into a restaurant or bar and smelling clean air. I personally know other smokers that rant and rave about new smoking bans. They always talk about their "rights" ???? Last time I checked, I don't have the right to inflict my health risks on others.

Answer 4

I was a smoker for several years and have now quit. I now notice the smell of smoke bothers me not that I want one they really smell bad,,,,,but I do not want big brother to telll I can or can to something like smoking if I chose I put that issue right up there with having to wear sear belts, and helmets as an adult I feel as though that is my choice to make. What freedom are you willing to give up?One more thing just because you dont smoke that is not an excuse for bad manners.

Answer 5

I hear you!

The town I live in just recently had a smoking ban, but when I moved here before that people used to smoke EVERYWHERE! I couldnt go into some convenient stores because of smokers, and couldnt bowl AT ALL because of smokers.

Its a horrible smell and I cant stand breathing that stuff in.

Answer 6

i will not be able to believe you the place human beings's wellbeing is worried. there are, IMHO, sufficient study that advise that 2d hand smoke reasons particularly some problems for individuals, so this merely is sensible, merely as place of work secure practices and different government mandated courses make experience. i understand that it smacks of totalitarianism, yet for a society to run easily, we do want some regulations. i detect myself in a unusual place when you consider that i'm a smoker, and that isn't the 1st time i've got had this dabate with a non-smoker, the place we in fact took the counterintuitive aspects of the argument. yet I ought to confess that is a lot extra friendly to circulate to a eating place and consume a meal without the smoke. i'm keen to circulate without a smoke for the era of a meal, and it makes our environment a lot nicer for myself, and anybody else. it quite is exciting you ought to show french fries when you consider that they advance the issue of trans fat. on a similar time as some locales are enacting regulations approximately trans fat content fabric, some banning all of them jointly, the industry wil finally be the decide, and if the grocery cabinets are any indication, that judgement is in, and it boldly states on the label "0% trans fat". and that i individually observed a mayonnaise bottle the different day that mentioned "a super source of Omega -3". Mayonnaise as wellbeing meals, i must be becoming older. possibly they're going to declare jameson's Irish whiskey as wellbeing meals, "then" i'm going to be a satisfied camper ;-) regrettably, no industry will come to bear on tobacco, while you evaluate it quite is definitely represented by making use of lobbyists and that is addictive, so the community governments have taken it upon themselves to regulate tobacco useage. As for being hypocritical in helping bans on the dying penalty and abortion, if that's what you sense on your heart then no, you at the instant are not.

Answer 7

That's great, I wish we could ban smoking everywhere including outside!

I'm in New York, I'm glad Chicago caught up with us.

Okay it's time for the rest of the country, better yet the world to get on board, so please don't smoke so I don't choke.

Congratulations Chicago.

Answer 8

I am very happy, that we in Minnesota will have a statewide smoking ban in workplaces.

Further, localities will have the power to restrict outdoor smoking (i.e. near the enterance to an establishment).

Answer 9

BKELLY,

UNLESS ONE HAS HAD THE EXPERIENCE OF DISSECTING SOMEONE WHO DIED OF EMPHYSEMA IN ANATOMY CLASS LIKE I HAVE, AND HAVE SEEN THE DAMAGE SMOKE CAUSES TO THE LUNGS, THAT PERSON CAN'T FULLY APPRECIATE THE DAMAGE SMOKING CAUSES.
I LIVE IN CHICAGO, AND I TOO APPRECIATE THE CLEAN AIR IN PUBLIC PLACES.

Answer 10

smoking is bad