would you support a country wide ban of smoking in ALL publican places?

Question

public places meaning resteraunts and others, not outdoors

I thik it's a great idea

Suth:

You can call me whatever you want, but the fact is is that tobacco kills and needs to start being treated on the same level as pot or heroin

Answer 1

Yes ....It wouldn't negatively affect anyones health. It's not cigarettes or the act of smoking itself that is being banned but the location.

edit: what some people don't understand such as [mojo] that if someone smokes pot until there head explodes or shoots heroin until they have no place left for a needle or drinks alcohol until their liver rots, doesn't have any second had effect on the people in the same room. Same with [Matt]. The issue is the second hand effects. ALL second hand smoke is unhealthy, but not ALL cars are in accidents, not ALL water is bad, not ALL food is tainted etc.

Answer 2

I live in Scotland and I gave up smoking nine years ago. I don't mind friends smoking in my home at all but what I DO mind, is now trying to enter a restaurant and having to walk through an awful thick fog of cigarette smoke, due to all the smokers standing clustered just outside the door. I take a coughing fit every time. Yet, when people had set smoking areas in restaurants, I never did. To me its worse for the non smokers now, walking into places through walls of thick smoke, and along the street past it. Seems to me that the street is more public than a restaurant lol. The problem is that they are all clustered right outside the doors of these establishments. For as long as cigarettes are legal and our governments continue to make a massive fortune from the tax on them (MUCH more than smoking related illnesses cost the NHS), smokers must be allowed to have some rights. There should at least be smoking shelters (like those little bus shelter things) on each city street corner. It's blatantly unfair to treat smokers as lepers, when smoking IS legal after all. :)

Answer 3

No and I don't even smoke. Here's why I don't support the idea.

I have been around smokers for years and yet have never developed any sort of cancer.

I don't believe the government when they say second hand smoke is bad for you.

The government's whole purpose is to outsource american jobs via all these trade agreements. One other way to rid americans of their jobs is to make things illegal.

Why shouldn't smokers be allowed to smoke in public places? All restaurants I go to have smoking and non-smoking sections. What's the big deal?

Don't they have the right to be free americans just like you and me?

Once again, we, as americans, get to fight one another over something that shouldn't matter. We're so busy fighting each other and whether we are republican or democrat that we have lost sight of the greater cause.

We need to stand up for our rights under the constitution. We have lost sight of this great document. If it were up to me, I'd make it a requirement that before graduating eight grade, high school and college, you would have a thorough knowledge of the constitution of the United States.

Answer 4

Pot and heroin is very mind altering and very, VERY deadly. Alcohol kills too when abused. Should we start banning that all over the place too? I don't smoke, never have, but as long as public places have "smoking" and "non smoking" I don't have a problem with smokers. In fact, I think public places should have a smoking area too, but I guess it really should be left up to the owner of the business.

Answer 5

No. In fact I think all smoking bans are a horrible. Why can the government decide that they can tell someone what to do with their private property? If a person buys an establishment, pays the taxes on it, and runs their business without any financial support from the government, then they should be able to decide if they want their establishment to be smoking or non smoking. If you don't want to be around smokers, don't go.

Answer 6

I'm a smoker and the only thing that irritates me is not being able to smoke in a bar, club, pool hall and certain OUTDOOR places. Other than that if I go to a family restaurant I'd like it if someone didn't puff away.

I feel that it should be left up the the restaurant owner and not the government. I'll settle with that.

Answer 7

NO. If an individual restaurant or bar wants to have a smoke free environment then fine. They own it and it is their right to run as they see fit. But a government enforced country wide ban? Very unnecessary!

Answer 8

No its a choice, not a smart one, but if its in open air, or in someones private business, I have the right to chose to go elesewhere or enter. We have too many laws, tobacco is a sacred herb to my people we use it to pray with not abuse, but if people chose to I can avoid them. Besides tobacco pays for congress, under the table as in bribes,and in taxes and employment.

Answer 9

No. I think it should be up to the business OWNER. You know, the person who OWNS the business. If you don't like smoking, don't go there!

Cars kill, water kills, food kills, etc. There's no end to the number of things that can kill you.

Answer 10

Everyone knows that smoking causes cancer. Make it a personal decision to ingest or be around. We don't need the government to play mommy and daddy.

BTW, the Sun causes cancer maybe we should outlaw that too.