Do you believe that smokers should be outcasted like they are? Should smokers get designated areas to smoke in

Question

I am a smoker and I believe that I should have the right to smoke anywhere I want. I understand maybe in some resturants but outside? People please. How would you like it if we took your coffee away?

okay i understand that there are places i cannot take a lit cig. i respect that but where i work just made a law we cant smoke anywhere here. not even in our own cars. this is why i posted this question.

Answer 1

Yes, caffeine is bad, and next is the fat people, we need to ban sugar, and salt, and fast food, and soda, and make exercise mandatory. Then it will be time to stop driving so fast or driving at all, next talk radio should be fair, because no one wants to listen to Air America, so they should be forced too listen.

Additional : Relax the government will never outlaw cigarettes no matter how bad they are, because there is way too much revenue from tobacco taxes.

Answer 2

Rosencrantz: FIRE FIRE FIRE
Guildenstern: What are you doing
Rosencrantz: Demonstrating the missuse of free speech...

To answer your question, I don't think that smokers should be outcasted, but I don't think that they are. There are times and places where smoking is appropriate and times and places where it isn't. However, smokers are allowed to go anywhere anyone else can while they are not smoking. There are many many public places where I am not allowed to take my dogs including outdoor places like community football fields and the surrounding parks. Similarly there are many places that a smoker cannot take a lit cigarette. The principal reason for this is that it would be disrespectful to the other people in those areas. Most non-smokers don't enjoy the smell of smoke. In our paranoid society no one wants to be within severl miles of the nearest carcenogen. It is just the way things are. Increasing the amount of freedom for one person requires the infringement on someone elses, so we cater to the majority.

Answer 3

You are obviously a very overzealous militant smoker who has adopted a victim complex and believes all non-smokers are against you and your "rights" as a smoker are being threatened. I quit smoking more than 1 1/2 years ago and am completely intolerant of smokers puffing away around me, even outdoors. Since quitting I have realized just how inconsiderate and self-centered most smokers are toward non-smokers. You have no "rights" as a smoker, regardless of how entitled you think you are to smoke wherever you want. Second-hand smoke is very unhealthy to breathe and I don't want my 2 1/2 year old son (or myself) to be exposed to it by some inconsiderate jerk who thinks he can smoke wherever he damn well pleases. You aren't being "outcasted", you paranoid twit, just ostracized for being stupid enough to continue a habit that is killing you slowly but surely. If you had any common sense you would realize that these no-smoking laws are created to protect others from your careless and wreckless habits. Perhaps you should seriously consider quitting this insane habit.
P.S. Dart Swinger's comment above is ironically accurate and true to the point...

Answer 4

Outcasted I think not. If i were spreading a harmful gas that i desired and it affected you, you would ask me to do it in my own space. Well I don't care who smokes but repect is respect as a part time smoker I find the appropriate place and smoke it's that simple. Please don't confuse courtesy with being outcasted. The true isms' like racism, elderism, hadicapism, heterosexism, sexism, and classism,these people who face adversity are are outcasted. I am not offended when asked to take my smoking outside. I hope I did not offend you but I see smoking for what it is a pleasure I take and do not want to offend those who can be allegic or have breathing problems. Does this help in your understandung about the plight many face.

Answer 5

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If you honestly and truly want a thoughtful answer to your question, here is my reply. If you are just looking to vent your frustrations for the benefit of finding people who agree with you, then you should skip my answer...

If I drink coffee, it doesn't affect the health and digestion of everyone around me. When you smoke, you do both. Why should you be allowed to do that anywhere you want? When my children and I (or heck, just I alone) are in a public place, why should you be allowed to negatively affect our health just because of your nicotine addiction?

What it all comes down to is a battle of rights. You have your right to smoke, and I have my right not to smoke, even at second-hand. There's an old saying in law which is extremely applicable to this situation: "Your right to swing your fist ends at the end of my nose." While you have a right to smoke, you don't have a right to defile my lungs, and bloodstream, and everything else with your second-hand smoke.

It is a well-researched fact that second-hand smoke is about as dangerous as smoking itself. I choose not to smoke. I should be able to avoid having the opposite choice thrust upon me by you or any other smoker.
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Answer 6

There is nothing in any charter of the government that says they have the right, the power, or the authority to determine whether a private business should allow smoking or not.

If the demand for no-smoking bars & restaurants was so great, why were there so few of them?
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I have an allergy to some essences used in some perfumes and colognes. It is especially bad in airplanes, where I am trapped in a miasma of scents. Should that mean all public areas should be made "scent-free"?

Answer 7

I will state for the record that I am a NON SMOKER and hate smokers, ...however...

Still think it is a basic freedom that should be allowed under the Bill of Rights and not a question for the Constitution.

Answer 8

Although I consider myself a "closet smoker" I do believe EVERYONE has rights in our society and they should have a designated place to smoke if they see fit!

Answer 9

I agree with you that we "should" be allowed to smoke where ever we want. Unfortunately It's the property owners decision on what we can and can not do in the building. It's the same as "No dogs" or "No shoes, no shirt no service". What fascist state do you live in that they won't let you smoke outside? That's just wrong.

Answer 10

Being very allergic to cigarette smoke I am so happy to be able to eat in a restaurant without a coughing fit due to second hand smoke. I have healthy lungs it must be torture for people with asthma.

Smoke all you want at home but please spare the rest of us from your deadly habit.