Non smokers and smokers, please comment.
2007-08-16 09:06:16 · 9 answers · asked by LayLooLaRose 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
Our state just passed a smoking ban for restaurants and bars, and I am thrilled! It will be so nice to be able to eat without having to blacken my lungs with someone else's pollution. Many restaurants around here had already gone smoke free, but now that the statewide ban has passed, they all have to. Many of the nationwide chains had held out until the ban was put into law.
I am glad for myself and my family that there will be no smoking, and I am also glad for the employees of these places, who will now be able to work without the risk of developing lung cancer and other problems as an occupational hazard.
2007-08-16 09:12:24 · answer #1 · answered by s1sm00n 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, I am going to assume that I have to offer the Rebuttal due to the fact that all of the responses before mine were by non-smokers. I live in Baton Rouge now, but I lived in Seattle and in downtown Seattle you couldn't smoke within 25 feet of any entrance to a business and most of the businesses are less than 25 feet away and I found it very inconveniencing but I respected others rights to not be around me as a smoker but honestly I see no problem with people walking by me as I am smoking I mean after all I am not blowing my smoke directly in their faces, a few seconds of walking by me smoking is not going to kill them but that is just my opinion which i am sure will be shot down by many other non-smokers, but so be it.
2007-08-16 16:20:46 · answer #2 · answered by jonathan w 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Oh my G-d, I would LOVE to live in a smoke-free city! it would be a dream! Unfortunately, I think it will be a while in coming here as I live in a big tobacco growing area- Tennessee. I used to work in a small flower shop in which most of the employees smoked- and I mean right there in the back room where I put together fruit and gift baskets!!! It was disgusting. Thank goodness I'm out of there and in a smoke-free environment now- love it! Can't wait to return to London- they went smoke-free on July 1 this year... right AFTER my visit, darn it.
2007-08-16 16:16:42 · answer #3 · answered by nanny411 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, I live in a smoke free city. No one is allowed to smoke indoors anywhere. Except of course gaming parlors.
I like going into a restaurant or a bar and not having to smell like an ashtray when I leave. However, I do not like that there are always 5 people outside puffing on butts. When you enter these places you get a big cloud of smoke thrown in your face.
2007-08-16 16:58:54 · answer #4 · answered by krupsk 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i live in a town
there r loads of smokers in my town and i hate it,
i have never smoked and do not have any plans to
i wud love 2 live in a smoke free city because i am sick of PASSIVE smoking
it is apparently worse than smoking
2007-08-16 16:12:56 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Smokers pay a tremendous amount of taxes on their cigarettes, then are told where they can and can't smoke. I don't like to be around people that drink, but there's not much consideration given to that.
2007-08-16 16:16:32 · answer #6 · answered by Scott S 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, I live in a smoke-free city. Woo hoo! It's easier to breathe in all public places now, and I don't go home stinking of someone else's exhaled putrid smoke. I can't think of ANY downside to living smoke free.
2007-08-16 16:15:39 · answer #7 · answered by Rainfog 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
YEAH WE HAVE THE FORD COMPANY HERE AND YES THERE IS A LOT OF SMOKE.
2007-08-16 16:13:56 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
no ppl can smoke outside but most restaurants dont allow it
Bars do allow it
2007-08-16 16:11:52 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋