Smoking!??

Question

Do you think smoking should be illegal? I do smoking kills not only the people smoking the cigarettes but the people around them as well because second hand smoke is just as deadly and just because your not a smoker doesn't mean you won't get lung cancer!!

Answer 1

Your generalizations are like the CDC to the 100th power.

But I do believe smoking should be banned in public places. Whether or not second-hand smoke is directly responsible for lung disease in non-smokers, it is clearly, at the very least, not good for you and it's a nuisance.

Saturated fats also kill people who consume them excessively. Should we outlaw chips and fries too? People will always find ways to harm themselves with excessive use of pleasure-inducing substances, and they will retain the right to do so unless it's harmful to bystanders.

Answer 2

i think we should all keep educating our children on the danger's of smoking so that less of them will pick it up, and so that maybe in the future all people will be wise enough to not smoke at all. but the truth is that people do smoke and its not fair to attack them for doing something that the world never really had a problem with until recently.

i can understand being angry with someone else that is destroying there selves and taking you down with them, jus like i would be angry if i walked into bob evans and everyone was sitting around smoking speedballs and im inhaling the smoke. i think it should be illegal to smoke in public store's and resturaunts, and even most bar's. but you cant tell someone that's addicted to smoking that "hey we jus realized this is bad for other people so hop in the cruiser buddy." when just a couple years ago, when they started smoking there was no fuss. that would be very wrong and cruel

to get all smokers to quit smoking is IMPOSSIBLE whether its made illegal or not. there are coke heads, meth heads, heroin heads, extacy heads, crack heads, and speed heads, all of these drugs are illegal and there is still a problem with its victim's of addiction. making tobacco illegal will only add on to these people and put more in prison that dont deserve to be there. if you want to make it illegal, instead of throwing cuffs on people that cant put a stop there problem we should help them quit first, then worry about making it illegal. which will not matter because there are still people addicted to drugs that are illegal, knowing they are illegal.

just keep educating the children on the danger's, and even though I smoke, we can ALL hope that they will listen. because its not a good thing. but just making it illegal will solve nothing. it may be less annoying for non-smokers, but it will also, make live's way worse for non-smoker's love'd ones that do smoke. unless we can help them to all quit first.

Answer 3

I only smoke at 4:20

Answer 4

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Answer 5

I think smoking in public places should be illegal. I'm on the fence about smoking around one's own children. But I have no problem with smokers slowly killing themselves, one cigarette at a time, if that's what it takes to get them through the day. I may be doing the same thing with Diet Coke....

Answer 6

To be fair, if you're going to ban ANY smoking then you're going to have to ban all other risk activities as well - drinking, eating unhealthy foods, driving, mountain climbing, casual sex, where would it end? However, I have no problem restricting smoking in public areas where other people congregate. You can put whatever you want into your own body, but that doesn't mean you have a right to impose your drug habit on others.

Answer 7

Yes, and so should drinking, driving a car, cliff diving, sky diving, bicycle riding, and walking in public without being in a full body foam suit with additional helmet, knee pads, elbow pads, and safety glasses. We should outlaw danger, or at least death. It's not fair that people have to have risk, or be hurt in any way. Who allows that? Somebody should do something. I know, the government can do it.

Answer 8

I think it should be the right of an establishment to determine whether or not they choose to allow smoking. It is the individual's right to choose whether or not to give said establishment their business. As far as the government is concerned, it should be their right to determine whether or not they allow smoking on government property. However, adults should be afforded the opportunity to make their own choices on certain matters.

Answer 9

I am never in favor of giving government that kind of power.

It is contrary to freedom, liberty and rights.

Answer 10

cars an trucks kill more people.i smoke but i do it outside at home or work. you would have to make alot of things illegal. cars, bacon,country cooking. where do we start?