Could we save lives by making smoking outdoors illegal and punishable by a 10 year prison sentence?

Question

Perhaps the sentence could be extended for convicts who are discovered smoking in prison. Think of all the lives that will be saved!!!

Answer 1

that's a bit of an extreme punishment. I do agree with making smoking illegal completely, but a 10 year sentence? How about atleast .. 3?

Answer 2

Oh, yes indeedy! Think of all those convicts, living longer and longer life sentences! You can't make smoking outdoors illegal. No one owns the air we breathe, not the smokers and not the nonsmokers. This stuff is getting way too silly to even contemplate. People seem to be forgetting that smokers are using a product that is grown and manufactured in the US, and that the growers of that product get the same subsidies that do growers of other product like wheat and barley, and that the product is legal to all over a certain age. I do not smoke. As a matter of fact, I need to avoid smokers and smoking to the extreme. But I am so tired of hearing this tired old refrain.

Answer 3

First off, you have to look at human rights. You're saying it is ok to force people to do something just for the sake of making yourself more comfortable. That's not right and ten years in prison for being forced to stand outside like cattle just because you don't feel like breathing in smoke when it's against the law in most states to smoke inside is totally ridiculous. If you have such a big problem with people smoking outside, then why don't you look at it from a fair point of view and try to find a fair and reasonable solution? For instance, look at it this way...smokers have to go outside in the rain, snow, whatever...why not step up as a nonsmoker and tell the government to set places up for people to smoke? The smoke won't bother you...and they won't be missing work from getting sick. Smoking is an addiction and it's not fair to persecute someone when they are already having so much taken away. What is the U.S. going to do when ALL their rights are taken away? Look at Louisiana...they're trying to ban those ugly baggy pants kids wear! How would you like it if YOUR right to wear a certain thing or watch a certain show were banned? Try to think a little more outside the box and be a bit more humane...you might just find yourself on the opposite side of that fence one day.

Answer 4

If you're going to do that....don't you think you have to do the same for people having sex without using protection, abortion and other issues where people's freedom of choice would be denied...maybe there are better ways to save lives, i think the TV ads for smoking are helpful because it gives people awareness.


The smoking outdoors over here are limited to 100 ft from any building.

Answer 5

All lives you are able to shop could be misplaced in the hot gang violence that could spring up around the unlawful cigarette employer, like different unlawful drugs do now. I prefer legalizing marijuana, by using fact that is hypocritical to make marijuana unlawful on a similar time as alcohol and tobacco are criminal. Marijuana is not greater risky than alcohol or tobacco. by ways, i don't drink, smoke, or use any unlawful drugs or approve of their use and could do each little thing in my ability to keep away from my little ones from using them. yet i be conscious of that maximum folk do use those issues and we live in a loose democratic usa and maximum folk could desire to rule.

Answer 6

That is soo stupid!!
Ppl who want to smoke, can do so i believe. And if they want to smoke they will no matter what. It makes me soo mad, do you have lung cancer now b/c you walked by a person with a cigarette? dont think so. They are only hurting them selves so get over it. PPL arent gonna come up a blow clouds of smoke in your face! and even if they did you still wouldnt die.
I had better stop b4 i start ranting.

1 more thing? If It was illegal to masterbate would you still do it? you remind me of a guy who does it quite frequently?

Answer 7

Smoking is banned in buildings. Banning cigarette smoking outdoors would effectively ban tobacco. People would be forced indoors and if anyone if caught smoking indoors, they would probably go to jail also (for smoking in their own homes, assuming you don't have children or live with nonsmokers also).

If you ban smoking outdoors, all industries who add pollution to our air should be first down (actually, they should be shut down first). The Gov't would have to regulate driving gas vehicles and eventually, ban driving gas vehicles altogether ... Our Gov't control enough as it is.

Answer 8

no. people should have the right to smoke if they want to.

and people should not sit around thinking how many lives could we save by putting smokers in prison, but how many lives could we save if we put killers/drug dealers/peodophiles and all those people in prison for a suitable sentence.

Answer 9

We could save lives, yes, but at the cost of people's personal liberty... I think we have more serious problems in the world than smoking by adults...

Answer 10

Of course not. i live in Washington, and it is already illegal to smoke indoors as it is. you have to be at least 25 feet from any bulding at any time when smoking. And yet still, people are going to smoke in their homes, and be around other people who smoke. Let them determine how they want to live their lives and stop trying to save everyone from smoking. its pointless anyway.