Is smoking a target for law makers to use for the "Mommy Vote" or is it a legitimate concern for Health?

Question

Please explain your reason for banning cigarettes as well as explaining why fast food is exceptable even though it results in heart related deaths each year. Also imagine if cigarettes only effected the smoker and not the other people in the vicinity, would it have the same laws as implemented now or would the laws be different.

Answer 1

I vote neither. It is about 'nanny state' activists trying to control as much as they can about everyone's life. Please show your source for the claim that fast food results in heart related deaths every year. I don't buy that or any claim that second hand smoke has ever killed anyone.

Note: I have never smoked and avoid people when they are smoking.

Answer 2

If cigarettes only effected the smoker and not the other people, then it would be legal to smoke anywhere. The reason they restrict smoking is to protect innocent people from getting lung cancer. I think it is a very good law. Eating fast food doesn't hurt anyone else except yourself.

Answer 3

look up the statistics yourself. less that 1/3 of people who contract lung cancer were smokers. of smokers, less than 10% actually get lung cancer. these are statistics according to the American lung society. over taxing of smoking is just a gateway for social medicine. after medicine is socialized, believe you, me, everything will be monitored and under scrutiny. if smoking was so bad for non-smokers, wouldn't they have been addicted loooonng before any conditions arose?

Answer 4

If you eat a cheeseburger next to me, nothing bad will happen to me because of it. If you smoke a cigarette next to me, and I have to breath the smoke too, it could be injurious to my health as well as yours.

Cigarette bans are definitely not to protect the smoker - that would be un-American.