Why do non-smokers believe their rights are more important than smokers?

Question

We, the smoking public, is funding some of your government's projects.

Why do you assume you have to breath what we smoke? We can't smoke anywhere in doors, only outside.

Answer 1

And we the non-smokers are picking up the medical bills for all you smoking related illnesses.

Answer 2

'Smoking Public" ??? Call yourselves what you are...drug addicts. We, the non-addicts really don't care what you do to yourself; the problem is, your 'addiction' doesn't confine itself to your body...it's on your clothes, but more importantly it is carried on air currents. You can't sell a house with lead paint, but people are allowed to smoke in their homes, which they later sell, so all that poison is slowly being breathed in by the new owners. It should be illegal. Eventually it will be. It has nothing to do with your 'rights'. There is no such thing as 'smoker's rights'. Read the bill of rights and the constitution. You have the same rights as every other person. "Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness". And the 'pursuit' is only if it doesn't infringe on the first two rights of others. Smoking is carried on air currents and as such should be outlawed all together. I can't count the number of times I was 'outside' and someone else's smoke found it's way into my lungs. For those that say that factories and transportation puts 'tons' more pollutants into the air -- two things: 1) it is diluted and doesn't make us cough and 2) these things are necessary for our society to function...smoking serves no useful purpose. When used as directed, it kills. Period. But not before people get grossly sick and burden our healthcare system. You pay taxes ? Well not enough ! YOU guys are sucking society dry by being the NUMBER ONE cause of premature illness on the planet. There is only one reason that 'thinking' people still smoke...addiction. You just don't have a needle sticking out of your arm. Studies have shown that it is the 'working poor' that smoke the most. Successful people don't. Because they know what it does. Smokers tend to be the uneducated masses with little or no civic pride. And anybody that is under the age of 30 and smokes has no excuse. They tend to be individuals with little or no self-esteem who started smoking to 'fit in' as teens...these people knew full well the health risks of smoking but chose popularity over common sense.

Harsh ? You bet. But I call it what it is. But until you've experienced loved ones as I have die from tobacco-related cancer or have asthma that severely impacts their quality of life, then you can judge me.

I'll say it again...it should be banned altogether.

Answer 3

Well I am an occasional smoker and I don't smoke in public unless I am at a bar. I believe it is just rude. It is hard for non smokers to avoid even outside because the smoke lingers. I don't think non smokers believe their rights are more important, I think they just value their health. Smoking puts a lot of toxins in the air and even if you're outside it still affects those within a few feet around you. For example smoking outside of a store, it's hard to avoid when you have to get through the door!

Answer 4

You as smokers may not have a problem with the way smoking smells but I personally do and if both of us are in a resturant, I can not get away from the smell if people are smoking inside but you can go outside and make everyone else's experience a lot more pleasant. Also, there are a lot of people that are allergic to the smell of cigarette smoke and can not be around it. Why should they be punished for something that they cannot control while you CAN control whether you smoke or not? It is a disgusting, expensive habit that is going to kill you someday, do yourself a favor and quit.

Answer 5

I am a non-smoker. I do not believe that my rights are more important than that of a smoker's. However, my son had asthma as a baby because I lived with my parents who were both smokers... his symptoms and trips to the hospital and need for an inhaler and a nebulizer went away when we moved out of the house. I also don't like the way it leaves a smell on my clothes and hair.

I didn't mind when smoking was in the WAY WAY back of a resturant or when it was permitted at a bar or a club.

but I do mind when it impacts my health and the health of my children.

Answer 6

Cool, I can't wait to read your answers. I've been wondering the same thing especially when there are so many factories putting out 100 times more smoke and 300 times more carcinogens than all of the smokers put together.

I have also proven that cancer is genetic. I smoke and my brother does not. He's had 4 heart stints put in and I'm on my way to have a couple of them put in. The doctor told me that my problem was because of my smoking. I looked at her and said BULL S! and told her of my brother, she backed off and said it was genetics.

Now that I've read them, I love how the government has programed them into believing their goddamn propaganda. Remember "Refer Madness"?

Answer 7

I might like to grasp in which you get your records from. If passive smoke fairly has three hundred% extra nicotine than breathing in instantly, then why hassle smoking? Let's simply uncover a pleasant smoker and get our kicks from their exhalations... I might additionally love to take limitation together with your assertion that almost all of the NHS funds is taken up with handling smoking-similar illnesses. Have you ever stopped to believe what percent of the fee of cigarettes is tax? As a smoker, I pay a reasonable percent extra VAT to the federal government than the common non-smoker, on most sensible of my typical revenue tax and country wide coverage. To deny people who smoke NHS cure is hence ludicrous - you would make the equal self-damage argument approximately athletes, sky-divers and adrenaline junkies. As a smoker, I resent the best way smoking has turn out to be this type of ethical limitation. In simplistic phrases, a smoker isn't a Nazi! I don't take limitation with the volume of alcohol persons throw down their necks each week, or take to harassing vehicle drivers for polluting the atmosphere, although I neither drink nor force! Everyone is entitled to their possess opinion. If anybody round me does not just like the scent, say, of cigarettes then I do not smoke round them. Similarly, I do not smoke in eating places or round kids. But what I do in my possess dwelling, or in areas in which smoking is sanctioned, is my possess trade, and I resent the implication that I am by hook or by crook morally inferior in view that I decide on to spend my profits on cigarettes! As to why I smoke, I take delivery of the truth that after 10 years of smoking I have a nicotine dependance. But if that have been the one rationale, I might quit. The reality is, I smoke in view that I experience it, Think approximately it, if smoking wasn't pleasing, no-one might!

Answer 8

I think it should be left up to the individual businesses...

the town I am in isn't smoke free, but some of the restaurants and businesses are...

as a non-smoker, I tend to visit those more, but I don't want a law against it... let the market decide...

Answer 9

Money from dead jews during the holocaust funded some of their government's projects too. Isn't that a great comparison?

Nobody said they thought their rights were more important than yours, the smoking, burning public.

And yes, maybe the person making smoke should be the one to move, not everyone else. Just a thought.

Answer 10

It's the factor of "taking up a lot of space"
Like if there's a nice clean peaceful beach and a group comes up, blasts music and leaves trash all over the place, they are imposing their behavior on others and taking up more space than quiet and clean people. Same with smokers. With their traveling atmosphere they can fill a house with their stinky presence, taking up a space much larger than a human body. They also affect the health of others exposed to their charming cloud, and some even throw their butts all over the ground and it gets really ugly.
Many smokers end up with diseases that Medicare/Medicaid pay for, so I'm sorry, but you Tobacco smokers should be even more heavily taxed.

Answer 11

the other day i was walking back from the store and a smoker was right in front of me. the smoke was coming in my face bad enough to make me cough. the woman knew what was happening because when i coughed she looked behind her a couple of times and saw me waving the smoke away. why didn't SHE stop and let me pass her???

i know i could have crossed the street or stopped and waited for her to get further ahead of me but why should i have to???? where are MY rights in this situation????

looking back over the years when I used to smoke?? and seeing myself in front of the mothers, fathers, children and elderly with MY smoke in their faces makes me cringe.
i can't believe i was SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO inconsiderate!!!!!!!!!!