smokers should have rights as they pay for their enjoyment why should the young?

Question

make them fill like they are in the wrong people age of 60 and over have worked to make this country what it is to day for them so if your gran or grandad wants a cig what rights do you have to tell them no we know it is now against the law but when fighting men came back from the war w w 2 the red cross gave them a cup of tea and a smoke

havent got a problem with smoking just think that old people have rights

Answer 1

You're little rant doesn't make a whole lot sense...but I'm guessing that you are trying to say that smokers should have rights and we shouldn't hassle people that smoke?

Well, I have rights too and I don't think that I should have to worry about getting lung cancer because of other people's gross habits.

Answer 2

The law has not taken the rights of smokers from them it has protected the non smokers from their dirty and damaging ways.
If you work in the pub or restaurant why should you be subject to highly toxic and dangerous fumes from some who wants to slowly commit suicide. A the end of WW2 we did not know how dangerous smoking was (of at least the tobacco companies did but they were not saying) So your point about the red cross handing out cigarettes is just silly as they certainly would not do it today.

Answer 3

Nobody that I know of is telling smokers that they can't smoke at all. What they are being told is that they can't subject others to their smoke, to their habit, and so they can't smoke around others.

And this type of restriction applies to anything else a person might do, so why shouldn't it apply to smokers? If something someone does is inflicted upon another, then they have overstepped their right to do said thing.

Next why don't you insist that you have the right to take a crap, so you should be able to do it wherever you please, around whomever you please?

Edit: If you go by your additional thinking that old people should be able to do as they please simply because they are old and have somehow earned that right through surviving for that long, then let them drive on the sidewalks if it makes them happy too. Why not? Who cares who they might harm, they are old. Let's cater to them and their whims, and if we happen to survive their antics then we may be able to do as we please someday should we get old, and everyone else can be damned.

Sorry, but that is nonsensical thinking at best, no offense.

And both that woman with the vegetarian daughter and the daughter herself are hypocrites. I'm a vegetarian myself and even I know that when someone eats meat around you they aren't making you eat meat also, anymore than a person who is drinking is making you drink. But when a person smokes around someone else then they are forcing that person to smoke as well. Before all of the politically correct garbage labeled it "secondhand smoke" the Surgeon General of the USA had termed "involuntary smoking", because those people were made to smoke against their will by breathing in the smoke of another.

And it's funny how both her and her daughter care not to harm animals but don't take that same care when it comes to people.

Answer 4

We all have the right to breathe in fresh clean air, and if someone or something is stopping that, then they should be stopped!!!
if someone is 60 or over and is still smoking, well then they are just plain dumb!
cigarettes are totally different now than how they were say 40 years ago, did you know there are over 1000 chemicals in one cigarette alone!!!!
would you say the same thing for smoking cannibis is public???

Answer 5

My daughter lit up at an outside event. A woman came and stood next to her waving her arms around saying she couldn't stand people who smoked in public.

My daughter had the last word later though, as she passed the same woman standing by the food stall eating a beefburger. My daughter, a vegetarian, flapped her arms around and sticking her nose in the air said. OMG I simply can't STAND people who eat MEAT in front of other people

Remember smokers are is a great target for bullies since the government made hunting illegal they had to offer some sort of substitute prey for people to rip into. LOL

Answer 6

Okay - well when your Grandad came back from WW2 no one knew that smoking caused cancer and heart disease. I don't mind if people want to coat their lungs with tar, but I do object to having to breathe in their smoke. And yes the young do have rights too, why should my children have to breathe in your smoke when they go to a cafe or restaurant?

Answer 7

have no idea what your are trying to say

but I'm a smoker, i try not to inflict my smoke upon others but i always smoke outside and if people don't like that then move away
I buy my cigarettes with my OWN money and i pay taxes on them so no-one has the right to tell me to stop

Answer 8

What is it with the political smoking related questions tonight? Do what you want and don't pay attention to what anyone says.... by asking questions like this you are only giving validity to their arguments....

Answer 9

Sorry Pops,

I'm smoker too, but the young people need to have a place to breathe. It's inconvenient but I take it outside.

Take care.

Answer 10

they dont understand that todays grandparents are the children of a generation that saved their necks from the Nazi's
invasion of Britain.