what happen to our rights as smokers we have no rights they could make sure we are out of the weather?

Answer 1

Why do you think there is a "right" to smoke in the first place? Smoking is a habit, and a decidedly nasty and dangerous one at that. Claiming that as a right is ridiculous. What is definitely more of a "right" is the ability to patronize a business without having to breath in someone's else's excreted cancerous exhaust.

If you want to smoke, fine, you still have that ability. What you have lost is the ability to foul the air in certain businesses and establishments.

The world will be a better place because of it.

Answer 2

Apparently the morality police are out in force on this question. Most are correct that there is no "right" to smoke, just as there is no "right" to be free from smoke.

But there certainly should be a "right" to allow smokers to smoke in your business. The problem with the modern American trend against smoking is that the laws usurp personal rights retained by business. If I want to open a restaurant called "Smokey Joe's House of Ribs and Cigarettes" and have smoking be allowed throughout, I should be able to do so. Non-smokers would be encouraged to go to other restaurants. If no other restaurants are smoke-free, a non-smoker would be encouraged to open a restaurant called "Natural Joe's House of Tofu and Clean Air" and forbid smoking. The government should not legislate morality.

This is not an individual rights issue except where it concerns bans on smoking in your home or in other private quarters, which are ludicrous and anti-American.

EDIT: And to the above poster: no rights of any person outweigh the rights of any other. There are no rights here except those of property-owners. Human rights do not conflict. If they do, they are not "rights."

Answer 3

As a former smoker I find cigarette odor in my clothes offensive but at the same time I must acknowledge the BILLIONS of dollars in tax revenue paid by smokers and I must also acknowledge that the proprietor of a business should be able to decide if he will allow his clientele to smoke or not. If the business man/woman sees it as more profitable to allow smoking he will, and if he/she determines it more profitable to be a smoke-free environment he/she'll ban smoking in his establishment. That is all part of the free enterprise system. I do believe that smoking should be prohibited in public offices such as government buildings, tax offices, department of motor vehicles etc as confined spaces with limited ventilation such as elevators, but I feel that a privately owned business should be required to post at each entrance whether smoking is allowed or not within the establishment. If someone chooses to patronize an establishment that they know allows smoking then they have made the conscious decision to do so, whether they smoke or not. This type of approach would be more palatable to smokers and non-smokers than an all out ban or a refusal to take any legislative action on the issue. Good luck with your fight for smokers rights!

Answer 4

If the President of the U. S. can call up deepest businesses and tell them a thank you to spend their funds, i think of deepest citizen rights customarily are quickly to be a piece of the previous. despite the fact that on a greater suitable word, as a capitalist, a business company could have the skill to fireside somebody each time they choose. additionally different than for wellness subject concerns people who smoke take greater breaks and paintings under non people who smoke, this does not propose that they do no longer make up for it in different techniques yet you do no longer see non people who smoke taking lollipop breaks ever 15 min do you? So interior the top could they get rights? sure, each physique is entitled to existence, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness, that includes the people who smoke and the business company vendors, in case you will paintings for the business company you may obey the regulations.

Answer 5

You do have rights.
You have the right to stop smoking.
No one but yourself is forcing you to continue to pollute your lungs and everyone else's atmosphere.

As for being forced to take your nasty habit outdoors and away from the front entrance of buildings, take a jacket and if necessary an umbrella, I'm pretty certain your right to clothe yourself properly for the outdoor weather is not being violated here. If you can't afford an umbrella, stop smoking for a few days and spend that money on an umbrella, if you can't afford a good jacket, again stop smoking for six months and I'm pretty sure saving your 2 pack a week habit will subsidize a nice jacket.
*(~2 packs a week = USA average)

Answer 6

I assume you are kidding right? If you don't want to be exposed to the weather, don't go out in it. The rights of the people who don't want to smell your stink outweigh your desire to smoke. This is not a matter of smoker's rights as it is non-smoker's rights. Got a light?

Answer 7

Smoking is a choice, not a inborn human quality that makes you different. As such it does not need to be accomodated by employers, businesses etc.

By the way- what about all those years when my rights were trampled by smokers and their stinking cancer sticks? Am I entitled to reperations?

***Fredo is way off base here. Your right to clean water is not trumped by my right to dump motor oil onto the ground. And the government has legislated morality, and does so all the time. Who you marry, how many you marry, theft, murder every law relates to some morality. Human morality may shift but its morality nonetheless

Answer 8

Your "rights" were extinguished.