Should smoking be banned in the USA?

Answer 1

Yes. I think so 100 percent!

Answer 2

Here in Canada we have had a ban in public places for over 5 years, and it is getting tougher, at one time you could go outside and stand in front of the building and smoke, now it has to be 30 feet from the enterances, about 10 years ago when the cigar craze was big places went and invested in big bucks to have smoking bars, now they have no place to go. With the US, as I have observed they have a number of states and citys that have total bans, partial bans, no bans and some have not even started. I live not far from Buffalo NY and there they have a gone partially smoke free. But as time goes on here in Canada, there is a threat because of the cars and people driving with mobile phones, to ban the use of them and smoking to keep there eye on the road, as time progresses the smokers will have gotten use to the ban and just buck up or maybe even quit, the Queen did??

Answer 3

That's not gonna happen for a long time. Tobacco is one of the things that help to build this country. There are also A LOT of jobs invested in the tobacco companies. Not just the suits. The many people who make the cigarettes, distribution, advertising, convenience clerks, etc.

You also have to consider the politics. Right now the best move for them is to make smoking people's personal choice, but show the ugly nature associated with smoking (i.e. bad breath, stinky clothes, poor health, bad lungs). Also, if they made smoking illegal, it would practically revitalize the Mob overnight. Not just with cigarette smokers, but with occasional and social Cigar smokers as well.

As much as health nuts hate to agree, making tobacco illegal would probably hurt us as a whole more then it would help us. You would have to deal with a very high increase of both unemployment, and crime. So ask yourself, would you rather deal with someone's secondhand smoke every once in a while, or increased homeless and a new Capone?

Answer 4

Few may be aware of the tremendous damage smoking causes to others, in addition to the smoker. For example, many thousands die every year in smoking-caused fires, 2,000 annually in the U.S. alone! In Canada, more than 40 percent of all fires are directly related to smoking.

Furthermore, cigarette smoke badly pollutes the air. During a football game inside Michigan’s Pontiac Silverdome a sampling of the air revealed that the level of particulates was high enough to cause an air pollution alert if it had occurred outside. Smoking by many of the 80,000 fans was responsible.

The effect of breathing smoke-filled air can be the same as if a person himself smoked. The American Medical News, quoting Dr. Charles F. Tate, said: “There are studies now that show if you sit in a room where smoking is going on, depending on the number of people smoking in the room and the size of the room, the non-smoker will be smoking the equivalent of a pack a day.” And breathing the smoke from an idling cigarette is actually more harmful, since it contains almost twice as much tar and nicotine as smoke that is inhaled while a person is puffing a cigarette.

For some time it has been recognized that nonsmoking adults with heart and lung diseases, as well as young children, suffer damage from cigarette fumes. Recently a study published in the New England Journal of Medicine revealed that healthy, adult nonsmokers also suffer adverse effects. “Now, for the first time, we have a quantitative measurement of a physical change,” write Dr. Claude Lenfant and Barbara Liu in an accompanying editorial in the aforementioned journal.

Especially is it dangerous to an unborn child for a pregnant woman to smoke. Smoking constricts the blood vessels and arteries in the uterus, depriving the unborn baby of necessary oxygen and nutrients. Also, poisonous carbon monoxide passes through the placenta, reaching the baby. “It is quite clear,” Dr. Mary B. Meyer of the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health says, “that smoking increases the risk of abortion, stillbirth and pre-term delivery.”

Considering the harm done to the smoker, as well as to those who may be forced to breathe his smoke, can’t you see good reason to prohibit smoking? Jehovah’s Witnesses have long shown that smoking is incompatible with Bible principles. “Let us cleanse ourselves of every defilement of flesh and spirit,” God’s Word says. (2 Cor. 7:1) Clearly, smoking defiles and often sickens the smoker, as well as those near him. How, then, can a person smoke and love others who desire to remain undefiled by the smoke?—Matt. 22:39.

When God’s kingdom has destroyed the loveless old system of things, there will no longer be any tobacco smokers. Smoking certainly is not here to stay. So if you want to remain to enjoy the blessings of God’s new order—and you happen to be a tobacco smoker—you must get rid of this defiling habit. And if you really want to, you can do it!

Answer 5

NO 100 percent NO because it's their right not yours and if you banned it they are just going to find a way to do it anyways and then you have another reason for the prisons being over filled!! Just because of smoking!!! =( It's not right I do agree with not smoking in public areas such as restaurants and bars, etc. but not banned totally all together!!!

Answer 6

Yes, but only if they ban alcohol and guns too.
I don't understand WHY people are FORCED to stop smoking. This country doesn't ban a person from drinking or buying guns. But God forbid a person should smoke in their own home or car! Why doesn't the government just make signs that say "STOP SMOKING! START DRINKING AND SHOOTING!"? It's just dumb! This is coming from an EX smoker. (well most of the time I'm a former smoker...)

btw I HATE guns! Ban them!

Answer 7

Yes, smoking should be banned in the USA. In fact, I will go even further and suggest that smoking be banned world wide. One less thing to ruin our environment and our physical well being.

Answer 8

I think if people want to smoke in the privacy of their own home, then thats their perrogative-they know the risks. I do think that public smoking should be banned though, because second hand smoke is dangerous to innocent people.

Answer 9

People should be allowed to Smoke at Home but only if they don't have Kids.

I just heard that a friend of mine has been diagnosed with lung cancer and has only 3-6 months left to live...Even though she never smoked.

However she allowed her 3 daughters to Smoke at home and Doctors say it was caused by Passive Smoking..

Answer 10

They almost have! The places you are allowed to smoke are diminishing. In CA, it's really bad. But thats good for me, because I don't smoke, it makes me ill.

Answer 11

No, that would take away our freedom, fine if it's publicly, but you cannot make people stop smoking. But yes, for the sake of others it would be fine to keep out of public places. That's how it is in Ohio close to where I live.