Smoking should be banned in ALL public places
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Here's What I Think
Smoking should be banned in all public places.
A smoker's (poor) choice should not affect the health of others.
Secondhand smoke contains hundreds of toxic chemicals including arsenic ammonia, hydrogen cyanide, formaldehyde, benzene, and vinyl chloride. It is known to cause cancer, coronary heart disease, and respiratory problems. There is no risk-free level of exposure to secondhand smoke.
Non smokers should not be subjected to this disgusting habit.
Wanting to ban smoking in public places isn't about taking away a smoker's rights. You will still have the right to smoke in your own space. The right to slowly and deliberately harm others was never yours to begin with.
Your Turn!
(The top posts are the most recent.)
Smoking should be banned in all public places. Indoors and out.
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Fel says:
I have asthma and it sucks to be walking between class and have to walk by/behind/in front of people smoking. Do you know why? Because it causes an asthma attack. I think my right to breathe supersedes your right to smoke.
Posted February 14, 2012
Jessica<3 says:
Yeah ., There should not be smoking in public areas. it makes people sick and it is just gross !
Posted February 14, 2012
SarahHappens says:
Yes! I get nauseous walking by office buildings when everyone is out on their smoke break. I can't fathom how we ever thought smoking on a plane was a good idea. (I'm old enough to remember those days.)
Posted February 14, 2012
MelonyVaughan says:
I agree. Smoking should be banned. I think there also should be a punishment for parents who smoke around their young children!
Posted February 12, 2012
billybraveheart says:
As an ex smoker and loosing father to cancer I have to agree, lets stomp out this bad habit
Posted February 10, 2012
kyle says:
yes it should be banned in all public places. indoors and out.
Posted February 10, 2012
bluewren56 says:
I choose NOT to smoke, and I choose NOT to smoke second hand smoke.... regardless of where I am!
Posted February 09, 2012
Discounts4u says:
Yes, it should be banned. Especially near eating establishments!
Posted February 09, 2012
EMMO says:
I THINK THAT PEOPLE WHO Smoke are putting all others in danger.
Posted February 07, 2012
Jim says:
Heck ya at least not at every door of every building,I can't go any place without first running the gauntlet of smoky death.especially at my work place ,where every smoker lights up the second they hit the outside air. I have to smell their stink all the way to my car after work.
Posted February 06, 2012
Gianna :) says:
i agree smoking sould be not allowed in public places :) there r kids out there and they dont need to breath tht stuff in and yes im 12 years old :)
Posted February 05, 2012
nicole says:
It's not right at all for others to be around the second hand smoke. My mother started at a young age and even though she's my hero for all the surguries she had because of smoking. She might be on her 4th heart surgury soon. I used to smoke. I started at a young age and I regret it a lot. I started at a young age and I quit at a young age. I don't smoke anymore, but I am still near smoke from my family and friends. I think people should make the best choice for them.. like would you rather be cancer free living your life or smoke till you beome one of those cancer people because of smoking.
Posted January 25, 2012
AnneGun says:
Smoking should be banned~~~Cigarette smoke contains over 4000 chemical,including 43 knows cancer causing compounds and 400 other toxic~~smoking is dangerous so it should be ban in public place...
Posted January 25, 2012
Kayla says:
I totally agree. It ruins other peoples lifes. With second hand smoke contains over 7000 chemicals including 60 cancer causing agents. About 3400 lung cancer deaths as a result of just breathing SHS. Its not just a health risk to people smokig but the non-smokers around them.
Posted January 24, 2012
Basso says:
Having a smoking section in a restaurant is like having a peeing section in a swimming pool. The rights of smokers ends where my rights beggins, my rights are to breath clean air and not be bothered for that.
Posted January 23, 2012
princess tabby says:
i say that it should be banned because it is secerously harmful to everyone that has to live around it and that has to breath it all in !!!
Posted January 20, 2012
Ex80adayman says:
Given a a choice would you rather be in a room with a number of smokers or with one petrol powered car with its engine running? Which would kill you first?
Posted January 19, 2012
noel says:
smoking should be banned in public places because its bad for you and if other people are taking in this toxin your not helping them to
Posted January 17, 2012
kitkat says:
i'm 16 and have asthma because my dad smokes, i will forever have that now. it doesnt go away.
Posted January 17, 2012
mihgasper says:
I think it should be banned in all places, not just public ones. The cost of this habit is just too high!
Posted January 15, 2012
Christina says:
yes i think that it should be banned because it is so selfish of people that do it because it affects the people that dont smoke
Posted January 13, 2012
anessa says:
Pls dont smoke in public places u r making people fall ill
Posted January 12, 2012
Sara says:
Totally agree!! It's disgusting, I'm constantly having to dodge smokers in my city when I'm out with my 7 month old baby, it's bad enough that I have to breath their secondhand filth but my baby has no choice. How would they feel if I sprayed them in the face with foul smelling toxic chemicals every time I passed them. Governments should put the health of others first and change legislation making it illegal to smoke ANYWHERE in public.
Posted January 11, 2012
smokefree says:
smoking should be banned. If smokers feel that they have their rights to smoke to their death, i will open a smoker's restaurant, where all smokers can smoke with their food to death. So ban smoking. So non-smokers can breath freely, no more cigreatte bugs.
Posted January 09, 2012
BarbRad says:
I'm trying to be fair to both sides. I don't smoke and find being around smokers uncomfortable because there's no easy way to escape their smoke indoors or outdoors. You can smell them coming. Yet I know there are people who value smoking and don't want to be deprived of it. Many die exercising that right. We had a close friend who smoked, and he did not do it indoors because his landlady who rented him a room in her house did not smoke and we did not smoke. If he needed to smoke, he stepped outside. He tried to be considerate of others while exercising his right. He smoked in his shop and in his car --places others could choose to be in with him or not.
I think most smokers try to be considerate today than they were twenty years ago when there were many more smokers. I agree that smoking should not be allowed in family restaurants, but I think if the owners of bars and other adult establishments want to allow it they should be able to. I think it should be banned in dorm rooms, hospitals, schools, and in the workplace unless it's a one-person workplace and that person wants to smoke. In other words, in places where people really have no choice about whether to be there or in places where people are sick, it should be banned indoors.
Posted January 08, 2012
Jenny says:
Totally right
Posted January 07, 2012
cristina says:
My mom is a smoker and I don't want her to die I'm only 11 and I've watched the side effects on YouTube please make law that states no smoking in California .
Posted December 31, 2011
JohnRayner says:
I agree, smoking should be banned completely. It may be tough but it will result in healthier people.
Posted December 27, 2011
Leonard says:
I wish the whole countries will just Ban Smoking. Smoking in front of people is like killing someone. The governments should take it seriously, not because they want the economy to growth. Don't worry about the smokers, they will quit eventually, it is just a matter of time :)
Posted December 21, 2011
No way, Monkeybrain!
chromegrrrl says:
I smoke, on rare occasion. Always away from children and other people (unless they are smokers who've come out to smoke) because I was taught that nice matters and being considerate of others is nice.
That being said; I also bicycle everywhere, do not wear obnoxious perfumes (I have a good antiperspirant), eat healthy, and keep my car in top condition. Would it be rude of me to propose that non-smokers (and they *always* are non-smokers) face steep fines for wasting fuel, swimming in body sprays and/or perfume, continually shoving junk in their face holes and so they don't feel like pigs trying to shove junk in my face hole for the sake of "sharing", and driving around everywhere with poorly maintained exhaust systems that kick out more pollutants and noise than my little cigarette?
What is it with people that makes them think that it's proper in anyway to treat others with such disdain? I'm a person. With or without a cigarette I'm still a person-- probably one of the nicest people you'll ever meet. Frankly most people near me don't even realize that I smoke unless I tell them because I don't reek of cigarette smoke.
As for making poor decisions? I chose to smoke. Yes, I chose to start smoking at 15 years old because it's one heck of an appetite suppressant and I didn't have regular access to food but cute girls can always bum a smoke-- little more problematic if you want to bum a top ramen or some toast.
Posted February 10, 2012
Ruthi says:
When tobacco growth and sales and consumption thereof are banned and tobacco becomes no longer a taxable commodity, then and only then does the government have a right to tell anyone they cannot smoke anywhere. I do believe property and business owners and operators have the right to make this choice for their establishment themselves.
Posted February 09, 2012
Chey1997 says:
it's not right to demand of others what they can and can't do that is legal. no it's not right.... then they shouldn't allow smoking. you breathe worse in the city then smoking....
Posted February 08, 2012
AlphaChic says:
I think telling people what legal activities they can and can't allow on their own premises is a violation of property owners' rights.
I also believe in an adult's inalienable right to be an idiot. (I am one such idiot.) To take that away is putting government in the role of a parent, and that is government overstepping its bounds.
Posted February 06, 2012
qwert says:
its a selfmade freedom man
Posted January 16, 2012
RLWalker says:
In the past everybody smoked everywhere all the time. Today the only safe place to pull on a cigarette is in low earth orbit.
I'm typing this with a cigarette between my lips. Yes it's in "my own space"!
Disgusting, poor, deliberate, risk free, banned, banned, banned. These are all big words. Since we're being big lets think big. While people go marching around with their sign post begging the government to ban smoking what do you suppose would be a good reason to offer to get them boys in their fancy offices to even pay attention to you and your anti-tabacco compadres? That it's bad for your health? The respect of private air space? Becuase is attempted murder? Homocide maybe? I could write a full lense for every one of those question about why the government doesn't give a rats tale about your reasons unless the word tax is used somewhere in your question.
Since I've seen more people die as a direct result of alcohol consumption should we propose that alcohol should only be injested in "your own space" indoors like some places in the middle east?
Since your lungs suffer more harm from air pollution than from second hand smoke should we insist that factories and plants only operate indoors in their "own space"?
Since the car you drive is far more threatening to human life in multiple scales should we say that cars and people who drive are "disgusting"?
Forgive me really, but the world has far too many problems to be solved, real and dire problems, and yet all I hear all day is how smoking is so bad. Every time I hear that or someone tells me that I can't help but have to light up another dam cigarette!
Posted January 14, 2012
I'm Right says:
Okay, first of all, the chemicals from the smoke hitting your lungs doesn't even compare to the fumes you breathe in from cars, pollution from other things, smog etc.
A cigarette is only 10% as bad as truck exhaust. Enjoy breathing that so-called "fresh" air, because even when there isn't a smoker around, you're getting hit with radiation, pollution, dust, and many more things.
Posted December 19, 2011
srioschavez says:
no one should be able to tell anyone what to do you have to be grown to smoke and so there ya go no kids no orders
Posted December 09, 2011
Nate says:
In that case, No careful driver should be exposed to a moron behind the wheel of a car. Pretty soon people who drive hybrids will start complaining about the toxic carbon coming from that PowerStroke turbo Diesel Ford.
Or how about people with concealed weapons permits, be pretty bad to be exposed to a bullet.
There is a lot of things were exposed to. I am sure you will be fine, that asshole who is loud and obnoxious in line would tell you to fall in a ditch before he'd shut up, would you stubbornly stand in line and deal with it, or leave.
People are going to smoke, and being a military member, my smoke breaks are precious. Id take you to the fantail for a koolaid party before I gave up smoking.
Posted December 05, 2011
Chris says:
Where in the heck can you still smoke in a public place? In Illinois, it's pretty much banned everywhere and I thought all other states have followed suit by now.
That being said, I think it should be up to the owners whether or not to allow smoking in their establishments. And each individual can decide for him or herself whether or not to go in. Does this make sense to anyone else or am I crazy? Individual responsibility?
Posted November 30, 2011
lucky says:
i feel we should be able to smoke any where in or out side...
Posted November 29, 2011
CaptKirk says:
I think drinking should be banned in all public places because one of my exs put a knife to my throat after a night in a club, and one of my friends got beaten so bad he spent the night in hospital. Im a smoker, not a criminal. Ban smoking, ban drinking, ban porn and ban fatty foods if thats the way you feel.
Posted November 17, 2011
Milo says:
I completely disagree! I am also a nonsmoker, but if the government were to take away this right, that's just too far! That's complete government control, plus it would be impossible anyways. Smoking is a special social time, and to take that away would take away the time to bond. Banning the right to smoke will be a state suicide. People will rebel, and many people will get hurt. Smoking is a dangerous thing, who doesn't know that? The smokers in the world know the later punishment, but they continue to do it anyways. It's not the governments job to save the people who make their own choices. It's their own decision, but taking away that right will end up hurting everybody.
Posted November 13, 2011
shapoopy says:
i agree with shannon!
Posted November 08, 2011
Shannon says:
I am a non smoker myself, but I believe that the smokers have a right to smoke in public places, just as long as the location is someplace where not a lot of children would be. The smokers are already pushed to smoke in only designated areas, and are no longer allowed to smoke in bars, restaurants, malls, and so forth. If people are saying smoking in public places should be banned, might as well not sell anymore alcohol at stores but only in bars, bowling allies, restaurants and etc. Why? Because under aged kids always finds a way to buy beer and liquor, and ends up behind the wheel at night and to think they are "fine" being behind the wheel. I have did quite a few researches, and it said that smokers who smokes in public "influences" younger ones to smoke without even knowing it. This pretty much goes for alcohol as well. My point is, if smoking in public places were to be banned, banning alcohol being sold in stores should be as well because people would always drink at home in front of kids, in public places, and so forth.
I hate the smell of smoke and wished that smokers don't exist, but I still feel they have their right to smoke in public places in designated areas. If they're old enough to choose to smoke or not, they should be old enough to choose for themselves if smoking should be allowed in public places. Non smokers don't really have a right to keep on pushing smokers to a more limited area to smoke, and tell them where they can't or can smoke.
Posted November 03, 2011
Zach says:
Smoking is a freedom any buissness should allow what they want its your choice to go there
Posted November 02, 2011
bob says:
Each person has the right to decide whether or not to smoke. As for second hand smoke, unless some one is following you and blowing smoke in your face i doubt its a problem. Also if you don't want to be around smoke in a restoraunt or other area, you can leave. I don't think people should smoke, but they have the right to decide.
Posted November 01, 2011
Kevin says:
YOU SAY : "Wanting to ban smoking in public places isn't about taking away a smoker's rights. You will still have the right to smoke in your own space. The right to slowly and deliberately harm others was never yours to begin with."
I SAY: Please tell me where Your Space & My Space begins? I thought the world was OURS! can't you just move away a little if you get a bit of smoke up your nose? Truly the last thing I would want is to harm you! But take a look at all the motorists that are causing irritation to your little nose perhaps they can get into there space as well...do you drive? please don't ever drive past me lady and give me any of your noxious fumes!
I'm sure the little bit of smoke that would get you from a passing smoker outside would do you no harm! Indoors would be a different matter But I reckon you need to think about all the way more dangerous chemicals we encounter in our everyday lives I mean the actual toxic levels of carbon monoxide you and I breath in every day. Bless you
Posted October 31, 2011
Barb says:
Quit drinking the kool-aid. As soon as alcohol, cars, drugs, and cults are banned, then they should also ban cigarettes. The fumes in cars already ruined the environment and our health, heck even the dashboards seep toxins when the sun hits it, so you are breathing that in everyday. Weed, has more toxins in it than cigarettes, but everyone wants to legalize that...who cares if it kills the rest...eh? Who cares that millions of innocent people are being killed by drunk drivers or drunks who get angry and kill...who cares about cults that ban together and convert people to harm children or blow up innocent people. There are a lot of things out there worse than smoking. It's banned already in bars, restaurants, athletic places, public buildings, etc. already. I think that is enough already, move on to other things that are far more worse out there. If you really care, you'd be focusing on other things that I mentioned. I think more people who are reformed smokers want it banned for other reasons.
Posted October 27, 2011
tenger says:
I don't smoke, but it's not my place to say where others can or cannot. Indoors? Possibly. But outdoors? Not a chance.
Posted October 27, 2011
PTurner56 says:
I am so tired of feeling like a criminal! I don't tell you how to live, so get off my back! I'm extremely courteous about my smoking and always try not to bother anyone else. I wish others were as courteous to me.
Yes, let's ban all smoking everywhere. Then let's ban drinking because of the drunk drivers. Then let's ban all guns because of the criminals. Then let's ban perfume because some people claim to be alergic to it. Then let's ban all foul language everywhere because it offends people. Then let's ban tatoos and body piercing because some people are disgusted by them. Then let's ban baggy pants because people are afraid you're a gang member. Then let's ban video games so that children will go outside and play which is much more healthy. Then let's ban all fatty foods because they're unhealthy. Then let's ban the internet so nobody will look at porn. Then let's ban all pharmaceuticals so no one will abuse them. Let's just ban everything!
Smoking is NOT the problem. People are the problem. If you choose to live in society, you must learn to be tolerant. My rights are just as important to me as yours are to you. I try not to offend. Please do the same.
Posted October 23, 2011
Joy says:
No it shouldnt, smoking is very legal and it is being made to feel like it is illegal!
Posted October 16, 2011
mewil cute says:
I am not a smoker but I can understand people who smoke it is because of the nicotine in the cigarette. Nicotine is an addictive substance which pushes a person not to stop smoking, once you start smoking you cannot leave it because it is already in your bloodstream. Other reason is that people smoke due to rebellion or they are stressed, because as far as i know that cigarette makes them feel good because it is cool. While others smoke because they want to be a part of a crowd or they want to be accepted by their friends or peer who smoke..
Posted October 13, 2011
nuestraherencia says:
No. First, the "proof" is questionable at best. If you smoke and get lung cancer, automatically it is assumed that it was from smoking. If you do not smoke and get lung cancer, then what caused it? Oh, yes, second hand smoke. But what if you were never really exposed to as much second hand smoke as someone who was and yet didn't get cancer? Your choice to smoke or not smoke is yours. The choice of someone to smoke or not smoke is also theirs. In addition, the fumes from trucks, factories, etc...is "as toxic" as smoking and yet those are not being banned. Smokers have become the cop-out for society. In fact, many who have never smoked and end up with lung cancer are pretty upset that the government has focused so much on "smoking" as a cause, that the real cause of lung cancer is not truly being investigated. Also, the "propaganda" about smoking is mostly caused by the government in an attempt to continuously tax cigs. With this money, they are able to pay for the free healthcare for kids available in most states at no cost or very low cost for people. Actually, the taxes should be removed so that those who want to smoke can just "die quickly" and then they'll be less of them. :-0
Posted October 12, 2011
Becksta says:
I'm tired of seeing smokers getting all the bad press... it seems relentless to me.
Smokers already have to stand outside public buildings of more or less any description to have a cigarette nowdays. One thing that I've noticed as a result of this law is how alarmingly common it is to see customers coming out of the pub that they've been in since 7pm at closing time and proceed to get into their car and drive.
A sad fact is that quite often when drunks have an accident, it's not them who get hurt, but an innocent person - and no matter what our police forces do, the problem isn't getting any better.
Posted October 12, 2011
davespeed says:
As Ayn Rand used to say, check your premises. Here are three of my premises that inform my opinion about this issue. First, each individual owns his or her body and is free to make their own choices regarding it. One person may choose to run daily, eat lots of fruits and vegetables, abstain from alcohol and not smoke. Another person may choose to eat ice cream everyday for breakfast, be a couch potato, get drunk daily and smoke like a fiend. It's the individual's choice. Secondly, a property owner has the right to decide what is allowed on his or her property. If a restaurant owner believes that banning smoking in his or her establishment will make the restaurant better, resulting in more business and more profit, he or she should be able to ban smoking. On the other hand, if a restaurant owner thinks that his or her target market wants to be able to smoke while at a restaurant, he or she should be able to allow smoking on his or her property. Thirdly, individuals have a right to do what they want as long as they don't hurt others or violate the property rights of others. Let's suppose that you hate smoking and believe that second hand smoke is harmful. A smoker does not have the right to come into your home and smoke against your wishes. A smoker does not have the right to come into your place of business and and smoke if you don't want smoking in your business. However, a non-smoker doesn't have the right to dictate what other property owners allow or do not allow on their property. If you believe that going into a bar that allows smoking will harm your health, don't go to that bar. You may ask, "What if all bars allow smoking? Then what bar can I go to?" You can go to any one of them or none of them. Your choice. You do not have a right to force privately owned businesses to obey your smoking preferences anymore than you have a right to demand that restaurants serve healthy food. I do not smoke cigarettes and my father died of lung cancer after a lifetime of smoking - so my opinion on the issue stems from my beliefs about our rights, not how I am personally affected.
Posted October 08, 2011
iwrite4cash says:
To say that smoking should be banned is hypocritical, like usual with the ignorance of people. If you say that I can't smoke somewhere where you have as much freedom to choose where you were to physically be at, as I do to smoke in that very same place, is the exact infringement you would be using to tell me to smoke elsewhere. I have as much right to be free where I please as you do, my smoke would not harm you if you were to use your right to move if you don't like what is going on. In no way, shape, or form should anyone be able to tell anyone what they should or should not do, that was the point of freedom, yet the ignorance of people saying they should be able to decide the freedoms of another, or even in this case, an entire group, is doing the exact opposite of upholding the freedoms mentioned previously. Do you people saying smoking should be banned realize that the tobacco industry helped create wealth all across the world making itself a part of history mind you, so now that the fat cats have made money, especially your beloved "Uncle Sam" with his outrageous taxes, you say it's wrong to smoke even though without it our country will lose hundreds of thousands - if not millions - of dollars from this booming industry. How about this thought: Let me be the adult that I am and choose what I can and cannot do for my self like the freedoms that EVERYONE are entitled to are supposed to uphold, AND YOU be the adult that you are and choose for yourself whether or not you would like to stand around me or not, just because you don't agree with something doesn't give you the right to ban it, that's called opinionated greedy fascism, which is THE #1 reason why our country and world even is as corrupt as it is, live and let live, and have some common sense, if someone is smoking move your own body if it offends you, simple as that!
Posted October 06, 2011
Torijanaya says:
smoking should be banned inside but not outside. The choice to smoke is the smokers choice, I don't think we need to make a choice for them. They want to smoke and ruin their health that's their problem.
I'm doing an assignment on "should smoking be banned in public places?" right now and in my opinion we can't change a thing about smokers smoking, but it should be banned in public places.
As a smoker myself we have the right to make our own choice, I don't smoke in public places because it is just manners.
Posted October 03, 2011
virgoansun says:
There is just as much scientific 'proof' that secondary smoke is unharmful - it appears though much easier to target and lambast smokers than it is to tackle problems of pollution from cars, factories etc in a world wide forum - especially as the main ecological criminals are too rich to touch... In London, over 10,000 people are year die from pollution - a little known fact. Additionally, the anti smoking lobbyists are finding it hard to explain why incidences of asthma and other respiratory disorders are on the increase when smoking is on the decrease! I think we all need to hear the scientific truths before hounding smokers. I find perfume exceedingly offensive and it gives me a cough - I cannot see myself getting very far asking people not to wear it...there has to be some freedom surely?
Posted September 29, 2011
iiIii says:
nope i like my American Rights...thank you
Posted September 26, 2011
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naheedahsan
Feb 12, 2012 @ 11:13 pm | delete
- Great lens.Thanks!
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MelonyVaughan
Feb 12, 2012 @ 1:09 pm | delete
- Wonderful lens!
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bluewren56
Feb 9, 2012 @ 4:35 pm | delete
- Great lens.
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ImpartialGreg
Feb 1, 2012 @ 10:30 am | delete
- Love the results on the duel debate module! Thanks!
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thesuccess
Jan 26, 2012 @ 12:43 pm | delete
- It's pretty much catch 22 for smokers: when people smoked everywhere you hardly ever noticed the smoke at all, now I 'm turning round and disliking it if someone's smoking in an outside terrace 20 paces away.
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jimmyworldstar
Jan 25, 2012 @ 5:26 pm | delete
- I agree, smoking shouldn't be in the public space because others shouldn't have to inhale the second hand smoke and put themselves at risk for lung cancer or other ills.
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mihgasper
Jan 15, 2012 @ 3:32 am | delete
- As I already said, if we put together all pros and cons of smoking, column with cons wins both hands down. With better education and overall look on reasons to start we can uproot smoking!
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BarbRad
Jan 8, 2012 @ 4:57 am | delete
- I've never been a smoker, but some people need to smoke as much as I need to eat sweets -- something else that's unhealthy. They should have somewhere they can do it without legal consequences, but that also will not cause health risks or discomfort to non-smokers. If you are a non-smoker, it's terrible to pay for a good meal and have a smoker at the next table. You can't really get up and leave without losing your meal, but you really can't enjoy the meal either because of the smoke blowing in your direction. It would be wonderful if everyone decided to stop smoking, but it's unrealistic to think this will happen anytime soon. We must find a solution that's fair to all.
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chromegrrrl
Feb 10, 2012 @ 11:55 am | delete
- Here in Oregon workplace (even in restaurants and bars) smoking has been banned, there are some special (very rare and specific) exceptions to the rule (like cigar bars) and I think it's a good compromise. As I mentioned in the debate section I am a smoker-- but I don't like smoke around my food as much as the next person (I don't even like the smell on my clothes) I think the law we have here is reasonable.
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Isham101
Dec 20, 2011 @ 1:19 am | delete
- Complete ban in all public places is too harsh for anyone.
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CarlittoDunaway
Dec 15, 2011 @ 4:20 am | delete
- I have quit smoking couple of years ago. But I believe everybody has rights to smoke. Nonsmoker has rights to leave the place where smokers smoke.
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krakensquid
Dec 10, 2011 @ 7:27 pm | delete
- A wonderfully written and very imformative lens! Thank you for sharing your thoughts.
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srioschavez
Dec 9, 2011 @ 2:04 pm | delete
- i quit and started back when i didnt smoke i was insane
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Elhamstero
Dec 4, 2011 @ 4:07 pm | delete
- I've never smoked, although my parents did when I was little. I saw how hard it was for my dad to give up and promised myself that I would never put myself in that position.
That, and I know how much tax you pay on a packet of cigarettes.
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fullofshoes
Nov 30, 2011 @ 2:24 pm | delete
- Quit 4 years ago. THE BEST thing I ever did. Great lens.
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RetiredRebel
Nov 29, 2011 @ 6:55 am | delete
- enjoyed my visit on this lens today
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ernieplotter
Nov 28, 2011 @ 4:47 pm | delete
- I quit smoking 3 years ago... and I dón´t miss it at all!
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Joie Nov 23, 2011 @ 3:07 am | delete
- I remember a time when restaurants in California allowed people to smoke freely. We non-smokers sometimes had access to an area that was supposed to be smoke-free. But the smoke itself didn't know it was supposed to stay out of our area, and we ended up inhaling it anyway.
It's been many years since California banned smoking in all public places, and I am so grateful. Some people are affected by second-hand smoke after many years; others become violently ill in minutes.
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ouriloilo
Nov 16, 2011 @ 5:18 am | delete
- My mom is a non-smoker but she is definitely suffering from the secondhand smoke that comes from smokers.
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noel_rocs
Nov 1, 2011 @ 9:15 am | delete
- October 19th was my 7 year anniversary since I stopped smoking. One of the best decisions I've ever made :) ...very hard to do, though.
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