do u think da goverment is taking all ur rites away if ur a smoker?
79077
Well where I live you can smoke in public, and in some restraunts, but, in other states/cities you can't. We are supposed to have this thing called freedom, and the government is starting to take it away. If people don't like second hand smoke, then ask the person to blow the smoke the other way, or move. Not very hard. I am my own person and just because someone says they don't like it doesn't mean i am going to quit!
975459
ban smoking and life because they both kill you.. now you can't argue with that statement now can you?
209269
No.  Cigarettes do though.  Know why cigaretts are not illegal?  Cause if they were, Social Security would go broke from people living too long.
135168
No. Instead can provide some area of them as smoking prohibited and those who wish to move that area can go.
902515
We all did this.Especially if the head of the family was a smoker.Would'nt worry.I'll be 75 next year,has'nt effected me so far. Touch wood.
600227
No, because I think it's more governmental fan-dance posturing. If we're going to 'put out' tobacco, the quick and easy way to do it is to slap about a 5 dollar-a-pack tax on tobacco. Put the money into smoking cessation like the nico-pops that guy made and got kicked down by the FDA for making. People smoke to get the nicotine. If you smoke, and you don't call yourself an addict, you're not being honest with yourself. I think nicotine should be available to smokers, and not that nasty gum, either. People chew tobacco, too, for the same effect. Chewing tobacco is nasty, makes your teeth fall out, gives you mouth cancer, that kind of stuff. But, people want that nicotine. So,\nisolate the nicotine and put it in a cookie or something. \nThey also have an anti-smoking pill they're working on,\nwe've seen those before too.\n\nThe problem with smoking is that people die of it, it stinks, fire hazard, the whole show. Some people think that you should be able to smoke anywhere, other people think smoking should be banned. I think a smoking ban just kind of lets businesses have something to enforce if they want the smoke to go away. I don't think it fixes the problem of the government being addicted to the tax revenue they get from it. As long as the government gets its' share of that tobacco money, tobacco will continue to be taxed, sold, and consumed.
708701
There are a whole bunch of laws that are set by people who don't partake of the activity they wish to regulate.\n\nGet used to the no smoking thing. It's everywhere.
1072997
I Recently stopped smoking,it doesn't give me the right to tell you where you can or can not smoke. You have the right to enjoy yourself.
639507
I hope so, I can tell you first hand that smoking is bad for you. My father died from smoking, my best friend died from smoking, my father in law died from it.
706721
I grew up in the 60s and 70s in a family that smoked and none of us, not even one of us has died or gone to hospital for smoking related illness.  There needs to be a compromise on this issue, but when the people with money and nothing better to do than try to force everyone to be like they are set an agenda, the rest of us pay.  Where I live, a ban on smoking was recently passed (by a 7% margin, by the way, out of only 30% of registered voters weighing in), because these whiny, holier-than-thou control freaks couldn't be happy that we already had an ordinance requiring restaurants to have separate smoking sections with separate ventilation systems.  Now all the restaurants that invested all  that money in those separate rooms and vent systems are going to have to give them up to these jerks.  Recent talk shows have aired the voices of business owners saying that their business has suffered from the bans, while cities around them report increases, as those of us who still appreciate the concept of a free country drive to less fascistic communities to dine out.  Restaurants are private businesses and if someone can't stand the chance of smelling cigarette smoke, they most certainly do not have to go into them.  This no compromise attitude is very un-American, in my opinion.  Sadly, people these days usually just roll over when new laws go through and they'll just say, "OK, you took that right from me, at least I can still smoke in my car and house."  I just wonder how long that will be true. Hail Oceania!
640020
No it is not banned yet. It should be. COMPLETELY. Not here and there...but all over the world.\n\nTobacco Companies are behind the delay in banning fags. In reality..many people will lose jobs...starting from the poor farmers who grow tobacco to the chairmen of these huge companies.\n\nAs far as I see it smoking will never be banished from this side of earth.
903756
i think something society completly oversees is how powerful our minds our. Mind over matter. If you ever experiment with hallucinogenic drugs, you will quickly realize this. Now though your on the right track with quitting by the half life of the radiation particles that is in tobacco last 30 years or so. So your chances of getting lunger cancer are very very high right now even though you quit.\n\nCheck out this article about some very interesting things you could be doing to help you now that you quit. \n\nCongrats by the way.
108205
Definately. It is nearly completely banned in Australia. Soon the only place you will be able to smoke down here, will be in your own home with no children and non-smokers present and only if you have a purifier to clean the air before it escapes outside.
941072
Until we pass a law in this country that infringes upon a smokers freedom to smoke, you have no right to do anything....violent or otherwise, to a smoker on the street.  In public, people are allowed to do certain things.  You are no better and no worse.  I am sure you have some habits I would like to do something about...walking too slow, spitting, dragging your feet, not looking where you are going.  But I don't have the right to trip you because of it, do I?  This is still America and a democracy.  Talk to your elected officials in your town and state about your concersn.  That is the only legit way to attempt to protect yourself from smoke.  Meantime, maybe you should also be worrying about the environmental pollution that is affecting your lungs as well.  Keep your hands to yourself in the meantime.  Unless you want to be harrassed right back.
795323
no. anything you smoke is bad for you. i would recommend quiting.
1031090
i hope so,,, it bothers me as well since my nighbors downstairs smoke.... there is talk into banning smoking in appartments\n\nKetty.... its easy i'm upstairs. smoke travels UP. when they are out on there balcony there smoke travels UP to mine.    simple. plain and simple. \n\nanyways i just finished reading an article, they want to ban smoking compleatly in Santa cruz. they already banned it from the beach and public parks. there is also a  small town somewere in california where its compleatly banned. \n\nthere is also people wanting to ban smoking in casinos in vegas.,,.. now to me thats just CRAZY all the casinos i been to have very good venting.
473374
i think smoking should be banned completely. and im a smoker myself. it would just make it so much harder for ppl to do it in the first place because once you start its so hard to give it up.