if we don't have a choice a of smoking areas, why do some races in canda can set their own rules on that?
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cuz they are special\nand different\ndo you mean canada
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I feel that city officials have the right to restrict the no smoking policy on city owned property, but have no right to restrict smoking in a privately  owned business. That should be up to the owner.\nI am a non-smoker and I'll decide where I want to go. Smoking or non-smoking.
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The government will always controll us-there's no getting away from that.  I have been living in scotland for 3 months now, and have been working in a pub for the duration, and i've yet to make up my mind whether its a good thing or not.  As a non smoker, i can see the benifits of not stinking of smoke or inhaling second hand smoke all night.  However on the flip side, if i really hated stinking of ciggeretts and inhaling second hand smoke, i wouldn't work in a smokey enviroment, and i would stay away from similar enviroments.  What i DON'T think is a good thing is crowds of 20 to 30 people gathering outside a pub/club for a smoke-in the pouring rain. I think proper ventilation and/or a beer garden.  They are fantastic. especially with BBQs.
135168
No. Instead can provide some area of them as smoking prohibited and those who wish to move that area can go.
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Well, if you don't own the business, then you really have no right to tell the owner(s) how to run their's.\nSecondly, there is a drastic difference between breathing the air outside and having to deal with cigarette smoke in a condensed area.  \nWhile I'm sure you are aware of the countless cancer causing stories related to smoking, cigarette smoking doesn't promote a healthy lifestyle.  If your company pays for your health benefits, they have to pay more when there are smokers.\nAlso, why should smokers be allowed to take specified breaks during the day while non-smokers are not given the same privilege.  And don't give me the non-smokers can get up and talk to people at the same time as the smokers are on their break as innumerable office statistics show that both smokers and non-smokers waste multiple hours during the week on non-work related work items.\nIf you really don't like the rules that may be set up within your community, run for a seat on county board or for city council and see if you can change the rules from within.  That's why we have democracy and that is what your son (and many of my friends) are fighting for.
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I know, I know!  Pick me, pick me!\nWhat needs to happen is that restaurants (and other businesses) must be made to comply with health codes.  That is to say, that the smoking area should be well-ventilated, and separate from the non-smoking areas.  Any restaurant (or business) that doesn't comply must either A) Shut down.  or B) Not allow smoking.  If they decide to go with B, and then violate it, it would be treated the same as any other health code violation, e.g. HUGE fines.\nUnfortunately, the current political climate in our country is all-or-nothing, instead of focusing on compromise.  And instead of eating somewhere that doesn't allow smoking, many non-smokers want NO restaurants or businesses to allow smoking.  Completely unfair.  Everyone is entitled to the pursuit of liberty and happiness, not just the non-smokers.
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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.
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I think it was a trick question to older people ...for instant one women voted no to both opinion, thinking that she was voting for people to have the right to smoke in certain areas.The wording in the question throwed them off. So yes , I think if they got a petition people would sign it. And yes some would sign it that don't smoke, 2 people I know told me that they didn't want anymore Rights taken away from them.
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While it is true that some bars are using the “membership” idea to get around the no smoking laws, there is another legal loophole.  The law allows bartenders that own their own bar and don’t have any other employees to allow smoking in their bars if they so choose.  This is how some bar allow smoking  indoors.
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Why would it make people quit smoking? They can always keep doing it in their houses or in privately-owned bars where smoking is permitted. I think it would lead to less people going to the movies rather than encourage people to quit.
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Smoking is banned in certain areas of Nevada, Measure 5 passed.  You will still be allowed to smoke in casinos and bars, but not where children are allowed (like the sports bars I think). but not in grocery stores and child care centers,etc. (my god, i had no idea that wasn't already law!!!)
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I hope all countries will recognize that ALL OUTDOORS is public, and ban smoking outdoors.   They could have smoking areas in sealed vaults somewhere,  and I would not object to that as long as they never have the doors open very long.
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I smoke, and I go out of my way to find a spot to smoke where no children (or anyone else, really) are around or a spot designated for smoking. I understand that second-hand smoke is harmful to children (and others); however, if I am in a designated smoking area and then someone comes around with their children, I am unlikely to move or snuff out my cigarette. Afterall, I was there first, and no one is forcing them to be there. \n\nOn the same token, I don't go to playgrounds to smoke. It's a matter of respect, in my opinion. I'll smoke in an out-of-the-way area out of respect for others, and usually I'll move if I find I am still too close to others. If someone comes into a *designated* smoking area with their children and begin to make a big scene complete with couching and hacking, I most certainly will not move.
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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.
198404
No, maybe just people don't want to breathe in 2nd hand smoke. Smokers can go harm their own lungs no problem.
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Wow...I didn't know about the kids in the car thing, and I live in CA and smoke.\n\nI rarely smoke in my own car if there's a non smoker in there, and I never do with kids.\n\nAs far as anywhere else, unless I am outside, I always ask 1st...I never just assume I can smoke anywhere.
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They don't have a choice.  The government forces them to. The idea is that it will put people off and frighten them into not smoking.\nThis is why cigarette manufacturers are now turning to the third world to sell their foul wares.