Jan 292010
The smoking is not only harmful to the smokers but also the people standing near bye. I have seen lot of people smoking carrying their babies.
I welcome people to stay home if they don’t like people smoking. It’s not a perfect world. If you don’t like what you see, stay home in your nice clean house.
people who smoke should be shot, its disgusting and i dont wanna see you do that, or have to deal with second hand smoke.
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No, I don’t support a ban in ALL public places. Places like bars and taverns and some restaurants should be ok. If you don’t like the smoke, don’t work there or don’t go there at all.
Oh my God, well said crazy cat!!! I’d ask you to marry me, but that’s illegal.
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make cigarettes illegal while legalizing weed!
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Apparently you are in favor of Big Brother, and welcome government intrusion in peoples lives and the denial of civil liberties for the citizenry of America. If you don’t like what is going on around you, like smoking, drinking, pro-choice, gay marriage and so on and so forth. Go Away to some dark corner of the universe where your tender sensitivities won’t come in contact with the real world.
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I welcome people to stay home if they don’t like people smoking. It’s not a perfect world. If you don’t like what you see, stay home in your nice clean house.
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In my opinion smoking should be banned in public places and if a few select establishments want smoking in their place of business fine, but as far as public places no because people should have a choice on whether or not they want to risk getting lung cancer while in a private home that’s alot different do as you please but in a public place people should have consideration.
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I welcome it too.
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It is unnecessary interference by governments hell-bent on everybody becoming a clone of each other. A lot of things are harmful to the doer, like becoming excessively fat, but public restaurants are not banned. If folk don’t like smoke, let them stand somewhere else – or are you saying that smokers and non-smokers should not have equal rights?
More to the point would be banning chewing gum in public places. Seeing someone’s jaw churning away endlessly is one of the most revolting, sick-making sights, and a lot of gum-chewers drop their expired wads so that others can get it on the soles of their shoes. At least cigarette smoke blows away quickly. Gum doesn’t.
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We finally banned it in all public places here in Illinois, US. It has been a godsend. There has been little complaint from the smokers of those cancer sticks.
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I welcome the ban. It has been banned in San Diego where I live since 1998 I think. I feel that it has cleaned the air indoors. If you have read this URL: http://www.surgeongeneral.gov/library/secondhandsmoke/report/index.html you will see all the hazardous chemicals that are found in secondhand smoke, many of them cause cancer and lung diseases in non-smokers. These bans are about HEALTH more than anything, and the right for everyone to breathe clean air.
Some people may say that these bans are bad because it causes government intrusion, causes business loss, or things like that. I disagree with these claims, because a lot of credible studies not sponsored by the tobacco industry have proven that restaurant and bar income actually went up in areas with bans. The reason for this is because the credible studies actually took into account the number of non-smokers who come out to these kind of establishments more who do not like places filled with smoke.
I wanted to say that I am a non-smoker.
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I agree it should be banned. There is nothing worse then entering a store or coffee shop and seeing a bunch of scrunched up cigg butts all over the ground and smelling the gross offensive second hand smoke still lingering in the air. Makes you want to puke. S0 CLEAN UP YOUR ACT WAL-MART and TIM HOTONS!!!!!
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For the most part smoking is already banned in public places. One can’t smoke in a restaurant, the mall, bowling alley, etc. Not many bars allow this anymore either. Some casinos do allow smoking.
Asking us smokers to quit and expecting everyone would do is is not realistic. So where do you propose we smoke? Only in our homes or cars? Heck, even that is going to be a no go one day.
As long as I don’t stand over you and blow smoke at you, I’m ok. If you are a whole park away from me, you are not going to get the effects my cigarette.
Expecting everyone to stop smoking all together is unrealistic. Soon having a smoke will need to be hidden like folks who do drugs.
I wonder what bandwagon everyone will hop on to stop when smoking has been cut out. Think about it.
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It depends on how you define "public places", in government owned land and buildings, then yes, fair enough. However the when the definition includes private property where admission is at the discretion of the owner/manager then it is definitely less than acceptable.
To the best of my knowledge the government does not actually own any pubs or restaurants, or any private members clubs, all of which are included in the ban and none of which do the public have any right of entry* then it should be at the discretion of the owner/manager, after all, it is their livelihood and if non-smoking pubs are so popular then there should be a market there without the necessity of a ban, complete with the threat of unfeasibly high fines for "permitting smoking"
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* If you believe that you have the "right" to enter a pub then I suggest you try this simple experiment: go up to the landlord and make suggestive remarks about his wife/daughter/mother, repeat this until either the bar closes or you are ejected from the premises.