Should People Be Allowed To Smoke In Public ?

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  • TheLostMermaid
    TheLostMermaid Posts: 122
    Absolutely there are other fish to fry but this is what you responded to in the topic.

    Yes drugs are outlawed. But people still get them. I highly doubt kids would smoke if they didn't already have them prepackaged and handed to them like candy. You don't see a lot of 14yrs old who can roll a zig zag.

    I really think if they stopped making cigarettes that would solve the problem. Which has nothing to do with the government.

    Yes, because abandoning production of an item that puritanical society disapproves of worked so well during prohibition. I am sick of being 'nanny-stated' by the government who think that they know what they are doing when in actual fact there are a heck of a lot of other problems out there they should be looking into (like the appalling state of our badly funded NHS and deplorable education system). You can choose not to smoke and not be around those that smoke but dictating to others is always a poor move when it comes to the freedom to choose that everyone has a right to.

    Guess there is a good question to be had here; do you fancy paying more in taxes? If cigarettes, alcohol, fast-food and everything else bad for a person were banned then the general populace would be paying much higher taxes...

    Oh, I am a non-smoker, have always been a non-smoker.

    I date a smoker. And unfortunately for him he knows exactly how I feel.

    And being in a state full of smokers its hard to "get away from". I literally get bombarded with smoke while sitting in traffic. Its disgusting. I can just get out of my car and walk away. Or going into a movie theater or restaurant. Why should I have to walk away or change MY life because someone else wants to kill themselves in public???


    And I would absolutely agree to pay more if it meant not being subjected to that awful smell.

    So your man's parts don't work? That sucks.

    HAHA seriously?

    Well not yet. But if he keeps smoking and they do I will blame cigarettes.
  • tabicatinthehat
    tabicatinthehat Posts: 329 Member
    LOL its all I can think about when I come back to this topic! :)

    Funny, because I think the same when at the market and I see all the moms pushing shopping carts of Soda and Junk food around with there 3 - 5 obese children in tow, all trying to beg for candy bars....
    Or when I see the young mother with kids in the back seat going 60 on the freeway trying to text and drive ...



    They had a topic about that a few months ago. Whether or not obese children should be taken away from their parents.

    And in my honest opinion they should. HA but apparently I feel like the government should be MORE involved because we are surrounded by ignorant people.

    No. Evolution should be allowed to run its course. Voila, eventually no more dumbasses.
  • akaporn
    akaporn Posts: 231 Member
    I guess it comes down the issue of (your) Right vs Responsibility (to the others). My believe is the latter should always comes first.... Well, I'm from Thailand been here in the US for 20 years. I still have no idea what's going on...

    My personal opinion is NO. Anything that infringe the right of others should not be allow. Let alone being a wrong example and bad influence to minors. If not because the Tobacco industry involvement. the whole thing would have been outlawed by now.
  • Tigg_er
    Tigg_er Posts: 22,001 Member
    I guess it comes down the issue of (your) Right vs Responsibility (to the others). My believe is the latter should always comes first.... Well, I'm from Thailand been here in the US for 20 years. I still have no idea what's going on...

    My personal opinion is NO. Anything that infringe the right of others should not be allow. Let alone being a wrong example and bad influence to minors. If not because the Tobacco industry involvement. the whole thing would have been outlawed by now.

    But its okay to infringe upon other peoples rights that are not the same as yours ?
  • WhoIsAmber
    WhoIsAmber Posts: 161 Member
    Smoke if you want, but be mindful and respectful of other people who do not have the same habit as your's. If you see your smoke wafting over to a family with children or people who seem to be bothered by it, just blow your smoke in a different direction, unless of course they are in an area designated for smoking, then it's their problem. Commercial cigarettes have a lot of weird chemicals in them, I honestly can't stand the smell of the smoke, I gag if I breathe any second hand smoke and it's not like I'm fake gagging, it's involuntarily. But, I love the smell of cigars, pipe tobacco, clove cigarettes and even hand-rolled cigarettes don't bother me as much as the mass produced, pre-packed ones.

    Almost everyone in my family smokes, except me and my Mom, who is currently trying to quit her over 40 year long, pack-a-day habit. My mom used to be down-right embarrassing to go to the zoo with, it's a smoke-free zoo even though it's open air. There are signs all around that say "thank you for not smoking" and by the gates it says "no smoking passed this point," but you'd still see cigarette butts here or there from people who just couldn't control themselves. My mom and sister have even snuck a smoke while we were there and they definitely got the stink eye from some parents. And my mom has wanted to skip over most of the exhibits a few times before so she could get out and have a smoke. She was extremely grumpy, on edge and acting like an addict that needed a hit asap... we were right at the gate, heading out to go home and she was going to walk up to some random man and ask if he had a cigarette because she couldn't wait the few minutes it would have taken to get to the car.
  • laynerich15
    laynerich15 Posts: 1,918 Member
    Yes, I don't see why people shouldn't be allowed to smoke in public.

    I mean don't go blowing it in peoples faces, simple if you don't like the smell then walk away, someone smoking in the car next to you then put your window up.
  • candacet36
    candacet36 Posts: 353 Member
    YES....unless you want your rights taken from you as well.....

    I am a non-smoker but I don't want anyone tellin me what I can and can't do!
  • laynerich15
    laynerich15 Posts: 1,918 Member
    But why we are at infringing on other rights why don't we also ban the following.

    Children in public
    High heals
    Animals
    Alcohol
    Music that isn't hardcore or punk rock
    Fast food
    Tofu

    Actually why don't we just enter into a state of Martial Law
  • sunglasses_and_ocean_waves
    sunglasses_and_ocean_waves Posts: 2,757 Member
    People need to back the heck off of the smokers. If you don't like it, walk on the other side of the street.
  • Megan101792
    Megan101792 Posts: 3,194 Member
    yes. just please don't smoke when im eating or your windows are up and you have kids in the car.
  • snowflake954
    snowflake954 Posts: 8,399 Member
    But why we are at infringing on other rights why don't we also ban the following.

    Children in public
    High heals
    Animals
    Alcohol
    Music that isn't hardcore or punk rock
    Fast food
    Tofu

    Actually why don't we just enter into a state of Martial Law

    We could all just exagerate alot too----could that be banned? :wink:
  • laynerich15
    laynerich15 Posts: 1,918 Member
    But why we are at infringing on other rights why don't we also ban the following.

    Children in public
    High heals
    Animals
    Alcohol
    Music that isn't hardcore or punk rock
    Fast food
    Tofu

    Actually why don't we just enter into a state of Martial Law

    We could all just exagerate alot too----could that be banned? :wink:

    How so?

    You want to take peoples rights away
  • free1220
    free1220 Posts: 416 Member
    smoke em if you got em :smokin:

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