Smoking ban

[The-Doctor]

With smoking a hot topic right now I thought I'd ask

Should smoking in public places be allowed?

Yes or No

 

[Veritas]

I know I'm not in Britain, but in the US, there's very few public places you can smoke. You usually have to go outside which is a major inconvenience during the winter in some parts of the country. I just can't stand second-hand smoke.

 

[Eby]

In my opinion 'No' - I've made a conscious decision not to smoke and pollute my body with nicotine and I don't appreciate people (sitting next to me on a train platform or walking in front of me down a narrow street...etc) lighting up and forcing nicotine smoke on me! I was sitting down waiting for a train today when someone came and sat down next to me and some other people and lit up - within a minute the entire bench was vacated - I was not a happy bunny.

 

[Tangnefedd]

I am all for a smoking ban in every public place. No one has ever been permitted to smoke in our home, fortunately only one person we know does smoke, and we see him rarely.

 

[steverock]

i voted no - i hate getting home after people have been smoking round me and smelling smoke all over my clothes.

 

[Kehaar]

With smoking a hot topic right now I thought I'd ask

Should smoking in public places be allowed?

Yes or No

Nope.

Smoking contibutes to a multitude of health problems, the sooner it's stubbed out (pun intended ), the better.

 

[LiberatedChick]

Nope, I don't want to have to breathe other peoples smoke when I go somewhere.

 

[Buttermilk]

Nope for all the above reasons and more.

 

[Maxwell511]

I smoke and I said no, I assumed it meant in public buildings. I actually prefer going out into town now the smoking ban has came in. The outdoor smoking sections are great.

 

[kurabrhm]

Nope, I don't want to have to breathe other peoples smoke when I go somewhere.

I agree. Perhaps this policy, put forward by Patricia Hewitt MP, will perhaps help in reducing the number of smokers in the long term. If we get rid of the incentives to smoke, eg; the current freedom to smoke in pubs, then perhaps we can encourage smokers to quit.

 

[Caliban]

I'm a smoker and I voted No as it would probably help me to stop smoking so much as I hate the cold ((shakes)) shame they haven't bothered introducing it sooner as all those poor people who have to breath it in will have to wait until 2007-2008!!

 

[TankGirl]

Interesting that no-one who voted "yes" has had the bottle to comment! Is that because, as an argument, it is completely indefensible? There can be no possible excuse for forcing others to be poisoned as an exercise in "freedom of expression". Otherwise shouldn't we all be able to exercise the freedom to punch others if the mood takes us? People smoking around me is just as much of an assault on my person.

Freedom is only freedom in so far as it does not impinge on anothers' freedom.

 

[TankGirl]

I voted "no", btw - can you tell?

 

[PEANUT]

Smoking is disgusting and its unfair that people have to put up with having cigarette smoke puffed around them. Smoking should definitely not be allowed in public places. I have to put up with cigarette smoke in Newport bus station when i catch a bus from town. Its annoying and it makes the bus station more dank than it already is

 

[Caliban]

People should see that these people who smoke including myself need help, its an addiction supported by the government as the amount of tax they get from it lines their pockets. What sort of society would condone slowly killing itself and others with such a foul habit. I hate myself for smoking and try not to smoke around others and never smoke around children, but like so many of us we need someone to act and ban it outright!

 

[David Brider]

Well, I've voted "No". I can't really add to anything anyone else has written.

David.

 

[StarryEyedPea]

Tankgirl,

i think your post is slightly harsh, and anyone who has voted yes probably dosnt want to stand out and say they did for fear of being lynched!

I for one, am posting to say I didnt vote because there is no in between option. No "I dont know".

I would agree with you all about your comments about people forcing you into breathing smoke in, but then think, are they? If you go out for dinner, sit in the non smoker section, if your in the pub having a drink, sit in the non smoker section. Most bars have banned smoking at the bar now as well.

Having not smoked for two months now, I am still evaluating it all, and where I stand on this matter, because shouldnt people have a choice?

I am fully prepared for you all to have a rant at me after this post by the way :o)

starr xx

 

[StarryEyedPea]

Freedom is only freedom in so far as it does not impinge on anothers' freedom.[/QUOTE]


i was sitting in the train station yesterday, with my paper, sandwich and hot choc (very over priced if you dont mind me saying so !!!) and the people next to me came in, went to the bar (the station cafe has two sides, a cafe side and a bar side) got a drink and lit up ciggies, and came and sat next to me. I just about coped with the first ones they had, then they lit up again. I had the choice to move. Which I did do eventually, as having only stopped smoking for two months, there are still the battles, and temptations. So i moved out the way, we have a choice as to where we put ourselves. Maybe in places where there is no choice fair enough.


BY THE WAY, i dont think smoking should be banned in the street. I am considering the idea that I think it should be banned in pubs and places like that, but am not sure about it.

And i do have the bottle to say what I am thinking

 

[Maxwell511]

BY THE WAY, i dont think smoking should be banned in the street. I am considering the idea that I think it should be banned in pubs and places like that, but am not sure about it.

What kind of crazy person would what it banned of the street? I thought the point of the banned was to protect people who in work places such as pubs that are exposed to it all day most days of the week.

Banning on the street is makes no-sense. A person smoking on the path will do way less if any to another person then the fumes from cars, buses etc.

Do people what to banned cars from the street?

 

[ChildByGrace]

I would agree with you all about your comments about people forcing you into breathing smoke in, but then think, are they? If you go out for dinner, sit in the non smoker section, if your in the pub having a drink, sit in the non smoker section. Most bars have banned smoking at the bar now as well.


starr xx

If you go to a pub etc then yes they do have no smoking sections. However i have been out, sat in a no smoking section and still stank of smoke when i got home because at the end of the day you are all in the same room and there are no dividers between them.

BTW i think it should be banned forthe reasons everyone else has posted.