Smoking
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bsktbll28082
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i voted wrong but i think it should be banned. ~cheesey_grin~
Bmxdudde1100
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Yes it smells! :twistedman:
Deimenried
New Arrival
I agree that it should be banned in public places, but not altogether. I don't mind people smoking themselves to death in the privacy of their own homes, but not in public where they can cause health problems for other people!
Recently smoking was banned from enclosed spaces in Toronto, but I don't think it should be banned fully, if smoking was illegal, adolescents would think it was even cooler that they were doing something illegal, so they would smoke even more for attention, and if it does get banned, you kinda can't just arrest someone on the spot, the worst you could do was to give them a dirty look, so personally, I feel that would escalate the problem
I'm glad the smoking ban in England has now come into force as going out is so much nicer. Neither myself nor my partner smoke and we hated going out for meals to have someones fag smoke waft across while we were trying to eat. And I used to get really annoyed about the ignorance of smokers lighting up next to us if were out with our baby son..... some smokers are just totally selfish and show no consideration about the effects of second hand/passive smoking.
Banning smoking completely?
That's gonna be a hard task,,,Governments love the interest they make from it..the revenue it generates, then they take that revenue and refuse to cure the ones suffering in the hospitals from the ill fated smoking they endure over the years!
Silly world!
That's gonna be a hard task,,,Governments love the interest they make from it..the revenue it generates, then they take that revenue and refuse to cure the ones suffering in the hospitals from the ill fated smoking they endure over the years!
Silly world!
Baller4life
Acquaintance
Yeah i think it should
Black Angel
Resident
Banning never really solves anything, as a non smoker myself, I can certainly understand the desire to have it banned, however, if you look back on history, at issues such as Prohibition, prostitution, underaged drinking, and drugs, banning something only increases the likelihood of someone doing it illegally.
Even though normally I would not be in favor of any form of segregation per se, I would not be aversed to segregation between smokers and non-smokers.. Smokers (or at least the ones I've seen here) have no problems with being around other smokers, this way they get to smoke to their heart's content, and it wouldn't bother the non-smokers one bit.. except to the extent of being separated from their loved ones who do smoke. The way I see it is that it would be one more incentive toward quitting.
Even though normally I would not be in favor of any form of segregation per se, I would not be aversed to segregation between smokers and non-smokers.. Smokers (or at least the ones I've seen here) have no problems with being around other smokers, this way they get to smoke to their heart's content, and it wouldn't bother the non-smokers one bit.. except to the extent of being separated from their loved ones who do smoke. The way I see it is that it would be one more incentive toward quitting.
sam said:
were not totaly smoke free yet . and i will say that as i am a smoker . and the pup i got to althow it is a non smoking pup still let folk smoke in the doorway and just outside althow thats agenst regulation .
so speeking for health resens yes it should be totaly banned . but speeking as a smoker . get to hell and back i would hate it to be banned
Well, I think smoking shouldn't be banned but don't get me wrong. I think it is a good way for the government to earn money. I personally don't smoke and hopefully never will. If the government bans this, people would just get it from the black market. Instead of banning it, the government should put a very high tax on smoking, so high that people won't be able to afford it and if they can, then that is good income for the government. Something like £50 of tax per packets of cigarettes sounds reasonable.
No, I don't think it should be banned. While it is bad for you, people are their own individual people. I can warn someone that something is bad for them, but it isn't my responsibility to ban them from doing it. Pretty much everyone knows it's bad for you, but they do it anyway, which is their own fault. I see it almost like suicide. I dislike the idea of suicide or smoking, but I'm not going to shove it down on someone not to smoke, or commit suicide, it's their own choice. Obviously, I would advise them from doing it, but I won't all out ban them from it, or really even make it significantly harder for them to smoke, or commit suicide, because people find ways around things, especially when the government restricts them.
MasterA said:
An "annoying" thing isn't a very good argument, I don't think. I think plenty of things are annoying, per say. However, no one talks about banning "annoying" TV shows.
On health: that's something that, quite frankly you will find a study from every different opinion. Personally, I'm a bigger fan of independent studies, oposed to government studies by government agencies. With most independent studies, they find that it takes a significant amount of second hand smoke to make much of a health different. Example: http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style ... 04077.html
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