Public smoking has become an issue over the past couple years and i'm here to settle this. I don't think this thread exists in this manner and if it does just let me know. Now I'm a person who hates standing somewhere and then suddenly being overcome by all this smoke in my face because the wind is blowing in my direction and someone is smoking the opposite. I absolutely hate this and "could" be harmful but that isn't the worst part, it is all that smoke in my face. Is that right to do? My grandfather said this about this topic "If your going to blow smoke in my face how about i come over there and fart in yours and see how you like it" he has a point there, now what do you people think on this subject?
"If your going to blow smoke in my face how about i come over there and fart in yours and see how you like it"
Only a jerk would blow smoke in someone's face.
Anyways, I disagree with banning smoking in bars, or banning Hookah lounges. If I'm going to a bar, I'm not looking to be healthy. I'm already destroying my liver, why must the government protect my lungs? A bunch of bars in my area closed down after the smoking ban because they couldn't bring in any revenue during the winter months. It's too cold to smoke outside, so people stopped going to the bars during the cold months.
Banning Hookah lounges is also absurd. Those places are specifically made for smoking, so if you don't like smoke, you wouldn't be in there anyways. In my girlfriend's home town, a bunch of parents found out their 18 year old children were going to hookah lounges, so they banded together to shut the businesses down. The business owners were given no reimbursement or anything. They had to pack up and leave. Why can't consenting adults choose to live how they want?
But I'm tired of seeing fat people so maybe I should take away their food...
Lol, lets start a revolution.
I admit when I smell smoke on the wind I really dislike it, but I just move out the path of the smoke, tho this is not always so easy. Its not up to the goverment to decide if we can smoke anywhere, so once again I feel the goverment are overstretching their mark.
Now I'm a person who hates standing somewhere and then suddenly being overcome by all this smoke in my face because the wind is blowing in my direction and someone is smoking the opposite. I absolutely hate this and "could" be harmful but that isn't the worst part, it is all that smoke in my face. Is that right to do? My grandfather said this about this topic "If your going to blow smoke in my face how about i come over there and fart in yours and see how you like it"
If you hate it then move, they aren't directly blowing it in your face. You have equal opportunity just like they do, so use it and move your ass. Also, if I blow smoke in someones face on accident and they fart in my face then i'm gonna kick their ass.
Smoking in public is basically the same as farting in public, only farting is not an addiction and it isn't harmful to anyone. On the downside, it smells much worse.
If they got rid of smoking, I could finally walk into a casino without a doctor's mask on.
From the point of view of someone who has Asthma I hate cigarette smoke, and can't stand it when I go somewhere to eat thats small they tend to be all smoking(AKA no none-smoking zone) and of course since I still rely on my parents to feed me I don't always get to choose where I want to eat so I don't get to choose not to eat at such establishments. I'm just glad its not as bad as Mississippi was a couple years ago. I went down there and couldn't even sit down to eat at McDonalds because they didn't make their establishments down there smoke free yet, and so everyone would smoke in there. So obviously this is not an issue of just bars, and such but other places where people who don't smoke go into, and its extremely inconvenient for people who get sick from cigarette smoke to have to go somewhere else to eat because of it. As far as I'm concerned a smoking ban would be nice to an extent, and outside of bars it has been found that doing so brings in other customers that help easily make up for those who they lost to smoking bans.
Hmmm well u also can equally ask "can you stop blowing it in that direction".. Or even move away from them, or ask them to move.. i know having a conversation with a smoking.. weird.
But seriously, i can understand how it can be a turn off while eating. but if you have that much problems with it, go somewhere else, or tell your parents.
And one last thing. Lifes a major b'tch. This is just one small problem, and people have to stop complaining about it. Smoke in the face, is smoke in the face. If you live in a smoggy area, well its 20 times worse than that smoke in the face...
As I've said time and time again in the tobacco thread, the risks of second hand smoke have been vastly exaggerated by the middle class media. I have seen no studies which take into account cities with heavy smog, or any evidence to suggest it does any more harm to you than simply walking around an urban area and passively inhaling traffic fumes.
Now, the part I can sympathise with is that it can be bothersome to some. The solution should be smoking and non smoking areas in buildings at the discretion of the owner.
It's libtards who campaign against smoking in all public places, as if second hand smoke is as dangerous as the bubonic plague who really piss me off.
I think public smoking should be illegal with the exception of strip clubs, bars ect... Cuz we shouldn't have to smell that vile poo and have to breathe it in because some mans smoking on a cancer stick
It's all equal rights until it hinders the rights of others, as in it's their right to breathe clean air, not cigarette smoke. When I see standard cigarettes, I imagine "it's going to kill you later". When I see a new-and-improved cigarette, I imagine "it's still going to kill you, just later on".
As I've said time and time again in the tobacco thread, the risks of second hand smoke have been vastly exaggerated by the middle class media.
Yet the effects of it still remain the same. Friends live in households where people smoke affect their effectiveness in movement, as in it makes them harder to breathe because they have all that tar in their lungs. I have three friends in this situation: One friend smokes. Another secondhand smokes because he's the example above. Another has asthma and had to be seriously treated because of smoking. He had a severe asthma attack, where his air passageways just wouldn't stop contracting. The media probably exaggerates the statistics, but it's all the same in the end.
So we should ban driving to prevent people from getting second hand smoke? You do realise that standing behind a car for 10 seconds will give you the same amount of toxins cigarrette smoke does in a week?
The fact is we don't live in a society where we ban everything that is dangerous. You cannot legislate on one behaviour form and not the other. Your friend has asthma. Top tip. Don't hang out with smokers, or at lleast not when they're off having a ciggie. Pretty simple solution. Banning smoking in public places. Costly and downright undemocratic solution.
I'm asthmatic and a few of my friends smoke; I just ask them not to do it while I'm around. It honestly doesn't bother me that much-I'm probably doing more harm to my body by (willingly) going to the local hookah bar than I'm getting from secondhand smoke in public.
So we should ban driving to prevent people from getting second hand smoke? You do realise that standing behind a car for 10 seconds will give you the same amount of toxins cigarrette smoke does in a week?
We also don't have "designated car zones" where cars can smoke all they want to. This regulation at least brings down the amount of smoke to those that don't want any of it near them. So how would cars bring smoke to pedestrians? Unless they are in a car with shut of air vents or not wandering aimlessly in the streets, I don't see how cars could actually "harm" bystanders.
You do realise that standing behind a car for 10 seconds will give you the same amount of toxins cigarrette smoke does in a week?
Standing behind a car for 10 seconds while it blows out fumes...that doesn't sound like a pretty rational idea. Do people with common sense do this?
