Not liking the smell isnt a good enough reason for it to be banned. You didnt specify whether you wanted a total ban or a ban on smoking in certain areas (ie:bars, night clubs). Right now where I live there are counties and cities that are banning smoking in the bars and pubs around here. Personally, if you dont like smoking don't go to the bar. If you find the smell and taste and breath of those who use alcohol would you try ban that at bars as well? If you dont like it, stay away from smokers... dont date them, dont go to the bar with them, and let them do whatever it is that they do to themselves. I think of bars and I think of beer and cigarrettes... quit trying to infringe on the rights of the individual. Let us smoke in peace.
Originally posted by Turbo-Cajun
Not liking the smell isnt a good enough reason for it to be banned. You didnt specify whether you wanted a total ban or a ban on smoking in certain areas (ie:bars, night clubs). Right now where I live there are counties and cities that are banning smoking in the bars and pubs around here. Personally, if you dont like smoking don't go to the bar. If you find the smell and taste and breath of those who use alcohol would you try ban that at bars as well? If you dont like it, stay away from smokers... dont date them, dont go to the bar with them, and let them do whatever it is that they do to themselves. I think of bars and I think of beer and cigarrettes... quit trying to infringe on the rights of the individual. Let us smoke in peace.
my thoughts exacty. what irks me the most are the people in the club making all those stoopid scoffing noises when they come out to the smoking patio. hellur!!! it's the only f*cking place we can go smoke. if you want fresh air, you went to the wrong place.
Bars, Pubs... the place to go for a beer and a smoke. Lets us have our place to enjoy ourselves... if you dont like the atmosphere there are tons of other places you can go where smoking is not permitted. If you dont like your parents and your boyfriend smoking Jackie, i suggest you try talk to them about it. Dont go around telling people it should be banned... you need to solve your own problem with smokers, dont ruin something that millions of people enjoy. Granted there are millions of people who hate it, but they have movie theatres, malls, schools, hospitals, art galleries, and family restaurants where they can go enjoy themselves... bars equal smoke and drink. Live with it.
Aren't you the same person who just opened a poll asking if the Gov't controlls too much?
If people can't do what makes them happy (smoking cigarrettes makes smokers happy) then the answer is yes... if you were like "smoking smells bad and I wish my family didnt smoke around me" I would agree, they shouldnt do that... if you had said "I hate when I am at a restaraunt and there was a guy smoking on the other end and the smell ruined my meal" I would say that yeah, he shouldnt have been smoking there. But your question was should it be outlawed. My answer is no... maybe smokers should be more considerate, I always try to make sure Im not blowing it at someone, and I always try to ask the people im with if its okay if i have a smoke before i light if I dont know if they smoke or not... but, it is a personal freedom... and if it were illegal or banned, people would do it anyway... just like underage drinking, just like pot...
Why the **** should we pay more taxes if we want to smoke? we arent bad people cause we smoke, and we shouldnt be penalized for it. They wanted to build a stadium in Minnesota with tax from raised cig prices, where is the logic in that? If that money was used towards health care I could maybe understand... but a stadium? Why the hell would that make any sense? Why should smokes be overtaxed even more?
I'd like to see it banned in all enclosed public places. People should be able to smoke outside etc but not in bars, restaurants etc. I think that's a nice happy medium. I'm not worried about passive smoking as my alcohol/burger/saturated fat intake is taking care of my health but I just think it stinks and I hate waking up in the morning and having my clothes smell of cigarette smoke. If people want to smoke then let them but only in allocated places. And I know I sound like a nicotine nazi and I can accept the criticism that people will give me for my views and I CAN see their point of view because I know how I'd feel if someone told me to that I couldn't do something I loved but a bit of give and take is required from all parties.
Originally posted by Myth
Don't ban smoking. Just restrict where they can do it (their homes without children present) and raise taxes on cigarettes. 😄
well this is crap. A NO ONE has the right to tellme what I can and cant do in my own home. And FYI cigarettes are already friggen taxed to death. Why dont we tax all the damn people that hit the liquor store on the weekends?
I am SO sick of non smokers bitching about people who smoke OUTSIDE. SHUT UP ALREADY!! We cant smoke inside as it is. So keep your asses inside!!!!!!!!!!!. BUT a bar should be open territory because its a BAR, I dont like drunks falling all over me in there but what can ya do? Its a BAR! damn non smokers need to get a grip already.
I said you can do it in your home as long as you are not forcing the children around you to breath it. They are not educated enough about the dangers so leaving the choice up to them is not enough. You should not be allowed to smoke around children of a certain age (I'd say 12 but that is negotiable). I agree that liquor and alcohol should be taxed as well (hope you don't get mad at me for a point that you brought up). I am SO sick of smokers forcing me to inhale that shit. Outside is fine, but do you have to stand right infront of entrance/exits of buildings where we can't avoid? You smoke outside? Fine, just don't do it where in places that I can't avoid. Like I said, I am fine with it in a bar as long as the owner approves it.
Originally posted by Jedi Priestess
well this is crap. A NO ONE has the right to tellme what I can and cant do in my own home. And FYI cigarettes are already friggen taxed to death. Why dont we tax all the damn people that hit the liquor store on the weekends?I am SO sick of non smokers bitching about people who smoke OUTSIDE. SHUT UP ALREADY!! We cant smoke inside as it is. So keep your asses inside!!!!!!!!!!!. BUT a bar should be open territory because its a BAR, I dont like drunks falling all over me in there but what can ya do? Its a BAR! damn non smokers need to get a grip already.
Amen.
I find it rather ironic how the same member who made a thread saying that the government controls too much thinks that smoking ought to be banned. 😐
I don't smoke myself, but I think it's just stupid to ban smoking outright, or even to ban it in all the places they have been. Don't like the smoke, don't sit there. Yes, it really is that simple, folks.