Makedde
Xena: Warrior Princess
I am of the opinion that ciggarettes should be banned. When a smoker gets lung cancer, who pays for his/her chemotherapy? The taxpayer. Yes, we pay for other chemotherapy, but lung cancer can be prevented. Why should I have to pay for someone to have chemo when they could have prevented the situation?
There is nothing I hate more than walking down the street and seeing ciggie butts all over the ground, no one puts them in a bin.
I can't go to the pub because even in the non smoking areas, smoke drifts over from the smoking areas and you go home smelling like an ashtray.
Some people are sensitive to smoke. Should they have to lock themselves inside and not venture out for fear of having an asthma attack? Of course not.
Then there is the issue of passive smoking. All smokers, when you think about it, are killers. Their second hand smoke contributes to the deaths of thousand of people every year by passive smoking. Why should smokers is allowed to endager their lives, and the lives of non smokers? Smokers don't have a right to place my life in jepardy, which is what they are doing. Second hand smoke kills. I don't want to find out I have lung cancer from passive smoking. What do I do? Who can I sue?
These people who smoke should pay for their own chemo if they happen to get cancer, it's only fair. They should also be last priority on the transplant list. With organ donations as low as they are, we don't need to be giving healthy organs to a smoker who will only start smoking again once they leave hospital.
The Government will never make smoking illegal, they collect to much revenue. All they do is raise the prices each year and hope that will make people think twice about buying their smokes.
Smoking is a form of suicide. Every ciggarette is killing you. Why send yourself to an early grave? Why endanger the lives of non smokers? You don't have that right.
My right to remain healthy far outweighs your right to pollute your body, but it appears that smokers have more rights than I.