Your Right to Smoke .vs. My Right to Breath
Smokers often force their nasty habit onto others who in turn are adversely affected against their will. Children who live in a household where 2nd hand smoke harms them, unborn babies deformed or ill because of their smoking pregnant mothers, and p
Posted By eastwind on August 10, 2007
Those who smoke should think before lighting up.
Posted By eastwind on August 10, 2007
Yea, and I should be able to drive 120 mph any time I want.
Posted By JayBird on September 10, 2007
I'll give up smoking when YOU give up driving.
Posted By macattack on September 11, 2007
It's not too much to ask that smokers confine their habit to places wher...
Posted By Perdie on September 19, 2007
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Smokers Should Be Considerate and Practice Restraint Around Others.
I strongly feel that those who smoke have the right to smoke, but they do not have the right to afflict others with their destructive smoking habit. It is simply inhuman and wrong for a pregnant mother to smoke her unborn child into mental r*#%#dation o
It's not too much to ask that smokers confine their habit to places where others won't be affected.
-- Posted By Perdie on September 19, 2007Most places have designated areas where people can smoke. There is no need to foul up the air for people who choose not to smoke. Non-smokers should have the uninhibited right to breathe non-smokey air.
I recall an episode of Star Trek Enterprise in which they went back in time and the Vulcan was in a car with a private detective who started to light up a cigarette.... She pretty much put him in his place there...
I can easily see a world where smoking is no longer a pastime and more of a nuisance in the public eye than not.
All this b!^!hing about second hand smoke, but I don't see anyone banning cars. The fact is, second hand car smoke is far worse and far more prevalent than cigarette smoke. Hypocrites. I want to walk down the street and not smell car fumes. Will that happen? Only when we run out of oil. .
People should have the right to smoke where and when they want if they are considerate of those who dont smoke. Most of the smokers I've known dont give a rats a** about how other people feel. Thats the reason we need laws to protect those who dont smoke...because the smokers arent considerate enough on their own!
Look if you want to smoke thats your problem i could care less but i do care about BEING ABLE TO BREATH! it is so annoying when someone is smoking in front of you or your passing by and some moron is smoking its like look put the cigarette down because im sick of holding my breath. I think smokers should be considerate of those non smokers.
As a smoker myself, I try to be as considerate as possible to the people around me. If I know that someone doesn't smoke or doesn't like it, I won't smoke near them. Simple as that. Or if I'm around a group of strangers, I keep my distance, or I straight up ask them if they mind if I have a cigarette. If they so no, no big deal. I move. It's easy to be a complete jerk of a human being. But to be considerate, and respectful? That seems to be a lot harder for people.
Smokers should be allowed to smoke where and when they want.
No one had anything against any of this before, if you're around someone who is smoking, LEAVE, its a free country!
"How many smokers dump their automobile ashtrays in parking lots and sidewalks, or throw their butts anywhere they want? How many care that their smoke might wreck my nice meal in a restaurant?"
How many men spit a huge loogie anywhere they feel like it? How many dog owners let their dogs do their business any old place, and don't scoop the poop? How many families drag their insufferable, ill-mannered demonspawn out to restaurants, where they wreck my nice meal? How many knuckle-dragging mothers block aisles in stores with their enormous strollers?
It really, really gets me. The government has dumps of nuclear waste off the East coast, there is a huge spinning pile of plastic floating off the West coast, factories dump chemicals into rivers, cancer-causing agents are added to our food, we eat contaminated meat and produce on a daily basis, cars pump out carbon dioxide, factories belch pollutants into the air every day, ALL DAY, and you are seriously worried about second-hand smoke??????????
Second, your second hand smoke is adding to to the problems in your list, not detracting from it. You think you're bullshit smoking is okay because other people do things you don't like? Two wrongs make a right, eh?
and consider what is in the food you eat, the water you drink, and the air that you breathe; SUDDENLY, second hand smoke doesn't look so bad at all!
Smokers are being shoved out of restaurants, airports, sports activities (even the ones outside). So yes, I will smoke in the areas I can and if you don't like it - you move or leave! We have rights too!
People complain about second hand smoke and how dangerous it is but never have you heard that someone died of second hand smoke. Never!
Yea, and I should be able to drive 120 mph any time I want.
-- Posted By JayBird on September 10, 2007Many smokers may think (do they do that?) they should be able to smoke any time anywhere they want, but they want nothing to do with accepting the consequences.
How many smokers dump their automobile ashtrays in parking lots and sidewalks, or throw their butts anywhere they want? How many care that their smoke might wreck my nice meal in a restaurant?
If many smokers have no regard for others' reasonable rights, how can they demand rights for themselves that are actually highly detrimental to others?
Your allowed to discriminate against smokers. So people do. It's ridiculous. How many people actually got hurt from second hand smoke. None. Never do you hear that someone died from second hand smoke.
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