Should smoking be outlawed in public

by Ant Posted 2012/05/08 19:43:29

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	yes	15 votes	27%
	no	36 votes	65%
	Undecided	4 votes	7%

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beach bum 2012/05/20 03:10:15

no

no

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DBSK(fanatic) 2012/05/10 17:11:05

yes

Yes please, i have a family that smokes and honestly even after all this time i still can't stand the scent of it. So that's why i don't really hangout wiv my family a lot.

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Bozette 2012/05/10 02:39:43

no

I understand and have no problem with bans inside publicly owned buildings. When it comes to privately owned bars, restaurants and businesses though, I believe it should be up to the owner. If people choose not to go there in sufficient numbers, the owner will change their tune.

I am a smoker. I smoke outside, except in my own house or those where it is permitted. I do not throw my cigarette butts out...even in my own yard, I always pocket the butts and dispose of them when I get home. I try not to bother others with my smoking.

I am also severely allergic to perfume/cologne...I don't expect others not to wear any, however, or a law to be enacted. I do think it would be awesome if they didn't bathe in it before going out into public though.

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Common Sense 2012/05/09 22:24:36

no

Well, indoor public places, yes. But once a person is smoking outside, the risk of second hand smoke is negligible. Smokers just need to be courteous of the non-smoking people around them.

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Denny 2012/05/09 22:13:34

no

This is Barbara Streisand. I don't smoke and never did. but this would be wrong. Rather than have the balls to go after the tobacco industry and ban it, You pick on poor people by putting additional taxes on them by making a Legal substance more expensive and now we want to ban where they can use it including their own homes. Yeah I've heard the goofy commercials this month about the 140 million schoolday missed by Second hand smoke. Ban it!! Get rid of the taxes that this country gets or else leave them alone.

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Rebecca 2012/05/09 22:01:55

Undecided

Isn't it pretty much?

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rightside 2012/05/09 21:37:26

no

Yes for anything inside, no for outside. As long as smokers clean up after themselves and don't smoke right in front of an entrance.

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Patriot Unit 2012/05/09 21:32:25

no

Nope, Stupid in Public by all the liberal mind numb Socialists in this country. Government has no business in our personal lives, no matter what they think. There is no authority withing the Constitution. General Welfare has nothing to do with the Governments intervening in our lives.The Government knows it. The Congress knows it, and The Supreme Court sure should know it, and prevent it from going on.

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AGPhillbin 2012/05/09 17:10:44

no

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I am a life long non-smoker, and a non-user of any tobacco products. That having been said, I hate spoking bans, especially outdoor smoking bans. Some of my friends smoke, they know it's bad for them, and, no, I don't nag them about it. I don't like the interruption in the conversation that occurs whenever they need to step outside for a smoke, but I can at least understand indoor smoking bans. Exactly how much smoke can anyone inhale second hand if it is floating OUTSIDE, dissipating into the atmosphere, upwards and onwards?

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ADRIA 2012/05/09 14:10:19

yes

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For those of us who quit, for those with asthma, for those with oxygen tanks(because they smoked)...do us a favor and keep your nasty cigs to yourself. Kill yourself somewhere else!

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lucky 2012/05/09 13:14:19

no

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This is one of the few issues where I wish it was but dont believe the government has a right to do that.

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Kurbdog 2012/05/09 07:13:46

no

+1
Too many "laws" already !

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mrdog 2012/05/09 06:54:59

no

+1
Human rights issue...bark

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JanHopkins 2012/05/09 06:08:40

no

+2
Outlaw cancer causing hotdogs at all sports functions, outlaw perfume, outlaw body oder, outlaw bikinis, outlaw flea and disease carrying wild animals such as squirrels and raccoons. Outlaw beer and bakeries, outlaw crying babies, outlaw insulation and glue, outlaw BBQ, outlaw dinosaur farts, outlaw gambling, outlaw industrial grade paint, outlaw nuclear energy, outlaw deer ticks, cockroaches and bedbugs. Do you feel safe yet or shall I go on?

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Ant to JanHopkins 2012/05/09 06:40:07

+1
want a smoke

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JanHopkins to Ant 2012/05/09 06:43:15

+1
Got one!

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Vision of Verve 2012/05/09 01:31:45
David K 2012/05/08 23:40:10

no

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no but it's gonna happen. it's funny, in my lifetime i will probably see cigarettes banned and marijuana legalized. what's next, the illegalization of perfume in public due to the allergies of the general population. "sorry grandma, but the smell of your perfume is offensive to other people in the restaurant and their bitching is more important than your rights."

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Ant to David K 2012/05/09 00:01:55

+1
haha yeah thats true i cant take my dog past the school because some kids are allergic
im like well then they should stay away from her

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BlackwinterG36C 2012/05/08 23:23:41

no

+1
It already is!! What's wrong with having smoke pits or smoking areas. You've already banished them from the indoors.

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windwolf14 2012/05/08 23:21:21

yes

+2
its outlawed in areas where food is surved, here in Vegas and personaly it has made dinning much more enjoyable and safer

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Jrogers 2012/05/08 22:18:46

no

+4
We shouldn't choose to give up all our rights - I recently quit smoking after many years and I wish everyone else would realize what these evil cigarette companies are doing to their health and their wealth - these companies are ruthless with their ad campaigns and their chemical additives - I do however wish that people would quit smoking on their own - you will feel much better and you will have a bit more money, but I do not support any more invasion of my personal rights by the government

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freespire 2012/05/08 22:06:16

yes

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and it should also carry community service penalities for those caught one month service for every offence. they should also offer a reward for photo's showing time / date where a member of the public catches them. Lets stop poluting the Earth with those carbon footprints

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Ant to freespire 2012/05/09 00:02:57

+1
true words of wisdom

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freespire to Ant 2012/05/09 00:29:21

+1
thank you for your complement

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EDWARD G to freespire 2012/05/09 01:34:43

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This is frightening, but I'll support it if farting on public transportation is punishable by death.

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freespire to EDWARD G 2012/05/09 01:49:44

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really farting a natural body function which humans and all other animals produce whihin their body.

do you really thinking that murdering humans with smoking is acceptable?

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EDWARD G to freespire 2012/05/09 02:25:00

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Do we have a deal or not?

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freespire to EDWARD G 2012/05/09 12:39:24

No I can not commit another persons life to death Elohiym said "" Thalth shall not kill""

and smoking is killing so I stand firm destory all smokes and let life have life to live.

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EDWARD G to freespire 2012/05/09 16:37:51

+1
Later, dude

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Kirby to freespire 2012/05/09 12:32:51

+1
If your want to ban smoking OUTSIDE then I believe we should ban ALL AUTOMOBILES as they cause far more pollutants than cigarettes, while we are at banning things how bout banning all perfume as it bothers my nose and I have friends whose allergies are triggered by women who bathe in their perfume!
Your statement of stop polluting the earth is interesting considering cigarettes cause less than 1% of the total pollution of this planet . Industrial emmissons and waste pollute far more. So unless you want to go back to say the late 1800's and start riding horses again. Think before you write!

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freespire to Kirby 2012/05/09 12:41:19

so whats wrong with electric cars?

yes perfumes could be better regulated to prevent many problems for other I agree.

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AGPhillbin to freespire 2012/05/09 17:14:23

Would you support forcing them to wear a scarlet letter "S" around their necks, and putting them in stocks, for the public to gawk at?

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freespire to AGPhillbin 2012/05/09 21:59:45

no it's not about humilating people, it's about saving life and the life I am looking to save it theirs as well. consider what it really means for them alone.

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AGPhillbin to freespire 2012/05/16 17:34:56

"What it means for THEM alone?" Are you insane? I will tell you what it means -- it means being forced to perform unpaid labor because you personally don't like their habits, which THEY already know are harming THEM. That's what it means. uyour sense of "justice" is sub-moronic.

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freespire to AGPhillbin 2012/05/16 22:55:01

actually it is better than being place in a drug rehab center and been forced to undergo the dry out treatment.

now as for your idea what about how they effect others and what that means to the innocent people who are being abused by the smoker with the polution they are will fully throwing in the non-smoker's face? ... did you consider the non-smokers rights? ... have you thought about how the non-smoker is been forced into subjection of this fowl life threatening posion smokers are inflicting damage and or phyiscal harm for the non-smoker?

I know we could go on all day about this and for every representation I give you as valid reason for smokers to pay back for their abuse you and others like you will scream it's murder to us smokers. so plz I ask YOU ( pluarlly here ) as smokers to think about someone else but your own self for once.

Yes I know the government money hungry pigs that they are will not remove them from the shleves because they love the $400 bottle of wine YOU smokers are paying for them to enjoy. along with the government comfortablity aircondition buildings, over priced cars, and even the sea-side mansions they live in, not to mention the overseas holidays as well. and all this comes at a price not only to the non-smokers health but the smokers health as well.

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actually it is better than being place in a drug rehab center and been forced to undergo the dry out treatment.

now as for your idea what about how they effect others and what that means to the innocent people who are being abused by the smoker with the polution they are will fully throwing in the non-smoker's face? ... did you consider the non-smokers rights? ... have you thought about how the non-smoker is been forced into subjection of this fowl life threatening posion smokers are inflicting damage and or phyiscal harm for the non-smoker?

I know we could go on all day about this and for every representation I give you as valid reason for smokers to pay back for their abuse you and others like you will scream it's murder to us smokers. so plz I ask YOU ( pluarlly here ) as smokers to think about someone else but your own self for once.

Yes I know the government money hungry pigs that they are will not remove them from the shleves because they love the $400 bottle of wine YOU smokers are paying for them to enjoy. along with the government comfortablity aircondition buildings, over priced cars, and even the sea-side mansions they live in, not to mention the overseas holidays as well. and all this comes at a price not only to the non-smokers health but the smokers health as well.

so are you giving up smokering for the others or for your own self?..... and remember Doctors now days refse to provide health to a smoker if a non smoker need attention.

I am sorry to have to break it down in cold hard truth for you, it's not pretty and nothing special but there you have the Truth, the whole Truth and nothing but the Truth.....
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learning2walkagain 2012/05/08 22:04:02

yes

+1
but I just have weak lungs

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Manifesto 2012/05/08 21:35:53

no

+2
as long as you are keeping clear of people who do not wish to be around the smoke
i see no problem

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Mark In Irvine 2012/05/08 21:14:45

yes

+1
it should be outlawed everywhere and anywhere the smoke can reach other people ...

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Dagon 2012/05/08 21:06:53