Where should smoking be illegal?

A great start would be anywhere anyone complains about it

so all public places, townhouses, detached homes if the stench is detectable off site like a neighbors yard. smoking should be illegal around any child anyone under 21

we asa nation really need to extqunish smoking completely.

the fiancial and personal costs, are just way too high

Reply to
bob haller
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On private property, if the owner or someone who lives there objects to it (assume that defendant children object, like with rape).

Yes.

I remember something about how someone who smoked for 40 years has spent enough money to buy a house (and the house isn't putting poison in your lungs).

A couple of years ago, we had an election here about allowing sales of beer and wine. I'd much rather have cigarette sales illegal.

Of course, alcohol isn't completely harmless, but at least you don't have alcohol fumes coming out of the user and infecting others.

Reply to
Mark Lloyd

what the hell business is that of yours?

Reply to
Reggie

Research is revealing that the refined carbohydrate and its resultant diseases (metabolic syndrome) is going to bankrupt healthcare in 20 years or so.

Type II diabetics and dementia patients are its most expensive victims.

Reply to
Jesse

I smoke, you complain, that's one against one, ergo the law should take no action.

Since when was a 20 year old considered a child?

Personal costs are personal to the smoker and nothing to do with you.

By the way, I've smoked about 30 cigarettes in my ENTIRE LIFE. So don't say I'm being selfish.

Reply to
Mr Macaw

What does that have to do with smoking? It certainly doesn't DIRECTLY harm others, like smoking does.

Reply to
Mark Lloyd

Oh, look...a thread for self-righteous prigs.

Reply to
dadiOH

Suppose no one in the US smoked or EVER smoked. Would they still die? Seems to me, smokers die faster and (perhaps) younger thereby reducing the financial cost. Got a light, bud?

Reply to
dadiOH

I tend to agree. Smokers generally delay medical care until they are on their death bed and die quickly. It is nothing compared to the cost of the typical hypochondriacs who bleed medicare every day, linger into their 90s and use far more medical services. To be clear, I don't smoke but I am also not offended when people do and I know their smoke is not harming me. Simply smelling a whiff of smoke is harmless, it just offends a few people looking for a reason to be offended. There seems to be a pretty long list of things that offend these people. .

Reply to
gfretwell

We asa (sic) nation really need to extqunish (sic) a lot of things completely. Smoking is way down on the list.

Reply to
rbowman

"Inhalation of cigarette puff has an immediate effect on respiration by increasing airway resistance and therefore reducing the amount of oxygen absorbed into the body.4 Smoking causes a chronic (or long term) swelling of mucous membranes, which also leads to increased airway resistance. It induces chronic irritation of the respiratory lining and wide variety of carcinogens in the cells lining the respiratory tract. These changes lead to cancer. 5 Smoking greatly affects the lungs from an annoying repeated cough to grave illnesses like chronic bronchitis, emphysema and bronchial carcinoma."

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"*Even a whiff of tobacco smoke* can adversely affect the body, the report concludes.

"Inhaling even the smallest amount of tobacco smoke can also damage your DNA, which can lead to cancer."

*Even brief exposure to secondhand smoke can cause heart disease and can trigger heart attacks*."

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Reply to
Muggles

If that is true, and it sounds like bullshit to me, what is the effect of the carbon monoxide from lawn mowers, smoke from BBQ grills and the pollution from wood burning stoves? Should we ban all of them too?

Reply to
gfretwell

No the trend is to placate people who are simply offended if they even see someone smoking a block away.

Reply to
gfretwell

I don't get offended when someone is smoking a block away. I get sick if I'm exposed to any secondhand smoke whether it's on purpose or accidental.

Reply to
Muggles

It's not good to inhale carbon monoxide, or breathe in smoke from any source. Our lungs weren't designed to inhale those things.

Wouldn't you agree we should use caution and good sense when it comes to exposing ourselves to such things?

Reply to
Muggles

Well, I guess we had better cancel our normally scheduled August forest fires.

Reply to
rbowman

But we are singling out one of those sources for arrest and prosecution while accepting all others. There are people who get sick looking at gay people but that does not mean it should be an illegal activity. This is just political correctness run amok. The anti smoking crowd is telling smokers they can't even have a bar dedicated to smokers, far from anyone who might be offended by it. They say they need "equal access" to that bar so they can be offended and close it down. Smokers seem to be the only group of people who have no rights in this country.

Explain why there can't be a "smoker bar" or restaurant. If you are offended or fear for your life, don't go near the place.

Reply to
gfretwell

The state does controlled burns here that fill the neighborhoods with smoke for days but if my neighbor lights up a cigarette in the park, some of these ninnies around here want to call a cop.

Reply to
gfretwell

Employees.

Reply to
Vic Smith

The local Indian casino allows smoking throughout their facility (hotel, restaurants and gaming floor).

Reply to
Wally

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