Should Smoking be banned?(Only if your country has smokers) Page 2

Started by JinRazielGames July 23rd, 2011 4:21 AM
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Posted August 7th, 2011
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Dear God, no. I don't want to live in Nazi Germany.
truly the best post in this thread. ♥

i was lurking and this thread tempted me to join and say exactly what he just said. like, people need to realize that as they let the government take away more and more of our freedoms, it gives them more power over us. in the united states, "the land of the free", we have more restrictions on mundane things than i can count on both my hands, my feet, and i'd stretch the imagination by saying my hairs as well. we can't even go out as teenagers past a certain hour. picture that, a 17 year old isn't allowed out past say 9pm because they could "potentially" cause trouble. you can't go on an airplane and be brown without getting pulled aside for a routine search, which has happened to me. it's amazing what fear mongering and stupidity can do.

let people smoke their cigarettes. just because you don't like it is not a reason to tell everybody in the world they are not allowed to have it. like some of the arguments i've seen are ridiculous. "i don't like the smell." sorry, we don't ban things because they're stinky.

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No. I think that you have the right risk getting cancer by smoking. I agree that legislation that bans it from public areas is good, because others should not be coerced to be prone to the risks of second-hand smoke. But if you want to smoke, you should not be coerced to stop smoking in privacy, where others are not put at risk.

P.S. parents should not smoke in front of their young children just because it is in the privacy of their own home because of the effects of secondhand smoke.

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I wish it could be, because it not only harms the smoker, but others as well. But in reality, that'll never happen. It's sad.

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Sammi

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In an ideal world, perhaps, since smoking is pretty bad for you. I'm still a bit torn about it myself, as it's the smoker's business if they want to do it or not. Pretty sure most people know what they're getting into when they start, so as long as they're informed...

It'd never work out, I think, as long as people continue to do it. It's an addiction -- it's not easy to just up and quit. Banning it as things are now would just be a disaster. :/

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I honestly do believe that the world would be better off without smoking, or at least the United States, but there are too many smokers to out-right ban it. Having lived around smokers all my life, though not one myself, I know that smokers can't just quit all of a sudden after smoking for countless years. However, smoking in public being banned would be a good start, and instead the only legal places to smoke would be at or around your own home.

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Well, ever if it gets banned people will still do it >:(

Also, it is there choice to smoke. I hate it and I wish people wouldn't do it, but they still do it >:(
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People have the right to smoke if they want to. If they feel the need to sit and inhale poison on a several-times-daily basis, let them be. However, that impinges on my right to sit and damn well breathe clean air.

So? I say we ban smoking in public places, like some countries have already done. Ideally, everyone would recognise the dangers and stop, but I can't reasonably say this should be done. I would be more than happy, however, if it was only legal for people to smoke in their own damn homes. There is no smell more sickening to me than ciggy smoke, and Hamilton's city centre is atrocious - cigarette butts littered everywhere, people smoking every few metres. The Transport Centre is the worst - at all times of day - and this is where dozens, if not hundreds of children and teenagers pass through once or twice a day. I don't want to be exposed to those toxins, and neither should they.

So I won't step on smokers' right to give themselves lung cancer if they so choose, but all I ask is that they don't step on my right to breath fresh air and stay healthy. It's quite simple, really. I think some countries have done it already.
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It won't be banned; the amount of people who do it and the tax the government receive is stupidly high.

I think it shouldn't be banned because I hate the idea of the government thinking they know what is best for me, but they aren't giving me a choice in the matter over the small things.