If ther is non-smoking places or rooms to be made smoking why can't everyone just get along?

Together

I am assuming you live in Nevada, where THE VOTERS just ELECTED that into the law. So, nothing you can do about that. If you voted, thats all you could so. If you didnt, its your loss.
There will still be smoking in casinos, strip clubs, brothels, and anywhere else minors are not allowed.

Weatherman

Problem is that smokers don't stay in designated smoking zones.

You regularly see them walking through non smoking zones smoking - excuse "I'm only walking through on my way to ........" ERMMMM IT'S A NO SMOKING ZONE NO MATTER WHY YOU ARE THERE

The worst are the ones in pubs who try to hide their smoking from bar staff by holding it under the bar, I know several people who have had clothes burned by smokers doing this.

YES SMOKERS HAVE RIGHTS, BUT SO DO NON SMOKERS.

And I say this as an occasional smoker of cigars.

rachel

why should I not breathe for 2 days 'cause you like to smoke? p.s. besides bothering my allergies, you smell even when you're NOT smoking

marklemoore

Smoking isn't a right, it's a privilege granted. Most of the things people consider to be rights are actually just privileges.

If you can keep your smoke confined to only yourself, then it wouldn't matter if you smoked when others are present. But you can't, your smoking intrudes upon others. So your smoking around them is their business. If you couldn't eat without shoving your food down their throat as well, or piss without urinating on them, or listen to music without blasting it in their ears, then people would have a problem with that also. And if you want to get right down to it, then smoking around others is akin to rape, because you violate their bodies just so that you can enjoy your pleasure.

imnotachickenyoureaturkey

I'm a smoker too - and yes it's a free county, but with all the proof about how bad second hand smoke is, its also a non-smokers right to not be around smoke. So we lose out on that one. Damn.

tumbleweed1954

Your right ends where my nose begins.

MrSmarT

havent you heard about second hand smoking ?

grapelady911

Ohio is a smoke free state as of today. WOOOHOOO!

Course this does go a little far in some ways, IE truck drivers cant smoke in their rigs anymore...

I am a non smoker and I have rights too.. I have the right to not be exposed to carcinogens.. be it from cigarette smoke, lead paint, mercury thermometers, asbestos etc.

Tobacco is the only drug that if used as directed will kill you. if you want to kill yourself, that's your decision, but your not gonna take me with you.

My mom was a heavy smoker for years.. when I moved out of the house.. I had smokers cough.. AACKKK.. was gross.... and I have NEVER Smoked. Its a nasty, smelly, unhealthy habit.

If a person cant go out to eat and wait an hour or so w/out lighting up... they have a problem.

now maybe I can go out to a bar or club and not smell like an ash tray when I come home.

Terry

You have the right to do anything that you want, provided it doesn't hurt someone else. The air a smoker breathes out has around 80% of all the harmful chemicals still in it. If you are allowed to smoke in the same room as me, I don't get a chance NOT to smoke - I have to breathe the same air as you.

Having smoking bans in public areas is no different than stopping an oil company from belching poisonous smoke from a refinery over a town. Just as the clean air act protects the public from hazadous chemicals used in industy, so a smoking ban protects us from your waste smoke.

I have no problem with you smoking at home, in cigar clubs, private members clubs, or other designated areas. But in an area open to the general public, you need to stop polluting the air I have to breathe.

~{las rosas son rojas}~

Because maybe smoking bothers some people and maybe someone has lung cancer or asthma or bronchitis or something.

Peanut

I smoke and I agree with places being non-smoking..At first it bothered me when the city I live in enforced no smoking in resteraunts etc..Bars especially but I can understand non-smoker's view on second hand smoke..

It would be nice if there was smoking places...Sometimes I wonder why they don't and I agree it should be the owner's discretion but at the same time say an non smoker's favorite place became a place where they allow smoking the buisness could lose a lot of customer's

Ashleigh R

Welll lots of ppl die from second hand smoke sooooo this kinda helps ppl from dying

Becka

Smoking is sick. It is proven to kill people especially second hand smoke. It is not even ethical to consider mixing people who don't want to smoke with people who do. There are places where you can smoke, it is called outside, in your car or home.

I do agree that if the business owner wants their establishment to be a smoking place that is their right and it should not be taken away because there are plenty of places where people who do and do not smoke to go.

nospamcwt

No one has the right to cause harm to others.

When you smoke, not only does your smoke cause harm to others, but the harm you do to yourself hurts the rest of us as well. That's because the 'extra' you pay in taxes on cigarettes and the increased health insurance premiums do not cover the costs created by smoking.

Think of it this way: One smoking related illness will cost a minimum of $100,000. Probably much more. Each smoker will cause at least one smoking related illness over a thirty year period, either to themselves or to others through second-hand smoke.

If you were to pay that $100,000 debt off through a 30-year mortgage at 6% interest, you would have to pay $599.55 per month. That's $19.71 per day, and we haven't even begun to think about the punitive damages owed to victims of second hand smoke!

MoltarRocks

Because I don't think it's fair that my kids, wife and I should be expected to inhale your second hand smoke, which is also proven to cause lung cancer. You do NOT have the right to do this.

Dylan

Smoking sections don't really work. I mean smoke doesn't just stay in that area, it moves around. Last time I checked (and i check often) the Constitution doesn't provide Smoker's any rights. You are allowed to smoke if you want to, but you certainly don't have the right to do it. When you smoke in a building you are forcing others to breathe in your smoke, what about "non-smoker rights".

chilover

I for one have severe asthma and on the rare occasion I do go out and eat or go shopping or whatever, I would LOVE to be able to breath..yes, they have a smoking and non smoking section but how would you like to have a breathing disorder and have to use the bathroom really bad and know that you are going to have to walk thru the "smoke" to relieve yourself...On top of that,I don't care IF there are different sections, smoke doesn't stay in one spot..it moves and ALWAYS in the non smoking direction..There is nothing worse than trying to eat when you can't breath..makes it kind of hard to chew when you are breathing out your mouth.. If you can't go to a restaurant for 30 minutes without a cigarettes order it to go and respect the fact that we are not being mean to you some of us just want to be able to breath. PS I got asthma from growing up in a home with a father who smoked

the bad seed

i just came back from Vegas
it was great to have a choice

jveretto0804

I'm not a smoker any more, but I totally agree with you. What right does the government have to step in and tell a business which customers to discriminate against?

Its fine to sit in a bar and get trashed, where you may leave and wreck into some innocent family, but don't you DARE LIGHT THAT CIGARETTE UP.

Its totalitarianism. Its unfortunate, and its absurd. We've handed everything over to the government. Shouldn't they be striving to be accepted by us instead of the other way around???

silverladyfoxx

Because most of the non-smokers in the world are whiners. They think that it is their job to tell everyone in the world what they can and can't do with their lungs. Everyone says that it is also the smell after you smoke one...well, I have a response for that one too. I am allergic to perfume and cologne, but that doesn't stop people from putting that on. And then there's the excuse "Well, it's bad for you..." Well, non-smokers, it's bad for you if I don't smoke...They are just whiners, that's why.

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