Smokers rights?

Lovely Lady

Build a bridge and get over.

Living in Scotland, the ban has been in here for over a year now with no problems.

I was once like you. I am a smoker and was banging on about my right to smoke blah blah blah but it is actually a good thing I think.

Lindsay G

As a smoker I can see your point, but as just a non labeled person, you ahve to think about it this way, if you are doing s/thing that is not only harmful to yourself, but to others as well why are you surprised for the ban?
I mean, second hand smoke is just as dangerous as smoking the cigarette itself. So lets all have a little respect for each other, and keep our bad habits to ourselves.

And, the day our government starts telling me what I can and cannot do in my own house would be the day that I for one would get the heck out of dodge!!

Anne

no, but your right to smoke ends at my nose. I had both my parents die of emphysema related illness and it was very pain-full to watch

Jojotraveller

Hmmmm actually I pay my fair share towards the NHS and I don't smoke. I pay taxes on loads of stuff too. And what about the non smokers rights to be able to go somewhere and not be worried about the PROVEN harmful affects of passive smoking.............. not to mention that fact that all the smokers at my place demand breaks twice a day and us non smokers aren't allowed any - actually sounds like smokers get a better deal that way.....

laughter_every_day

communism is an economic theory unrelated to the question of smokers rights. I think you mean a totalitarian state.

Adze

It all started with the song, Smoke Gets In Your Eyes.
I smoke and i hate booze being breathed all over me,
and drunken hooligan smashing places up,thumping
anybody insight,so is booze next on the hit list ?
Smokers enjoy a drink and chill out.
So none smokers please chill your next.

Jifr

Smoker's rights? ........you do still have the right to pollute and kill yourself?

It's not too late you know. Before too long? Smokers (you?) could be arrested for attempted suicide.... or....manslaughter (for posioning others). Or murder even!

Whoa! ::shudders::

Smokers gotta quit while they still have a chance!

(but...come to think of it........they (you?) could sucede....buy an island and declare it The Isle of Smokers. You could screen immigrants for smoking toxins? Have a national smokers liberation day and celebration? Yea?_

;-)

~jifr!

panda

there will probably be a law soon telling you who you can and cant have in your own home. You work hard to earn money, you should be able to spend it on what you want, or will they tell us how to do that next?

cowboy573jon

Turning? Nah we already there.

Kawaii

Boo hoo.

ccosj

i agree iv'e just been to school for my 4 year old to go full time and in the canteen there is a list of food by the kids classed unhealthy i'm just worried that children will become anorxeit or bu limy as they will feel guilty what they eat i think jamie oliver didn't finish the job he started

Rayne

I AM AGAINST SMOKING BOTH MY PARENTS SMOKE AND THEY TRY HARD TO STOP. YOU HAVE ALL THE RIGHTS YOU NEED TO SMOKE YOUR BRAINS OUT JUST FIND A PLACE WHERE YOU AREN'T HARMING OTHERS BECAUSE SMOKING DOESN'T JUST EFFECT YOU IT EFFECTS PEOPLE AROUND YOU AND NOT JUST BY GIVING THEM SECOND HAND SMOKE WHICH IS BAD BUT PEOPLE SEEING YOU SMOKE AND WHAT WOULD YOUR KIDS THINK OR YOUR NIECE OR NEPHEW SEEING YOU SMOKE PUTS THE IDEA IN THEIR HEAD THAT MAYBE THEY SHOULD SMOKE AND I DON'T THINK YOU WANT THAT FOR THEM ITS A NASTY FILTHY HABIT THAT COULD KILL NOT ONLY YOU BUT OTHERS AS WELL

Alex

I do not know any Communist States that ban smoking. In fact, rather to the contrary.

I believe that the antismoking situation might relate to the fact that modern buildings are airconditioned and do not have opening windows.

Sad state of progress, but the antismoking lobby is getting a lot of support. So is the anti-salt lobby and the anti-sugar lobby, and anti-fats lobby, and, of course, the global warming lobby. We just have to learn to live with these modern behavioural trends!!

lilly

its not communist plenty of other places do it. im ex smoker and have given up not only for mine but my childrens health so yes you do have the right to kill yourself with the ciggs but we also have a right not to join you when you have that dirty smelly killer stick so go and stand outside and have your smoke and let us all breath fesh air we deserve but i do think employers and such can put up some kind of shelter to have a smoke under. you shouldnt be forced to give up.people will stop when they want to.i think some of it is to try to get people to give up but you will when you want to

mcr fan

blec!

michelebaruch

I am a smoker,and a heavy one at that. But I do agree with the law. It has been proven that it does cause many diseases which ultimately a person can die from. 2nd hand smoke is also detrimental to other people.

Why are people quarantined when they have a deadly disease that can spread. For the same reason.

Smoking does disturb other people, and it is only proper even if you are in your own home if you have a guest you should ask them if it bothers them. That is what I do. If they say yes, then I take a piece of nicorrette gum. It is only common courtesy.

Don't worry your pretty little head over your country turning into communism. We have more important things in this world to worry about. Terrorism, war, etc,,

I understand you, but just go with the flow.

The_Informer

first of all you have had 3 months to complain and you wait until the 27th June, 4 days before the ban to come in before making a comment.

I think you have been smoking too much and it is time to clear your head before asking another question!!

I hear a whisper that they are going to try and stop us smoking in our own homes.

tynie98

i will give another side of smoking my dad gave up smoking when he was 21 and didnt touch them right up till the day he died at age of 81 and guess what he died from cancer so not every cancer can be blamed on smoking.

TomT

I'll stop smoking when they pry my cigarette from my cold dead lips! Oh, never mind, that's for guns. What's the saying for cigarettes? How about - Hey limpnoids, you can kiss my b*tt! (cigarette b*tt, that is - aw, what the heck, kiss 'em both.

AMBER

I agree with you.......This smoking ban is to test the publics reaction before they introduce more sterner infringements on our freedom to choose.This is just the beginning. We must not let them get away with it.

focus

There is a very easy way to solve the problem--stop smoking.

wisernow

There they go again, ranting on about smoking, with no hard facts to back it up, only innuendos from biased sources. Now if you want some real hard facts, let me tell you this is backed up to the hilt with scientific proof!. Babies and children can be seriously harmed by smoke, an adult in the same room as it, could and usually do, perish. It can cause asthma in otherwise healthy people. Oh! and the smoke? this from the lazy brigade of school runners, i.e. ! unfit child in a gas guzzler, driven by an equally unfit mother. This smoke unnecessarily produced in London alone, by these people in one day, can do more damage to others health, than all of London's tobacco smoke will do in 3 months. Taken over the whole U.K. the figures are colossal, but vehicles smoking outside will not help reduce their pollution. With the figures quoted how can anyone knock tobacco?, or have the nerve to blame diseases, caused by car fumes, so conveniently on tobacco. There are more asthma sufferers around now than there were 20 years ago, even though there were 3 times the amount of smokers. Its convenient and trendy today to lay the blame on someone else, so please, face up to the real truth, am I talking about you?, if so what do you intend to do about your bad habit?. Smokers are allowed no excuses, so please do not offer them any of yours. Who is the addicted one? or is it too hard to change 'your habit' for the benefit of others, as smokers have done for you?.

american_wardog

do not go by the ban, they refused to compromise with smokers so do not respect any ban, smoke where you want and do not get the fine. good luck standing up for your freedom.

hatl2

Well said. I agree with you that many issues on the board today resemble communist and third world order. America was raised in cigarette smoke. It was the patience of a cigarette that enabled the workers to continue. To push them off the board today is not fair. They are to be represented just like the non smokers, no biased judgments.

Alfie

You have a right to stop yourself risking too-early death and insulting everyone around you - strangers and loved ones alike - the with the clinging stink and health hazard you cause with ciggie smoke. You have a right to think clearly for your self instead of following the foolish "fashionable" trend pushed at you by the tobacco lobby in Parliament, manufacturers, retailers and crackpot famous artists. All have a financial stake in tobacco, they have a hand in your pocket, profits continue to be big. It's big business and YOU're keeping it big. No wonder the rest of the population is glad to see the end is nigh for the daft, smelly, unhealthy stupidity of those hooked. Smokers do not pay for the NHS, they are an unnecessary and evil drain on its resources. Smoking is more rife in Communist states than here in UK where the people are better-educated. Non-smokers' rights are winning through here in UK, thank goodness.

Mer

Smokers right? You take a break from work every hour! You waste at least 1 hour a day from smoking plus your lunch break! Who is being disadvantage? SMOKERS? I don't think so.

britchick

it s because smoking actually destroys the health of those around you so whilst you do have a right ot do what you like with your body you dont have the right to enforce it on others given the nature of cigarette smoke it does encroach on others in many ways if it didnt it would be up to u.Being extreme and really would nt personally like to see it , even injecting drugs tho not nice wouldnt actually impact the person inthe vicinities physical health where smoking would , this way it gives none smokers equal right s to smokers where as before they just had to suffer ....i know you ll think im a do gooder too but every time im around cigarette smoke i have a major asthma attack, whilst i respect peoples right ot smoke in designated areas id like to be not treated like dirt just cos smoking affects the likes of some asthmatics so directly then you have a choice if you want /need to do it and we have a choice to avoid that area bt can still acces many areas we couldnt previously...

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