You see so many questions on Yahoo Answers asking if its o.k. to punch a smoker, o.k. to set them on fire, or other questions that basically entail treating them like a piece of crap. These people direct hate & self issues onto smokers as if the world stops because of a bad habit. Yet they get into a car every day, start it up & out as many chemicals as a cigarette. While they are trying to beat or set on fire another smoker a truck passes. It is letting out as much pollution as a smoker. It doesnt make much sense. I do agree you shouldnt be forced to smell smoke. Outdoors there is enough room there shouldnt be such a problem. Whats next? What clothes you can wear? What food you can eat? If you continue to regulate what a person can & cannot do you will no longer live in a society of free will. Whats your view on these issues?
I would like to thank the that have responded with regards to the truck & car analogy. Yet so many others seem to totally avoid that topic Fact remains, car puts out MORE pollution than cigarettes. If a smoker is a murderer than so is every motorist & every person operating equipment that produces the same sort of exhaust.
LOL Sad. Atleast the last answer agrees cars cause pollution. So do factories. But then again according to them I am only pointing a finger. What is that? a finger pointed at a smoker. Imagine that. Well there appears to me no recourse for someone who smokes. Since smokers cause pollution & kill themselves & the whole world, We need to stop it. Same goes with cars, factories, you name it. If it smokes we must put it out. Stomp it down. Once we’re done we will all sit around the camp fire with no food clothing or cars & talk about what a good job we did…. wait… fire produces pollution.. Sorry kids, no campfire tonight…
Well, This question has run its course long enough. Just thought I would add the horse & buggy to a growing list of alternative means of transportation. On a lighter note, I dont smoke either. I dont really care if you smoke either. Have a good one everyone.
I thinbk that we should have the same etiquette for smokers as for people who harm their body by overeating because they are also taking years off of their life. I have always noticed that people who hate smokers the most are usually a “glutton” for punishment LOL! By the way I do not smoke personally.
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Yet most of the population is shoveling down McDonald’s while obesity remains a national epidemic… and they’re still worried about smokers. People like that is why I need cigarettes in the first place. Lmao
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Smokers do not only damage themselves, but people around them. it is the equivalent of a suicide bomber- only slower.
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I guess, in following your analogy, smokers who are also drivers, would be guilty on both counts.
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We do not discriminate smokers. I think smokers discriminate non-smokers. You must be a smoker. Do stop, smoking is a dangerous habit and smoking is like intentionally putting your life on the line. I really hate to see parents smoking near a child. Who in the world wouldn’t discriminate such an act!
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Being a non-smoker, I do not like to be around smokers, but I do not feel the need to threaten them either. People talk big to make themselves feel more important. The answer to their questions are irrelevant. They want others to think they are tough, but they are actually just small minded people. I do not carewhat other people do to themselves, but I do not want their second hand smoke and will ask them to either put out their cig, or to go outside to smoke it.
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I assume people have jealousy with each other -
gay marriage was a political issue of big order in the last election – why would it disturb a straight person if somebody is getting married?
its the same thing here, deeper and unconcious survival of the fittest funded jealousy?
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when you smoke you kill others too, that’s why. if you shove down hamburghers you just kill yourself. once you quit smoking and try to sit next to a person that has a lit ciggarette, you will see why they are soo hated.
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we should respect ones freedom.but we should also consider the fact that we are not alone living in this vast world.if you are a smoker consider the place to smoke.if you are a non smoker dnt marry a smoker.unless we are willing to compromise
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Most people don’t mind everyone’s business… a long as they’re not disturbing or putting people at risk. Do you know that active smokers doesn’t suffer as much the ‘passive’ smoker? Highest cancer risk is suffered by passive smokers… people who don’t smoke but inhale smokers’ smoke around them. i don’t mind if people smoke… as long as they don’t make my clothes and hair stink… as long as they don’t make me hard to breath… and as long as non-smokers can enjoy themself as smokers do.
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nooo smoking is good
PP
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I can actually answer from both sides being a born again non-smoker.
When I used to smoke and see the looks on people’s faces that didn’t and wanted me to put it out, yes, it used to get on my nerves big time. I felt like I was the one being harrassed.
Now that I don’t smoke, and sometimes to stay strong, have to stay away from smoke, can’t appreciate when a smoker lights up where others who don’t smoke have to smell and breathe it.
I hear where you’re coming from with the truck analogy, only it’s an unfair comparison. If people relyed on cigarettes to get them to work and take their children to school, it probably wouldn’t be such an issue.
The nay-sayer’s arguement is, the cigarette is poisonous (ads have been saying that for years), and nobody really cares whether you do that to yourself, but seeing as the cigarette isn’t chained to the floor where you’re standing, and people who don’t smoke don’t want to ill-effects of smoking to happen to them, it’s only fair that you take the cigarette to a place where it won’t bother everyone.
A quick, but nasty equivalent analogy, would be if you were in a restaurant and found out that one patron in particular kept farting BIG TIME while you were trying to eat, would you be understanding and just allow it to happen while you minded your own business, or try to get stinky hole away from you and all the other non-butt inhaling patrons.
Making sense?
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When you smoke around other people you are a murderer. You should be punished for your crime. You mistake your stupidity and lack of selfworth for freedom of choice. Face it you do not have freedom of choice to smoke. You were stupid enough to listen to the tobacco companies advertising campaigns and now you are a drug addict. That is right where they want you so they can suck all of your money out of your pocket before you suck your own death out of their poisionous products. You are an idiot, but you will know that when you drown in your own human waste. I say lets not wait for the cigarettes to do the dirty work. Death to all smokers today!
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it is because other people are just concern with their own health….they are also concerned w/ the environment…they think that smokers are bastards….all we have to do is respect other peoples opinion….
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Your argument about cars grows weary. It is always the defense of the guilty to point their finger at some other guilty party. The fact is that this does not make you any less guilty. Sure cars pollute, and you pollute too! You can’t escape the truth by pointing to another truth. Anyway look at cars today as compared to cars 20 years ago. Today they are much cleaner. Hopefully they will be even cleaner in the future. Now back to the subject at hand, cleaning up you dirty smokers. We’ve come a long way already, no smoking in public buildings, no smoking on planes, no smoking in bars and restaurants. Our next step has to be no smoking in public at all. Force you into the holes you belong in. Then we’ll raise the price of cigarettes to $50 a pack and make you sign a healthcare waiver when you buy them. Any smoker should not be allowed to be treated for any smoke related illness, nor should their immediate family since they got it secondhand from the smoker. That way within about 50 years all of the smokers should have weeded themselves and their offspring out and we can tackle the next social issue, obesity!
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Wow, so many agressive answers!!!! You guys are such hypocrtits!! How easy it is to point the finger at those whose vices are visible to all. What if everybody knew your weakness and was allowed to hate you for it?! Do you really think smoking is worse than junk food or alcohol?? Millions of people are sick as a result of an unhealthy diet. What do you wanna do next? Tell us what we are allowed to eat or how much we may drink?
I agree that smoking should not harm those that are not active smokers but like someone said, smoking in public is already very restricted. I don’t think that passive smoking is a big issue anymore these days.
How about a little tolerance and acceptance. Nobody is perfect. We all have our little weaknesses.
Don’t try to tell others how to live their life, it’s none of your business.
By the way, I’m a non-smoker!!!!
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First I am a non-smoker, but have had a best friend who smoked. Fortunately, he was able to quit the habit despite 25 years or so of steady smoking.
I admit to a bias against smoking. I don’t breathing it with its impact on my lungs. It’s personally hard to imagine someone with little money willing to spend a sizable amount on such an unnecessary and destructive habit, and to think of the health care expenditures due to smokers in their later years. However, if smokers smoke without interfering with others, it is mostly their business. I don’t share what you describe as a hateful reaction to smokers, I just feel sad that they allow such a habit to control them.
I also support our city’s ban on wood fireplaces during high-pollution times, and I wholeheartedly support efforts to decrease auto and industrial pollution. All of these have a harmful combined effect on my own health and the health of my community. Not driving autos is no choice in our society; driving autos that pollute less is a choice.
No, I would not be concerned about a campfire. This is an occasional event in an otherwise healthy environment, presumably with good air circulation. It would be analagous to someone lighting up a couple of times a year–if that’s all the exposure to smoke, I have no concern.
Finally, the argument about free will? Free will does not disappear even in the most totatlitarian of environments, and restrictions agains smoking don’t compare. Freedom from others’ harmful behaviors is something that I want society to be able to regulate, and we do. Smoking can harm me significantly and I am glad it is regulated. Excess pollution harms entire communities, and I also view it to be an entirely appropriate role of government to attempt to regulate it.
In sum, I favor regulations that limit smoking’s impact largely to the adult smoker. I realize that this affects your freedom to smoke when and where you choose, but I do not believe you have the right to needlessly imperil my health and others, especially including children.
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I’m not an obstinate uninformed idiot since half of my family smokes, and I still say smoking is dumb. There are cheaper and more considerate ways to kill yourself and those around you than by slow poisoning from expensive smoke.
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