Why not? I hope you wouldn't try and deny that cigarette smoke contains harmful substances, so why should one person's lifestyle be allowed to prevail over preventing others - who have made a different lifestyle choice - from inhaling poisons and carcinogens even in small quantities?
Not to mention that it is almost always possible for the smoker to leave the area while they smoke. They're the ones affecting the area around them, not the non-smokers, so why should the non-smokers who have no effect on those around them suffer.
It's outside man!No ones health is affected!What area?They left their work tdesk to go outside to smoke and still you fascists aren't happy.
Actually, most smoking bans aren't really about stopping smoking per se; they're about stopping passive smoking. Noone's stopping people smoking, they're stopping them smoking where they effectively force others to smoke around them who otherwise would not.
Again,it's outside.No ones dying from passive smoking here.
Oh, and as I said, I probably wouldn't advocate banning smoking while driving as a smoking issue, rather as a road safety issue as it means the smoker has to take their hand off the wheel from time to time, and at that I don't think its that big an issue anyway.
Yeh me either.
Because it is offensive - lets look at an alternate example. We don't let people sit on street corners masturbating. The person might enjoy masturbating, it doesn't physically affect anyone else - in fact it would affect people much less than smoking does, but it is offensive, so its illegal.
You're equating Masturbating with smoking?Come on,I know it's an an analogy but thats a bit of a stretch don't you think.
Additionally, passive smoking can have a direct and immediate effect on severe asthmatics, so to claim that it has no physical effect on others is a fallacy.
Outside.No ones health affected.
Well there are related laws to that - public nuisance, by laws on buskers and the likes. Additionally, a vast majority of people wouldn't inflict their singing on the public, while smoking in public has a physical effect
I've got nothing against buskers.Another law that annoys me.Another example of exactly what I'm talking about.Who do buskers hurt?
I have no problem with letting people smoke.
You obviously do.You even seem to disapprove when it doesn't affect your health.In fact you seem to equate it with masturbating in public.
The attitude that occasional smoke is acceptable gets on my goat just as much. I don't want to be exposed to it, and to force exposure on others is not just lazy, its irresponsible and since some people can't seem to resist doing it should be illegal.
Yeah.Anything else you don't approve of while we're at it?Swearing?Praising Jesus? Scary clowns?