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If you don't like other people smoking you have two choices:
1) You don't go into that establishment
2) You go in and put up with it.
If you don't go in, you can either decied to stay at home or (if there are enough like minded people) start up another establishment catering for you.
If I go into a restaurant should the governement decied that there should be no fatty food on the menu. After all, its not good for you, it drains precious NHS resources etc etc.
If it does get on your wick, don't go. Or start up another place - don't keep going on about it!
Oneeyedvic - what do you mean don't keep going on about it? I've only said it once lol. I think the system worked well at this club in Toronto. Smokers could go outside on the heated patio area to smoke and this area itself had a good atmosphere - it was proper part of the club - it just happened to be outside. There are ways around both smokers and non smokers being able to go out and enjoy themselves together. Times are changing - it wasn't that long ago since smoking was allowed in cinema's and on public transport.
Regards your argument about fatty food not being on the menu - well if you eat fatty food, that doesn't affect anyone else. People are only complaining about smoking because the smoke affects other people around them. I think non-smokers should have the right to go out to bars/clubs and breathe clean air. I get the impression that more people want this than not.
I know what the thread is.
I thought I made it clear as did chapel.Smoking is banned in Eire in public places and everyone adheres to it.My husband smokes in his van and in his digs..He does not smoke in public..A total ban works as most people are not ignorant enough to smoke whilst people are eating.
Now what part of both the replies were not clear and what part of the thread did I not understand?
I am open to criticiscm (constructive of course - LOL)
I live in a rural area and have no choice but to travel by car. I do not choose to pollute the atmosphere but, until vehicles are made emission free (and affordable), I sadly have no choice.Smokers do have a choice. It is not necessary to smoke.You choose to smoke.I wish I could choose to enjoy clean air and pavements not covered in cigarette ends.I would like to choose not to have my Council tax not spent on cleaning the streets of debris left by smokers.
My father chose to smoke.He died as a direct result of his habit.My mother did not choose to be a widow. I did not choose to spend the rest of my life without my beloved father.
I pray for a total ban.
Harper - Hear Hear.
I have almost got on bended knee to plead with my husband to stop.Its almost like some kind of vendetta smokers think non - smokers have.
I have been to 4 funerals within 5 months all directly attributed to smokingAll below 60.One - like me had stopped but the damage had already been done.
Sorry for your loss Harper and I hope people take note and do not see it as an invasion of their civil liberties..
First let me make it clear that I do not smoke - I gave up over 18 months ago.
Second, of course it is an infringment of civil liberties. It is a legal product with tax money going to the government.
Harper - if you are so concerned move to the town - giving excuses about having to drive is utter rubbish - you choose to drive because you choose to live in a rural area.
People choose to smoke - in fact a lot of people are addicted to the stuff - so they don't actually choose to - they have to.
Yes it does come down to choice, and I choose to smoke, and I don't see why someone should tell me that i can't. I am a curteous pleasant person, why can't everyone be accomodated. Why should there be a total ban, smokers are part of the 'public' too. Yes there should be seperate areas so that non-smokers have their choice, but why take mine away?
As for pubs, why the hell should people who don't smoke, and often don't drink, come into pubs and then start telling the rest of us what we're supposed to do. Go to a coffee shop!!