smoking ban

[Cloud No.9]

this week my country did a very clever thing. it banned smoking in all enclosed public spaces. that is pubs, bars, restaurants, cinemas, shopping centres, theatres. the whole thing. anything with four walls which the public can get in from next march will be a no smoking area. and those smoking or those in charge of such a place where smoking is happening can be fined.

this is all to stop passive smoking. and really to stop people coming out of bars smelling of smoke and having to smell it all the time.

this to be is a good thing. and england don't have it yet (devolution is omni-good).

so what do other people think is this a good thing?

[liamo]

i'm a smoker myself and i think its a good thing least this way i won't be feeling guilty about smoking in front of kids or have to put up with ppl looking at me like i was killing em

[Shlup]

Yay for it! I get so tired of feeling like I have to hide in my house to keep from having to smell smoke because it's someone's "right" to do it. Smoking in public is very inconsiderate in the first place!

[jrgen]

i'm a smoker myself and i think its a good thing least this way i won't be feeling guilty about smoking in front of kids or have to put up with ppl looking at me like i was killing em

Well, you could just smoke elsewhere.

[Heath]

this week my country did a very clever thing. it banned smoking in all enclosed public spaces. that is pubs, bars, restaurants, cinemas, shopping centres, theatres. the whole thing. anything with four walls which the public can get in from next march will be a no smoking area. and those smoking or those in charge of such a place where smoking is happening can be fined.

A lot of restaurants, shopping centres and cinemas already forbid smoking, as it is. Pubs and restaurants, will at least have a non-smoking area if it is allowed.

And yes, it is a good thing as passive smoking isn't lovely.

[Sephex]

I wish they would do that in the US.

[T-MaN]

In my area, this ban will seriously be helpful. I wish they had it here, but nooo, they don't.

[Garland]

That sounds like a good idea, and while the US hasn't taken such strong measures all at once, it has been moving in that direction, though I think it's at the discretion of individual states. I know in CT, where I live, there's also a smoking ban in all public buildings. That said, enforcement is pretty lax, and authorities seem to look the other way.

[Cz]

It's a good idea, definitely, although I'm not sure if the motivation behind it is quite right. Nowadays smokers are made to feel like social outcasts, almost as if the habit were a criminal offence. It seems as if these new laws are being introduced based upon that mentality. It's not that banning smoking in public areas is a bad idea, just that the attitude behind it isn't what it should be.

[Winter Nights]

Bah, while I see the reasoning behind it.. I'm a really lazy bugger that now has to walk outside to smoke, as this has been enforced in Florida for some time. Bastards making me have to use more energy.

And yeah, yeah.. I know.. Second-hand smoke and all that. I just like to bitch. xDD

[Necronopticous]

I wish they would do that in the US.

[Winter Nights]

I wish they would do that in the US.

They have in some states.

[ZuZu]

a good thing
nothing more to say

[Cless]

I feel this is a step in the right direction, though there is one thing about this smoking malarky that concerns me. The fact that there are a lot of parents out there that regularly smoke in front of their children, not in public places, but in the home. Both my parents have exposed me to this from an early age, and I've always hated it. Doesn't stop them smoking in the living room, the kitchen, and in most rooms in the house apart from my bedroom.

Should this not be considered as a form of child abuse and thus be outlawed, considering the damage this causes to a child's lungs?

[rubah]

Yay for it! I get so tired of feeling like I have to hide in my house to keep from having to smell smoke because it's someone's "right" to do it. Smoking in public is very inconsiderate in the first place!

Killing people, even involuntarily, shouldn't be a right.

that's sorta similar to, what is it, manslaughter?