Smoking bans....... your thoughts????

[PineappleMama]

I think it should be the owner of the business's choice. If they want to cultivate smoking clients, then let them smoke/have a smoking section, if they want to run off smokers then don't. If they want to cultivate non-smokers then don't allow smoking, if they want to run off non-smokers then do. Either way can cost the owner clients, and thus money... their ability to support themselves and their family, their ability to provide jobs, and so on. The smartest choice, financially speaking, for the owner would be to have a smoking section with massive ventilation (which is PRICEY) that keeps 100% of smoke from getting anywhere near the non-smoking section... then NEITHER 'type' of customer would be effected negatively by the other... aka the customer is always right. Unfortunately the government has taken the choice away from business owners and to hell with whether it costs them their livelihood or not. Overall I think that smoking section or not should be the owner's choice, since they'll have to live with the consequences, and customers can choose to eat there or not depending on their preference... just as they can choose to be a smoker or not... can choose to drink or not... can choose to have kids or not... can choose to commit crimes or not...

Hmmm... Libertarian much?

 

[PaulaSB12]

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It should be up to the business whether smoking be allowed or not. Let these businesses who want to ban it ban it and those who don't let their customers smoke. Before anyone asks I am now and never have been a smoker.

 

[terrilhb]

As a smoker I think the ban is fine. I do think they should allow smoking in bars though. I have always considered myself a polite smoker. Always try to stand far away from people so they don't have to smell it. Years ago when I smoked in my house if someone came over that did not smoke I would go outside. But now I don't smoke in my home or my car. I personally can not stand the smell of smoke.

So why I smoke

So hard to quit.

 

[klf73]

I absolutely love it. The ban allows us to go to places like the county fair and not have to worry about someone burning my kids. I have grabbed my fair share of arms that have almost burnt my kids faces pre-ban. I am a former smoker and even when I smoked I didn't do it in large crowds because I was always afraid I would hit someone with a cigarette. I am enjoying not having to limit where I go. Also, myself and my kids are carriers of a genetic disease that puts us at high risk of getting emphysema, don't need someone making them sick from second hand smoke.

 

[schellie69]

I don't mind the bans so much now, I am a smoker. Here there is no smoking in any public place of business, restaurants, bars, ect I don't see a problem with me smoking in my car, when my kids where little I smoked outside never in the car. I do know that we have places for rent that say no smoking inside. Landlords choice. I don't understand the whole minor with tobacco and cops not caring here the cops card anyone they think might be a minor if they see them out side with a smoke. If I know someone does not smoke and they come to my house I don't smoke inside, even out side I sit down wind from them I try and respect other people I just wish other people would respect me. I know the health risk involved in smoking I don't need to hear them from every non or ex smoker that sees me. My grandma was 97 when she died in Jan 2011 and she smoked up to the day she died. She always said the more people told her to quit the more she wanted to smoke she was a stubborn lady. I worry more about drunk drivers on the road then I do people smoking. So I really don't care about the bans I just worry what the governments next be health scare will be and what bans will come with that.

 

[ams4776]

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I have 2 kids. Because of this and how disgusting this house was when i moved in (my hubby and ex.wife smoked in here for yrs) i do not allow smoking in the house and the car. Long trips we havta make frequent stops anyway plus i do want to quit. hard with the smoking husband but with summer here i am hoping the outside time and just being busy will help

 

[backdoorchicken]

my 2 cents.


with all the information we have about smoking it is clear that it is bad and continuing to do so is bad. anyone that continues to smoke knowing this is putting their own life at risk. please do not allow smokers to endanger my life at a public place by blowing smoke around me or my family.

 

[ams4776]

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It is hard to quit. I keep trying figure someday i might make it. It is so disgusting though. When i was prego the smell made me sick. I now try to be.considerate.....cant say i was as a teenager though. But how many of us are the same as we were 10 yrs ago lol

 

[secuono]

I don't care either way most of the time. With all the other air pollutants and water/earth pollutants...what is a few cigs gonna do....We should work on larger issues, trucks, factories, etc.

 

[backdoorchicken]

smoking is something you can easily opt out of. trucks, factories, etc not so much.