Originally posted by: austonia
Reality : Most people are non-smokers, and they don't smoke for good reason, and they don't want to be around smoke for good reason.
To anyone who doesn't smoke, and even to some smokers, smoking is considered STUPID because it smells bad and it's risky for disease. and it's a DRUG ADDICTION, and it's costs alot of money over time. there is no intelligent reason to smoke tobacco, it is simply an chemical tool for physical and emotional satisfaction. Even if smoking is less dangerous than other factors of american society, *it is one risk that is completey avoidable and unnecesary.* that's the facts, jack.
Simply, the thing non-smokers want is to be undisturbed by smokers. This is a perfectly reasonable exepectation. As long as non-smokers arn't bothered of course smokers can smoke outside, or wherever. Just do it out of the proximity of everyone else's path. It may not be a law everywhere, but it's about human decency and respect for those around you. of course, if smokers wuold be considerate in the first place we wouldn't need any of these laws.
BUT.. Smokers here seem to think it's OK to smoke in places where non-smokers have to travel through.
That it's OK to impose the products of thier nasty habit on unwanting people. WRONG.
Thier defense is it's not against the law, and non-smokers are "whiney" for even complaining, and that everyone else in the world should make accomadations for THEM. Thier defense is that it is really THEY who are the victims, because they are often forced to smoke in inconvenient places. It is THEY who's rights are being infringed.
Thier arguments for why the rest of the world should accomadate thier addiction don't even start to make sense, so how can there be a reasonable debate.
