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DebateSmoking should be permitted in public places. Do you agree?HusnaObviously, the cloud of smoke exactly disturbs other people; especially non-smokers feeling. Imagine sitting in a restuarant unable to enjoy the meal because of the smoke from neighbor’s table. It should be banned because the perc...

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Debate Smoking should be permitted in public places. Do you agree?

Husna

Obviously, the cloud of smoke exactly disturbs other people; especially non-smokers feeling. Imagine sitting in a restuarant unable to enjoy the meal because of the smoke from neighbor’s table. It should be banned because the percentage of nonsmokers is higher than active smokers so non-smokers have right to clean air and also second hand smoke is more dangerous than actually smoking as well. > So are you saying pyromaniacs should be able to light fires as they please and theyre just being discriminated against because they dont occupy wall street? Nadzir

so are you saying that the non-smokers of America don’t have rights and that America is all about the majority winning? currently we are having the occupy wall street which is demoting the minority ruling. Just because the non-smokers of America are more populous than the smokers, doesn’t mean that smoking should be banned just to please them Hema

In my opinion, smoking should be banned in public places. That is because non-smokers should not be forced to secondhand smoke against their will. Even though it is an obvious etiquette not to smoke when surrounded by many people, a large number of smokers don’t seem to care so much about it. For example, it’s not that hard to find a person smoking at a bus stop even if there are little girls around him/her. There should be rules restricting people who have little regard for the well-being of others. Another reason why smoking should be banned in public places is because of the garbage problem. Not many smokers throw away their cigarette butts into the trash cans. Most of them just toss it on the streets. The streets will be much cleaner if smoking is banned. However, smokers should not be treated unfairly. There should be more places where only smokers can smoke freely. Therefore

smoking should be banned in public places but more smoking areas should be built as well.

Justin

Secondhand smoking is a concern, I agree. But a complete ban of smoking in public is unecessary. In fact, I believe that with a ban, more people will choose to smoke as it will be more of a rebellious / illegal act (like drugs in today’s society). To your comment about “rules restricting people who have little regard for the well-being of others”, I have nothing to say but shame on you. Smoking is a choice via that person. You cannot tell who is a smoker from just looking at them (unless affected greatly by smoking), just as you cannot tell who is a thief from just another customer at a store. Just because they smoke, doesn’t mean that they are out to get people who do not. I have friends who smoke, who are very nice people, yet I do not smoke myself. Don’t make judgements upon a group of people based on stereotypes. Overall, I think that smoking should not be banned in public, but that businesses / companies should be able to control whether or not smoking should be allowed Husna

although people say that smoking is the smokers choice .. its not.. it is in some ways but not in all.. it is their choice whether they want to pay to die, but our choice whether we want them to able to smoke around us, it is not just harming them when they smoke it is also harming us. By smoking in public places all the people that go to those places have got to inhale their smoke although they have a made a choice to not smoke, they dont have a say in whether smoking will be a part in our life or not. BUT if it was banned smokers could smoke in their home and cars, and harm themselves and not others. P.S. Sorry if it didnt make sense, but i think u will get the points that i was trying to make. Nadzir

nobody said you had to go to public places with smoking. So if ya’ll wanna complain go somewhere else.! Hema

Only 25% of the stuff goes to the smoker and the rest is left for us. People who have asthma need to carry their inhaler just in case of a smoker or cigarettes. > If you want to classify cigs as a harmful weapon and claim it “the right to bare arms” then i would have to believe everyone that ever smokes in public should be arrested for attempting homicide and for putting others in harms way. We are a county built on equality, why are you taking my right of being cancer free away? We fought for our independence and im glad we have it! Justin

Um… HELLO????? It’s called the second amendment!!! The second amendment means you have the right to bear arms, and a cigarette is like a gun.Even though cigs are bad, they are classified as a harmful weapon that can cause serious injury or damage. Also, right now we are both breathing in campfire, barbecues, and even marijuana smoke! I do not see a ban on those items and I do not see a ban on cars? Do you? How about we just ban cars???? Also tabacco is a legal drug and so is marijuana, so you cannot just ban it! Also, I looked up that the smoke from smokers produces 0.00092% of carbon dioxide emissions in the world! I have tons more but I’m about to run out of battery, so my last point is that we are building our own natural disasters, like building power plants! Only two out of the 50000 power plants in the world produce more carbon dioxide than the smoke from smokers does in a year! Husna

Non-smokers should not have to suffer from the very poor choices of smokers. Non-smokers who come across smokers “Lighting up a ciggy” suffer as badly as the smokers do. I don’t think it is right that ANY of the non-smokers have to suffer, smokers only think about themselves not the people around them which sickens me and I think it is about time that non-smokers got a little justice. I don’t give a fuck about the smokers, all I care about are the people who don’t smoke who have to suffer. All the smokers in the

whole fucking world may as well dig themselves a hole and smoke themselves to death, it would be a favour to all of us =). Nadzir

You would just take away the rights of smokers (people just like you, only with different habits) because they like to smoke? Your argument seems very narrow-minded and shallow. Ignorance is not bliss, so instead of continuing on your pointless rant about how “bad” smokers are, how about you accept the fact that not everyone has the same viewpoint as you do. By the way, to wish ill upon a group of people is discrimination

Hema

look, everyone should not be so botherd about smoking and live with it. All smokers go outside to have a smoke (at least in countries where it is banned indoors), non smokers stay in the pub (or wherever you are). Non smokers complain about everyones health, but smokers are not stupid, they know it can harm them. no not really this is a tipicall lie okay bye Justin

If we should not ban smoking because smokers are well aware of the health issue, should we remove the speed limits on all the highways as well? People aren’t stupid, they know that speed driving can be dangerous and they don’t care or they will stop doing it… So people should be allowed to drive for as fast as they want regardless if this can lead to car accidents which can do harms to other people. And smoking should be allowed too because smokers aren’t stupid and do not care about their health even if the smoke they produce can harm other people. Exact same principle here, and obviously speed limits is on, so should the ban of smoking? Tbh we are seriously not interested in how you manage your health; we don’t care if you care or quit or anything, we just don’t want you to harm us just as we don’t want a car to hit on us.yea this is also true...