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Smoking Should Be Banned In Public Places
Should smoking be banned from public places?? It could make millions smokers stop smoking but without the tobacco taxit could hurt our economy even more
 Satchel  23 May 2008 02:29
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Smoking has already be banned from public places. Banning smoking and raising taxes will not stop people who want to smoke from smoking.
 
 menhim1967  02 Feb 2009 00:04
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I think smoking in general should be banned! Its a health hazard to everyone in America and it makes lots of litter in beaches, parks and other public places! Ban it!!!!
 
 jjgirl14  05 Nov 2008 02:34
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Ban smoking because I hate and detest it ;-)

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seriously? I don't think smoking can be banned: These people are too addicted.
Smokers cannot go 30 minutes without lighting up the ole cig.
 
 Scorpion  29 Jul 2008 00:20
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Second hand smoke causes cancer, that's a proven fact. Even if it weren't, smoking in public affects those around the smoker: Dried eyes, dried throats, stinking hair and clothes, among other things, not to mention the pollution and littering.

Smoking should be limited to people's homes and to specified locations, called "smokeeasies", in reference to prohibition-era "speakeasies". Smokers should be locked in with each other and forced to endure each other's pollution, and legally prevented from inflicting it on people who don't want it.

Smoking around non-smokers should be made illegal in the same way drinking and driving is. The immediate hazards may not be the same, but the health risk is. And people who have kids should be barred from smoking or have their kids removed from the house.
 
 K9  26 May 2008 16:28
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Yeah, I hate people who smoke right near you and then you have to leave because you start coughing from second hand smoke.
 
 mastermov  26 May 2008 14:42
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You know what smokers can smoke anywhere but not around the public places like park with children. You know.
 
 waleo  23 May 2008 03:24
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It wouldn't hurt our economy one bit, because all the money tobacco companies use for marketing can be used for bracing for the impact. Studies show that tobacco smoke is dangerous, and the people around you haven't made the conscious decision to breathe in your smoke. Look at Dana Reeve; she died of lung cancer at the age of 44 even though she never smoked.
 
 Custommade  23 May 2008 03:01
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True it might hurt our economy, bu it should be banned because there are smokers and second hand smokers if they both die of the same thing than then who will support the economy
 
 msprngr03  23 May 2008 02:32
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People can smoke if they want to anywhere.
 
 MooMooCat  16 Dec 2011 23:13
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Why is it that the first answer to anything anyone dislikes is to make it illegal, ban it, eliminate it, or take it away? Every choice we are still permitted to make is a precious freedom we should not be so quick to give up.

While I dislike tobacco and non-tobacco smoke, I see no reason to take away the freedom from those who do enjoy it. Particularly in public places.

Counterpoint: It is the right of any private landowner to make rules for the use of their space, to include a No Smoking policy. Case in point: An outdoor stadium or ampitheater owner may choose to make the establishment No Smoking to encourage those who do not want to be near smokers to attend events at their place.

Important Caveat: As long as I don't ever have to pay for it! That means I won't pay for your lung biopsy, your restaurant when it burns down, your cancer medications, etc. You made your choices, pay for them yourself.
 
 achmed  21 Sep 2008 22:57
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I don't like smoking but i do like our economy in places like Virginia tobacco products are the most important processed products.
 
 Satchel  23 May 2008 02:31
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