Why I'm all for the smoking ban

[Blue406]

You know, ever since Scotland went smoke free in public places, getting out and about with my friends has been so much less of a torture for me. I can finaly visit local bars and pubs. Maybe now I'll be able to find someone.
Before hand, I could not tolerate the smoke and I've been a relative hermit because of it.

However, my personal reasons aside, I can't help but feel the main benefactors to this UK wide ban will be the children of tomorrow.

It horrifies me to look back at photos of family days and nights out when I was a kid. The level of smoke in the enclosed rooms is unbelievable, hanging over my little self like a noose.
Its a sad fact that today a child can grow up and still develop smoking related diseases because they breathed in second hand smoke most of their lives.

It actually makes me angry when I think about it, knowing that my lungs will not be as clean as they ought to be. Knowing that instead of a healthy pink colour, they'll be stained with the same tar that smokers have in their lungs.
What especially angers me is knowing that even though I have never let my lips touch a single cigarette, I can still potentially suffer from the effects of smoking, simply because of all the second hand (or should that be second lung?) smoke I breathed in during my childhood.

I don't give a sh*t what smokers think. Its their habit, fine, but they have no right to inflict it on others.
Would you be happy if someone played football in your garden and tore up the grass or smashed a window? Or how about a shooting range in your kitchen?
What if I had a habit of eating lots of sweets and dumped the wrappers in your garden? You'd soon be out telling my I had no right. This is the same situation, only with a more deadly side effect. Second hand smoke.

Smokers say its not fair to force them to smoke outside. But then, is it fair for them to force non smokers, who are typically in the majority, to go outside instead? Conveniently, most smokers change the subject when that argument is put to them. Some retort saying its their right to smoke where they want. But then, one can argue back saying that by doing so, they are limiting where non smokers can go, therefore impugning their rights.

In the end with a hit for hit argument like this, its comes down to question of numbers. The majority rules. Smokers are in the minority, they've had it their way for far too long and its time to put an end to it. Its time to protect our future. This smoking ban is the way forward. As adults, it is our prime duty to protect children and bring them into adulthood healthy and able. Smoking around them does not serve this duty well.

I rest easier at night knowing that my future children will not have to suffer the smokey parties and atmospheres I did as a child. It fills me with hope for a healthier future.

[tux2006]

A-men to that!

[turbolag]

I gave up smoking a while ago, and before or after it made/makes no odds to me. I guess i'm busy belching tons of chlorofluorobenzonated carbon monoxide in to the atmosphere each year (my car, not my 4rse!) so it'd be a bit hypocritical of me to moan about someone elses air pollution

[turbolag]

I gave up smoking a while ago, and before or after it made/makes no odds to me. I guess i'm busy belching tons of chlorofluorobenzonated carbon monoxide in to the atmosphere each year (my car, not my 4rse!) so it'd be a bit hypocritical of me to moan about someone elses air pollution

I too am looking forward to a healthy future, but with a record number of kids being clinically obese bloaters, too lazy to even walk to school, never mind actually play a real game, I don't thing i'm likely to see one.

[Captain Jack]

Yeah they should have done this a looooong time ago. Smokers should be shot.....

[turbolag]

I am I the worlds only ex smoker that didn't turn into an anti smoking nazi?

I gave up for my own reasons, but couldn't care less how many others want to blow away in the wind.

[Welly]

What I hate the most is seeing youngsters smoke, girls and boys alike, just to 'fit in' or try to look 'kool'.

Wouldn't you wish that you could tell them how foolish they are and they agree with you, say sorry, and change their ways.

I put them in the same catagory as 17 year old lads who drive like complete spackers to look 'kool'.

I used to smoke 10-a-day and gave up myself because I wanted to give up and just had to break away from the habit (which took about 6 weeks to wean off them). Then I began drinking more instead

[ThePrisoner]

I agree, smoking is disgusting and people who want to do it should f*ck off and smoke elsewhere!!!!

I can say that because im an ex-smoker.

Pris.

[TooT]

Yep im all for it. Theres nowt worse than comin back from a night out on the razz/town and stinking of it. Have you ever smelt the shirt you where wearing the night before, its as stong as a damn ashtray.

Ive never smoked, but my problem is 90% of my mates smoke so as long as their smoking im gonner stink and have the chance of getting lung cance or summat.

The ban cant come soon enough.

[jameslxdt]

A-men to that!

ill second that

I agree, smoking is disgusting and people who want to do it should f*ck off and smoke elsewhere!!!!

and third that

Yeah they should have done this a looooong time ago. Smokers should be shot.....

and forth that

[philg]

Been a smoking ban in the republic of ireland for a good while now, up north it only started about 2 months ago. I'm not a smoker but all i can say now is....... Let the smokers back in. At the minute every pub and club smells like stale drink, puke, sweat....and the worst is the farts!!!! jesus christ the farts!. Its smell is not right! Just imagine people who've been drinking all day letting out a beer fart at a packed queue for the bar in a nightclub. Could knock ye out!


On the plus side you dont necessarily have to wash your clothes/hair cus they dont smell like smoke .

[Blue406]

The smoking ban has been in effect in Scotland for way over 2 months. Add 9 months to that and thats about right.

[neildavies]

The smoking ban has been in effect in Scotland for way over 2 months. Add 9 months to that and thats about right.

Phil meant Northern Ireland, not "up North" as in Scotland

[Blue406]

Ah, I wasn't aware of a ban in NI.

[turbolag]

Have you ever smelt the shirt you where wearing the night before

Sounds kinky - do you do it as practice for knicker snifing?