If you are a militant non-smoker you extremely against smoking right?!


Question: I would consider myself a "militant non-smoker," but I don't believe the current government attitude toward it is right. If tobacco is a poison, then it should be banned outright. If it is not, it should be people's choice to do as they wish. There are some people (I know several) who can enjoy tobacco (the ones I know are cigar or pipe smokers) on an infrequent basis and are in no way addicted, nor are they consuming so much that they endanger their health. (At least, no more than a person who eats at McDonald's a couple times a month!) So, as you can probably tell, I think people should make their own decisions in this matter, without taxes and bans.

But, with decision making comes responsibility. One of those responsibilities should be for health--and, personally, I think if a person smokes excessively and develops a disease that can be clearly linked to that greedy lack of control, then they need to be responsible to pay for the consequences themselves. The insurance companies and health care system shouldn't have to deal with it. (And, to be fair, I feel the same about those who bring on health problems from other forms of greedy lack of control--drug addicts, the obese ((when the obesity is linked to overeating and not to disorder or hormone problems)) and alcoholics.)

And, finally, there should be a cultural manners element to smoking. I don't think it's the state's business to go around banning smoking in certain places, unless they are going to ban it entirely! Particularly in a private business of any kind. However, I do wish that smokers realized the inconvenience and offense they cause for non-smokers when they indulge their habit in public! (If more of them did, perhaps there wouldn't need to be any bans on it!). I live in a country without any bans on smoking, and it can be truly disgusting. I get in a taxi, and I stink so badly when I get home that I have to take a shower and change clothes before my roommate can bear to be around me. We go to restaurants, and they are filled with chain-smokers smoking one after another, and when we leave the restaurant we are sick and dizzy from all the second-hand smoke. To those of us who don't smoke because we don't like it, the smell can be truly revolting--especially the smell of stale, second-hand smoke. There is a need for smokers to recognize that their freedom can be intrusive of other's freedom when they aren't careful where and when they exercise it.


Answers: I would consider myself a "militant non-smoker," but I don't believe the current government attitude toward it is right. If tobacco is a poison, then it should be banned outright. If it is not, it should be people's choice to do as they wish. There are some people (I know several) who can enjoy tobacco (the ones I know are cigar or pipe smokers) on an infrequent basis and are in no way addicted, nor are they consuming so much that they endanger their health. (At least, no more than a person who eats at McDonald's a couple times a month!) So, as you can probably tell, I think people should make their own decisions in this matter, without taxes and bans.

But, with decision making comes responsibility. One of those responsibilities should be for health--and, personally, I think if a person smokes excessively and develops a disease that can be clearly linked to that greedy lack of control, then they need to be responsible to pay for the consequences themselves. The insurance companies and health care system shouldn't have to deal with it. (And, to be fair, I feel the same about those who bring on health problems from other forms of greedy lack of control--drug addicts, the obese ((when the obesity is linked to overeating and not to disorder or hormone problems)) and alcoholics.)

And, finally, there should be a cultural manners element to smoking. I don't think it's the state's business to go around banning smoking in certain places, unless they are going to ban it entirely! Particularly in a private business of any kind. However, I do wish that smokers realized the inconvenience and offense they cause for non-smokers when they indulge their habit in public! (If more of them did, perhaps there wouldn't need to be any bans on it!). I live in a country without any bans on smoking, and it can be truly disgusting. I get in a taxi, and I stink so badly when I get home that I have to take a shower and change clothes before my roommate can bear to be around me. We go to restaurants, and they are filled with chain-smokers smoking one after another, and when we leave the restaurant we are sick and dizzy from all the second-hand smoke. To those of us who don't smoke because we don't like it, the smell can be truly revolting--especially the smell of stale, second-hand smoke. There is a need for smokers to recognize that their freedom can be intrusive of other's freedom when they aren't careful where and when they exercise it.

I am a proud nonsmoker. I used to smoke and quit when I matured. I hate it when i have to walk thru an area and people are smoking outside. I don't choose to have smoke filled lungs! Also, when pregnant women are smoking i feel like taking their cigarettes and burning them with it. I also see parents smoking with their children right in front of them! I think that's child abuse. Nothing good can come from smoking. I'm not saying we should make it illegal, I just think people who smoke are of lower intelligence. I've been given enough evidence to think that way.





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