Why Hasn't Cigarette Smoking Been Banned Everywhere Yet? (Page 3)

[dudeman]

well can you stop driving because I don't like global warming. ill stop smoking when you stop driving.

[myTake Owner]

Well lucky you, today is the day you quit because I utilize the cities bike share program to the core!

[dudeman]

damn it.

[NearlyNapping]

Another rabid anti-smoker. I quite listening to all those nutcases a long time ago. How about minding your own fucking business and quit acting like a moron?

[myTake Owner]

That's funny because I think you've got that the other way around. When there is literal evidence.. and plenty of it, that cigarettes cause all sorts of disease, affect babies in the womb, and can cause preventable deaths from heart disease and lung cancer and you STILL smoke... you, my friend, are the moron. Now if you want to sit in a smokey room by yourself or in your car and slowly kill yourself---I wish you wouldn't, but by all means, but when I or those of us who choose not to smoke want to live a healthy life and not have to deal with the effects of smoking, we have the right to do so... so it IS my business.

[NearlyNapping]

First of all I don't smoke. I have in the past, but that was a long time ago.

Second of all, you rabid anti-smokers use horrible logic. It's called taking things out of context and twisting it to mean something that favors your position. Your entire argument about second hand smoke (which is by far the most common argument for banning smoking in most public places) is meaningless. You guys go around quoting evidence about second hand smoke, and try to apply it to you walking through a little smoke while walking down the sidewalk outdoors.

The truth of the matter is that it's not about the health effects of second hand smoke. It's just because you don't like it. If you don't like it then just say so instead of all the phony drama and pretending that it's about second hand smoke.

Being exposed to a heavy smoker in a closed space for years does NOT equate to getting a five second whiff of smoke at the park being the cause of your imminent demise. So stop using that lame argument.

[myTake Owner]

If you loved it so much and it was great and you have no problems with it... why did YOU give it up?

[Puppylove94]

It's an addiction that some people don't care to quit. They'd lose a shot ton of business. Just cause you don't like it doesn't mean everyone has to agree with you

[NedfromtheNed]

Because the government is reaping massive amounts of money off of tax.

[gotc147]

Because most people in the world have decided that dictators are bad to have as leaders.

[DJohnny]

It's simple marketing. Why ban something that makes so much profit?

[bubbletrouble]

Amazes me how the same people that want cigarettes banned are often hippie liberal types that take other drugs on a regular basis

[myTake Owner]

I've never done a drug in my life, so there goes your amazing theory.

[IsraelJordan]

Lmao what is up with people trying to ban everything recently

[Dred1614returns]

I really don't see it as an issue. I don't smoke, and I never will, but I don't see many people smoking here.

[thesunstillshines9]

Because smokers can do whatever they want
And what one other user said politics and religion have killed more lives
So what exactly is your argument

[myTake Owner]

You speak as if no one has ever challenged politics or religion (SEE: U. S History). People such as yourself like to use apathy as an excuse for just about everything. If I'm trying to deal with problem A... your solution is don't deal with it because problem B, C, D, E exist too? By that logic, no one should do anything about anything. Everyone has within them the power to enact change. If something isn't working, as in our obesity rates are climbing rather than falling, you seek out solutions. Doesn't mean they'll work 100% of the time. Doesn't mean they are the plan for everybody to solve all the problems of the world. It just means someone is trying, someone cares about something, and someone would like to see change happen.

[thesunstillshines9]

I'm sticking to my opinion
I'll smoke when I want when I want, wherever I want
(Unless it has a no smoking sign of course)
I also can give two shits what people think. I'm not here to please people

[plinkett]

I love how the only thing 'liberals' do is ban things, then call you a 'nazi' if you resist their attacks on freedom.

[renogaza]

people who say you're a nazi are actually the true nazi's lol

[iCroissant]

big mac burgers kill more people than cigarettes. Should we ban big macs?

[sweetshyguy]

Because cigarrets are delicious, i always need to have one between my lips.

[admles]

I can only speak for Australia, but I know that the government makes WAY too much money from taxing it to make it illegal.

[Nitanica]

I don't need the government dictating what I can and can't do.

[zagor]

Freedom of choice. And cultural tradition.

[myTake Owner]

But it wasn't a cultural tradition. These were things given specifically to soldiers at the end of the Civil War, which then became highly addictive to them, and then became widespread, and of course we know now, detrimental to the health of users, and those who frequently live/work with users. The fact that we do have many bans across the US anyway, indicates that it isn't exactly freedom of choice b/c those who do not smoke do not have the freedom to get away from the smoke smokers are puffing in their faces.

[zagor]

WW I is when it really took off. The cigarette companies donated cigarettes to put in the soldiers field ration packs.

But I think we have enough laws telling people what to do; every time someone gets offended or bothered, they demand a new law.

[OrdinaryGentleman]

Lmao like banning has ever worked?

[gobsmacked3]

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