Smokers Anonymous

I've never smoked before, and I really doubt I'll ever start. The smell of it makes me feel kind of nauseous, and I get really irritated at how I'm forced to hold my breath when I walk in or out of many public buildings because of all the smokers congregating outside.

I've heard that in Canada a bill is (hopefully) going to pass preventing people from smoking within two-hundred feet of any entrance to a public building. And I will be happy.

I don't really have anything against smokers as people, what they want to do in privacy is their thing, but when their "right to smoke" infringes on my "right to breath smoke-free air" and they get defensive about their digusting habit that I start to get annoyed.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by OZZcln

That comment is something that makes me wonder about people not seeing things properly. You complain about not being able to enter a building because of smokers being outside, yet you fail to see the fact that they're outside because they aren't smoking in the building. We stand outside in the cold so you can have your clean air inside, but people still complain about us standing out there. Try compromising.

Come on, we both know that you stand out in the cold because you're legally required to. Do you really think that the majority of smokers would head outside into the rain and snow if they didn't have to? =/ For the majority, it's a law, not some sort of courtesy; don't pretend otherwise.

About compromising, what exactly do you feel gives smokers the right to expose others to a seriously harmful substance? It seems like kind of a dick thing to do, to knowingly subject people to something that is not only unpleasant, but physically damaging.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

I can't see what smokers paid in my state as I'm Canadian, but I don't think I'd really mind partially footing the bill for a smoking ban.

Common courtesy gives me the right to ask a smoker to go somewhere else, much like it would with any other distraction, like loud music or a crying child. Most people don't have a problem with turning down music they're listening to, and while you can't really do the same with a kid, you can take them elsewhere until they calm down if they're really bothering someone. When someone figures out how to "turn down" cigarettes, maybe that'll be an option, but for the time being it's similar to the kind throwing a tantrum.

I was waiting to see when the "free country" argument would come into play, but again I'm not convinced that a smoker's right to smoke supercedes that of a non-smoker's right to breathe less-polluted air. Obviously I'm of the opinion that the latter is more important.

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