Smokers have rights too
14-March-2010
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Smokers have rights too and I'm fed up with the way we are now seen as second class citizens.  As you may know, smoking in Scotland has now been banned.  We are all pushed outside with little facilities to shelter ourselves in.  Non-smokers claimed that they had nowhere to go to because if they went into a pub they would die several years later because of the inconsiderate people around them.

Come on, it's not like it's a surprise that people are going to be smoking there.  But this is not the worst part of it.  No, it’s actually the government that I really want to have a gripe at.  For example forcing this ban on local businesses, I don't see as fair at all!

Who are they to interfere with how a person should run their own lives.  Why not offer incentives to become no smoking venues, grants for better ventilation.  I'm sure that the government could do this just by cutting down their spending in other areas.

Smokers have rights too

The adverts they place on the TV portray people who smoke as penniless, clumsy lepers to be avoided at all costs.  After all who would want to be around us smelly, grubby people?  I feel that us smokers are the easy targets, after all it's easier to get votes by banning smoking rather than preventing knife or drug related crimes.

Well, for all the non smokers out there here's my conclusion.  I smoke and I like to smoke.  I also know that it causes cancer, I am not stupid.  Now we can live in a world where groups are segregated even more and we can all sit in pubs which smell of sweat, vomit and urine.  Ah, the great country that is Scotland.

By: ScubaSteve


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Will Powers. Well may you say then that any person who operates a vehicle, be it car, bike, plane, boat could also be accused of stupidity. Point remains until smoking tobacco is outlawed completely, smokers still have rights and should not be treated like second class citizens. To the comment further down about injecting in public....once again, SMOKING IS LEGAL, heroin use is not. And MikeP, I am more than capable of walking around an object that offends or endangers me....are you not?
*JayJoojJuju  21-Jan-2010 05:54

 
@ ScubaSteve - You wrote : "I smoke and I like to smoke. I also know that it causes cancer, I am not stupid."

That is quite the contradiction. Are you trying to suggest that continuing to smoke whilst knowing it causes cancer (and a whole raft of other health problems) is the behavior of someone intelligent?
*Will Powers  11-Jan-2010 10:41

 
Smokers have to be ten metres away from the buildings at my works, as the air con sucks the smoke in to the building and you can smell it inside, this has been well proven.
*Gainsborough lad.  04-Jan-2010 23:23

 
Sorry, that was meant to be : In some more enlightened countries smoking is banned within a certain distance of buildings, typically 15 metres.
*MikeP  04-Jan-2010 16:57

 
"The fact that smokers are now banished to the cold outside is surely enough for your smug satisfaction."

Not really. It means that the rest of us have to walk through the screen of smoke and exhaled bad breath to get inside. It also means that in summer when sitting outside the rest of us are exposed to poison fumes from your addiction to tobacco. In some more enlightened countries smoking is banned within a certain distance of buildings, typically 5 metres. Great idea.
*MikeP  04-Jan-2010 16:55

 
JETHRO instead of slandering other people for what it is they want to do with there lives with comments such as "You are surrounded by morons" basically for being a smoker, maybe instead you should try a bit of constructive critism. The fact that smokers are now banished to the cold outside is surely enough for your smug satisfaction.
*Loxy  04-Jan-2010 16:44

 
Anyone with a bad habit tries to justify why they have no self controll.
*gix  30-Dec-2009 14:34

 
Would you like to see people injecting in public as well !!!
*cantbelieveiread that  30-Nov-2009 09:13

 
I have to agree here, common sense would have seen a smoke room in each pub, with a compulsory extractor fan, instead we have lost loads of our historic pubs.
(And I have never smoked and hate the slightest whiff of it).
*Gainsborough lad.  01-Nov-2009 08:11

 
The Government succeeded in its aim. More than half the pubs in my area closed down. The rest turned into twee cocktail bars.

I suppose those MPS who still smoke don't have to smoke in pubs. They get discount tobacco and can smoke us all out in their second homes.
*All At Our Expense  01-Nov-2009 00:22

 
I don't mind that we have to go outside now, It was a bit nasty in restaurants. what I don't like is that outdoor heaters generally don't work or aren't switched on and in the summer non smokers give you dirty looks in the pub garden, feel like screaming 'we've been here all year! so you can have fresh air indoors!' I am considerate I blow away and don't sit near children or people with oxygen masks etc.
*Pattern Cutter  31-Oct-2009 22:04

 
Surrounded by Morons- Sorry, I missed the r from your, I wouldn't want you thinking that I was like your friend JACKPD.
*Jethro  04-Oct-2009 17:05


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