Ban smoking in public places

I don't smoke and it doesn't really bother me if people do.

When I was a child, I'm 40 now, it wasn't unusual for people to smoke just about everywhere.

I even remember my teachers in secondary school smoking in the classroom, albeit near the window.

My parents never smoked, but my grandparents did and my uncles, aunties and some cousins do.

My parents never got hysterical about family smoking in the same room as me when I was a child, and I am healthy, asthma free and passive smoking cancer free.

I don't get hysterical about people smoking in our home in front of our kids either.

When smoking was banned in pubs, I thought it ripped the heart out of them. For hundreds of years, Britain's wonderful pubs have been smelly, smoky and grubby - that's what gave them character.

Now they're sterile and dull, all the fun is found on smoking balconies or outside where the smokers congregate.

I'd prefer a country where people concentrate less on telling others what they shouldn't be doing and lighten up a bit - we're all going to die - let people enjoy the bit before then !

Tired of people saying ban smoking, we can no longer smoke indoors, so we go outside in the freezing cold all winter and then as soon as there's a sunny day anti-smoking people want us to disappear! I'm a considerate smoker, I smoke away from people, If there are children about I don't smoke at all. The fact of the matter is the country needs us smokers, the tax we pay is enormous and everyone would be worse off financially if smoking was banned. I also think all the stop smoking campaigns are a waste of money and time. Every one knows it's not healthy but you can't/won't quit just because some people tell you not to and show you ugly pictures. You actually have to want to. There would be public uproar if pictures of obese people with bedsores and all were put on high calorie food packaging. I understand that being obese doesn't affect the health of other people around them but if I'm correct obesity costs the country more which smoker's taxes help to pay for.

Some busy body woman verbally harrased a male smoker for two days on the run at an openair railway station, on the second occasion she ended up on the tracks, (i'm not condoning this)

I could understand someone complaining in a cafe, train, or on a bus, but not in the open air, she should mind her own buisness, and I don't smoke, read about this in todays mail online.

Aleedsfella, I could not agree more with your comment. Everywhere you look nowadays you read the phrase " it should be banned ". When the government actually do ban something they are called fascists and the people take to the sreets and riot !

Ban smoking here, ban smoking there, ban smoking everywhere. Ban acohol, ban music, ban Film, ban freedom, ban oxygen.................. For f*cks sake people! stop helping the state to shaft us all, due to your own pathetic weak minded, pitiful, narcissistic, stuck in a media bubble and spineless nature.

Why waste all the political energy and national funds in banning smoking instead of eradicating malaria? Malaria kills far, far more than smoking ever did. We have got our health priorities wrong.

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I think that smoking should stop in public places because it is not right for people to talk around the streets and find people are smoking in bars and also clubs but the mean think is that we try and stop young people and parents smoking for thier own good and for young kids like babies and other but why can't people look at the people are trying to suppoort them and why can't they see what they have in live and see who they are hurting in their lives.
PLEASE JUST SEE WHAT YOU ARE DOING TO YOURSELF!
That's my opinion about it

Smoking damages your health, you're right, so when smokers tell people to 'get a life and start smoking' I don't get it!

Cigarette smoking is the worst - I agree to the comments below, it is heath damaging.

Smoking is very bad for you Cigarette smoking is the greatest single cause of illness and premature death in the uk.