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Smoking in Public Places - Smokin' Aces

by Steve
(Canada)

Smoking is to your health as cars are to mine.
The effects of tobacco smoke are the same as the effects of automobile exhaust. The cause is the same too, someoneelse's choice.

Does this mean that cars should be under the same legislative bans?(careful it's a loaded question.)

People shouldn't frequent places where actions not to their liking take place. There are apartments with non-smoking regulations that I would not buy so why do non-smokers feel they can buy apartments without such by-laws and then try to change the laws?




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Smoking in Public Places - Smokin' Aces

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Aug 18, 2011
 Smoking in Public Places - Smoking Bans are for Public Protection
by: Bev

Smoking in public places affects your health and mine.

Automobile exhaust affects your health and mine.

It is precisely because we are all affected that laws need to be in place to protect the public (that is you and me).

There is legislation in place to regulate car exhaust. It seems reasonable then to have regulations in place to protect indoor air quality.


Motor vehicles serve a useful purpose for transportation of goods and people. I would like to see them used less often, but to suggest that they are the same as cigarettes is a bogus argument as cigarettes serve no useful purpose in society.

Your comment is predicated on the assumption that smoking is normal and to be expected in a society. I do not buy that argument. the culture of smoking can be changed and it certainly has been in Canada.

Smokers are in the minority of every Canadian province. In BC that number is about 14%.

The ban on smoking in public places argument should not be predicated on the right to smoke because there is no right to smoke.

Public housing standards should be set so that the dwellings are safe for anyone to inhabit. This would make the standard a non smoking standard.

This standard would allow everyone (smokers and on smokers like) to have the same standard of safety in their dwelling.

Non-smoking dwellings should be the norm and it should not be incumbent on non - smokers (the majority) to seek out housing where smoking is not allowed.

The onus should be on the smoker to seek out housing where smoking is allowed.

Health and safety should always be a higher priority that convenience and personal choice.

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