I assume every single Birther, anti-health care reform, anti-bailout conservative yelling in the streets is adamantly opposed to any part of this since it is government interference in our lives. Not to mention restraint of trade on the poor, downtrodden tobacco companies trying to make a few God-given right to earn American dollars!
Hey, you! Stop smoking in my atmosphere!
That’s the message from New York City, where the mayor and health commissioner have just released a policy agenda called “Take Care New York 1012.” Page 10 of the document says the city’s health department “will work with the city’s Department of Parks and Recreation and other entities to expand smoke-free spaces to include city parks and public beaches.” The city council speaker is very interested in the idea, but her help might not be necessary if the parks department can implement the ban as a regulation.
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Then the crusade moved on to apartment buildings, extending the same theory: You can’t smoke in your apartment, because the smoke seeps under your door into hallways and other people’s apartments.Now this rationale has moved outdoors. Way outdoors. David Kessler, the former FDA commissioner who led the anti-smoking fight in the 1990s, says New York City is doing the right thing, because “the majority of the population today doesn’t want to be breathing in tobacco smoke, whether indoors or outdoors.”
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But do I have the right to that standard of purity? If so, doesn’t that justify a ban on smoking absolutely anywhere?
Himm, looks like you insulted about 60% or more of the American population.
With friends like you Obama doesn’t need enemies to foil his plans.
> Should smoking be banned outdoors?
Right after car and truck exhaust and factory smoke stacks are banned outdoors.
Ban profiting from Smoking. Make it free to anyone who REALLY needs it. They have to get a doctor’s prescription. And naturally, the doctors would be encouraged to ween people off the stuff. But make smoking material, or nicotine gum, or Electric Cigs, or patches, all FREE. So nobody is cashing in on their sales. And the whole vicious cycle of tobacco advertising and addiction will fall apart. Banning all places to smoke, will just usher in another era of prohibition speakeasies and black-market racketeering. And we’ll have a tobacco war, to go alone with the drug war.
First, you need, you must close the cigarrette factories down. That is the only way to get people that are addicted to it to stop the you can ban it everywhere. They tobacco industry is going to have to find another way to make money without killing our planet and people. I tried to quick but My brain started hurting when I tried but like I said we’ll have to find another habit like chewing gum or something that will not destroy the air we breathe and we’ll have a better chance at saving our planet now. We must ban/ close all tobacco industies down and tell stores to longer carry it and that goes for anything else that is not good for us ban it!! Pass a bill, make a pretition, whatever it takes to stop this. We’ll hit recycling in a big way right after but we most not wait another second, you got the power, act now!!
I’ve heard of those e cigs that are basically smokeless cigarettes. Do you think that they would be a good alternative? Do you think that it would make a difference in these people’s minds?