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Personally I dont smoke ... but honestly i dont care if people smoke or not ... that is a decision that each person will have to make in their life. If they want to smoke that is there decision and in my opinion we should not force people to quit. If they want to quit they should do it in their own time and not someone nagging them to quit.

Life is full of choices ... and we have to life with the consequences of those decisions.

I don't understand why smoking should be found illegal. It's been done for so long now. In Ireland (correct me if I'm wrong) smoking is public is illegal since a few years. That's taking away a right from people to choose a way of life. It's like forbidding to drink alcohol. It's just the same, in my opinion.

Smoking is somthing I think is very bad but i smoke myself so i really cant say anything on the matter but i think it is up the the decision of the person not the goverment yea I dont want my kids smoking but if the do start im going to show them the proper way to smoke and not just let them start chain smoking becuase they were never taught how

eh, in my opnion, if you start making cigarettes illegal, what's next? may just start a chain reaction of banning anything that the government says is bad for you so you can't do it.

Jabberwock wrote:eh, in my opnion, if you start making cigarettes illegal, what's next? may just start a chain reaction of banning anything that the government says is bad for you so you can't do it.

In some countries, the people have a say as to what their government does.

All things being equal I wouldn't mind people smoking, but that's not the case. For one thing there is second-hand-smoke (which I am allergic to), and also in Canada we end up paying for their habit too because their medical bills are payed by our taxes.

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I'm smoking here, but not too often.In my country [Indonesia] people smoke anytime, anywhere.But i dont think smoe is illegal.

I don't think it should be illegal, but I fully support restrictions on where.

With all of the evidence of the harm of second-hand smoke, people who choose not to smoke need to know they can be protected.

Killing yourself with cigarettes is fine. Killing others, not so much.

As much as I hate smoking I hate the idea that billions of dollars in revenue would be lost by making cigarettes illegal. Yes, it may save lives, but imagine the number of people put out of jobs by making it illegal. Cigarettes are a worldwide industry and the US would suffer economically from this ban.

jjrohal wrote:As much as I hate smoking I hate the idea that billions of dollars in revenue would be lost by making cigarettes illegal. Yes, it may save lives, but imagine the number of people put out of jobs by making it illegal. Cigarettes are a worldwide industry and the US would suffer economically from this ban.

Meh. The savings from medical costs for the underinsured who aren't causing themselves all kinds of health problems by smoking would make up for it. If people aren't buying cigarettes, they're going to spend that money on other things, which will create more jobs for those who lose them from the downfall of the tobacco industry. I don't support a ban, but economic reasons definitely don't factor into it in my mind.

I used to work at a health clinic, and my office was right next door to the case managers. I almost had to walk out of the building to keep from giving some idiot a piece of my mind because I overheard them complaining that they couldn't afford a necessary medication because then they wouldn't be able to afford their cigarettes. Yeah, they wanted us to subsidize their habit, and they clearly would be a further drain on the healthcare system once that cancer and everything else starts to kick in.