On most Marine bases I've been on, there is a rule that you must be 50 ft. from any enterance/exit to a building if you're going to be smoking. I smoke like a chimney AND I also use smokeless tobbacco. Long live the tobbacco users...er, as long as the tobbacco will supposedly allow you to live...or something like that.

Smoke, or do whatever....

Who cares?

And do not judge lest ye be judged. (means don't do it, if you don't want others to do it to you) - ok, maybe you know that, but some young people may not know that because they have not been taught anything.

Why do people think it is OK to judge others? I don't think so....

This is ridiculous, how much farther are non-smokers going to push? No smoking in a public building...ok I'll give you the whole restaurant and the whole mall and the whole plane. I'll smoke in the tiny little glass room in the airport that makes all smokers look like some kind of zoo exhibit. Fine. If you're not a smoker, I wont smoke in MY car, or MY house while you are in it.

But banning it entirely? Come on! The air is already filled with chemicals and carcinogens, and you don't complain about that just because you don't get a bunch of propaganda thrown at you every day against air. Instead you blame the smokers that got out of your way and now you want all the space outside too?

This isn't about second hand smoke, because if you don't like it you can move. This is about taking one more little freedom of choice away. Just like with the "trans fat" business and the anti-sugar movement.

Enough is enough.

double post.

Explanation: Yep smoking cost society heaps! [OL is a avid smoker and knows because he's paying for it in more ways than one!]

I did note...

More than two billion fewer cigarettes were smoked and 400,000 people quit the habit since the ban was introduced a year ago, which researchers say will prevent 40,000 deaths over the next 10 years.

So its a time [10yrs] and amount thing [40,000 lives] as opposed to say preventing deaths permenantly... and its a guess anyway as, if say any of the 2012 armageddon scenerio's happen and 2/3rds of earths population is wiped out, then said researched outcome wouldn't be realized!

Personal Disclsoure: Childhood Education and the whole baby thing cost society heaps as well and I would think that since I am NEVER having kids EVER and that they too are a massive problem and don't benefit me in any way shape or form [just like smoking ] that we should have a tit for tat banning! I stop smoking... you stop having kids and compensate me for the ones you have had and I'll compensate you for your medical bills that arise from my smoking! Fair is Fair eh!

Or show me exactly how you having kids benefits me NOW..not in 5, 10 or 50 yrs time and I will then try to do the same with my smoking and how it benefits you right now etc!

Its simple if smoking is banned then literally EVERYTHING that could be harmful should also be banned. Driving, flying, sports, red meat, every "fast food" TV, movies, guns, trains, books, knives, sharp corners, combs, every drug ever made, water, swimming etc

Every single thing you do could kill you. Your question seems crazy now , doesn't it?