kink

I'm shocked. You don't agree with a total ban because it has a financial benefit but you accept that inhaling nicotine, tar etc causes an addiction which is incredibly difficult to stop without relapse. I'm sure that you would also accept that inhaling these products whether man-made or naturally occuring has a detrimental effect on our health, in fact possibly/probably resulting in death (as illustrated by your not wanting your daughter to be in a smoke polluted environment). But you're willing to allow this to continue....... as long as those that don't chose to smoke aren't affected?
It sounds like you're saying that it's alright for people to damage themselves..... commit suicide if you take the argument to the extreme... as long as there is a financial benefit for the government which will inevitably get diffused to benefit the rest of the country? There's no moral highground to stand on when you're giving something to someone with one hand and then slapping them with the other for taking it

Let me step forward and say......... my name's kink....... and i'm a smoker.
Started when i was 16..... gave up for 7/8 years and started again about 2 years ago. Do i beat myself up over it? No. I'll stop again...... hard as it might be right now..... but i will when it's right for me but at this moment in time i don't want to. Pointless to try.
However..... i'd relish a total ban....... just to see if those who DO attempt to take the moral highground ie the govt are prepared to give up their addiction to blood money. Its the same for pubs, clubs etc who are anxious about losing the revenue that they would lose from not having smokers in their premises....... it will be interesting to see if money talks for them also. I always ask those around me if i can smoke and sometimes they say no and sometimes yes..... either way i'm more than happy to go outside and smoke there... it's my addiction, my pleasure and i deal with it. I live with 3 other people in my house.... i'm the only smoker..... i only smoke in my room even though i haven't been told that i cannot do so anywhere else. It's a case of respecting the lives of other people..... ruining mine is my choice

Apologies to russ if that wasn't the way he intended to be interpreted..... but that's what i read and responded to