One of the problems with "Rights" is that sometimes the act of exercising your rights infringes on someone elses. Therefore rights should not be absolute in a amicable society. We need to tolerate. Most of the times, that is what happens although we have demonstrated above that there are exceptions from both sides.
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Originally Posted by Bifta
Er no, I'd use my brain and go elsewhere, mind you, I could then waste loads of time complaining to others that do it on a forum for no apparent reason Besides, you've been told more than once now (something you failed to address) that if you don't like people smoking in a pub, take it up with the landlord because we're excercising our right to smoke in them.
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I don't deny your right to smoke in a pub, I am proffering my opinion that smoking should be banned in public places or at least places indoors. No matter how many "smoking areas" there are, the smoke always travels directly towards my nose and I am fed up of this as I have made a decision NOT to smoke. You smokers are forcing me to smoke, albeit passively. That is an infringement of my rights. You may well say "leave the pub" but that is not considerate or tolerant. As I have said before, my not smoking is not affecting you. Therefore I say that the more harmful of us both is you. Hence you should stop. Alternatively there could be completely separate rooms of which the smoking one should be properly ventilated, but this rarely happens because the landlord relies on the non-smokers tolerance.
As previously stated, my desire for people to stop smoking is because I see the fallible side of people when they have contracted X disease because of smoking. Too many people take their health for granted.
It's very very wrong that innocent people have died due to smokers exhaled 2nd hand smoke, breathed in because they exercised their "right" to go to a pub.