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Originally Posted by clarie
Any google search you care to do on the effects of passive smoking will show you how the Government is justified in calling for this ban. I don't understand how you can justify allowing smoking in public places. Instead of trying to pick holes in the arguments of the anti-smokers, can you justify to me why you think smoking in enclosed public places should be allowed?
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I am not trying to deny the effects of passive smoking (although I am sure some will). I am merely trying to point out and ask whether this particular ban is really going to make any difference to illness from passive smoking, and as I have pointed out before will have minimal effects on children who can not always make a choice about which environment they are in. If the government is serious about this topic why does it not simply ban smoking full stop, rather than some half-arsed measure that, to my mind at least, is not going to make much difference to illness. The issue is not simply about passive smoking per se.
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Besides as we have said before, it isn't just for health reasons that the ban would be a good thing. The smell of cigarette smoke is appalling. It hurts your eyes and makes your clothes smell. I came home at the weekend after a night out and felt as though I had been smoking myself.
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Not liking the smell is hardly a reason to ban something. Car fumes have the same effect on clothing etc. as you suggest. If I didn't like the smell of flowers and I had an allergic reaction to them does this mean I can rip them up even if they are providing pleasure to others? (Not a brilliant analogy I know but the points the same)