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Salu · 05-12-2003, 12:46

I agree in principle although I think that people should have a right to smoke. What really needs addressing how their right to smoke, effects others when they are smoking. In other words, the passive effect.

I certainly feel that there ought to be a ban on smoking in public places. New Zealand have just done this....good on them.

If someone chooses to smoke on their own in their own house then I have no problem with that. But I HATE having smoke blown over me when I am eating for example. And I really don't appreciate going home smelling of smoke until I shower just because I went to the pub.

I used to be a cardiorespiratory technician and not everyone knows that smoking is responsible for at last 111 different pathologies. I remember one guy who lost his feet then his legs due to smoking. He then had a heart attack but eventually died due to a Pulmonary Embolism. Which is a clot of blood that gets stuck in the blood supply to the lungs. If he hadn't had smoked he probably would be here today...

05-12-2003, 12:46	#5
Salu Inactive Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Yorks Age: 58 Services: VM TV package. VM phone and 200MB internet & slow Tivo Posts: 2,332	Re: ban urged on smoking I agree in principle although I think that people should have a right to smoke. What really needs addressing how their right to smoke, effects others when they are smoking. In other words, the passive effect. I certainly feel that there ought to be a ban on smoking in public places. New Zealand have just done this....good on them. If someone chooses to smoke on their own in their own house then I have no problem with that. But I HATE having smoke blown over me when I am eating for example. And I really don't appreciate going home smelling of smoke until I shower just because I went to the pub. I used to be a cardiorespiratory technician and not everyone knows that smoking is responsible for at last 111 different pathologies. I remember one guy who lost his feet then his legs due to smoking. He then had a heart attack but eventually died due to a Pulmonary Embolism. Which is a clot of blood that gets stuck in the blood supply to the lungs. If he hadn't had smoked he probably would be here today...