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Originally Posted by scastle
Although I am a non-smoker, I don't agree that the bans we have in place should be extended. Yes, smoking related-diseases cost the NHS about 1.5 Billion pounds. The government collects many times that in excise duty though.
Also, if you are considering banned smoking because of it's environmental impact (polluting the atemosphere for other people), then really, there are other things you need to consider banning (or at least controlling). Cars & Lorries being two examples (petrol fumes have been linked to various diseases and Diesel produces some of the worst pollution, far worse than tobacco).
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I quite agree with what you say about cars, but the problem is that they are neccessary. We should definately be investing in clean fuels, but stop fume producing vehicles and the economy stops overnight, food, water, electricity runs out before very long. Smoking isn't neccessary.
With regards to not banning smoking..... perhaps if you worked in a pub you'd support a ban of smoking in public places. Its all about how it affects us really. Most people are selfish, quite rightly, and if it doesn't affect them in their life they won't have too much of a strong opinion on something.
The laugh is that its much more harmful for a smoker to smoke in a pub than it is for him/her to smoke on their own. There are cases where smokers have taken employers to court because they provided smoking rooms for them at their workplace. If smoking kills you, isn't it abit daft for smokers to actually smoke and enjpy 1 cigarette but breathe in 50 from those around them. Its akin to 1 glass of wine a day as a drinker and doing the damage of a few bottles without the enjoyment of drinking them
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