Ban smoking now. (Should smoking be banned in public places?)

Member Name: Kjn123

Product:	Should smoking be banned in public places?
Date:	29/10/09 (51 review reads)
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Advantages: Healthier people.

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This is probably one of the most straightforward issues in my mind.

I grew up with both parents smoking around me and I absolutely detested it and as a result never smoked a cigarette. The smell is abhorrent and more importantly, so are the effects it has on you.

In my mind, the very possibility that a person's smoking can inflict upon a non-smoker potentially life threatening illnesses should make the smoking of cigarettes in public banned outright. There's nothing more annoying than stepping off a train, getting through the barriers and outside the station to be then assaulted with carcinogenic smoke that makes your clothes smell.

It's not even as though I can take reasonable steps to avoid it either - I have to walk out the exit of the train station, there's no other way for me to go. If smoking in the work place is banned on the basis that it's not fair for people to work under such conditions than smoking in public places should be banned on the basis that its not fair for me to live under such conditions.

The main thing that gets me are the counter-arguments - 'Well where can we smoke then?'. How about just quit, it's better for you, it's better for me, it's better for everyone. 'But we need to smoke' - No you don't. Not anywhere near more so than I need to breathe clean air.

End of rant.

Summary: Smoking in public places needs to be banned.