Stop your bleating and think for a second, there's worse in the air than cigarette smoke (Should smoking be banned in public places?)

Member Name: Zombietheo

Product:	Should smoking be banned in public places?
Date:	01/11/09 (70 review reads)
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Advantages: none, other than looking cool in a queue

Disadvantages: everything other than looking cool

You want to ban smoking in public places? Are you really serious about this?

Ban drinking in public, ban drinking on public transport and ban anything that affects perception and behaviour in public by all means - maybe it'll make everyone's lives a bit more pleasant.

If you believe that, i have some snake oil which cures herpes. No, really i do. It's a power agent which rips the viral DNA from your own - the only down side is it's massively carcinogenic like Malachite Green or the rising mercury levels in fish and some vegetables which you can buy in Tesco's or your local happy shopper/cost cutters.

I'm equating smoking here with personal freedom. Fair enough, smoking in pubs isn't great for everyone or indeed anyone but if there was sufficient ventilation wouldn't it be okay for a smokers area or does the smell of toasted finely shredded Virginia tobacco offend you so much that you don't realise that the toilets stink to high heaven and that cologne/perfume you're wearing whilst smelling fruity on initial application smells like some sort of 99p air freshener? If you're going to criticise someone for smoking then at least 'check yo'self' before you do 8/10 times you don't realise that smelling like an 'ashtray' is prefferable to smelling like you've rolled around in some chemical nonsense and that lime green t-shirt with purple jeans is equally or if not more offenisve to my peepers.

We don't live in a 'Free Society' that much is fine, if you want to stop people smoking in public places like a high street then you might as well start handing out the red, green and blue jumpsuits and adding some digits after your name. You might want to initiate some segregation and start calling people who smoke Moorlocks because as always, 'vices' will always be rife in poor communities until the rich and the middleclasses acquiesce. My drone name would be, ZT 000069 if i had my way...

If you're worried that you're going to get cancer from inhaling some second hand smoke, you'd probably do well to get some air measuring devices - there's so many toxic chemicals in the air anyway you're better off living in a plastic bubble, in a penthouse dousing yourself with fierce bacterial killing detergents and playing Warcraft for 20 hours a day. Everything around you, from what you eat to what you wear is treated with so many chemicals and carcinogens that you're not going to gain those precious 5 minutes per cigarette back, you're losing them with every breath and every morsel of a saturated fat you jam into your mouth. That cupcake you're so fond of, that's loaded with badness but it's okay, it looks adorable to you. To me and hopefully at least 1/10000000000 other people it looks ridiculous and stupid.

Especially if you're one of those people that claims that E-numbers makes them go crazy and upsets the delicate bacterial fauna in their colon, you sir are annoying.

Seeing as i'm here whining away, if i chose to smoke a cigarette whilst in queue please don't stand behind me and cough and groan and complain about it you stinking fascist. The very sight of you offends me and the sound of you, well, that your honor is why i punched him in the face. He impinged on my remaining civil liberties. The groin stamping? that...I...I stumbled and had to do something to stop from falling. Yes, yes your honor he certainly deserved to be taken from the gene pool. The asinine fool.
Apologies if you take this as a personal affront, but i hope you don't - i haven't a clue who you are and don't want to hear you make a scene behind me in a queue or if i'm having a smoke on my lunch break. That is how i have chosen to take a break, in a god damn park away from everyone else. I don't walk past you and pass judgment on your offensive dress sense so hush your beak please.

peace out and we'll go our separate ways x x zombietheo

Summary: They took down the air quality measuring devices for a reason