Isn't it great. My city is now going to be SMOKE FREE. What do you think?
109376
Thats great, I wish my town and resturants and workplace would be smoke free also!!
119026
smoking should be banned everywhere, all across america, in every street, near every building, etc
875837
Personally I can't wait.  I spent fifty odd years smoking, and can now understand how my kids must have suffered in the back of the car.  I cannot understand how a whole family sitting on the next table too me would all light up as soon as they had finished eating, Bloody ignorant lot, not bothering about us or their youngster in the pushchair.  We have overcome that one now, we always go in after we know they will have gone. Poor child has got it all the time though.           I know ex smokers are the biggest moaners, but I can also see why,  I wouldn't smoke in a restaurant or cafe.      I gave up after getting up to answer the phone, the answerphone cut in before I made it. My mate thought I had been running, but I had only just got off the couch.When I heard the recording, I sounded like an asthmatic elephant. I gave up ( for the 4th time) the end of August '88 and not stopped moaning since.   \nI gave up the bottle around the same time,     I went to pay for some materials and my hand was shaking so much I couldn't sign a cheque. I made the excuse I had almost knocked someone over.  \n\n                 I'm so good, I start church soon!!!!!!!!\n\nDoubt it will stop many smoking, and this government know it.
842074
Well, as a non smoker and a mother and married to a non smoker it would help decrease the amount of smoke that we all breath in at a closed in public place (it's illegal in my state to smoke anywhere inside, but is still legal to order your dunkin donuts while puffing on a cig in other states). I don't think it will help people quit though. I think it has more to do with people like me and my husband who don't smoke, to cut down on the 2nd hand smoke around us. The law was passed years ago in NY (my state) while I was working the bars. Many many people said that when the ban takes effect I would never see them again. Guess what, the same day the law was passed they were back in the bar drinking and stepping out every once in a while to light up. It hasn't killed the bar industry out here at all. Not one iota.\n\nI think that a lot of smokers make excuses, like calling us Nonsmokers PC (which isn't the case, we just don't like to smoke and prefer not to be forced to breathe it in), they say that we are impeding their rights as a smoker (what about my rights as a nonsmoker?), that they should feel free to smoke where ever they choose no matter how it effects me, my husband and my son. They make these excuses because they are addicted and addicts will make any excuse to do their drug.\n\nSince the smoking ban has passed in NY it has been a lot easier for me to enjoy my expeience in bars. The smokers have no problem stepping out and returning when they are done. But going to the mall it just means that I have to push my way through smokers that gather right outside the entry and exit door in order to get in and out, which I think is very rude of them.
862362
I feel that city officials have the right to restrict the no smoking policy on city owned property, but have no right to restrict smoking in a privately  owned business. That should be up to the owner.\nI am a non-smoker and I'll decide where I want to go. Smoking or non-smoking.
863669
Smoking should be encouraged.  It causes stupid people to die sooner and therefore use up less of my socialist security.
184879
I'm sure you've heard the Bible command about loving your neighbor....right?   Well, would it be a loving thing to add deadly second hand smoke to the air at this festival?\n\nPersonally, after watching my mother die of lung cancer and heart failure due to smoking, and my father needlessly suffer and die from second hand smoke, I am appalled that anyone would even consider using their addiction as an excuse for doing such a thing as you are suggesting!  (Yes, I'm angry!)
782415
It isn't bad!!!  It is wonderful!  I don't believe in cigarettes though, I won't touch those.  But weeeeed......my wonderful wonderful weed.  Those sticky sweet sinsimilla buds.....oooooh, you have me drooling now.....I am drooling all over myself thinking about a nice mid harvested sativa strain.....ooh.....some nice potent, lip smacking.....mwaaaaaahhhhhh......I have to go now.
417271
Hi, I live in Georgia and we are already "smoke free". We cant smoke in any public building. This means, as you said, restaurants, bars, etc. We aren't allowed to take a lit cigarette in grocery stores, laundry mats or any convient store. Also our work force here is the carpet industry, and most carpet mills run 24 hours, 7 days a week. Alot run swing shifts, which consist of working 12 hour shifts. Now even our mills are saying "no smoking" on their property, not even in your own vehicle. If observed doing this you will be terminated. And I'm not even really sure when the voting of these laws were. So I too, would like speak against this issue. I understand non-smokers have rights, but doesn't smokers have any rights at all?
1172380
yes even if you7 are well and smoke quit!
66729
I support non-smoking areas, but if you want to smoke, then I think you should have your own areas. I do however feel that smokers face discrimination every day and state wide bans don't help.
1020244
I'll disagree with everyone.\n\nIt is true cars, industry, cows, etc., take together represent quite a significant pollutant pool.  However, every small change we make helps some.  \n\nIf the millions of people who smoke all quit at once, we would see\n1) less pollution from the smoke;\n2) no pollution from the companies making cigarettes (they would go out of business); \n3) no pollution associated with transporting them to distributors and then to stores;\n4) no pollution associated with driving to/from store to get them;\n5) no pollution associated with driving to/from hospital for lung cancer treatment;\n6) no pollution associated with heating/cooling outside smoking areas;\n\nAs you can see, the ramifications could be significant.
936390
coffee and cigarettes my friend... well it works for me lol
553271
Heh.  That's one of the more amusing and inventive plans that I've seen for the current situation.  :)\n\nI'm not familiar with the tobacco industry, but I assume that you can grow it in many parts of the world, and people all over the world already smoke.
811973
Wow, thanks for that.  Not only did I sign it, but I emailed this to everyone on my e-mail list.  Hopefully these measures can be passed and other cities will follow in their footsteps.  It's definitely a start.  Thumbs up to you.  Good posting.
960882
should be fair for all - i gave up smoking 4 years ago and don't like to be in smokey atmospheres at all now - but that's my choice so i can avoid going to places i know will be smoke-filled.
665734
I am all for the smoking ban. I used to smoke, and even then, when I smoked, I was right behind the ban. It is not fair that non smokers should have to inhale smoke, and I think the arguement of 'well, just don't go into a pub then' is horrible. It is penalising the non smokers, not the smokers! \n\nBut by all means, puff away in your own home. Freedom to do what you want I say, unless it hurts others.