Posted on 11/23/2010 9:40:53 AM PST by therightliveswithus
Do you believe that the government is already intruding too much into your life? Well, 17% of Americans believe it is not enough. According to a new poll, 17 out of every 100 Americans believe that the government should outlaw smoking all together.
While the 17% is down from a poll taken in late 2008, which showed that 22% were in favor of a ban, the amount of people who want smoking banned is still astounding. If 17% of Americans truly want smoking to be banned, based on the U.S. population, that would mean that over 50 Million people are in favor of such government action.
Despite this number, however, the vast majority of Americans do not want smoking to be banned. 72% believe that the government should not make smoking illegal, while another 11% are not sure.
The article goes deeper, stating:
"Nineteen percent (19%) of non-smokers like the idea of a tobacco ban, compared to just 11% of those who say they currently smoke."
(Excerpt) Read more at punditpress.blogspot.com ...
I will admit, I’m glad smoking has been banned in bars/nightclubs in our state. It is so nice to go in now and not be in an enclosed area choking on second-hand smoke, which, by the way, increases even non smokers’ risk for lung cancer. I definitely feel it should be banned on airflights and any enclosed areas. Smoking CAUSES cancer. It’s not just an association ...it’s a cause.
As a nurse, I see everyday what smoking does to people — and many of those people are hospitalized on your and MY dime for the sequelae of heavy lifetime smoking. It’s really not a healthy habit. I’m for freedom — but your rights end where mine begin kind of thing. I prefer not to succumb to lung cancer and/or COPD if I don’t have to. I’ve already got bad lungs just from growing up around my Dad who smoked like a fiend and died at 63 due to small cell lung cancer — a cancer heavily associated with cigarette smoking.
This is the one issue I’m with liberals on. The ONLY one.
67% want to see O’boozers long form BC.
Sorry for the double post.
I wish the would ban them, then maybe there’d be a black market and I could get them for less than $6 per oack.
I wish the would ban them, then maybe there’d be a black market and I could get them for less than $6 per oack.
Isn’t the “rampant smoking in the streets” brought about by the ban on smoking indoors in NYC?
Another example of the law of unintended consequences.
And when the ban you advocate “bringing on” results in yet another avenue for organized crime to proliferate as history has shown over and over will occur, along with the commensurate expansion of government to “fix” that problem?
I’ll only assume they want to include pot in that ban too.
I have a coworker who is a loyal Republican. If you left it up to her, she’d ban all smoking and drinking. A few decades ago she would have banned movies and dancing.
Yes. It’s a coincidence. There are plenty of Republicans who want to control your life. They just want to control different aspects of it. There are also plenty of libtards who want to smoke.
Easy fix. Don't go to smoke-filled restaurants. It's not your property. If you don't like what they're doing on their own property, go buy your own place or go to a place that offers what you want. Oh wait. You're forcing your choices on everyone else by force of law.
Smoking CAUSES cancer. It’s not just an association ...it’s a cause.
Another easy fix. Don't smoke.
As a nurse, I see everyday what smoking does to people — and many of those people are hospitalized on your and MY dime for the sequelae of heavy lifetime smoking.
Easy fix. Stop paying for their hospital bills.
If we followed that rule, people get the right to make decisions for themselves and pay the full consequence for their own poor decisions. It's called freedom. It's an idea that's been around for a while.
“There are plenty of Republicans” but not conservatives.
That is why we must clean our own house. We need to educate
these types that you described in the error of their ways
or push them out of our brand. Let them become spineless
independents or something. Freedom is always the goal of
the individual, our founding fathers did all they could
do to give us that. We must promote it and protect it.
Why were there no smoke-free bars or night clubs before they were banned?
Where do the rights of the club owner end? After all, you are in HIS (or her) establishment.
With your vehemence on this issue, I seriously doubt this is the only place where you side with the jerks, LisRJerks.
I will give you a little credit for making it clear to all that you are one -if not the- biggest idiot on FR. Even a liberal would be hard pressed to achieve your high level of over-dramatic, emotional wussiness.
Is it possible that you are misinformed about smoking? Are you aware that the study they used to discredit second hand smoke was statistically flawed just to get the results they got? Sort of like the phony global warming data. Are you aware that not all people who die of lung cancer are smokers nor were they exposed to excessive amounts of second hand smoke? John Hopkins University Hospital conducted a study of their patients who had died of lung cancer. Those who had smoked at least a pack of cigarettes a day for at least 25 years and then quit, died at a higher rate than those who continued to smoke. Do you want to kill more smokers? Are you aware that there are more studies that concluded that tobacco is good for you, not just not harmful but good for you, than those few that say otherwise? Are you aware that until recently most life and health insurance policies penalized with higher premiums only those who smoked cigarettes but not those who smoked pipes and cigars? It seems that it is the chemicals in the cigarette paper rather than the tobacco what is harmful.
I think many people would ban the eating of liver because they do not like the taste or smell of it. They think it stinks. Should restaurants be prohibited from having liver on the menu because of those people?
The most offensive people I have to suffer are:
—Women who douse themselves in perfume
—Grossly overweight people—I hate looking at them
But it would never cross my mind to “ban them” or their activities—guess I am just one of those crazy loonertarians. :-(
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