You do know the exhaust fumes are more damaging?
Actually, I would think that being hit with a burning object is a little more dangerous that exhaust fumes, and if a person keeps their cars running properly, then that wouldn't be a problem.
Smoking sections really don't work in restaurants. You can still smell the smoke and it still stinks.
Sometimes if I'm at some of the smaller local bars, I have to walk outside because my eyes start burning and watering from the cigarette smoke.
It also makes my clothes reek. I do shower daily, but it really sucks to toss on a hoody that I was wearing the night before and still have to smell the smoke. Makes other people think I stink too.
Either way, both groups of people see it as an inconvenience to them, it's just that second hand smoke as been proven to be bad for you, so it's something that is harmful to the person smoking and the people around them. WV is horrible because
everyone here smokes, and that's only a very slight exaggeration. Out of ten friends(off the top of my head), two of us don't smoke.
It's also shown that smoking bans are not bad for business. The few smokers who choose to stop going out after a ban has been put in place will be replaced by non smokers who were put off from going out because of the smoke. Plus as stated in the other thread, there are people that are allergic to smoke. A guy I went to high school with was walking back from the cafeteria on the campus of a college and got smoke in his eyes. He spent the rest of the day suffering because of it.
Plus it creates excess litter. Most people that I see smoking in cars throw the butts out the window. No one uses ashtrays. And the outside of buildings are littered with cigarette butts because people throw them on the ground, rather than walking to an ashtray. Smoking almost got banned from the government building where I work because people were throwing their butts on the ground and around the ashtray. Once that notice was put out, people started using the ashtrays for a little while.
I think if people that smoked were a little more curteous, then others wouldn't have as big a problem with it. I'm just generalizing there, but how many times do you see some one walk outside of a restaurant and light up a cigarette right infront of the door, rather than walking ten or twenty feet away? It's not a building's obligation to provide shelter to a smoker because they choose to engage in an activity, that the owners of the building or the local government dictate, that isn't allowed in that establishment. It's like saying that since I like chewing gum, every table at the restaurants I go to should contain waste dispensers for me to place my gum in, or else I'll spit it on the floor. Chewing gum doesn't affect other people than the chewer though, so it's not really a good comparison, but you get the idea.
Plus if you quit smoking, you'll realize how bad it smells.
