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Should smoking be allowed in public places?
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Results so far:
| Yes | 40% | 3324 votes | Total: 8332 votes | |
| No | 60% | 5008 votes |
Yes
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by Gary Maclean
Created on: February 25, 2008 Last Updated: February 11, 2012
There is one very interesting complication to the question of whether smoking should be allowed in public
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by Lea Miller
Created on: May 22, 2010 Last Updated: August 21, 2010
If we define "public" places as anywhere that more than two people get together for some purpose because
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Created on: July 01, 2007
The debate over where smoking should be allowed and whose rights matter more and how to settle conflicts
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Created on: February 12, 2008 Last Updated: February 04, 2010
Having given this article's question much more thought I have changed my mind concerning smoking in
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Created on: June 13, 2007
I think that the personal freedom of the smoker is just a valid as the freedom of the non-smoker. When
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Created on: August 16, 2007
Here where I live, in Kingston, Ontario Canada, Smokers are treated like felons. Personally I believe
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by SPARTACUS
Created on: August 06, 2007
I am NOT a smoker. Yet I'm still on this side of the fence, I think that the smoking ban in public places
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Created on: August 29, 2007 Last Updated: May 05, 2012
When I was seven years old an older sister thought it was cute that I could take a drag, inhale it and
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Created on: August 08, 2008 Last Updated: January 08, 2010
It is amazing how like so many other things today, a handful of people are able to 'force' restrictions
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Created on: December 08, 2008
I believe strongly that smoking should be allowed in public places but "public places" need definition
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by R.A. Scott
Created on: February 04, 2008
Allow me to state my prejudices up front: I quit smoking 8 years ago. Now I find the smell of cigarette
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Created on: September 07, 2008
I am a cancer survivor of 2 years now. I had head and neck cancer known as Nasopharengeal cancer. I
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Created on: December 22, 2008
A Word from Europe: The smoking ban so far in Amsterdam
Let's shed a new light on the topic of smoking
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Created on: October 18, 2007
It amazes me how quiet the American public gets when it comes to the government taking away our rights,
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Created on: September 11, 2007 Last Updated: February 26, 2009
Should smoking be allowed in public places?
While it is one's constitutional right after a certain age
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by Dan Rooney
Created on: October 13, 2007
The idea of a smoking ban, implemented by the government in an astonishing display of fascism, is down
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Created on: March 27, 2011 Last Updated: March 29, 2011
Cigarettes have tax on them and the tax goes to building and fixing public places. It's insane that
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by Janet Fields
Created on: February 08, 2008 Last Updated: July 11, 2010
America has always fostered both individual rights and freedom of choice. Previous generations of Americans
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Created on: September 06, 2007
Let me start by saying that I am a NON smoker, can't stand the smell of it and don't want it near me.
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Created on: May 17, 2008
It is rather easy to jump on the bandwagon, and persecute smokers. It is rather safe to stay in the
No
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by Ted Lee
Created on: July 20, 2007
In 2001, the United States alone reported approximately 440,000 deaths a year from diseases and conditions
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Created on: January 21, 2011 Last Updated: January 31, 2011
There are over 400 toxic chemicals in every stick of cigarette (Peter, 45). Ingredients that are used
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Created on: May 24, 2007
Should smoking be allowed in public places?
This question challenges our concept of personal freedom.
Most
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by T J Neale
Created on: January 14, 2008
In our liberal societies we normally only curtail individual liberty if there is a good reason to do
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Created on: August 31, 2007 Last Updated: November 13, 2008
Of course not. Smokers know that in public places, there may be babies, children, pets or just normal
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by Acacia Jane
Created on: July 29, 2007
Smoking should not be allowed in public places, because public places should be open to all members
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Created on: January 08, 2008 Last Updated: April 23, 2010
Freedom. We all enjoy the freedoms we posses, but have you ever heard the expression: The freedom to
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by EL Snow
Created on: February 09, 2008
As a spouse to a smoker I understand the desire to smoke say after a meal, or when you are anywhere
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by Paul Kemp
Created on: November 07, 2007
The rule I go by is, "Your right to smoke ends where my right to breathe clean air begins."
No non-smoker
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by Eiregirl
Created on: February 13, 2008
Poor smokers. It's hard to have a habit that is increasingly relegated to the fringes of society. Why,
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by Steven Newit
Created on: March 04, 2011 Last Updated: March 05, 2011
Smoking in public was once a social grace. Bogart left us an iconic image of a gangster in a hat, scowling
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by Bobby Brown
Created on: May 09, 2009 Last Updated: November 12, 2011
The First Amendment to the United States Constitution guarantees a person the right of freedom of speech,
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by Alex Cull
Created on: September 03, 2007
Should smokers have the right to buy tobacco, to light up and indulge their addictive hobby? Absolutely.
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Created on: June 19, 2009 Last Updated: June 20, 2009
People have the right to do whatever makes them happy, as long as it is within the law and not infringe
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Created on: October 31, 2010
I firmly believe that cigarette smoking should be banned. Not only should it be banned from public places,
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Created on: September 12, 2007
With the Fifth Commandment, the Creator forbids his people to wilfully destroy life, either their own,
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Created on: February 21, 2008 Last Updated: May 02, 2012
In November 2003, the Center for Disease Control (CDC), reported that "using data from national health
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Created on: August 12, 2010 Last Updated: August 25, 2010
There has been a dramatic shift in the public landscape in the last few decades in regards to smoking.
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Created on: May 24, 2007
Absolutely not! Smoking, or should I say "conscious suicide," is a personal choice. It should not be
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by Cyd Madsen
Created on: March 07, 2008 Last Updated: April 27, 2009
Before we can even discuss whether or not smoking should be allowed in "public places," we have to define
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