by Tammy Wages

Created on: January 11, 2007   Last Updated: June 29, 2009

First of all let me start by saying that smoking is a disgusting habit! Not only is it disgusting, but it is irrefutably dangerous to those who choose to have this habit and even more so for those who choose NOT to have this habit. I don't understand why our government doesn't take this more seriously. If a person chooses to smoke and knows all of the risks they are taking on with this habit, then so be it. But for the government to allow these risks to be forced upon EVERYONE is absurd! There are hundreds of ads out there and thousands of studies done on the health risks of smoking both for the smoker and the non-smoking innocent bystanders and yet the government still chooses to believe that all these studies and deaths are somehow wrong. The fact that hundreds of people die every year due to second hand smoke, including Mrs. Reeves, still does nothing to make the government take action against allowing smokers in public places! At the VERY LEAST the government should ban smoking from ALL INDOOR ESTABLISHMENTS as well as from their front door areas. If a smoker isn't allowed to smoke inside of a building then they shouldn't be allowed to smoke in front of the building either. Public smoking should be regulated. There should be a "smokers section" to all buildings, either on the side or in the back of the building, where customers or other employees will NOT have to forcibly encounter. The fact that smoking is being banned from inside most buildings is great, but if they are allowed to smoke outside the building in front of the door and the innocent are STILL having to come in contact with the smoke, then we are only half the way there! By allowing smokers to smoke where innocent babies, children, pregnant women, elderly, asthmatic, innocent people are coming and going from is like asking those same people to play Russian Roulette! Some of them may be killed by it and some of them may not. So I ask is this how our government wants us to deal with public smoking? By playing Russian Roulette on a daily even hourly basis? Maybe when more of their non-smoking, innocent loved ones are affected by this outrageously absurd way of thinking and living then MAYBE something more effective will be done about public smoking!

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