11-21-2008, 01:40 PM
I'm a former smoker, and I guess I'm still all for letting people smoke, because quite frankly if you outlaw smoking because its bad for you then whats next? Fast Food because of obesity? Alcohol *again* because of all the negative effects that "can" be associated with it. Loud music due to potential hearing loss. I mean come on enough child proofing the world if grow adults wanna do something to themselves that causes harm then really you have to let them or when do you draw the line.
That being said, a pregnant woman smoking is digusting. Yes she is a grown woman *most of the time* but she is doing something that is harming her soon to be child. Thus she is not only harming herself but another. Also smoking around kids is just wrong too.
I find it nasty that when I walk into a supermarket, or elsewhere that I have to walk through a plethora of smokers, and their cloud of smoke to get into the store. I take care not to smoke anymore myself, and thus my children aren't smoked around and I have to bathe myself in that lovely aroma to obtain groceries. Ew.
Okay fine don't outlaw public smoking *refer to my first paragraph* but at least set the allocated smoking area far enough out of the way so that those of us who are wanting to avoid second hand smoke can do just that avoid it.
I learned in a political science class something that made sense to me: My rights end where yours begin. As long as enjoying my rights do not infringe upon yours everything is okay. Its when my rights start to inhibit your ability to enjoy/persue yours that there is a problem.
That being said, a pregnant woman smoking is digusting. Yes she is a grown woman *most of the time* but she is doing something that is harming her soon to be child. Thus she is not only harming herself but another. Also smoking around kids is just wrong too.
I find it nasty that when I walk into a supermarket, or elsewhere that I have to walk through a plethora of smokers, and their cloud of smoke to get into the store. I take care not to smoke anymore myself, and thus my children aren't smoked around and I have to bathe myself in that lovely aroma to obtain groceries. Ew.
Okay fine don't outlaw public smoking *refer to my first paragraph* but at least set the allocated smoking area far enough out of the way so that those of us who are wanting to avoid second hand smoke can do just that avoid it.
I learned in a political science class something that made sense to me: My rights end where yours begin. As long as enjoying my rights do not infringe upon yours everything is okay. Its when my rights start to inhibit your ability to enjoy/persue yours that there is a problem.