| Everyday we are bombarded with hundreds of ads of | | | | breathe in the noxious second hand smoke that is |
| one sort or another telling us all the reasons to quit | | | | given off by tobacco cigarettes-but it is also not the |
| smoking, but they aren't always real specific. Some of | | | | right of the smoker to be able to smoke if he or she |
| the more well known reasons are cancer, | | | | desires to do so? Should there be accommodations |
| emphysema, stroke, etc. and these seem to have little | | | | for both? The answer to that depends on who you |
| impact on smokers anymore, nor have they ever | | | | talk to. Smokers say that they should have the option |
| really seemed to. Fact is most smokers seem to have | | | | to be able to smoke in a restaurant after having a |
| the attitude that everyone is going to die anyway and | | | | good meal. Non-smokers believe that smokers should |
| generally dies of something. The air is unfit to breathe | | | | keep it outside or not smoke at all. |
| due to all the smog and pollution emitted by cars, | | | | In Britain smoking has been banned in pubs across the |
| factories, trains, and loads of other things so why | | | | land much to the dismay of smokers and pub owners |
| worry about cigarettes? | | | | alike. Many pub owners have complained that their |
| Many smokers are now finding themselves becoming | | | | business has dropped exponentially since the law was |
| pariahs in this society where once it was extremely | | | | enacted. Some pub owners have made it a point to |
| acceptable, and even cool, to smoke tobacco. Things | | | | allow smoking in their pubs in spite of the law--many |
| have certainly changed in the last particularly 10 years | | | | making statements along the lines of, "It's my bloody |
| though. There is a movement in many parts of the | | | | pub! If I wants smokers I'll have 'em!" |
| world, and not just America, to ban smoking in many | | | | This is a controversy that is not going to go away any |
| public places. Indeed, in America, smoking is banned in | | | | time soon. There are millions of smokers all over the |
| all government buildings and many restaurants now. | | | | world and at least 50 million of them are here in the |
| There is a big movement by advocates to make it | | | | US alone. They aren't going to all quit and taking away |
| illegal for smokers with minor children to smoke in their | | | | their right to smoke would most likely cause a war. |
| car or home. When does such ideas become a | | | | Tobacco companies aren't going to see their |
| violation to the rights and freedoms of individual | | | | businesses crash and they have their lobbyists and |
| smokers? According to many it all ready has over | | | | billions of dollars backing them to make sure they |
| stepped the boundaries by those trying to push such | | | | continue on as always. |
| legislation. | | | | Smokers will smoke and non-smokers will gripe, and |
| Understandably, non-smokers do not want to have to | | | | the beat goes on. |