Originally Posted by
-:Undertaker:-
The only thing to say is freedom - that, thankfully, society doesn't orbit around what smells and sights you happen like.
Also to declare my interest in this, i'm not a smoker and haven't even tried a cigarette once in my life - yet the responses from non-smokers to people smoking are so over dramatic and exaggerated that it's cringeworthy to read that people could get themselves so worked up over a whiff of tobacco smoke. I find the smell of grotty fast food restaurants, the foul smell of dog poo/dogs in general and piss-soaked public toilets more of a pressing 'issue' if you want to have a campaign over smells in the public sphere.
A great deal of people find homosexuality, modern architecture, religion, dogs, cats, the Labour Party, the Conservative Party, the Sun newspaper, betting shops, ghastly public art sculptures, football, celebrity worship and many other things 'nasty' - should we ban those too? A great deal of the things above aren't to my taste, but make them illegal?
Well that's only a problem because we have state healthcare (the NHS), if we didn't and had private healthcare, meaning you pay for your own stupidity/mistakes in terms of hiked insurance costs, then we wouldn't have to worry about what other people get upto and we could all live happily ever after.
The cause of public health costs isn't too much freedom, it's the fact we're all forced to pay for the select few idiots who don't look after themselves.
