To think public smoking should be banned

Do you realise that all of your messages don’t make any sense?

Ignorant

Selfish

Poor

Sorry but you're being ridiculous. I say this as a non smoker...

I don’t think it should be banned in public places. If so, people who lived in flats would have to smoke indoors, and if they had children that would be awful. Better that they’re still able to go outside for a fag.

But I agree it should be regulated where people can smoke, and not allowed in any kind of queue or place where people might be sitting to eat.

Who do you think would be able to enforce it? I don't smoke, I hate the smell of cigarettes, weed and vapes - but I avoid at all as much as possible.

Ah,

Just did a search of past posts by the OP, and this explains the OP's 'issues' about smoking. (funny how the OP is 'struggling' with hoarding/OCD etc though, surely ALL 'addictions' can be easily overcome by pure 'will', so I have to wonder why isn't that working for the OP??

OP, are you saying that smokers/vapers should always stay at home to do it, and never be allowed out in public?

And that they are in 'your space' when they are outside/in public?

So you'd be happy to limit their 'freedom' to suit you and your likes/dislikes?

Presumably, from your comments, and, in your mind at least, they are somehow 'less' than you, and are therefore 'ignorant', 'selfish' 'poor' people, and so don't matter somehow?

So what makes you 'better' than them exactly?

You take the bus/tube/train in London, a city that has atrocious pollution levels everywhere, yet you choose to live there regardless of the damage done to your lungs from the ceaseless pollution? In fact you actively add to it simply by living there and using any transport at all ! (except Shanks pony)

Yet you somehow see yourself as 'virtuous' for not being a smoker/vaper 😂
Judgmental much ??🙄Do you drink? Do you travel? Do you work? Do you have gas heating? Do you own leather shoes?

Everything we do affects 'pollution', but you see yourself as 'blameless' and smokers/vapers as the enemy somehow?

Get off your bloody high horse and let others decide what they want to do and where they want to do it ffs ! It's bugger all to do with you what others decide to do with their money/time/bodies.

If you don't want to be exposed to 'pollution/smoke/vapes' then go live in the country/stay at home and never go out, cos no-one is forcing you to breathe anything in, it's you who is choosing to live amongst other humans who do things that you don't 'agree' with?

But no-one is asking you to agree with it, so if you don't like it, then YOU are free to leave, aren't you??😱

Yes this is why I don't engage in activities that would drastically increase my chance of lung cancer and thus hasten my death. I like breathing 😀

No-one wants lung cancer.

We're all going to die though.

I don't want lung cancer. I don't feel the need/urge to.

I’m not a smoker any more but I started because all the cool kids did. I still miss it like an old friend 12 years on.

I guess it was cool in the 80s.

It's very calming.

I'd like to ask non-smokers, how and why you didn't start??

I'd like to ask smokers how and why you started?

Class wars darling.

Middle class botherers. So strivy. So bossy.

Always caring.

I think if you are UMC then you really cannot speak for the majority of smokers - who are of low SES status - and whether they give a fuck or not.

You misunderstand me.

Smoking is now the preserve of the classes who don't give a fuck.

Not sure why your houses or class are relevant? Smoking is predominantly concentrated amongst lower income people nowadays. It is another means of health inequality between high and low income people. But obviously nobody thinks that means no UMC smoke

My Mum was born into landed gentry. She smoked for many years, though thankfully stopped when she and my Dad started TTC. It didn’t really matter what her social class was when she had a miserable, painful death from smoking related cancer.

Upper middle class

@CreamLampshade judgy fuck like you should surely want everyone to die as soon as possible.

Do you want all the people you hate to live forever?

I guarantee you don't.

I used to be an actuary. I did group health care.

We loved smokers.

They will largely die before that take much of their pension.

If there were quite a few long-term smokers in our group-plan, we'd give them a lower quote.

Because they're going to die sooner.

We pay huge amounts of tax. Extra tax.

And we won't be around to piss you off for long. Whilst financing the NHS.

You will be sorry when we're gone...

If you know.

You know.

Absolutely correct. Some people need to work on their resilience. How they used to get on when people smoked on buses, in the cinema etc. I don't know

I absolutely guarantee that if they were smell free that wouldn't be enough for the health police. They need to control what others put in their bodies

NHS maybe but not the wider public finances. Smoking costs the UK about twice as much as it the tax brings in. I’m not even sure these figures take into account the poorer health of smokers’ children which would be an additional cost to the NHS and education systems.

https://news.cancerresearchuk.org/2023/03/07/ending-smoking-could-free-up-gp-appointments/#:~:text=The%20cost%20of%20inaction,20.6bn%20in%20the%20UK.

You do know smokers pay in to the NHS far more than they cost right? You should be grateful