The Medway Handyman wrote:
dennis@home wrote:
"The Medway Handyman" wrote in
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Please don't assume what I think. I don't wish to share my
cigarette smoke with anyone apart from other smokers.

I am happy to find a smoker that agrees it is wrong to smoke anywhere
the public has access to or where there are any children like
streets, shops, houses, etc.

"anywhere the public has access to". Would that be the smoking
public or the non smoking public? 25% of the UK population enjoy a
perfectly legal activity.

But using your statistics, then the other 75% of the UK population find it
abhorrent - a majority I think (that's assuming there are no fence-sitters)!

And remember, that a non-smoker also wish to carry out a perfectly legal
activity - breathing clean air!

Think about it. If we had reasonable legislation instead of punitive
legislation, we could have specific smoking & non smoking venues.
Therefore 25% of the public could smoke in areas that 25% of the
population has access to.

But you do have legal 'smoking areas' - your own homes!

"streets"? Are you seriously suggesting second hand smoke is a
problem in the open air? Or are smokers responsible for global
warming?

It is a problem in the open air - smokers are polluting and here are some
statistics for you to inhale:

SECONDHAND SMOKE CONTAINS 4,000 TOXIC CHEMICALS
People that breath secondhand smoke are at risk of the same diseases as
smokers, including cancer and heart disease, because secondhand smoke
contains 4,000 toxic chemicals. It is estimated that secondhand smoke causes
thousands of deaths each year.


I see your train of thought. You are suggesting that second hand
smoke in the open air is a serious threat to the health of small
children & possibly fluffy bunnies.

That is a fact - see above or of you can find the time or effort - just do a
quick 'google' and look for yourself - or just in case you are a little
blinkered I'll do one for you

http://info.cancerresearchuk.org/hea...micals/?a=5441

(or a shorter link: http://preview.tinyurl.com/3cmd72)

At what range? Can smokers injure the health of small children &
fluffy bunnies at 10 yards? 100yards? A mile?


That statement shows just how ignorant you are of the facts - if you have
kids yourself and you smoke in the house - then work it out for yourself!


"shops"? Shops are perfectly entitled to apply smoking bans if they
want to. Who smokes in shops anyway?


There used to be many smokers in shops before the ban was introduced - both
staff and clients!


"houses"? Surely people can do what they like in their own houses? Or
would you like to outlaw that as well?


Do what you like in your own home, that is yours - but remember the
children!


Fascist.


So what does that make you? A long term executioner and a suicide candidate
I would say!


When they came for the Jews and the blacks, I turned away
When they came for the writers and the thinkers and the radicals and
the protesters, I turned away
When they came for the gays, and the minorities, and the utopians,
and the dancers, I turned away
And when they came for me, I turned around and around, and there was
nobody left...


That is a *******isation of a disputed poem depicting mass slaughter, and
the use it in this context to justify your own habit really shows how
pathetic you are!


BRG