Thank you muchly. Finally someone with sense.

Without reading all the replies here I will say I am a smoker.

I am what you call a part-time smoker if you will, I smoke in the evenings. Because of my job I can not smoke during the day. I started smoking at 14 and If I could go back in time I would do it different.

I agree smoking is bad for you and the ones around you. Smoking is NOT allowed in my home, just to note. But if the Government want to ban smoking as they do here, then they need to offer treatment for the smokers, meaning a rehab. They say smoking is more addictive than heroine but yet there is no rehab for a smoker to go to. A lot of people I know who do smoke want to stop but do not know how, we need to offer a rehab for it. We go through withdrawals as a heroine addicts, we have mood swings and so forth so why not give us the option to go to rehab?

I know I would go.

There are patches and gum and whatnot, and IMO if someone really wants to quit, they can. It's called willpower, we all have it, it is just a matter of being strong willed and not giving in.

Why do you think the government should pay for people who made stupid choices in life? You do realize that the government gets its money from your fellow citizens? Why should your neighbors be forced to pay for your stupidity?

They say a lot of things, I don't buy it.



This is all you need...

Nicotine Anonymous

....and guess what? It's FREE!!!!!!

So will ya'll prohibit all tobacco products? Alcohol too?

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Society is produced by our wants and government by our wickedness ~Thomas Paine

Alcohol is different, as it doesn't affect the health of people around you, just the individual.

Smoking has been played up WAY more than it needs to be. I don't care what is in it, it is the least damaging drug-like product of them all. Even first hand smoking (smoking) takes decades (usually 60 years) until you die, and at that point, how could you honestly claim that the death was tobacco-related. Second-hand smoking doesn't even matter at this point. Liberals just don't like the lifestyle that smoking creates, and when they don't like the way somebody else is living their own life, they attax it.

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Ronald Reagan was not the only one to suffer from Alzheimer's Disease. America did, too.

If someone smokes by themselves, they don't affect your health.

I can see these lazy people banning a lot of things in the future. They cannot make their own choices and don't want anybody else to be able to. A bunch of irresponsible sheep.

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Society is produced by our wants and government by our wickedness ~Thomas Paine

Alcoholism most certainly affects friends and family members of alcoholics.

Oh, and second hand smoke is not dangerous.

They want to have choice when it comes to doing what they want with their own bodies, but not when it comes to your choice to smoke. I smoke. Will it kill me? Maybe. Or maybe I'll get hit by a meteorite and all the cigs I smoke won't make one bit of difference on my life span.

I made this point in a global warming thread, so I might as well make the same point here: We are all doomed. We all are going to die. Let us live our lives as we choose and stop worrying so much about what day the grim reaper has you on his schedule.

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We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity. -- Ann Coulter