Smoker v non smokers?

there always seems to be a debate going on about non smokers hating secondhand smoke and banning smoking in pubic places, and smokers generally saying they should be able to smoke anywhere and so on.

but how many smokers and non smokers drive and we all inhale the toxins from cars, lorries, taxi's, buses and alike but you don't seem to see many people complaining about that( that i have seen)

what is your veiw on it

I was a smoker until March 5th this year. secondhand smoke isnt very nice at all. I think banning smokers from smoking on the underground, buses etc is right for safety and the banning of smokers in places that sell food or where there might be lots of kids can be understandable even by smokers but to ban smoking in all public places I think is daft!
It's a good point about the toxins from transport thats doesnt really bother me as your not in one place for more than a few minutes at a time and you have the fresh air around you (well as fresh as you can get) I think this is a very good question. Well done.

There are two main differences:

(1) Cars have a much greater utility. Even if they were giving us cancer, we would still need them because we have to get around. We get a lot of use out of cars. Cigarettes have no use. They are only a benefit to people who are already addicted to them, and we want those people to stop anyway.

(2) I haven't seen any studies saying that car exhaust gives cancer. It smells gross but as far as I know the amount we encounter in daily lives doesn't make us sick. Maybe this is because it just doesn't have the carcinogens like cigarettes, or maybe it's because you're usually a lot closer to a person's cigarette than you are to the exhaust pipe of a car. For whatever reason, I don't think we have any good reason to think that cars are making people die (except from collisions of course).

As a smoker I can understand why non-smokers hate us! But sometimes they go too far in their preaching and if it's outside in the open then don't complain about it.

Well i'm a smoker and I'm from Ireland we banned smoking in public places a few years back so you cant smoke in pubs, bars, restaurants, shops anywhere like that and I think its the best thing to ever happen even though I smoke

Hmmm, out of all the technological advances that have been, the car will be up there in probably the top 20.

The cigarrette on the otherhand is pointless.

Sounds like the sort of argument a smoker would use, the smoker that drives a car just as everyone else does, so also the argument is pointless.

Stop whining and go smoke outside...

I don't like second hand smoking and I can't wait until next year's ban in London! But I also complain of pollution and am now considering wearing a mask when going into work, just like the Asians do. I don't care if I look silly, my lungs are precious to me! And I'm pro public transport and against people who use their cars to drive down the road!!!

Good points, as toxins are prevalent in all our cities through cars, taxis and especially from buses and lorries, whose carbon monoxide production until recently was a major source of breathing difficulties. Then throw into the mix the vast quantity of household 'air fresheners' and other man made chemicals we dump into the air around our homes and the picture becomes even more confused. However, one thought did occur to me reading the question: 100% of non-smokers die.

I heard some reports say that second-hand smoke kills faster than those who smoke...Guess that's y non-smokers are pissed, but like my friend says: If that's the case, here, grab a cigarette

it is nothing but pollution vs green revolution.

I think most people see a vehicle as a necessity (so no one is really going to complain) whereas smoking as something that doesn't have to be done. We do breathe in toxins from other sources but I (as a non smoker) find the smell of cig. smoke awful and irritating. Smoking tends to be more annoying to me because it occurs in places (work, food places, homes, cars) where I am confided...I can't just leave so I have to endure the smell.

I am a smoker and banning smoking in certain areas is cool with me. Cars are the number one polluter and yet that issue seems to slip by. My biggest problem is these people who see that I am in a designated smoking area and still sit down next me and then get offended becuz I am smoking Hello Why should I move.

Personally I prefer the smell of petrol fumes to the stench of cigarettes.

Not many people run a petrol engine on the table next to you in a restaurant, or in a bar when you're having a drink, or outside the doors of an office building so you have to walk directly through the fumes, or inside a hotel room so that you can still smell it the next day.

Ideally of course we wouldn't have petrol fumes or cigarette fumes but lets start by getting people to keep their stinking cigarette smoke to themselves. I wouldn't F A R T in your face, why do smokers think it's OK to blow their stench into mine?

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Well if more people could afford gas saving cars or electric cars then I bet people would try to use those more, and when you have children in a restront and some one is smoking next to them,that if disresectful and not every one wants to be around second hand smoke, and smoking is more in your control than you income.(In other words you can't always control what car you want to buy and how it would help polution and toxins.)

i am a smoker. accommodations are made everywhere for non-smokers. if you don't want to be around smoke, don't sit near the smoking section, and don't go to bars. if i make someone uncomfortable, tell me. i try to treat people as i would like to be treated. i usually have more than one cigarette on me, so i don't mind putting it out or moving.

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this is tough question, i need a Cigarette now..
u see you made me smoke..

to tell you the truth one day we are all gonna die whether we like it or not i am a non smoker if smoker wants to kill them selves Little bit earlier their problem, the next one is if they want to give their money away to the manufactures of cigarette fine by me cause they are not getting mine as to second hand some if you don't like the heat get out the kitchen,which basically means you can always move;

im a smoker and i think they shud ban smoking full stop! its minging and i dunno y i do it...stress i spose but i want every1 to stop! actually nah wat wood i do with the other hand while im drinkin :) smokers unite!

the worst of the non smokers is the ex smokers
jumping on a new band wagon
i am a smoker but a very considerate one i do not smoke where there are non smokers unless i ask them if they mind first

in our state they are fixing to make most of the places i go to non smoking so there for i will not go there anymore

i think where ever you go you should have a choice

The difference is this - as a non-driver, or someone who doesn't want to inhale car fumes, I have a choice and while there are cars everywhere, I can go into a public place and enjoy myself without having to breath in exhaust fumes.

As a non-smoker, until the ban in Scotland, if I wanted to go into a pub or restaurant, I wasn't given any choice whether or not I had to breath in second-hand smoke. People don't take their cars EVERYWHERE, it is possible to go places where there are no exhaust fumes. That wasn't really the case with smoke.

What the f*ck has transport-related pollution got to do with smoking? Smoking is an unpleasant habit inflicted by selfish low class people on innocent bystanders and has no redeeming features whatsoever. As for driving, we need to get places, and I've been knocked off my bike more than once so don't tell me we should not use hydrocarbon-consuming transport such as buses, cars, trains and planes. Try getting to another country without flying or using the channel tunnel when you are not a yacht owner or David Walliams.