Is pot smoking evil?!

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Originally posted by Sacred Jellybean
Agreed. I actually used to be for stricter tobacco laws when I was younger, mostly because of influence from my mother, but I definitely agree with this (I thought I'd point that out, as me agreeing with Weltaii doesn't happen very often in these arguments ;)). Who am I to tell another person what he/she can do to his/her body when and where? Smoking may be obnoxious to some, but segregation takes care of that.

I remember that my mom used to make this analogy that she read somewhere, "Well, that's just like having 'Peeing' and 'No Peeing' sections in the public swimming pools." That's silly, though... only anti-smoking zealots are offended by the notion that somewhere, someplace nearby, someone is enjoying a cigarette.



It should be up to the establishment whether smoking should be allowed inside or not, not the government. IMO, the most the government should be able to do is force the implementation of smoking segregation in *public* establishments.

We used to have it that way in our town , At a Tim hortons ( donut shop) They seperated smokers and the nonsmokers with a glass room to keep the smoke inside the smoking area, it was a good idea at first,The problem was that circulation inside the glass containers were pretty bad for the smokers themselves unlike a open area the smoke kind of stayed in one spot and accumulated , I used to get a kick and look at how yellow the smoking room was compared to the rest of the place.

Some shops had the smoking located were you had to go to washroom so you had no choice but to suck in that shit to go for a pee.
But all those segregated boxed in smoking rooms costed the stores extra money in sanitation and they had to be constantly renivated, So they decided to ban smoking in public all togther.