Public Cigarette Smoking

^ the problem is that once smoking inside buildings is allowed with certain restrictions, whether you are affected by smokers or not depends on where you sit in the room, whether someone opens a window or not etc. etc.. The *only* way to ensure smoke free buildings is to ban smoking within them ... clear rules which can be enforced effectively.

I know here in Jersey theres been...pretty much a virtual ban of all smoking inside.

I'm a smoker (20 cigarrettes a day or more) but thers's nothing so disgusting as a room full of smoke,

Here the Casinos for example allow smoking anywhere and the rare ocasions I go I rather play in the non smokers area (It's very small).

The law clearly says the public places may allow smoking only if they have areas without solid roof, generally only is alowed in outside areas, but this is dead letter, everybody smokes where they want.

As I have shown in the other thread, I'm not the biggest fan of tobacco. I fully support indoor bans on smoking. I don't want to be affected with smoke in a restaurant or a waiting room, not just because of second hand smoke but just the fact that it's extremely unpleasant. It's not like the outdoors is too far way. It's just a small step and smokers don't have to go too far out of the way for the greater good of all non-smokers.

darkmatter wrote: JJLehto wrote: I know here in Jersey theres been...pretty much a virtual ban of all smoking inside. I like it, just since I don't smoke. I agree, that has made me really happy.  Sometimes, I go to a diner near my house with some friends, and people used to smoke on the left side all the time, and it smelled awful.  But now it's totally clean, and I can't smell a bit of tobacco smoke.

Edited by JJLehto - April 06 2007 at 00:53