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Originally Posted by B.A.Ware
What a complete prat, first of all he believes in the ******** about passive smoking, secondly he knows nothing about local pubs and knows nothing about OAPS who visit pubs,if he BOTHERED to do any research 50 years ago most people smoked these are the OAPS of today the very same OAPs who are standing in the freezing cold whether they be at bingo or pubs this guy is a selfish ******* that only cares about himself at the cost of others.
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If you want to be in denial about the dangers of passive smoking, then that is up to you. There is considerable scientific research to show that passive smoking is very dangerous indeed, and surely even your own logical skills can tell you that breathing in a cocktail of highly toxic and carceogenic chemicals is going to be bad for your health.
I admit that I do not have the exact figure of OAPs who smoke to hand, but I firstly dispute that "most" OAPs smoke, and secondly, if we are going to start playing with statistics, research shows that 70% of people in Britain support the smoking ban (source:
http://www.ash.org.uk/files/documents/ASH_597.pdf). Also, only approx. 25% of the population smoke. Now, which is it to be? If we are to go by majority rule, then you will have to concede that the majority of people want the smoking ban, and that as the majority of the population are not stupid enough to smoke, then they should be given priority. If we are to go by protecting the rights of the individual, then you cannot prioritise the rights of smokers over non-smokers because you think that more OAPs smoke than do not (an assertion I dispute).
I will reemphasise what I said in my last post in case you missed it. Non-smokers are not selfish by requesting a smoking ban - all they are asking for is clean air to breathe - not exactly a big ask. Smokers, on the other hand, are asking for the right to pump highly toxic and carceogenic chemicals into air that other people have to breathe. They are so arrogant and selfish that they believe that everyone else, if they want to socialise, should be forced to join in their smoking habit and to pollute their own bodies. On the other hand, non-smokers do not ask that smokers give up their deadly habit, but only that smokers do it somewhere else. Who is the selfish one - I'm confident it's not me.