{"id":496,"date":"2007-07-05T08:58:12","date_gmt":"2007-07-05T08:58:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/07\/05\/non-smoking\/"},"modified":"2016-10-28T07:47:27","modified_gmt":"2016-10-28T07:47:27","slug":"non-smoking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/07\/05\/non-smoking\/","title":{"rendered":"Non Smoking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image500\" alt=\"No Smoking\" src=\"http:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/07\/nosmokng.gif\" class=\"alignleft\"\/>I&#8217;m going to start this <del datetime=\"2007-07-05T08:26:28+00:00\">post<\/del> rant with some disclosure. <em>I am not a smoker and have not smoked since I was about 13. And even then it was due to peer pressure as opposed to anything else. I never liked smoking and never saw the point of it.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Now to the issue at hand:<br \/>\nI understand why we must protect non-smokers from passive smoking and indeed the all round general discomfort of being around smoke; it is therefore a good thing that the recent legislation came into play that stops people smoking in built up public places. I hate it when I come home from a night out and my clothes need to be burned and I have to take an hour long shower to clense myself.<br \/>\nI don&#8217;t however understand the level of intollerance that is directed at smokers by non-smokers. It&#8217;s social prejudice of the worse kind and makes me sick to the stomach. Why can&#8217;t smokers excercise their right to smoke and have somewhere to do it? Why can a company not have a smoking room so that smokers don&#8217;t feel like social outcasts when they have to leave the office and find somewhere outside that they can smoke? Why can a resteraunt not provide somewhere for people to smoke? Before you start to give me the issue of not being able to stop where smoke goes and who it affects&#8230; stop&#8230; think&#8230; why not? Why can we not filter places?Surely we have the ability if not the will, to devise solutions to allow people to smoke without affecting people who don&#8217;t smoke.<\/p>\n<p>As always, shouldn&#8217;t we balance the measures that we bring in? Shouldn&#8217;t we protect a persons right not to be affected by smoke but also protect a persons right to smoke? When will it end? the current legislation is still not good enough, if anything it could be worse. I will probably walk past more groups of people smoking on the street than I would have before; that would expose me to more smoke that prior to the new legislation. 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I am not a smoker and have not smoked since I was about 13. And even then it was due to peer pressure as opposed to anything else. I never liked smoking and never saw the point of it. 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