Date For Smoking Ban Set. *BRILLIANT NEWS*

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I should add I was a very heavy smoker for over 50 years. At my heaviest peak I was smoking 3 packs of Pall Mall non-filters per day. Before anybody asks, yes it took a tremendous toll on my health. But, that is not why I quit last year. I quit soon after I reverted. Not immediatly as I thought smoking was not haram as I knew many Saudis that were chain smokers. It was after a few months I learned it was haram.
 
Khalid_Shariff said:
no isnt it 18
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Nope raised to 21 in most states a few states may still be 18 but I do not know of any. I know I have an 18 year old Grand- nephew in Connecticut complaining about it being 21
 
We recently had new laws come into force here in the Canadian province of Ontario as well. You used to be allowed to smoke in special smoking sections of restaurants. That is now gone.

They structured it in such away to beat most work-arounds too. They attached it to labour law and made it so it is illegal to allow smoking in any workplace. So anywhere that somebody works, you can't smoke.
 
I just did some quick google checking. Although the anti-Smoking laws here started in the 1980's they still are not evenly applied in all States. It seems our Weatern States have the toughest laws.

CONCLUSIONS--No-smoking laws are more widespread than previously appreciated, especially at the local level, reflecting a rapid pace of city government action in the 1980s. Nonetheless, comprehensive laws, which are most likely to provide meaningful protection from environmental tobacco smoke exposure, remain uncommon and represent a major gap in smoking control policy. Laws are most needed in smaller and non-Western cities and in states that produce tobacco and have a higher proportion of smokers.
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Source:http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=1956105&dopt=Abstract
 
I did make an error about the smoking age. It is 18 in most states and it is 18 here in Texas. It is just the preference of the limited stores I go to that do not sell Tobacco products to anyone under 21 here.
 
Woodrow said:
Nope raised to 21 in most states a few states may still be 18 but I do not know of any. I know I have an 18 year old Grand- nephew in Connecticut complaining about it being 21
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up in Maine its still 18 no changes yet
 
Khalid_Shariff said:
up in Maine its still 18 no changes yet
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LOL that explains why my grand nephew keeps visiting friends in Maine. Actually we have relatives up in Crystal, Maine.
 
whoa thats like real up north it must be freazing there i live in maine which is more near newhampshire
 
Now you see why when I returned to the States I headed South.

I did some more Checking Scotland currently has the worlds strictest non-smoking laws and is does enforce them rigidly. With England joining in this will pretty well end Public smoking in the British Isles.

I will say England will most likely be much more effective at enfocing the anti-smoking laws than we do here in the States. But, I do not forsee nor would want any elimination of individual State Rights.
 
It is a difficult question for me. As a conservative, I don't like the idea of the government, federal or state, telling me what vices I can or cannot have. That being said, smoking in public places, meaning restaurants, shopping malls, etc should probably be banned. As long as these new laws don't interfere with what people do in the privacy of their own homes I would probably support it. I voted no immediately as a visceral reaction to the thought of government regulating vice.
 
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YAY! Smokings being banned woohoo! ..
I hope this is a lesson for all my matyes who smoke...^o)
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smokin is a waste of time & money :p u end up lookin lik ur constipated 24/7 so why do it:D

does this ban apply to smokers on d streets
 
Smokers On The Sreet suck!...BIG TIME

Loadsa people get ill via passive smoking, jeez!
 
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