Smoking as a Public Health Issue

[Armadegon]

Originally Posted by Wlfwnd91

These are the most biased idiotic arguments I've heard >.< I think only 1 or 2 people in here have made any logical argument to serve their point, as opposed to "It's just stupid".

Second hand smoke is only damaging in large quantities, walking by someone in a park will NOT have an effect. There's cilia in your lungs that work on protecting them from those kinds of things. The only people I worry about are the kids who have parents who sit in the living room and smoke a pack a day, or something like that. And the second-hand smoke as an annoyance when you're walking behind someone or something? Come on, there's little annoyances everywhere, if we were to outlaw everything that annoyed a few people, we'd have nothing left. There's a difference between annoying and fatal.

Yes there is a difference however that line is very slim. Also this isn't just about people in the United States who have enough money to buy a house and mantain a reasonable standard of living. Think of that poor chinese hobo who sleeps in a cardboard box. If the guy in the cardboard box mext to him smokes he is exposed to it every day and can not do anything to get out of that situation. anyway think of the fire hazard that poses.