Ryuyuki  +  38831 Fri, 23 Jul 04 06:05 AM i agree about not force someone to do something. but, about smoking. if you can't get away that habit (smoking), it's best for you and others if you do that in place where no one have any disagree about your smoke. cause really, the smoke was annoying for some one Ryuyuki Joined on Wed, Jul 14 2004 indonesia Full Member 224 quote of this day : Time, use it best cause it never come back

	sangram  +  39071 Sat, 24 Jul 04 07:46 PM I think smoking should be totally banned. Why we ban so many things in the name of society.. there are so many things... I know this is not going to be easy. And though I myself am a smoker I would suggest that smoking must be banned. What use of people smoking to death and creating a burden on society. And therefore as long as they smoke they will be outcast in the larger society. sangram Joined on Sat, Jul 24 2004 Solapur New Member 03 The rest of the life starts from Today!

	Molly  +  39101 Sat, 24 Jul 04 09:40 PM I agree that somethings has to be done to stop smokers but they shouldn't be treated like outcast. At some point I think the government is over doing it. There is a much bigger problem then smoking. What do you think about drugs. In my country they don't do much against drug-users. I think that they better could put their energy in that. How is that in your country? Molly Joined on Sun, Jul 11 2004 Full Member 166

	haoqide  +  39120 Sat, 24 Jul 04 11:36 PM Mark Twain once said, "My right to swing my fist stops where it meets the other person's face," or something like that. My point is, yes, you do have a right to have a cigarette and kill your body, but you're infringing on everyone else's right to fresh air when you smoke around them. The right to fresh air is a right that harms nobody else; it is part of how the body is designed to work. The right to have a cigarette harms others, and it goes directly against the body because it kills. haoqide Joined on Mon, Jul 5 2004 Nashville, TN Full Member 307

	haoqide  +  39235 Sun, 25 Jul 04 07:00 PM Well, in my country, they do an okay job against drug users, I guess. The problem is that no man can stop the problem of drugs because man can't stop the reasons people get into drugs in the first place (depression, poverty, etc.). I'm not here to preach to anybody, but my religious beliefs (based on the Bible) hold that one day soon God will solve all of the earth's problems and that we'll live like we were supposed to live in the first place, before Adam and Eve messed it up for us. SO, for those reasons, I don't look to man to fix the problems of drugs and smoking. It just won't happen. haoqide

	Molly  +  39397 Mon, 26 Jul 04 07:05 PM The things you'd mentioned are also some of the reasons people want to have a cigarette like depression and stress. I'm afraid you are right Haogide, the problems of drugs and smoking can't be fixed. Maybe a little bit I've heared that some people has quit smoking already. Mayby there is some hope afterall. Molly

	lilbit  +  39447 Tue, 27 Jul 04 02:45 AM I am with you Molly, from what I think and hear, it is very hard to quit smoking. Yes it is like a drug addiction because of the chemicals they put in them. But I think if you really want to quit, I think there are ways. But for people that are stessed and actually whatever, having a rough time in their life, I am certain it is hard. I think there should be easier ways of helping people who really want to quit. But to give them a hard time, it doesn't help with the problem. lilbit Joined on Tue, Jul 20 2004 USA Full Member 202

	Ryuyuki  +  39460 Tue, 27 Jul 04 03:47 AM for myself, i don't really like smoker. cause sometime they din't see around them when they did it, specially in public place where lot of people and children around. beside the smoke itself cause many disease for human body that some of that even haven't no cure. someone who start using drugs usually they have using smoke too. see, it's best for everyone to stop smoking (i guess) but, it's depend to each person anyway hope they choose the best. Ryuyuki

	Molly  +  40308 Sun, 01 Aug 04 03:04 PM Smokers are also people, people with a problem. Whether they know it or not I agree with you Ryuyuki, they could try to consider the people around them. Maybe it has happend to you too "Smoke in your face". Most smokers don't think when they blow out there smoke. More then once I've got it in the face. So I also don't like smokers very much. Unfortunaly in my family there are smokers. What can I do? They are not the people who blow their smoke into my face. Oh no, they smoke outdoors. They need that cigaret. Molly