Until there is a scientific case that shows a considerate amount of people are getting lung cancer by passing and/or seeing people smoke as you enter buildings, all of these smoking bans must be motivated by personal preference. Media that says, "MAY be harmful or contains harmful substances doesn't resolve the issue". Words like MAY and COULD and CONTAIN only get eaten up by biased people who have no regard to hard facts. If second hand smoke outside was so health damaging a science case would be in place providing such facts (like 80% of cancer patients who are non-smokers got their cancer by passing by smokers on the way to work) HOWEVER THERE ISN'T ONE. With the loads of money and research on the subject in the last 10yrs, there will never be such a FACT unless it is warped twisted and completely falsified. THIS IS NOT A DEEP THOUGHT process. We all know passing by smokers is not going to cause us to go gabbling to our knees 5yrs later in dying pain.
Your case of smokers are killing us has no weight, thus it seems you are taking away rights of other people based on your own personal preferences..... And yes, it represents a Hitler movement where prosecution was done in result of prejutism.
Enforcement of smoking ban should not come as surprise
Until there is a scientific case that shows a considerate amount of people are getting lung cancer by passing and/or seeing people smoke as you enter buildings, all of these smoking bans must be motivated by personal preference. Media that says, "MAY be harmful or contains harmful substances doesn't resolve the issue". Words like MAY and COULD and CONTAIN only get eaten up by biased people who have no regard to hard facts. If second hand smoke outside was so health damaging a science case would be in place providing such facts (like 80% of cancer patients who are non-smokers got their cancer by passing by smokers on the way to work) HOWEVER THERE ISN'T ONE. With the loads of money and research on the subject in the last 10yrs, there will never be such a FACT unless it is warped twisted and completely falsified. THIS IS NOT A DEEP THOUGHT process. We all know passing by smokers is not going to cause us to go gabbling to our knees 5yrs later in dying pain.
Your case of smokers are killing us has no weight, thus it seems you are taking away rights of other people based on your own personal preferences..... And yes, it represents a Hitler movement where prosecution was done in result of prejutism.
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