do you smoke?and do it outside the entrance to buildings .Example airports and hospitals?

I smoke, but i respect other people and their wishes. I am for the ban in resteraunts and public places. Just because i smoke doesn't mean other people need to subjected to second hand smoke. I dont smoke around my children either for that same reason. It's my choice if i smoke - but it's other's choices if they want to be around it or not. Good question!

Eh.

My state has a ten foot law. You need to be ten feet away from the public entrance to a building. At that point, it seems to me that the harm of the smoke in the air is low compared to the amount of pollution that is already there.

The problem with this is that the area outside a public entrance is often the only place with a roof. In a torrential downpour or thunderstorm, for example, smokers either have to stand out in the rain (and be sent home from work for being soaked) or break the law and smoke in front of the door.

This law removes individual rights in an effort to protect the other people from a slight threat.

Perfume gives me an immediate and severe asthma attack. This happens to many people around perfume. Should we make it illegal to wear perfume in public?

After all, I could end up hospitalized from smelling your perfume. Not to mention, there's concern that some of the chemicals in perfume cause cancer. Shouldn't you be banned from wearing it? Shouldn't you, in an effort to protect me, stop wearing it voluntarily?

And where do we stop? A lot of children are allergic to peanuts. Shouldn't you, being the conscientious person that you are, stop giving your non-allergic child peanut butter sandwiches in an effort to protect the other children? Should peanut butter be banned from schools?

As for having a pet, forget about it. Pet owners have pet dander on them when they go out in public, pet dander that other people are allergic to. Therefore, it stands to reason that no one should have pets. After all, they should realize that they're harming other people, shouldn't they?

I just quit smoking but yeah I used to. It's OUTSIDE the entrance, meaning that the smoke goes into the air. Other people would hardly be able to smell it. This guy at Disney World had a baby in a stroller in the only smoking area there and he kept glaring at me for smoking! He could have moved!

Either a lot of smokers are not aware of the harm passive smoking does to other people or they just do not care. The reason the laws were changed firstly here is Scotland was because the numbers of people diagnosed with cancer are rising. I am not a smoker and I do not want to have to inhale other peoples smoke. People who wish to smoke should only be allowed to do so in their own homes so that they are not afflicting other people with their smoke.

The hostpitals in our area have instituted no smoking on the premises or within somany feet from the door. other than that I don't know where YOU live but in my town people are concientious of others around them and hold their ciggarettes up and blow the smoke away from anyone approaching especially children... Do you realize pointless nagging is just as harmful??

Some people just don't care about that. Then again, where are they supposed to go?

in hawaii they made the 30ft rule, if your anywhere within 30ft of a building you get fined.