should Britain ban smoking outdoors altogether?

Yeah, because smoking is a major contributor to air pollution.

B0LL0CKS!!!! How much effect do you think smoking outdoors has compared to, say, car exhausts? It's a stupid, vindictive idea promoted by health fascists who seem to be out of control at the moment.

I have no objections to a smoking ban indoors (even though I am a smoker!). I actually quite like it - I don't come home after a night out stinking of smoke, I don't need to worry about smokers at the next table to me in a cafe/restaraunt. I don't like it in some ways - seeing staff outside shops, even if they are standing away from the shop, looks horrid - but on the whole I don't mind it.

But outdoors ban as well? No chance would I want to see that. The only place outdoors I don't like to see smoking is in kids playparks, but that aside, an outdoor ban would not be good. I can see the point of people wanting it since there are many who are inconsiderate while smoking outside - such as at bus stops etc, but it really doesn't take much to be a bit considerate!

Besides, cigarette smoke is the least of our worries outdoors - car fumes are worse for us than a single cigarette. (I recall one theory that walking along a typical busy main road for 10 minutes was as bad as smoking a pack of 20 in terms of fumes inhaled!).

Seems odd to me that we may be forced not to smoke outside if not more than slightly stupid .

The anit smoking lobby carry on about how someone smoking nearby makes them feel sick yet are quite happy to sit outside a cafe drinking coffee where large trucks and cars not only pollute their space but everyone elses seems a little hypocritical to me .

Just say for example they did stop smoking outside completely where is the benefit and what purpose has been acheived from where I sit none at all I live in a country area that overlooks a city and at the end of the day the brown haze sitting above that city from all the cars buses trucks etc is pretty bad yet people work in that city for eight hours or more each day .

Granted there is visual pollution cigarette butts etc but what about the pollution we cannot see which surrounds us every time we go to a town or city isnt that just as bad.

n Gas guzzlers you say, that's been hashed over and over. As long as people think they need a tank to get to the store, they'll buy one. One lady near us, her and her husband own a large restaurant, she drives a hummer to tow for groceries. A hummer. There are the Ford Expeditions that look like a boxcar on wheels coming down the road. Some of these cars were meant to be used in the great outdoors not in city traffic. Gas guzzlers all. To name a few, the huge Mercuries and the Caddies, as long as people buy these huge automobiles, they'll make them, and poison us with there emissions. Whether they're not suppose to be dangerous anymore or not, they still stink the air up I breathe.

I don't smoke, never have but I don't mind anyone

smoking as long as their second hand smoke isn't blowing in my face and across

my meal. They are aware of the risks and the decision to play russian roulette

is theirs alone.

Just as an afterthought: At my great age 67 I think about all my friends and contemporaries

who have not make it into their sixty's and I would say that 90% of them were smokers who

died from smoke related diseases. I have recently lost a much loved brother in law who died

age 62 from lung cancer and a brain tumour. He smoked heavily from the age of 15. At the

inquest we learned he died from inhaling asbestos dust at the place he worked when he was 22.

So the poor bloke never stood a chance weather he smoked or not (such irony)

Hi.

Look, I am not a smoker, have never tried, never will...but what is the harm with anyone smoking outdoors, as log as they dispose of their cigarette butts.

The first answer is correct, governments make lots of money in taxes/tariffs.

If they were successful in banning them...what is there to say that they will not get into the country illegally, in a cheaper form, maybe with poisonous chemicals (more toxic than they already are) ?

No banning it from inside buildings where there are non smokers is fine, banning it from outdoors is another form of discrimination and intolerance, if you want to go that route perhaps we should ban alcohol but can you imagine the outcry, smokers do not go home and beat their wives, pee in shop doorways, puke in the gutter, start fights with innocent passers by or try to grope any female that comes within reach.

i don't smoke but i think the people who do should be allowed to smoke outdoors, it's not hurting anyone except their pockets and their health. but it's their choice and it should remain that way.

Any kind of smoke? Or just the tiny fraction that comes from a cigarette? Of course not, it's just nonsense.

No, the government makes loads of money out of selling ciggarettes.