NYC to ban smoking at parks and beaches

[cindylou]

keep thinking like that.. u are a cigarettes company's best friend.. u along with a shit load of other naive people

lol. I wish they'd do more to the cigerette companies than to the poor folks who are addicted to their deadly products. Most poeple are addicted before they turn 18. Cigs should be outlawed and people need to be able to go to rehab to quit their addiction imo

I dont get in a tizzy aobut outdoor 2nd hand smoke. I can fuggin move if I want to. I just dont worry about those type of things.

 

[kx250rider]

We shouldn't need to ban smoking in public, if smokers would get a little bit of decent manners and NOT SMOKE anywhere outside their own homes. It's rude, and dangerous, and a lot of other things. I hate the smell of cigarette smoke, and it's so bothersome to me, that I have to speed up and pass anyone on the road who is smoking in their car. Otherwise it gets into my air conditioning vents, and won't go away. Smoke in public is a menace. I hate it when people crowd around the door of a public building, and infiltrate the whole area with the stench. People who smoke, smell worse than BO on a ditch digger in Houston in August, and I don't understand why anyone would want people to think of them in that way, anyhow. And in hotels, It's useless to make part of the hotel non-smoking. The beds and towels still stink of smokers, even in nonsmoking rooms. That's just the way it is. When a whole hotel is nonsmoking, I'll stay there, even if it costs double, and is miles away from wherever I need to be.

Bottom line: I think people on Earth in 2010 are intelligent and informed enough NOT to smoke. Do we also have to pass a law that people shouldn't run bayonets through their lungs?

:: End of rant ::

Charles

 

[stosstruppe]

exactly. car emissions in a city will cause more damage to your lungs than being on the same beach as someone whose smoking a cig.

^ This. Hypocritical politicians telling us what to do ftw!!1

 

[mrplunkey]

I agree that second-hand smoke smells like hell even outdoors.

Having said that, unless you're containing the smoke or in the immediate (i.e. 3 feet away or immediately downwind) vicinity of the smoke, you're not going to get any significant exposure to dangerous compounds. Remember that a smoker is a point source and point source concentrations fall-off cubically (it's the same number of smoke particles, but the space it's trying to fill increases to the third power since it's a volume).

Lung Tidal Volume ~= 500mL = 0.5L

Volume of air around a person 3M away from you ~= 4*pi*3^2/3 = 113L

So you've lost over 99.5% of the smoke particles and the rest can easily be captured by mucus membranes.

Nerdvigs 4 teh win!

 

[Sub-Zero]

keep thinking like that.. u are a cigarettes company's best friend.. u along with a shit load of other naive people

 

[SpyWizard]

The Associated Press: NYC to try banning smoking in parks and beaches

NYC often leads the way to other legislation throughout the US?
Do you want this where you live? Where does this end?

hell yea I want it.. and I want it to end..

People have demonstrated that even when told something is killing them hey continue to do an action..

thus why should they be afforded medical treatment??

With Obama care being funded with public $$$ anyone found overweight, smoking, or binge drinking should have their medical benefits curtailed to not cover the effects that their actions brought upon them..

hows that??

I'm with you when does it stop, the problem is we are going down this road.. why should I have to be exposed to a toxic condition that could cause me harm (proven) by the direct actions of another..

Here's one for ya, how would you feel about a law not allowing a person to smoke in their home unless they are alone in that home..

after all a child cannot escape the toxic environment..

 

[lartinos]

I agree with you Spy. But smokers are being singled out too much.
I think they should be allowed to smoke outside in designated areas.

 

[SpyWizard]

I agree with you Spy. But smokers are being singled out too much.
I think they should be allowed to smoke outside in designated areas.

they tried that here in Minnesota, what we found was that the "designated area" became the entrance to buildings...

so a non smoker to enter a hospital, court house, or shopping mall must 1st traverse a gauntlet of toxic space..

so 1.5 yrs ago they added state and public parks to the smoking ban...

the reason being children are in the area/parks...

I believe the Gov should STFU and get out of my business..

 

[Sub-Zero]

i think vommit and alcohol smell that plagues most crowded bars is worse than cig smoke.

i also think drinking is more detrimental to overall health,

nobody kills anyone while getting behind the wheel after smoking a cig.

i think that this picking and choosing what evils to go after is annoying and rediculous.

 

[nimbus]

for my money nothing beats the crisp toasted flavor of a lucky strike