The trouble with non-smoking junkies is the inability to see the wood for the trees, it is a single one sided view, that gets in the way of seeing the whole picture, while they absolutely maintain their absolute right to live in a non smoking enviroment by banning others who also have rights by the way, from being in the enviroment they wish to be in.
lets put it this way there are 6 people in a room 5 who smoke one who doesn't is it more of a priority that the 5 who do smoke are stopped in favour of the one who doesn't, ,if your answer is yes you are one of the above. if your one of the reasonable people who would take the view that it would be better for the non smoker to refrain from entering the room where the smokers are, you are probably in a minority such is the way the pendulum has swung.
it is a popular view now so it's ok to ban smokers eveywhere so some may get there way in a eventual total ban, the trouble with that is two fold, one the USA tried that with another product called prohibition and that turned out well, second is who's next, the drinker, the car driver, or the caravan owner who holds up the traffic every weekend, won't happen can't happen wait and see. whatever is deemed popular at the time for the few votes to be had at election time.
ha, one would say it is about the kids and protecting them ok so lets explore that, why was pub ban introduced there is no kids there [or shouldn't be] oh forgot one can take kids into pubs now, and therefore exposing them to a much bigger problem, Alcohol consumption from an early age, then there the fast food industry obesity is the fastest growing child problem but there is little incentive to tackle this, together with the cuts in child welfare, and social services exposing the poorest kids to abuse and poverty, yeah we are doing a lot to protect the kids aren't we. at least reducing the risk of a diluted lung full of smoke is something but in the grand scheme of things very little indeed.
so whats next a total ban on smoking in the home yeah good idea, so how does this get policed, by having someone peering into peoples living rooms, to see if there smoking, while the footies on on sat afternoon, or fitting every house with a CCTV monitoring system, to watch people, umm seen that some where before.
it just seems a bit OTT to me, popular it may be at the moment, does not make it right though. I don't smoke and for that matter don't drink either but I would defend the rights of other to do so if they wish, seems the most reasonable approach to me, if you dont want to be with smokers stay away if you dont want to be around drinkers do the same. and let them get on with it, and as such can well distinguish the difference between and Alder and a Sycamore when looking at a wood. and as such are well in a minority with today's thinking.