In bars sure, but for restaurants smoking sections or outdoor sections should be required, except maybe diners, they often have funs running and it's not that much of a bother.

I love it when the funs are running.

I come from an entire family of smokers..... And I can count out of the 10 or 15 really close friends only 1 doesnt smoke. With that said I feel like I know where they are coming from.

I started smoking myself when I turned 19.... I use to get drunk and found smoking comforting for when I was a drunk and bored. It turned into a pack a day for about 6months. Then I got the worse sinus infection I have ever gotten in my entire life that spread into my lungs to make pneumonia felt like I had one lung that was the size of cellphone, I quit smoking as I lay in the parklot of my work not able to make it to my car. Took me about 2 weeks to just be able to do normal things and about 1 month or more to get back to normal.

I havent had anything like it since... I have had some sinus problems but nothing to it *Knocks on wood* I cant be 100% sure it was the cigerettes, but thats all it took.

Now.... I think every person should have their own right to do whatever they want to themselves. But I can tell when I been hanging out with smokers. Its in my cloths its in my hair, it changes the taste of my food. If I party with my friends I sometimes wake up blowing my nose and smoke filled snot comes out. **** that.

Now with that said.... I realized a long time ago, if i dont allow smoking a decent spot at my house my friend and family dont come over, because they cant smoke comfortable. Which is some bull****, that it controls them that much. They need to make pot legal and people would quit smoking so many damn cigs.

I dont have a point I guess.... Besides I like smokers... but dont like their smoke. Smoking should be done around people that dont mind being around it. Which means other smokers, not me.

There is a huge amount of other options to getting stress relief, however for most of us there is not a lot of options when it comes to transportation.

Cars, while fumes are harmful, are pretty much a necessity for many adults in modern society because of how our lives and our world is organised. A car has always been an absolute necessity for me in maintaining my job and errands, as in all of the countries I've lived public transport has been pretty much non-existent and the suburban sprawl means you can't really not drive unless you want to take hours and hours to do something simple like go to the shops or post a letter.

Plus, car fumes are not really a major problem if you are sitting in an enclosed indoor space where second hand smoke may be a big problem for non-smokers.

Smoking is barely a necessity in my society at least compared to cars... it is true that physiological addiction can be used as an argument but the only thing stopping smoking will do to you is probably make you live longer.

Yeah but i'd get fired if I did that.

I never smoke indoors either.

Agreed! Even in the short term it sucks. Headache, scratchy throat.. and then also smelling horrible.

I can't wait for the day drinking alcohol becomes as socially unacceptable as smoking.

No more drunks shouting , causing trouble , pissing & throwing up everywhere. Police can actually work on proper crimes.

cigarettes are one of the only things that are legal to sell which are guaranteed to harm you when used as intended.

i say ban 'em entirely. the addiction is mostly mental, they'll get over it.

i smoked for 10 years. then i wised up and got over it.
now, 2 years later, i'm disgusted by the idea.

a friendly note to all smokers: you smell like ass.

the more we try to hide our death (sex?) drive the uglier it'll get. i think smokers are a nice reminder that on some level we're all self-destructive.

I'm a smoker and i actually like the fact that smoking has been banned in bars and restaurants here, it's not really fair on non-smokers. Smoking areas have become the best part of bars and clubs here in my opinion. Plus you can actually talk to people without having loud music pumped in your ear and enjoy a cig at the same time. And i've got with 3 girlfriends thanks to smoking areas :)