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Originally Posted by kahljorn
The idea of the earths air not being as bad as second hand smoke is really dumb, unless you are in wyoming or some shit you are going to be succepted to a billion cars exhaust fumes, along with industrial venting and all that shit. Cigarette smoke is tiny and insignificant compared to that. Smoke goes away very quickly. You are really stupid if you think one cigarette can fill an entire restaurant with enough smoke to cause any negative effects. Everybody inside would need to smoke, and possible smoke on the cieling. Did you know heat rises? Oh.
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Hot air rises. Cigarette smoke floats around; some of it rises, some of it stays right at head level.
There is a big difference between the atmosphere of an entire city accumulating car exhaust and a restaurant accumulating cigarette smoke. I live in Minneapolis, and yes, the air outdoors here is much cleaner than it is inside most of the bars. We have a thing called wind, and many millions of times the volume of air in proportion to the amount of pollution.
Second hand smoke does not kill everyone or maybe anyone. It doesn't cause health problems in most of us. But when you're indoors around smokers, you smell it, and if you're close enough you taste it and breathe it. Some (most) of us nonsmokers don't like cigarette smoke; I find it repulsive unless I happen to be smoking the cigarette (which I do about once a month). There is a reason cigars and pipes are banned in many places (sadly, since they smell so much better than cigarettes), and that is the same reason smoking of any kind should be banned (though I agree that it should be up to the business owner) - it involves one group of people creating an unpleasant atmosphere for the rest of us. I don't care whether it gives me cancer or not, I just plain don't like it.
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