I have no issue with this. It will only affect people who currently don't smoke.
Why should tax payers foot the health bills for people who smoke knowing its effects?.
Common misconception. The aggregated costs to the taxpayer from smoking - medical bills, providing cigarette receptacles in public areas, etc. ad nauseum - is a small fraction of the tax revenue extracted from cigarette sales. These days well over 60% of the purchase price of cigarettes in Australia goes to the government. For a pack-a-day smoker paying >$20 for a packet, that's over $4,000 per year he pays in tax on his cigarettes alone.
A while back the leader of the most activist anti-smoking group in New Zealand was ranting on a current affairs program about the cost of smoking. The interviewer was the first person I've ever seen on TV who had the balls to stop her in mid rant and point out that the medical costs she was quoting were for treating ALL forms of cancer, not just smoking-related ones.
There's a lot of bad shit said about smoking, and I'll back you up to the hilt on much of it... right after I finish this cigarette.
What about all the children who get exposed to it because of moron parents smoking, i also get fucked right off when walking into the shopping centre through a cloud of smoke because arseholes smoke right out the front.
These things piss me off too. I smoke, but not around my kids, or anywhere my kids are going to be - like the car. And I don't stand in the way of other people and force my smoke on them.
Fuck you smokers stop breathing in my precious air.
Petrol and diesel fumes are far more prevalent, and cause remarkable amounts of problems. When I was younger I rode a bike everywhere, and was constantly breathing in the fumes from motor vehicles. It's not a lot of fun, believe me.
So...
Fuck you car drivers, stop polluting my air.
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