I agree.
The UK however, has it good compared to alot of US states such as Cali. LA has notoriously poor air quality and people moan about fag smoke. Get a grip I say.
I was once sat in a cafe bar, on the Gloucester Rd, a busy A Road with huge amounts of pollution. There were two young middle class girls both with small children. I lit a cigarette and they came over to me and said 'You really are a nasty piece of work, my daughter was born with a collapsed lung, she can't breathe smoke from your disgusting mouth'. My response was calm 'if your daughter is in poor health because of a collapsed lung, may I suggest 3 things'
'Go on, I love listening to obnoxious smokers trying to justify their suicide'
' 1. take your child out of the smoking area, 2. Listen to the weather report, there is a pollution warning out, and it strongly reccommends that people with ailments of the respiritory system do NOT go outside, because it can irritate symptoms, 3. If your child being exposed to dirty air bothers you, go and live on an island somewhere'.
' She stood there and looked at me for a minute and said 'there's a smog warning'?
You see, people pick on smokers because they are encouraged to do so by the NHS, true think-for-yourself types draw their own conclusions, only idiots listen to the TVs opinion on everything.
30% of the UK smoke, NHS and other healthcare names try to say its less, but all independant surveys show 30-34%. 30% is not to be sniffed at, its a fair whop, 20 million people, the can't do anything more because people would just use that beautiful 2 letter exclaimation, 'no'.
Think, who is crazy enough to ban smoking from beer gardens? The whole point of them these days is to provide seating for smokers. If they did this, there would be massive outcry and it would have to be U-turned.  |