Someone eating sweets doesn't affect you in any way (other through your taxes because of potential health problems they may develop). Second hand smoking does. Not only is it unpleasant, it could actually kill you if you're exposed to too much of it. The person sitting next to you eating candy won't.

Sounds like you!re just rationalizing. That's probably a sign you need all the help you can get to get over your smoking problems 

And btw you need sugar to live even more so for people suffering from Diabetes actually and you could suffer from hypoglycemia. You need vehicles to get where you are especially in a place such as philippines with no good railway system and the weather too can be a bitch. There's actiually a benefit to deinking alcohol for your health. Heck the liver can actually regenerate. THE KEY IS MODERATION.

Smoking does nothing but bad things. I meam we're not talking about medical cannabis anyway.

Again, please read my post. I have nothing against staying in a separate ventilated room and inhale it myslef, untill I have that choic.e I never once smoke or smoked on the street as I do not need a smoke break when I walk. I do on the other hand like a cigarette next to my coffee or beer when I go out in the city in the weeknds. Is it healthy? Fuck no! Is it my choice? Of course.

Hunter_alien basically answered what I would answer.

I would go one step further and say that if smoking should be banned, then so should taking the dog or a cat outside of the house.If we were to apply that logic, there are myriad humans that are allergic to those animals, and having them outside can be harmful to them(by staying too close, or simply because the animals can leve furs on public spaces, like public chairs and so on).But I do wish your friend good health, I imagine that condition must be really annoying.

My point is, banning things that can be harmful to most people is a good, but we need to reach an agreement.If we were to ban things that are only harmful to us, half of the things most people of the world enjoy would be illegal and we would have wars over it or higher crimes, for better or worse.I mean, look no further than drugs.If people already go to all kinds of lenghts to get their drugs(illegal ones), and causes myriad crimes related to it, imagine if Alcohol were illegal?

Im no smoker, never tried it in my life actually, but I do know that there are people that like it and they help them "escape" the bad situation they are in sometimes.Like alcohol and gambling, they are a necessary evil that humans, persons, needs.And limiting it to designated areas(which are few) and to your own house(which you may not6 even be allowed to, since you have a family and all) is simply too extreme.

I get what you're saying. All I'm saying is that in reality most smokers don't behave the way you do. I've been surrounded by smokers my entire life. Hell my parents smoked so much they almost killed me (according to the doctor). I think stricter rules would be better.

Ok than, sorry for my overreaction. I think I got a bit carried away with my post. And yes I do agree. Stricter rules and regulations are a good way to handle the sittuation on a global scale, and there are most deffinatly places where smoking should be considered a criminal offense and fines should be handed, no doubt. Especially when children are involved. Even tough we have an age restriction for smoking unfortunatly few shops actually enforce it :-|

No worries. I know from your posting history that you're a level headed person, so it didn't bother me at all.

Anyway, I just wanted to say that, from my limited experience in the UK, the rules there work quite well. With designated areas for smoking outside airports, unable to smoke inside a flat because of all the mandatory smoke detectors, etc. That's a step towards the right direction. I'm sure it's far from perfect in reality, but it's 10x different what I've experienced in countries like Greece.

I taught that Greece had strict rules as a EU country, arent they obliged by those? I mean there are still some "bastions" in the EU that still allow smoking literally anywhere (Czech Republic). My girlfriend (non smoker) went nuts when even in a a high end restaurant there was actually no separate smokers section.