Nostra wrote:Cole wrote:Nostra wrote:So ... if I dont drive a car, ... could you all please take your verhicles somewhere else ? its bad for my lungs
Smoking unlike driving (I don't drive btw) isn't something required for many people to go from a place to another. In fact, smoking is quite the unneeded thing and you can perfectly live without doing so. You can say same for cars, but I would tell you that many jobs require it. I would agree something must be done with pollution of cars though.
One could can walk there, take a bicycle, an electrical train for all I care, a job closer to home perhaps ... lots of reasons, all are personal choices
Laws like these cut down severely in the personal 'needs' of people who do like to smoke. Whats next, forbid drinking in bars ?
What you say is indeed doable in the center of capitals/big cities (they do that in Amsterdam center), but when you live far from your work (suburbs, countryside, mountains...), you don't really have a choice. It would require to have a much more dense public transport infrastructures to be doable in a country scale. Imagine the spendings...and the taxes to have it paid. Yummy?
Why would we forbid drinking in bar? Drinking is drinking, whether it's soda, vodka or water, and the only troubles it causes to the world outside of self are the behavior not the damaging of air (that I remind we must all breath), THUS fact in many countries you cannot drive while drunk, and can get arrested if you act like a -drunk- fool.