Stealing Cigarettes

[Zakath]

It has been demonstrably shown that second-hand smoke has serious effects on those who are exposed to it for long periods of time, often in situations where they have no choice. Smoking tobacco is quite frankly stupid, as well as being a menace to society. We have laws against driving while drunk, why not laws against smoking in the company of other people? I wonder if people might take the hint if they were no longer allowed to smoke in their homes or on the streets.

[j0k3r]

It is a person's choice to smoke or not.  Everyone should have the option to kill themselves slowly or not, it's not the government's business to destroy something that people like to do.

It is my choice not to smoke. But wait, this guy that just walked by me blew smoke in my face, which I inhaled, giving me lung cancer and causing me to be sick, die, and cause grief to my family and friends.
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It is my fathers choice not to smoke (who pays the bills in my family). But wait, this guy that just walked by me blew smoke in his face, which he inhaled, giving him lung cancer and causing him to be sick, die, and cause grief to my family and friends, and also forcing my family onto welfare, making me drop out of school to work and sending my sister into prostitution. Oh my grandparents just died from grief too.

If someone does die from a single instance of second-hand smoke I'd have them arrestted for murder.  BUT, since it is very impractical that someone could die from just one instance, unless they had asthma or another lung problem, of second hand smoke.

One person was not the point I was tring to make, it was smokers in general. They are responsible.