Anti smoking organizations

Evil? Are you serious? Did Phillip-Morris sponsor this listing? Think about the piles of cash, years of lies, and political pressures meant to insure that Americans didn't get accurate scientific information - not that many Americans actually know what to do with real scientific information. . . Get your f#cking death sticks out of restaurants (bars are okay) - sorry if that's 'evil' but the rest of us will lose zero sleep. . .

Fanatical,maybe,but not evil. I quit over 20 years ago,and I'm glad I did. I do think smokers deserve to be able to smoke,especially when they're shelling out the same $$$ as non-smokers on say,airlines.They ought to have smoking & non-smoking PLANES.Like hotel-rooms.I DON'T think they should be allowed to fill up a restaraunt with smoke,though.It's not fair to non-smoking customers.A lot can be done with ventilation.I also think the poor buzzards are being taxed to death,as are drinkers in some states.Next there'll be a "Fat Tax" on Big Macs !

Certainly they have turned The Smoker into a social outcast and put-upon victim to be found in diminishing numbers in society at large, but that's a good thing. Of course my comments in this regard are reserved for people living outside of Quebec.

I will give to those Nazis a 5/5,because the modern fashism/communism is the anti-s/th organizations. Those bastards really want to control other peoples lives and that was all about,they started with tobacco,then with food,alcohol, salt,soft drinks,candies and what makes life beautiful. They plan a world with hard working health freaks. Also their campaign is full of lies. The anti smokers(the anti-s/th in general) is a shame for the Western culture and the free society. Too bad they rule the ex- country of Freedom.

Well meaning but sanctimonious organizations. I get a kick out of their commercials with 19 year old hipsters running around, fighting Big Tobacco, getting all intense and "crusadery" like Sukings' Multi Racial Restitutions Demanders Task Force teams, yelling out things like "Non smoking is the bomb". Please...Sukings would kick your asses in ten seconds.

Unfortunately, I picked up the nasty habit of smoking from learned behavior from my childhood years and watching my parents smoke. Although I gave up smoking more than five years ago, cigarettes have a long and tarnished history. It was in 1492 when then billionaire RJ “Black Lung” Reynolds began experimenting with plastics. By accident, he created a plastic toy inadvertently shaped similar to a pipe with the intent of teaching children how to blow bubbles. RJ later designed “Big League Chew” a bubble gum that came in a pouch, which ironically resembled chewing tobacco used by baseball players. Perhaps his greatest invention to this day is the candy cigarette. What forced me to quit smoking was the discovery of more than 4 billion known and yet undiscovered chemicals in cigarettes. Of course, everyone knows about nicotine, however, the list of toxic crap also includes tetra-hydro-cannabinol, radium, palladium, gold, vampire blood, silver, copper, charcoal briquettes, formaldehyde, gl... Read more

Smoking cigarettes is legal. In spite of the known implications on the smoker health, many people still choose to smoke. The second-hand and third-hand smoking theories have still very low scientific background. The fight with smokers is mostly political. Many people build their carrers on that kind of activism. Very similar to the Global Warming Hoax. Wait, I see the point, when smoking is not allowed in places, when it may disturb non-smokers. But it is possible to resolve the issue by multiple ways. In Las Vegas casinos the ventilation is so good, that you can smoke there inside, and noone suffers. So, why anti-smoking organizations can be considered as a bad organizations, when they try to achieve the right thing? Because, every bureaucracy has the most important task - to preserve and prosper, and it does not matter if the cause is right or wrong.

As a non-smoker, I applaud their work, particularly since the cigarette companies have had decades (and access to far, far more money) to spread their pernicious, deadly misinformation. I once worked in a tiny office where everyone smoked all the time, and it was truly oppressive. When they couldn't do it anymore, it was a vast relief, and I usually wasn't one to harass smokers (when someone got into my car who wanted to smoke, I was generally agreeable; not anymore, though). I'm all for someone being able to smoke if they want, just like I'm all for the legalization of marijuana (although I haven't smoked that since I was in high school). But I shouldn't have to be subjected to their smoke (growing up in NJ, I'm sure I already have enough toxicity in my system, thank you very much), and am quite ok with their having to step outside for their fix.

As is often the case with feminists, gay rights activists etc the oh-so-hip-and-contrary tendency to be pillory the excesses of "political correctness" obscures the broader historical good certain movements have done. Before the ultimate physical harmfulness and highly addictive nature of cigarettes were widely known, the image of the sexy, cool, daring smoker was deeply ingrained in western culture. Cigarette advertisements were everywhere; you could even see Fred Flinstone and Barney Rubble lighting up in their own cartoon. Millions of people were being cheerfully introduced to a habit that would ultimately kill them well before their time without even knowing it. It took a lot of work to raise awareness of smoking's harmful effects and remove the cigarette company stranglehold on the advertising media. Like any organization there are a few crazies and people who take things too far, but that shouldn't take focus away from the fact that many of these people gave a entire generations ... Read more

20-30+ years ago no one gave a shit where you smoked.

Though I do feel sorry for the poor addicts huddled in the worst weather outside office buildings, etc., I must admit I'm grateful for the relatively clean air in rock clubs these days.

Anti-smoking fervor passed the point of fervor years ago; it has now reached the point of zealotry, a point sufficient to lend credence to the term “tobacco Nazi”. If you don’t smoke and don’t like smoking, life is actually pretty simple. First, don’t smoke. Secondly, don’t allow smoking in your home, your car, etc. Third, if you own a business, make that business a smoke-free zone. But whether smoking is allowed in a retail establishment, a restaurant, or a bar…this should be strictly up to the business owner and no one else. In the last two years, anti-tobacco nuts have even made claims like this: if you are a non-smoker, but have a drink in a bar where others are smoking, then go home and pick up your child…your child could die as a result of breathing noxious fumes from the fibers in your clothing. Ridiculous. For those who disagree with this, permit me to offer a solution. Write to your representatives at Big Brother and tell them that, while prohibition failed and backfired wit... Read more

I quit smoking years ago, but sometimes When I drink, I want a Smooth, rich ciggy to compliment the Bold, rich, sweet Taste of the Beer. I'm 29, I have been of Legal Age to smoke for years now and when I'm at a Bar (about the only place I Do smoke any more) and I want that cig, I don't need anybody Breathing down my throat telling me not to. If I want to waste money or destroy my Lungs than that is My right to do so. It is not the Governments right, or some organizations Right to tell me how to Live my life. Outlawing weed and Alcohol and various other Substances didn't work out, so why on Earth would they think outlawing tobacco will go off well?

I'm all for it...woo hoo!!! Run the tobacco pushing bastards out of business and back to the slime pit from which they emerged! YOU GO!

I find that they are very evil because they constantly put down people who smoke and behave in a disrespectful manner. I beleive they need to help and encourage people to stop smoking, not treat them like they are worthless. Pollution from cars is much more worse for our health. I would like to know if they own one? Even children in a car receive the toxic fumes. Do they drive with children in their car? hmm .. probrably yes. So, if we put down and exclude everyone who drives a car, drinks alcohol, smokes, eats fatty foods or foods with a lot of sugar, how many people would be left? I would like to meet him or her .. lol

It's funny how much noise is made regarding smoking (a relatively low impact on environment) and so little is said against all the chemicals that are released in the atmosphere constantly. I guess it's easier to take on simple smokers than big corporations. The hypocrisy of anti-smoking organizations is evident. Smoking is a right, and so is breathing clean air. If you want to breathe clean air, go where clean air is, but don't infringe the right of others who don't agree with you. And if you want to smoke, do it apart from others who don't smoke. Simple as that.

Super evil. Totoally against peoples personal liberty and the right to smoke. Now they have come up with these bogus claims that secondhand smoke can travel through vents. Man they are looking for any reason to have a tobacco prohibition that would be as big a dismal failure as the alcohol prohibtion. these people are as big a nut jobs as PETA.

Depends on how much they're pushing for. Any organization that is trying to ban smoking in public has my full support. Because if you want to smoke in your own home, fine go ahead, it doesn't affect anyone else. But when you smoke in a bar or restaurant, everyone else has to deal with your secondhand smoke. But I do think if you want to smoke in your own home, you should be able to, it certainly isn't affecting anyone but you, although if children are in the home, this could be a reasonable argument for banning smoking in general, but I'd have to give more thought to that.