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View Poll Results: Should it be illegal to walk and smoke at the same time?
Yes: It is healthier for everyone 5 29.41%
No: It is authoritarian 12 70.59%
Voters: 17. You may not vote on this poll

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Old 04-26-2018, 04:20 AM
 
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If it becomes law, it would be a $50 fine to walk and smoke in public within NYC. One would have to be stationary while smoking in public.

The thinking is that if you are walking the same speed as someone smoking, you are at harm for a longer period of time from second hand smoke.

https://conservativedailypost.com/ny...while-walking/

http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefi...-while-walking

Do you support this ban on walking and smoking?
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Old 04-26-2018, 04:33 AM
 
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The communist democrats continue to chip away at individual choice.
Walking is not a right it's a privilege like driving apparently.
Somehow, the pursuit of happiness must be stationary.

I'm surprised they didn't add soft drinks to the law.
Exercising while consuming sugar is next.

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Old 04-26-2018, 04:44 AM
 
Location: Lee County, NC
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Must be a sweet gig to sit around and get paid to come up with stupidity like this.

Every day, we lose a little more freedom. Won't be long until we've got nothing left.
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Old 04-26-2018, 05:03 AM
 
Location: Mount Airy, Maryland
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It is amusing that your hate for liberals would make you get so worked up over something as incidental as this.
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Old 04-26-2018, 05:19 AM
 
Location: North of Canada, but not the Arctic
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I don’t like being forced to inhale smoke, so I support this.
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Old 04-26-2018, 05:22 AM
 
Location: Scottsdale, AZ
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I swear, Liberals come up with the most ridiculous things, LOl

If passed how can it possibly be enforced? And how is it different than that nauseating smell of exhaust fumes emitting from cars, buses, cabs, etc in big cities; makes me want to vomit a lot of times.

I think, law enforcement have better things to do than watch for a trail of cigarette smoke.

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Old 04-26-2018, 05:32 AM
 
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I don’t like being forced to inhale smoke, so I support this.
Same here! Especially with a cancer patient in my family and the other day walking out of a grocery store and having to take a b-line to avoid inhaling and smelling the disgusting smoke from the other persons cigarette!

Go and smoke in an area where you don’t bother others!

Smokers should be smarter and save money, take care of their health and if they want to see what smoking can do to their health then go to Moffitt or another cancer center and see with your own eyes.

It is not just heart disease, Lung cancer but also bladder cancer and many other diseases caused by smoking.

When you get confronted with health issues related back to smoking than it might be too late.

My family member has a cancer related to smoking and smoking was only for a few years part of the life style.
But secondary smoke by parents who each smokes a pack a day might be what actually caused it.

From the day of being born till the day they died, they smiled. Most of their life’s it was unknown what smoking could do, but now we know.

Think twice!
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Old 04-26-2018, 06:09 AM
 
Location: DFW
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We really need a Dem law forcing unemployed men to wear a Condom.
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Old 04-26-2018, 10:18 AM
 
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If it becomes law, it would be a $50 fine to walk and smoke in public within NYC. One would have to be stationary while smoking in public.

The thinking is that if you are walking the same speed as someone smoking, you are at harm for a longer period of time from second hand smoke.

https://conservativedailypost.com/ny...while-walking/

NYC mulls ban on smoking while walking | TheHill

Do you support this ban on walking and smoking?
There should be a national law against the discharge of tobacco residue in/into ANY public area. The right of a tobacco addict to use their drug does not and should not also include a right to toxify the public breathing- air or to litter the ground with their toxic solid residue (ash and butts).


Smokers, it's well past time to consider the rights of the vast majority not to have toxic tobacco residue inflicted on them. It kinow this a a complete about-face for you, but get over yourself and your drug.

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Old 04-26-2018, 10:22 AM
 
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If they hate cigarettes and smoking so much, why are they are not targeting access, or sales?

When opioid drugs started to cause overdoses and deaths, the first things they did was target access, and the pharma companies that made these drugs, the doctors who gave them out, etc generally make them harder to obtain or make them illegal to possess in certain situations, why are they not doing the same with tobacco?

Its not money either...the pharma companies were raking in the cash from opioids, and yet none of them complained when Govt cracked down on their cash cows and made them almost impossible to get, so tobacco companies would likely react the same way if cigarette sales were targeted.
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