The modern world is obsessed with risk-free culture.
Fork it.
Live a little - who really gives a sh*t about a little bit of smoke. And no your not going to die from lung cancer because of the smoke in that club you visit once a week, you need to get a grip if you think that.
Id rather live to the age of 40 and look back knowing I had a beautiful care-free as possible life than get my telegram from the queen.
Live a little who gives a sh*t about your health, die from alchohol poisining, hurt someone because you were so blind drunk you couldnt see, some weird japanese STD given or recieved, who cares. Thats what your saying right?
Personally, I care enough to look after myself and responsible rnough to care for those around me. Rather live 40 years? Thats the beauty of free will, thats your choice to make, not one for others.
No, thats not what Im saying.
Im not sure you quite understood what I was getting at.
Theres a big difference between the view I expressed above and that of someone completely nihilistic as you described.
If Im in the company of non-smokers Ill almost always ask if they mind me smoking - and there are many many places I wouldnt dream of lighting up out of courtesy - However a pub really isnt one of them.
Such is the beauty of sacrifice, moderation, values and common sense. I dont need a law to decide those for me, especially not one as tedious as the smoking ban, do you?
Back to my point about the nanny state thing - Do you believe we need more law and legislation like that recently passed? Are people so stupid they need to be told how best to live their lives.
On the other hand... maybe Im just young and naive.
The modern world is obsessed with risk-free culture.
Fork it.
I have at least five mates that thought the way you do, now all of them think they were dumb ****s who had no idea what they were talking about 
Well, four now, one of them died of liver failure.
Thats really tragic and Im sorry to hear that.
Are you arguing using that example and the wisdom of hindsight that a few more laws, legislations, limits etc. would be a good thing as theyd help to stop things like this happening?
If so I can really relate to where your coming from - Really doesnt say much about your late friends ability to look after himself though.
For every liberty we gain - Two are being stripped from us.
When was one given back again? :shrug:
Youve got me there! Ill change it to this:
Were loosing our liberties - Its only a matter of time now until were living in cages being fed from a drip.
p.s. this seems a bit heated to be in general discussion :shock: - Whats going on?! xD
You dont want to spread STDs, but your quite happy to increase passerbys chances of getting cancer. Nice outlook on life. "F**k you jack, im alright".
Clearly we as a society require laws such as the smoking ban purely to remain civil to one another, with people such as yourself quite happy to place others in harms way it seems that we require a police state to knock some sense into some people.
When will smokers get the idea, that the ban isnt about YOU... its about those AROUND YOU. Other people... the kids having a pub lunch with their parents, the bar staff having to serve you in a cloud of smoke (before the ban) day in day out, me and my friends, me with a chest infection and my mates with asthma...
Why the hell should we put our comfort and health in second place to you... come back with the vice versa argument, and im sorry but you were not born with a cigarette in your mouth, its not the "natural state" of the system. Its in fact foreign to the system, you are doing something different from the norm, why should we make a consensus for something that causes us harm.
