(edit title) Swedes back al fresco smoking ban 73 percent are in favour Options

[The Local]

73 percent of Swedes back a ban on smoking in outside dining areas of cafés and restaurants, according to a new poll by Synovate on commission from the Swedish Network of Tobacco Prevention published on Monday.

The Hotel & Restaurant Workers Union (HRF), together with other member organisations of the network, has now demanded action to extend the ban on smoking in licensed premises introduced in June 2005.

The 2005 ban was very popular among the Swedish population and the parliament has identified a goal that by 2014 no one should be subjected to tobacco smoke against their will.

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[Deema]

Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay! Now i like swedes :)

[Britswedeguy]

No civilised country should allow carcinogens to be released in public places.

[International Man of Leis...]

"No civilised country should allow carcinogens to be released in public places. "
Better outlaw all carbon-fueled cars, buses, trains and aeroplanes as well then. Welcome back to the dark ages...
IMoL

[Random Guy]

you are not forced to suck on a tail pipe of a car like those who have to work around smokers and are forced to suck in their smoke all day long.
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[ooh456]

Nice one IMoL.
The trouble with banning things is it never stops. There is no way that minute cigarette smoke outside could be dangerous compared to all other stuff in the air. And we are talking about 3 months per year in Sweden that there is even a possibility of eating outside.
Non-smokers find smoking annoying. Okay fine. I find non-smokers and non-drinkers and loud children who eat at restaurants annoying. I do not try to ban them from the establishment however. I deal with the situation in a professional matter and have another drink and smoke.

[Markbase with an Invisibl...]

you are not forced to suck on a tail pipe of a car like those who have to work around smokers and are forced to suck in their smoke all day long.

Where would this be?
Since the banning of smoking in all public places, I can't imagine there are many people in this situation. Unless they're disliked so much that their desks are moved into the company smoking room (those companies that have them).

[Hauhr]

So you dislike non-smokers, ooh456. May I ask why?
Is it because we don't enjoy sticking cancer sticks in our mouths, destroying our lungs, polluting the air around us, making our hair and clothes stink?
I like coffee because it perks me up. I like beer because it makes me tispy. Why oh why do you like cigarettes? Just what do you get out of it?
If you have any other answer than "hmm, maybe you're right" then it may be that you are mentally challenged.

[Sensiblenick]

I totally agree with ooh456.
Non-smokers bug the hell out of me: The way they sit there with *no* addictions or financially crippling habits. The way they fail to make the people around them uncomfortable is incomprehensible.
Infact... their inability to ruin people's meals is downright offensive and I've had enough of them. Ban them I say. Ban them all
... unless of course...
Unless they can be trained to fart upwind and at face-height... while not proven to be carcinogenic, they may approach that same level of irritance.

[ooh456]

Haur, well it is because of self-righteous bastards like you under the delusion you are always right and other people have no right to disagree. All I am saying is I want smoking bars and restaurants. That's not a very mentally challenging position to understand ya simpleton

[Craptastical]

I actually don't mind having to smoke outdoors. Even as a smoker it did bother me when the bars were filled with a sweatshop-like haze.

IMHO either ban smoking completely or leave me the hell alone while I puff away outside.

[Markbase with an Invisibl...]

Even as a smoker it did bother me when the bars were filled with a sweatshop-like haze.

Yeah, it's so much better now that the enticingly fragrant blended aroma of stale beer, old men's farts, and last night's puke is now permitted to permeate the atmosphere.

[Jasoncarter]

Terrible news, as this could mean the end of kids waving their arms in your face saying 'luften är fri! luften är fri!'.

I understand an indoor smoking ban - smoke accumulates, doesn't dissipate and is impossible to avoid breathing in with every lungful. However outdoors? It's more of an annoyance than a health risk, and I don't it's right to start legislating against irritating things.

(Unless the government promises ten years for standing in front of the sodding tunnebanan doors when people are trying to get off.)

[VikingHumpingWitch]

Oh fcuk off you intolerant wastes of skin. As long as I have to breathe in car fumes all sodding day, and that in a city with excellent public transport, nobody can bitch too much about what is in fact a very tiny amount of smoke once in a while. If it bothers you that much, move away. Learn to live and let live.

I think I may go about and randomly punch 7 of the first 10 people I meet.

[Benzed]

I gave up nicotine related smoking at the turn of the year. Nevertheless, the whining of non smokers continues to grate. Just be silent. Your whingeing nauseates more than any wisps of smoke from a 3 inch long stick.