The-shelton
You have made my point. Almost everything can be banned with the excuse that "It will cause my insurance to go up." We will loose many freedoms under this mentality. This is especially true if a National Health Care is put into place.
For example, ice cream can and fast food can be heavily regulated under the excuse that they cause obesity, heart disease, and diabetes. Motorcycles can be banned because if you have a wreck on one the injuries are usually substantial. Overly load music can be banned because it causes hearing damage; which to treat will cause premiums to go up. And the list goes on...
Freedom is so important and valuable, a price cannot be put on it. The true cost of freedom is BLOOD. This is how it was purchased. Brave men fought and died for our freedoms, and we dishonor them by stripping the very thing that they suffered horrendously for while in battle, and some gave their lives for.
In today's society, their are many who want to follow a fascist path of banning anything they do not agree with or annoys them. Their are many things that I do not agree with and find disturbing; but because I love freedom, I fight for others rights to live as they choose.
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Why are nonsmoking co-workers influential in small companies but not big ones?
My sense is that if it's a small firm you know everybody. But at a big firm you probably don't. The smokers probably hang with smokers.
So the smokers at big companies don't feel as ostracized?
Exactly.
Kids often give their smoking parents grief today, right?
They give them lectures. How hard must that be to have your kids scoffing at you, and you know you should quit. There's a real social burden to smoking these days. It's one of the reasons smokers who work together like to go out and have these breaks.
How will the idea that smokers are social outcasts affect kids?
The social issues are much more dominant for kids than concern about health. They all think they're going to live until they're 120.
So if they think they'll be pariahs they won't smoke?
That's right. You'll notice the advertisements from the industry are to show that smoking is cool, or the act of being a rebel. Don't be like your parents, smoke.
What makes people quit besides feeling shunned?
One is price sensitivity. It's been clearly shown that raising the cost of cigarettes discourages people from starting. It makes them want to quit, and if they can't quit they'll smoke less. The second major influence is smoke-free buildings. If you're working on the 30th floor of a building, and you have to go out for your smoke break, you have to get your coat and your purse, push the down button, then you've got to do all that again. You're gone a long time. The economic pressures from the taxes, and the social pressure from the clean indoor air movement have contributed to the lower smoking rate. Smoking is less common, and that makes it more unacceptable.
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