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What are your feelings towards smoking? What rights do you think smokers and non-smokers should have?

This is a subject I’ve debated with my dad about on many occasions, because he’s a smoker, and I’m not, and It really sickens me! I have no idea why, but it’s just something that super annoys me.

This is a subject I’ve debated with my dad about on many occasions, because he’s a smoker, and I’m not, and It really sickens me! I have no idea why, but it’s just something that super annoys me.

I grew up in a smoking house. Both my parents smoked, and it didn’t hugely worry me. I’d grown up around it, and the houses we lived in had always been smoked in, so for me, it was pretty normal.

Later on though, I remember heading in to family pubs with my mum and her then boyfriend and the smoke in there was so dam terrible! (this was before smoking had been banned in public places). I have not so fond memories of those clouds of smoke. Not nice!

More recently, when my parents where living together (I was between 12 and 15 years), again, the house had been a smoking house, and it was pretty much the normal for me, at this stage it didn’t bother me so much at all really. But then me and my dad moved out and in to our own house (a rental property), which meant that the house had never been smoked in, and meant my dad had to smoke outside.

It was about that time that I started to get a little more sensitive to it (I’m not sure if that’s due to my M.E, which could be possible, or whether it was the transition from living in a smoking house to a non-smoking house), and it really started to make me feel sick! Since then, when I’ve been around smokers, it really does make me feel a little sick, and generally makes me cough.

So in answer to the original question, my feelings toward smoking are negative ones. I really don’t think smokers should have rights to smoke in public (I agree with the ban), I think smokers have the right to smoke in there own homes. I also feel they shouldn’t be aloud to smoke in or around children.

Other peoples thoughts on the matter would be happily received. I know those are only my opinions, I know what smokers think on the subject after debates with my dad, so your thoughts are more than welcome.