Posted on 07/15/2011 10:43:24 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
A majority of Americans (59%) support a ban on smoking in all public places for the first time since Gallup initially asked the question in 2001. At the same time, fewer than 2 in 10 support the idea of making smoking totally illegal in this country.
According to the American Lung Association, 27 states plus the District of Columbia have passed comprehensive smoke-free laws. A New York City law bans smoking in virtually all public places, including outdoor plazas and beaches.
When Gallup first asked about a ban on public smoking in 2001, 39% were in favor, an attitude that stayed roughly the same through 2007, the last time Gallup asked the question until this year's July 7-10 survey.
Americans are much less supportive of the idea of a Prohibition-like law that would make smoking totally illegal within the United States. Nineteen percent support that option, not much different from the 14% who favored making smoking illegal in 1990, when Gallup first asked the question.
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please tell me you didnt type that with a lisp...8^}
From my cold, dead, nicotine-stained hands!!!
I don’t want to have to smell your cologne or body odor in public.
If I smell ANYTHING emitting from you, I will demand money.
ROTF!!
Be real. I'm not talking about the smell of a smoker, even though they stink, I'm talking about the smoke coming from the cigarette. You'd be fine if I sat outside your house or office window and burned bags of sh*t, right?
Hardly anyone I know smokes. The few who do tend to be old. They’ll be dead soon.
One fellow does chaw though. I’d rather he smoked.
Haha. It is pretty effeminate if you ask me.
;-)
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