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Smoking in the street should be banned.

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Original post by EternalLight
Why should I have to have someone's cigarette smoke blown in my face if I am walking behind them and potentially inhale some of it?

It's disgusting and rude and shouldn't be allowed to be done in public.


There's no real evidence smoking harms health. There's hundreds of scientific peer reviewed studies that prove this

a) Nicotine stimulates and upregulates growth and branching of blood vessels (via upregulation of vascular growth factor), especially of capillaries, which improves the nutrient delivery and cleanup (antioxidant & detox enzyme supplies) to all tissues, including brain and skin (provided person's intake of nutrients and supplements is adequate).

b) Tobacco smoke (not nicotine) upregulates production of glutathione, catalase and SOD (our body's chief internal antioxidant and detox enzymes, sometimes used in cosmetics for skin rejuvenation), to nearly double levels.

c) Carbon monoxide in low concentration (as delivered in tobacco smoke) acts as a signaling mechanism in human biochemical networks to increase blood circulation, oxygenation and reduce inflammation.

d) Nitric oxide in low concentrations (as provided by tobacco smoke) acts as neurotransmitter, signaling to cardiovascular system to increase blood supplies to peripheral tissues (this is the biochemical mechanism behind the Viagra effect).

e) Tobacco smoke upregulates levels of "youth hormones" DHEA and testosterone and reduces their decline with age.

f) The highest quality brands (Japanese) of the miracle skin supplement and rejuvenator, Conezyme Q10 are produced from tobacco leaf, which is still the best source of natural Co-Q10 (since it includes the full synergistic complex which the cheaper synthetic production methods cannot replicate).

g) Deprenyl (selegiline), which mimics the selective MAO B inhibitory properties of tobacco smoke (this is not related to nicotine) and is used in smoking cessation "therapies" for that reason, has become quite popular in life-extension circles, due to its almost magical rejuvenating powers.

h) Nicotinic acid (byproduct of oxidized nicotine, as in burning tobacco, delivered directly into arterial bloodstream), along with its salts and various organic compounds, are skin-protective agents, used in cosmetic and pharmaceutical industry.

http://www.longecity.org/forum/topic/38868-smoking-is-good-for-you/

http://smokescreens.org/lungcancer.htm

http://www.longecity.org/forum/topic/38868-smoking-is-good-for-you/page-3#entry387616
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Original post by EternalLight
Why should I have to have someone's cigarette smoke blown in my face if I am walking behind them and potentially inhale some of it?

It's disgusting and rude and shouldn't be allowed to be done in public.


Yeah I agree it's disgusting and second hand smoke is a health risk. Smoking should only be allowed in a home with no children. All other places must be banned in my view. It's a disgusting habit and needs to be strongly discouraged. Ideally I'd want smoking to be labelled a class b drug like cannabis or even class a since it's probably worse than cannabis in terms of health risks.
Original post by mrqasim
Yeah I would agree with banning in streets where there is a high volume of people, other than that where else are we meant to smoke?


Smoke in a house or, even better, stop smoking
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I absolutely agree, why should my health be affected by someone else's bad habits?

Sadly it's not gonna happen -_-
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Original post by Trapz99
Smoke in a house or, even better, stop smoking

K den since u asked so nicely
Original post by EternalLight
Why should I have to have someone's cigarette smoke blown in my face if I am walking behind them and potentially inhale some of it?

It's disgusting and rude and shouldn't be allowed to be done in public.
By this logic, fat people should be banned from walking the streets too.
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Original post by Trapz99
Smoke in a house or, even better, stop smoking


People with mercury dental fillings have harmed other people's health much more than second hand smoke has ever done.

http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2014/02/25/dental-mercury.aspx

Why don't we ban people with mercury fillings from walking down the street ?
Original post by Tootles
By this logic, fat people should be banned from walking the streets too.


Fat people don't force you to eat their food.
Original post by l'etranger
Fat people don't force you to eat their food.
No, but they waddle around looking offensive. Especially near where I live, fat thirty/forty-somethings are regularly walking around with their bellies hanging out, making me want to vomit.
Original post by Tootles
No, but they waddle around looking offensive. Especially near where I live, fat thirty/forty-somethings are regularly walking around with their bellies hanging out, making me want to vomit.


But their fatness doesn't affect you
Original post by r3035
People with mercury dental fillings have harmed other people's health much more than second hand smoke has ever done.

http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2014/02/25/dental-mercury.aspx

Why don't we ban people with mercury fillings from walking down the street ?


That's ridiculous because people need dental fillings, people don't need to smoke.
Original post by r3035
People with mercury dental fillings have harmed other people's health much more than second hand smoke has ever done.

http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2014/02/25/dental-mercury.aspx

Why don't we ban people with mercury fillings from walking down the street ?


People need fillings otherwise they risk damaging their health. Cigarettes benefit you in no way, all they do is risk your health
Original post by mrqasim
K den since u asked so nicely


https://quitnow.smokefree.nhs.uk
Original post by cherryred90s
But their fatness doesn't affect you
Me smoking doesn't actuallty affect them. If they're getting a faceful of my fag, they're too close to me.
Original post by Tootles
Me smoking doesn't actuallty affect them. If they're getting a faceful of my fag, they're too close to me.


Second hand smoke affects people and they don't have to be that close to you to breathe it in. Not only adults, but children and babies are forced to breathe in your toxic fumes, not fair.
Original post by EternalLight
Why should I have to have someone's cigarette smoke blown in my face if I am walking behind them and potentially inhale some of it?

It's disgusting and rude and shouldn't be allowed to be done in public.


thank you for sharing something I really really hate. I could have sworn that smoking is banned in public places (street paths I always thought were public areas) yet clearly noone does anything. what is worse is people smoking weed and people urinating in broad daylight yet the police cba doing anything
Original post by EternalLight
Why should I have to have someone's cigarette smoke blown in my face if I am walking behind them and potentially inhale some of it?

It's disgusting and rude and shouldn't be allowed to be done in public.


Why don't you move away then. Lets not make Britain a totalitarian state now.
Original post by SCIENCE :D
Why don't you move away then. Lets not make Britain a totalitarian state now.


How do you move away when it's in the air.....Should I stop breathing when I go outside?
Original post by cherryred90s
How do you move away when it's in the air.....Should I stop breathing when I go outside?


Why are you over exaggerating. If you walk 2m away from them the smoke will diffuse into the air before it even gets to you. People are so soft nowadays.

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