Ban smoking in public

Posted on 05-05-2012 14:30 | By algail

Currently there are two major concerns in health in NZ Diabetes and a certain fanatical religion. Diabetes being a world wide problem causing far more problems eventually and maybe currently than smoking will ever cause We are constantly bombarded with how many die per year from smoking I would like to know how many died from smoking in the 50s and 60s when nearly everyone smoked. When I built my first house in 1962 I had a part time job as a bowling green keeper. Every member was rather elderly and some downright aged and virtually all of them smoked. I used to empty huge ash trays every day from around the green the size of which were staggering, many will remember them. Now in those days nobody I knew used be ill from smoking. Ceilings used to be yellow from the tobacco smoke How accurate are the records on death from smoking?. A smoker may die at 90 years of age, is that death down to smoking rather than old age. I am 80 now and I smoke cigars. I still practice martial arts and can still kick a six foot man in the head. I still work at times 10 hours a day I wonder when I die will my passing be put down to smoking too. I cut the tip off two of my fingers and I am among the disabled statistics and I am not disabled at all, an example of twisted statistics. I would love to know if those who want smoking banned in public entirely will consider stopping driving their cars and so stop polluting the atmosphere much worse than tobacco smoke ever will. Will the same people stop buying plastic and causing even more pollution ( See oceans of plastic )? Will they stop using electricity and so save the burning of diesel to generate power and so stop even more pollution? Will they stop drinking milk and stop even further land pollution. A degree of intelligence is needed in all aspects of life and that is what is lacking in most issues we face in New Zealand. One more thing 'Restaurants along the Strand are disgusting because the public majority, who are non smokers, have to walk through all the smoke just to get inside. Keep up the good work. ' Is there never a breeze along the strand.? I have walked through the same crowds many times and have never smelt the smoke. Mind you there has generally been a breeze to take the smoke away. Alastair Bethlehem