Smoker's Rights

1. The topic of this article is smokers.

2. The article states that there are a lot of problems being caused by people who do smoke. The government is mandating banning anyone from smoking inside their homes due to safety issues. New laws regarding the banning of smoking inside their homes are causing people to be upset.  

3. The article states that the 20% of people who do smoke are getting upset with the fact that there are laws being mandated which prevents them from smoking in their home. The rest of the 80% who do not smoke are either trying to find ways to live in a smoke-free zone or are uniting with the government to ban smoking in most condos or apartments.  Experts are also saying that there are no safe levels of second hand smoking which can be harmful and hazardous to the elderly and especially to infants.

4. In my opinion, this law is too unconstitutional. People should be allowed to smoke in their homes if they please. It is with no doubts that exposing you’re children through second hand smoking is not good, however there are many ways to smoke without exposing your children. I believe that they are being discriminated because it is a violation of their rights. Banning someone from smoking in their home is “an intrusion of privacy” as stated in the book.

5. I believe the government is slowly trying to invade more and more every day. The whole scandal with cell phones and computers being tapped in to listen and see our conversations is ridiculous. Now the government wants to even limit where people are allowed to smoke is pretty ridiculous. The government does not understand that their actions lead to a domino effect. As stated in the book, “if smokers are banned from apartments and condos, parks, and other public spaces, the only space left for them to smoke will be single-family homes, a place where children reside. The next we are going to see is how to protect children from repertory problems in home.” All of this causes a domino effect which causes more political disturbance.