Give smokers private areas to get their fix
Source: News & Star, Cumbria, UK
Section: News people
Pub Date: Monday, 5 July 2004
Pub LTE: Give smokers private areas to get their fix
Author: Mark Gibson
Contact: letters.carlisle@cumbrian-newspapers.co.uk
A SMOKING ban will drive the tobacco smokers on to the street and into
shop doorways. Instead of discouraging tobacco smoking, a ban will do the
opposite by introducing children to the habit.
How many mothers smoke at the school gates?
Surely tobacco smokers should have places such as Amsterdam-style coffee
shops where they can get their fix of nicotine in private? They are, after all,
drug addicts of a sort.
As a non-tobacco smoker, I object in the strongest terms to sharing
someone's stale exhaled tobacco smoke. It is a basic human right to breathe fresh
air.
If I choose to smoke cannabis (unlike tobacco, cannabis is not
addictive), I do so in private, not on the street or at school gates, where
children are present.
Mark Gibson
Legalise
Cannabis Alliance