Why we have smoking laws

Smokers only care about themselves and their filthy habit, they do not care about anyone close or in the general vicinity.

In Western Australia we have strong smoking laws and as a lifetime non-smoker, I am so thankful of the groups that lobbied parliament to ensure the laws were pushed through. I am so used to people not smoking around me now, when I am overseas it really comes as a shock to me having to breathe in someone else's filthy air polluted by cigarette smoke.

This was driven home to me sitting having breakfast at the restaurant at the Jayakarta Hotel in Legian Bali. We were sitting eating when all I could smell was that putrid stench of cancer causing smoke drifting across from a nearby table. Seated next to us was a young family, the child, I am guessing around the three to four age range was eating her food as the smoke wafted across.

This individual surely must have known small children were surrounding him, but chose not to care, he is allowed to smoke here and bugger anyone else. A small child and her family, no issues, he is enacting his right to smoke in Indonesia as there was an ashtray on the table and his rights were more important than anyone else at breakfast.

This is exactly the reason anti-smoking laws are drafted, if smokers weren't so arrogant and got up and stepped outside to smoke away from people then laws wouldn't be required. It is exactly their arrogance that these laws were passed and they only have themselves to blame, forget about complaining that your rights have been stripped away - you caused it yourself.