The first nonsmoking nation

If we want to end nicotine addiction then it has to be taken seriously like alchohol or drugs.the withdrawl is really bad people and at least for me a violent one.ITS NOT BEING TAKEN SERIOUSLY! The crap on the market doesn't relieve the withdrawl! Have been smoking over 40 years and have tried 6 times to quit! My job with public housing residents is so stressful that to go through withdrawl is not an option! If they had something like antibuse for nicotine,or a shot or pill to deal with the withdrawl I'd be the first to sign up!

I vote this down simply because the title is misleading.

Just because tobacco has been outlawed in Bhutan does not make it a "non-smoking nation" any less than outlawing marijuana has made the US a "non-marijuana-using nation."

Here's a couple ideas for smoking cessation:
1. Invest more in public health campaigns that are proven to be the most effective.
2. Put in place a regulation that dispensaries and coffeeshops may only serve marijuana vaporized and edibles and legalize marijuana. (It is common sense)

I can't believe how many people have responded in favor of this legislation!!! It's a personal freedom to smoke yourself to death! If this passes in America... then what next? What about alcohol or driving in a car? Don't those kill too???

Did you know that obesity kills more Americans than smoking?

I HOPE ALL YOU FAT PEOPLE WHO POSTED THAT ARE FORCED ONTO A NATIONAL DIET

RudyRusell I agree with you but to many self appointed lifestyle police would interfere with my right to make my own choice on this issue and instead would do anything in their power to prevent self-determination! To those people who feel that I should not have this choice I say: BURN IN HELL!

These posts are out of control, how hard is it to just live and let live blah blah blah second-hand smoke blah blah blah, just don't go around people smoking, you have a choice.

All you non-smokers who would try to stop me from my right to smoke in private can burn in hell you have no right to impose your beliefs on me! I do not smoke in public! I do not smoke around anyone whom it bothers! Am I addicted? you bet! and until somebody comes up with a way to quit without the servere withdrawl I will continue to exercise my right to choose! BURN IN HELL YOU BASTARDS WHO WOULD IMPOSE YOUR BELIEFS ON ME BY FORCE!!!!!

The lifestyle police are out of control here! What you put in your body is your business not anyone elses! you should be at least able to smoke in your own home! remind me to put this place on my never to visit list!

I think maybe the first few times it IS a choice to smoke or not to smoke, but after you are addicted is it really a choice anymore?

$100 says a cigarette underground was just born. You can't legislate morality. People insist on being people no matter what you make the law say. People are not one size fits all. It never works trying to make people fit one mold.

ridiculious, if they want to do it fine, however i am a smoker myself trying to give up, i no the health risks, if we wanted to be told what to do we would all be in the amry or back at school. we are not children we are free thinking adults who have a write to decide where to take our lives if its to an early grave well so be it.

Will this help the greenhouse effect?

That, combined with "hate speech" laws in specific countries, goes to show that liberal Democrats are not always the good guys.

Yeah, let's do this in America - ha ha. Organized crime would have a field day. We can ban beer, fast food and coffee too. And make a law requiring at least an hour of yoga per day, etc...

I think banning smoking in public areas is sufficient.

Stick that in your 'Camel' and smoke it!

Liberals: supporters of freedom, democracy, and statism.

Why I'm a libertarian.

I don't think anyone is thick enough to believe that cigarettes don't kill. I think the main argument here is that taking away people's right to do something potentially harmful to themselves is an infraction of freedom.

I'm a smoker, and I can understand the bans against smoking indoors, and in public and what not. But for the government to tell me I can't smoke on my own property? That's stripping me of my rights to make decisions about my own body.

I can see a trend developing from this. If the government bans everything harmful then tanning should go, then fast food and candy. Then they'll ban the consumption of alcohol. Then any harmful dissidence will become a crime. At that point we might as well talk in newspeak and pile all our literature in our front lawn so government officials can set it ablaze.

More evidence the Democrats are not the sole bastion of freedom in America. They're the biggest supporters of the anti-smoking laws. Some Republicans are the same way, though.

Deadly to your health or not, I shouldnt have another right taken away just because I choose to do it to myself. Why not ban all greasy foods and anything with sugar in it too, overconsumption of them lead to diseases that kill many people as well.

I should be free to choose what I want or dont want in my body, not the damn government.

As a RN, I have taken care of many people who have had lung cancer or severe COPD and dependent upon oxygen just to breath. If you think that cigarettes do not kill, think again.
Not to mention the money spent on things that go up in smoke! (and I hear they are raising the tax on them again) GOOD!!.
Also, Denmark is actually polled as the happiest nation. Sorry drewsurf721, I mean no disrespect.

This is great! First nation to be smoking-free, perhaps others will soon follow?

I'm not so sure. This would have great health benefits, as well as a bunch of money would be saved, but I keep thinking: Will this turn into the current marijuana issue? A bunch of people will protest, saying they've got rights and all that. Is it worth the trouble?

Oh how I wish America would follow in Bhutan's footsteps. I dread being forced to inhale second hand smoke.

I can't decide what this is - a serious curb on personal freedom or an indication of just how bad smoking really is for your health.

yeah, bhutan coined that phrase 'gross domestic happiness'

they do have some pretty draconian policies though, but at least they're in the interest of human welfare and not corporate profit or something.

I love it. Little known fact: Bhutanese rank as #1 on the happiness scale.

more sensical than marijuana prohibition, anyway.

ugh

I await the day this can be said about America.