 | Setting aside rooms for smokers does not mean that the harmful effects of smoking are limited to smokers alone (Rugby, 1989). |
 | Banning smoking in all public places is another example of the way the government uses health and safety issues as a cover for introducing increasigly tight over people's lives |
| Most public buildings are air conditioned and this means that any harmful tobacco smoke that is produced in one room will spread to other rooms through the air conditioning system. |
| Because we rightfully have a universal health insurance system in this country, the costs of treating tobacco-related illnesses are shared by all the community, smokers and non-smokers alike. |
| These illnesses create a terrible and expensive burden on our health system. |
| Forbidding smokers from pursuing their habit in public places is an infringement of their democratic rights and is discriminatory (Jane Black, the spokesperson for Smokers for a Democratic Society, The Age 18.6.93). . |
| Public buildings are places where all members of the community should have equal access. |
| They increase the overall cost of medical services and use up scarce medical resources. |
| People should be free to do what they like so long as it does not harm other citizens. |
