JP Speaking Eng Communityコミュのsmoking problems in Japan

I should say I hate cigarette smoke. I dont really want to inhale it. ok, I can stand if i am in a bar or in a pub, but here in japan, there are pretty lots of bad-mannered smokers who smoke in public... in the morning, i should inhale it and in the evening when i go home, I should smell and inhale it again.

I dont say a smoker is bad (i believe smoking is bad though), and I actually dont really care who smokes or not. I have many friends who smoke and I love them as a friend. But i hate ppl smoking on street in public... there are so many here in japan.

and there is a news we heard yesterday :
http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/national/20060304TDY02009.htm

"Komadai H.S. to skip tourney over players' drinking, smoking"


Here again. These innocent students will be punished because of these graduate members smoking and drinking in a izakaya after their graduation ceremony...


thats not a good thing at all, and I can understand these ex-students are punished, but the truth is ... the younger student baseball players will be heavily punished. they didnt go to the bar or didnt smoke. they didnt do nothing wrong !!! because of what ? 連帯責任? thats for whom? if they want to punish these graduates, they should have punished their parents and themselves only. why the other innocent students need to be punished ??? they must have spent so much time to win a baseball tournament. they did nothing wrong. they just were unlucky having bad 先輩 students !!! pity of them !!


What is more important is that we need to consider why these youngers can reach these tobaccos. Is that because there are bunch of cigarette vending machines ??? I dont think they are always asked if they are older than 20 years old or asked to show their ID to prove it. These stores selling kids tobacco should be punished. Their right of selling cigarette should be taken away. And the izakaya should be also punished.

They should be hard on these stupid kids and the store selling them tabacco and the izakaya BUT NOT ON THESE INNOCENT STUDENTS !!! すごく可哀想だよ。

What about the responsibilities of the parents of them? They should be punished by being ordered to do some volunteer works such as cleaning on streets on weekends.