[Don'tMessWithTexas]

If the owner or a restaurant wants to ban smoking in their establishment, that is their choice, but don't use the heavy hand of govmint to force other owners to adopt your ban.

Likewise, smokers should be free to smoke where they wish to do so. If you are a non-smoker you can go to a smoke free establishment.

However, smokers should not force the non-smoking population to pick up the costs associate with your habit. Shifting the cost of one's habit to others that do not engage in your habit should never be allowed.

[kcvl]

You are forced to pick up the expenses of smokers everyday in insurance payments and healthcare costs.

[MissTargets]

However, smokers should not force the non-smoking population to pick up the costs associate with your habit. Shifting the cost of one's habit to others that do not engage in your habit should never be allowed.

What cost? Health care? I am sure there are millions of non-smokers, that we pay for their health care. Cigarettes are taxed enough. Just another Joe or else gabz has a chart showing how much each state makes off of cigarettes. You really would not want us all to quit now would you?

[CSM]

"However, smokers should not force the non-smoking population to pick up the costs associate with your habit. Shifting the cost of one's habit to others that do not engage in your habit should never be allowed."

You have it reversed. Smokers pay well over their share of the burden, in fact the MSA, Fed. taxes and State taxes bring in billions to the government. They are using that money to satisfy budget gaps and they have introduced legislation to further add to the smokers burden to cover costs for non smokers.

Therefore, when the non smoking population begins to cover their own costs, they can then begin to complain about the smell of smoke. Until then, they should be thanking every smoker they see for reduced taxes passed along to them.