Good for you if that’s true. I simply don’t believe it, as I’ve never seen it. I’ve seen far too many people preach their mantras of “I can quit any time I want” and “it’s just an occasional habit.”
Aside from that, you would be the exception. The vast majority of people participating in such a thread are not here because they are primarily concerned with overreaching government; they are here because they fear losing their ability to smoke as they please.
Ah, the omniscient newbie! You know this because...
It's been our right for many years, Flint. When you lose one of your rights, don't come crying to us! We don't want to hear it.
Why would you come here out of fear?
The reason that the same arguments keep coming up is that they are sound arguments; not because some are afraid it’s coming to a theatre near them.
Banning smoking is very popular right now as well as being profitable for cities and states since it always seems to be accompanied by a tax increase on the retail sale of cigarettes.
The law of diminishing returns will apply as it does to all grand ideas and the revenues will fall to the governments and then they will go around looking for something else to blame for social illnesses and ban them as well; fast-food drive through lanes are a hot topic in some of the trendiest places.
But I don’t eat at Mackey-Dees so I won’t be bothered, and anyway, that so-called food stinks and you can smell an employee a mile away and boy, do they stink.
Ahhh, an all knowing NEWBIE...run along now to DU.
“The vast majority of people participating in such a thread are not here because they are primarily concerned with overreaching government; they are here because they fear losing their ability to smoke as they please.”
And how do you know this?
There are many groups who oppose government intrusion, smokers are just one. Helmet laws, regulations as to what we can use for heat, light bulbs, what kind of oils we can or can’t eat, what portions we are served in restaurants, you name it.
However, I may just sit back and watch the show when they start coming after skiers, bikers, rock climbers, motor cyclist, weight, alcohol, anything they deem to be a health or safety risk, and lest I forget, your salt shakers! It will happen, and when it does, it won’t be pretty.
When health organization stop hyping junk science to inflate risks, and start exposing REAL SERIOUS risks that anyone with common sense know about but isn’t PC for them to say, we just might pay the slightest bit of attention to them. Until then, they come off, especially to young people, as the hypocrites they are.
Is it unlawful for any restaurant or tavern to declare themself a no smoking facility? The answer is “no”. No legislation, no laws, nothing is required for this simple expediency. Everything else is sophistry.
You have to ask yourself why the various governments are inclined to pass all or nothing legislation, then. Why do you suppose that is?