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.
Well put, Professer! :)
Smoking bans don’t pass everywhere they’re introduced. Virginia, even as it’s been turning a sickening shade of blue, has twice rejected a statewide smoking ban.
Huckabee supported and signed into law the Clean Indoor Air Act of 2006, which prohibits smoking in most Arkansas workplaces. He said the other night that he supports banning smoking in all public spaces. I could never vote for Huckabee because he would only further perpetuate the discrimination and hostility towards smokers. When you consider that 20% of the American voters smoke, I do not believe he can be elected by offending such a large segment of the population. By his stand on smoking he has also demonstrated to me that he is not an independent thinker. If he had done his own research on secondhand smoke, he would have discovered that there is a great number of credible studies proving that secondhand smoke is not harmful. We have to spread the word that he will be hostile to smokers.