Posted on 06/11/2010 6:54:43 AM PDT by laotzu
You might as well state....
It’s the right of business owners to decide if they will permit FORCE smoking inside their establishment.
Or San Antonio?
Show me one business anywhere which requires patrons to smoke.
If you don’t like the way someone runs their business, as long as they aren’t “The State”, you can go somewhere else.
Like the tanning salon tax?
If they allow smoking in the business, then they allow non-smokers to breathe in that second hand smoke.
Why can’t I and most other citizens pass laws to prohibit that? It’s still a free country.
My initial reaction is to let them smoke all they want. On second thought - we’ll be paying the hospital bills.
Ban tobacco then outright. If you are not permitted to use it in public or in your home or in your car, ban it outright.
That is the California standard. It’s all going that way.
How many people who receive federal welfare also manage to find money for smokes and alcohol?
I’ve always said that if you want to cut down on drug use legalize it, let goverment tax it, let them regulate it, and let the Post Office deliver it. Problem solved.
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I read a study some time ago that when you factor in the savings on Social Security and other benefits that it’s a wash to a net positive.
Of course just plain RIGHTS and FREEDOM have nothing to do with it. Only RAAAACISM is important!! Jeeeesh!
Really? That’s interesting.
So the numbers work for now but wait till SS runs out of money. We’ll still have millions in need of health care.
You guys remind me of the telethon that was held on the old “Fernwood 2-night” show, which had a big sign in back of Martin Mull and his co-host, saying, “help stamp out death in our lifetime!”
Yeah, it’s (still) a free country, sort of, and you’re free to go to smoke-free bars if you so choose. You have rights, but so do other people. There’s enough room in the world, methinks, to accomodate everyone.
If you prefer that particular bar that has smoking in it, then you’re gonna have to make a choice, and that’s one of the important elements of life on this planet - making choices.
You make yours. You do not get to make mine.
End of discussion.
CA....
Why can’t I and most other citizens pass laws to prohibit that? It’s still a free country.
Ah, yes. The freedom to make everyone else act like you want them to.
Most of these pool halls are holes in the wall where people come to shoot pool, drink beer, and smoke. If enough of the people who frequent these bars say, "Hey, I'm sick of the smoke, someone will open up a pool hall and ban smoking. Then all the people who want to drink beer and shoot pool without smoke will go to that hall. However, a simpler method is to simply force everyone in the place to quit smoking, so you can enjoy your smoke free environment.
No one forces you into a pool hall, and you have the option of going to any pool hall you wish. However, you want to make everyone else conform to your norms, instead of choosing a place that makes you happy.
Yes we do. We are the majority. We vote.
< snort! >
So do I!
CA....
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