Posted on 10/19/2011 6:59:56 AM PDT by Pontiac
Ohio Supreme Court Oral Arguments In Smoking Ban Challenge streaming live
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Bravo! Well said. The Food and Exercise police are making headway because once they gained an inch under smoking, everything became fair game “for the public good”.
If only the mob of the “Democratic Process” could do away with that pesky “Constitution”, just imagine what they could do for the public good.
I don't think you understand. The State Constitutions and the Federal Constitution have provisions for certain things. The election of a President by indirect vote is one of those things that is provided for.
None of these Constitutions, SFAIK, provides for any enforceable vote to be taken to deny any person's right to life liberty or property absent a crime of some sort. Governments here cannot vote to ban the color red or performances of operas in parks even though some people walking by might really detest the operatic sounds.
ML/NJ
you really should look into the facts of this matter, not the propaganda coming from the pharmaceutical backed anti-smoking industry.
I'll support your right to live. If you choose not to frequent my private business where I choose to allow smoking, then that is your choice - live long and prosper. It is my right as the property owner and proprietor to determine what activity I wish to allow in my establishment and your right to decide whether you wish to patronize it or not.
My neice goes into anaphylactic shock at even the mere passing of a peanut or peanut product. This is a health issue for her. Can the electorate at large vote in a ban on peanuts, or is it the responsibility of her parents, and later of her own, to frequent places where she is not at risk?
Pennsylvania has very quietly been backing off their smoking ban in bars. They appear to be issuing numerous Obamacare style waivers to various bars, giving them the right to reinstate smoking, in whole or in part, for various convoluted reasons.
Part of this I’m sure is that it dawned on one of these schleps that 2/3 of PA’s drinking establishments were likely to go under as a result. And Pittsburgh and Philly were relying on alcoholic drink taxes to fund their mass transit systems.
And I’m sure a bar owner has to support the “right” political candidates in order to obtain his waiver.
“The voters of Ohio, through a democratic process, decided overwhelmingly that they did not want smoking in public places.Get over it.”
That’s Brilliant! This is what democracy looks like?
Nothing about the Constitutional rights of Private property owners and the infringement without just compensation by mob rule?
I think you should get back to your tent at the Occupy Wall St. rally. I heard they just decided, through a democratic process that it’s your turn to clean the crap off the streets, police cars and other public places. Get to it.
The Gubmint will never ban cigarette sales - because of the tax revenue.
The only approach is to ban the use of the purchase. i.e. you can buy it - but don’t try it!!
Much like banning the use of pesticides, drain cleaners, paint strippers, propane, gasolene, fertilizer, herbicides, mattresses. Better read those rules and follow them.
Bees still sting, snakes still bite, poison ivy still causes rash and marijuana is a medicine;)
Nonsense in nanny land.
Good point. Restaurant owners force people into their establishments where they permit smoking. You have no choice and are forced inside with your children in tow as well.
I gave a simple scientific example and posed some simple physics questions that you cannot answer.
The smoke doesn’t get “cleaned up” in a smoker’s lungs.
Or are you saying that smoking isn’t harmful even to the smoker?
Logic fail...
Missing you. LOL.
Pretty good, actually - but I owe you a letter, to explain all the details. Same address?
Health is not the issue, the issue is the rights of citizens to do what they like with their personal property.
Citizens can choose to patronize or not patronize bars or restaurants, as they like. They can vote for or against smoking in a bar or restaurant with their dollars.
I did before the ban. If the government had stayed out of the issue more and more restaurants would have had non-smoking policies. Eventually non-smoking bars would have popped up in large urban areas and they would have shown up in suburban areas.
The trouble with the nanny state types is that they are not willing to wait for the market place to give them what they want or they think they have to protect people from themselves.
We need to curb government before it curbs us.
See my reply:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2794980/posts?page=33#33
There are many activities that aren’t permitted or only permitted under license.
Nothing new here.
It’s only mob rule if you don’t like the outcome. Otherwise it’s called democracy.
You can’t have it both ways...
Actually the Health industry may be the end of smoking.
This past year the company I work for added a $40 per month surcharge on the premiums of smokers.
I can see that surcharge increasing yearly.
I also see states raising more and more taxes on tobacco as the years go on as fewer and fewer people smoke.
Eventually the only people who smoke will be buying black market cigarettes and smoke their cigarettes in secret.
Or are you saying that smoking isnt harmful even to the smoker?
Where did I ever say any such thing? And you claim my logic fails?
I asked you a question earlier which you failed to address - since when is a private club a public place? By what right should you be permitted to determine what legal activities i permit to take place on my private property?
“Does inhaling the smoke clean it and strip it of all carcinogens before it is exhaled?”
No - that is why I don’t take my kids to smoking bars, nor smoke in my house. On the other hand, the largest study ever conducted on ETS (Second-hand smoke) concluded that it had a prophylactic effect - it boosted the immune system against cancer. Good luck finding that one, the government buried it.
“Two people sit in a closed garage with a car running, which one of them dies?”
Is this a reference to the old joke, you sit in your garage, withe the door closed, and the car running, and I will sit in mine, and smoke a pack of cigs? Let’s see who dies first?
You loose, the guy with the running car dies.
“I never cease to be amazed at those who ignore simple physics and logic.”
Ibidinum. Et tu?
“Ill support your right to kill yourself only if you support my right to live.”
Go for it. Stay out of smoky bars. I support your living in a cave, without the benefits of my efforts.
When only the rich can afford to smoke - it will become a status symbol - reserved for the aristocracy - i.e. those in Hollywood and DC.
Are there prohibitions for smoking in the White House??? It is a ‘public’ building!!!! Banned in all other public buildings in DC & MD. Don’t know about Virginia.
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