On Mon, 1 Jun 2009 17:41:45 -0400, "Ed Edelenbos"
wrote:



"J. Clarke" wrote in message
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dadiOH wrote:
Upscale wrote:
"PHT" wrote in message
I also seldom eat out anymore. Smoker's do longer have any rights in
this country. It's getting so that many rights are disappearing that
people once had.

Sure, you've got plenty of rights. Smoke all you want, burn your
lungs out, it's none of my business. Just don't do it where it
bothers me when I'm going about my business.

I admit it, I used to smoke. I quit some thirty years ago. Now, the
odour of cigarettes and the smell of nicotine comes close to making
me physically sick. I'm not being hypocritical, it's none of my
business what you smoke, what you eat or what you do in your life as
long as it doesn't have an effect on my life. But when it does, how
do you think it should be handled? My going out and eating in a
restaurant doesn't affect you at all. You going out and eating in the
same restaurant and smoking does affect me. What's your solution?

My solution is that the restaurant - or other business owner -
should be able to decide what rules he wants in his/her
establishment. It is *not* the business of the government, became so
because of the mind set of the Smoke Nazis that the world should
conform to *their* view of how it should be.

Bingo--at most the government's involvement should be to require a sign on
the door with the smoking policy.


The current government policy is to mask the fact that they have been
complicit in peddling death to the citizens. When the government finds a
product that is unsafe, it is their job to make a law that outlaws it. They
have known about the (explicit) dangers of tobacco for a long time. The
only reason it has not been outlawed so far is that the tobacco lobby has
been successful at paying off enough politicians.

Second hand smoke DOES, not might, affect the health of those subjected to
it. It's fact. Get over it. The Smoke Nazis, those who feel like they
still have a "right" to smoke anywhere are the ones in the wrong.

Ed

It's not the tobacco lobby so much as the government's dependence on
the tobacco taxes