I will admit, I’m glad smoking has been banned in bars/nightclubs in our state. It is so nice to go in now and not be in an enclosed area choking on second-hand smoke, which, by the way, increases even non smokers’ risk for lung cancer. I definitely feel it should be banned on airflights and any enclosed areas. Smoking CAUSES cancer. It’s not just an association ...it’s a cause.
As a nurse, I see everyday what smoking does to people — and many of those people are hospitalized on your and MY dime for the sequelae of heavy lifetime smoking. It’s really not a healthy habit. I’m for freedom — but your rights end where mine begin kind of thing. I prefer not to succumb to lung cancer and/or COPD if I don’t have to. I’ve already got bad lungs just from growing up around my Dad who smoked like a fiend and died at 63 due to small cell lung cancer — a cancer heavily associated with cigarette smoking.
This is the one issue I’m with liberals on. The ONLY one.
Why were there no smoke-free bars or night clubs before they were banned?
Where do the rights of the club owner end? After all, you are in HIS (or her) establishment.
With your vehemence on this issue, I seriously doubt this is the only place where you side with the jerks, LisRJerks.
Is it possible that you are misinformed about smoking? Are you aware that the study they used to discredit second hand smoke was statistically flawed just to get the results they got? Sort of like the phony global warming data. Are you aware that not all people who die of lung cancer are smokers nor were they exposed to excessive amounts of second hand smoke? John Hopkins University Hospital conducted a study of their patients who had died of lung cancer. Those who had smoked at least a pack of cigarettes a day for at least 25 years and then quit, died at a higher rate than those who continued to smoke. Do you want to kill more smokers? Are you aware that there are more studies that concluded that tobacco is good for you, not just not harmful but good for you, than those few that say otherwise? Are you aware that until recently most life and health insurance policies penalized with higher premiums only those who smoked cigarettes but not those who smoked pipes and cigars? It seems that it is the chemicals in the cigarette paper rather than the tobacco what is harmful.
I think many people would ban the eating of liver because they do not like the taste or smell of it. They think it stinks. Should restaurants be prohibited from having liver on the menu because of those people?