For people like me who have asthma, non-smoking laws allow us to live like normal human beings. Before these laws were passed, we couldn’t go to restaurants, bars, or anywhere that people were smoking. We couldn’t get jobs at places like that, either. Talk about infringing on people’s freedom!
These laws have given people with similar health conditions the chance to have life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. That’s not a “nanny state”—that’s a guarantee of freedom for all people, not just the ones in good health.
Before you say that it infringes on a smoker’s “freedom”...cigarette smoke doesn’t stay on one place, it infringes on other people’s freedom to breathe clean air. Nobody has the “freedom” to make another person sick. There’s a big difference between a medical condition that can’t be helped, and the immature inability not to go for a few hours without sucking on a smoldering pacifier. If someone’s stupid enough to engage in a habit that will result in COPD or lung cancer, do it at home—quit trying to drag the rest of us to the oncology ward with you.
I hate cigarette smoke, but not NEARLY as much as I hate anti-smoking Nazis.....SMOKE EM’ IF YOU GOT EM’ (but I’ll be far away)!
My son has adult asthma and it doesn’t bother him
You could always just go to smoke free restaurants
You have to be responsible for your own health to a degree
Dander
Living near a feather pillow plant
Or a gypsum mine or cement plant
And so forth
There will be folks to accommodate you but forced universal accommodation infringes on others as well
And it grows and grows and grows
You can’t smoke in a park
You can’t smoke less than 25 feet from the door
You have to walk off a 200 acre hospital to smoke
Or campus
You can smoke weed in most Boulder hotels but not cigarettes
It’s gotten crazy
We cannot create a world to accommodate breathing issues for everyone
At some point you have to just not go there
Say a basement pool hall with smoking and poor ventilation like Melrose was in Nashville...,I didn’t like it either
That’s how I see it
I feel for you but you have to endure your situation more than the world has to bend
That’s the harsh end of a free culture
Today at 60 I’d avoid places too smokey myself and I too have maladies
I wish I had run of the mill asthma instead trust me
But I don’t expect kids who smoke to give up their fun to accommodate old grumpy me
We used to have common sense
Drunks have caused more death destruction and heartbreak than smokers ever have or ever will. Where’s th8e uproar?