[SheLion]

I've lived in Baytown & it's full of chemical plants. One can drive only a mile & get 10 different chemical smells. Sometimes they are bad enough to burn your eyes. If anyone thinks that banning smokers will improve the air quality at all, they are either just plain stupid or extremely biased.

Sounds like the town "I" live in!  We have a starch factory and it stinks to high heaven in the summer.  But the state has forced a smoking ban on restaurants and bars. LOL

I've lived in Baytown & it's full of chemical plants. One can drive only a mile & get 10 different chemical smells. Sometimes they are bad enough to burn your eyes. If anyone thinks that banning smokers will improve the air quality at all, they are either just plain stupid or extremely biased.

Sounds like the town "I" live in!  We have a starch factory and it stinks to high heaven in the summer.  But the state has forced a smoking ban on restaurants and bars. LOL

[Elyse]

Economic reasons are totally beside the point as far as I'm concerned. The business owner's right to allow a legal act - smoking a cigarette - in their private business is what is the paramount issue here.

If you want to outlaw smoking in private establishments then pass a law that makes cigarettes and smoking cigarettes illegal.

Non-smokers who support these questionably legal bans are contributing to the erosion of everyone's Constitutional rights.