[oyasuminasai]

Government has the right to legislate what a restarant can do with regard to the public health.

Government has made its wishes known, you can take it to the polls but you cannot simply flout the law.

[traditional1]

"Government has the right to legislate what a restarant can do with regard to the public health. "

BZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZTTTTTTTTTT. Wrong, again.

Try banning faggots from your restaurant (the ones who carry AIDS and other STD's) and see where it gets you in compliance with "protecting public health" in your establishment.

[spinestein]

[Government has the right to legislate what a restaurant can do with regard to the public health.]

When the health department mandates that restaurants sanitize their dishes properly and not have rats infesting their store rooms, then that is understandable.

When the city government determines that 2nd hand smoke is so annoying that it MUST be a health hazard and consequently bans patrons from smoking under penalty of law, then that goes too far.

[SheLion]

Government has the right to legislate what a restarant can do with regard to the public health.

You don't understand "Private Property??"

Public property: That which is purchased and maintained by tax dollars for the benefit of all people.

Private property: That which is not purchased or maintained by tax dollars and is for the benefit of the property owner.

[kevao]

Government has the right to legislate what a restarant can do with regard to the public health.

If the government is TRULY concerned about public health, why does it still allow the consumption of alcohol in Wiggie's bar?

[Madame Dufarge]

Government has made its wishes known

WOW.

[elkfersupper]

Government has the right to legislate what a restarant can do with regard to the public health.

Governments can't have rights. Governments have obligations. Only people can have rights.

I learned this in the 7th Grade. You will too.

[jjmcgo]

What on Earth are you, a big fan of government intervention, doing on a Conservative website?

[Ghost of Philip Marlowe]

Government can ban a product if it considers it a health risk. Taxing it and then basing a budget on projected revenue is NOT dissuading the usage of what is still a legal product.

When a government tells people what they can do with their own property and businesses, they are being far more offensive than second-hand smoke.

If you don't like a smoky bar, go to one that bars smoking. Oh wait, you want to force Wiggy and all his regular patrons to abide by your rules 364 days out of the year so that you can have it your way the 1 day out of the year you may decide to stop by. Sounds like tyranny to me.

[Admin Moderator]

You took a right turn onto this forum, should have turned left.

[suijuris]

Government has made its wishes known, you can take it to the polls but you cannot simply flout the law.

Guess flouting the law went out of style sometime after 1776.

[elkfersupper]

He's dead, Jim.

[Mears]

You cannot flout the law?

Have you just come out of a 10 year sleep? Illegals are flouting the law every day and nothing is done.

Yet I,a 73 year old tax paying citizen will get in trouble if I light one cigarette in a restaurant that I went to for many years.(The owner allowed smoking)

The trouble is that smokers aren't flouting the law and have knuckled over to this nonsense.

Health has nothing to do with it. Check your facts,all the facts.

[dljordan]

"Government has made its wishes known, you can take it to the polls but you cannot simply flout the law."

That's what King George said.