an airline dedicated to smokers
did you NOT understand?
Calm down a'ready.
Gad. I used to be a smoker - until the docs finally found out that cigarette smoke was what was making me so ill that they were going to operate on my sinuses - allergy testing went off the chart with cigarette smoke.
For many years, where I went and activities etc were restricted, and I had to leave 2 jobs because of cigarette smoking. (others)
No one gets sick or has to choose between getting ill and keeping a job because I don't smoke. It's been very helpful now with smoking in public places restricted.
Bottom line is, Any one person's "rights" end where another person's nose begins."
Good golly. I hope I wasn't as thin-skinned, belligerent and unable to recognize other peoples rights back when I smoked.
Ya know maine-iac, it's late and I have become quite bored with this thread. Perhaps you should read the article before you attack me.
It is about an airline dedicated to smokers so they have a CHOICE. Do you remember what a choice is? No one will be rounded up and forced into the plane and strapped in against their will.
Smintair's founder.....said he was trying to offer an alternative in an age when smoking is banned on all major airlines.
Bottom line is, Any one person's "rights" end where another person's nose begins."
A business owner has property rights. If you don't like the business owner's terms to enter the property you have the choice of not entering. You do know that, don't you. Or, do you favor enlisting the government to trample the business owner's property rights on your behalf? You stick your nose into his business where it doesn't belong and in self-defense the business owner may break it.
"No one gets sick or has to choose between getting ill and keeping a job because I don't smoke."
Neither smokers nor non-smokers rights trumpt the rights of the owner of the property. If you don't like, or can't tolerate, a specific work environment, then you are obligated to find another job. The property/business owner should be free to operate the business as they see fit, that does not infringe on your right to move on.
Of course, that is no longer the case and the infringement on the property owner is celebrated by many FReepers.