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To: Skooz
You obviously did not read, or choose to ignore, what I posted earlier.

I admit I have not read everything you posted.

But, their "right" to smoke ends the instant their smoke touches me. Period. Any "reasonable accommodation" must be reached by people acting like adults who understand that in the end, it really isn't that big a deal.

That depends. If you go into a casino in Vegas where smoking is allowed (which is all of them), people may smoke nearby you. Does that mean all smoking should be banned in Vegas casinos just in case you might show up there?

The reason I say Vegas is because it is kind of the last resort outpost of smokers in the nation. The only way that smoking will be banned in casinos there is if the Feds do it since they make all their money off gambling and most gamblers smoke. If the Feds end up doing it, that will be the end of Vegas in Nevada (it will move to Mexico).

Even though I do not smoke, my wife does and that is why we only vacation in Vegas and Mexico. The rest of the country is getting hostile to smoking and who wants to go somewhere like that while on vacation. But I am cool spending all my vacation money if Mexico if that is what it comes to, and I hope the 23% of adults who smoke will join us all down there. Because in Mexico, capitalism always triumphs when it comes to the tourist industry.
149 posted on 07/19/2006 1:45:19 PM PDT by microgood
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To: microgood

People should be allowed to smoke, if they so choose.

People should be allowed to smoke in public, if they so choose.

People who go into casinos, bars, poll halls, strip joints, juke joints, etc. know they will encounter smoking there and just have to deal with it, like grown ups do. It would be ludicrous for a non-smoker to go into such places and demand to be accomodated by everyone else.

But, smokers who willfully light up in confined spaces (or in other public places where they know their smoke is unwelcome) because they are under the bizarre delusion that their "right" to smoke trumps everyone else's right to breath are rude a-holes and deserve to be called on it.

Like I said: Simple human courtesy. Funny that should be so controversial.


150 posted on 07/19/2006 1:53:52 PM PDT by Skooz (Chastity prays for me, piety sings...Modesty hides my thighs in her wings...)
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