You're uninformed. Smoking Bans have NOTHING to do with "smoking." They're about control and the "managing" of the proletariat (that means we tax-paying scum) by The Elite. Been in America long? Do you know ANY American history? What was America founded on, and why did we break with England? Overtaxed and underrepresented! Remember the Boston Tea Party? Well, imagine that with tobacco...a LEGAL, taxed substance, as was tea in it's day.
Choose a legal, taxed, adult "vice" that you have. Like gambling? How about a game of Bingo at Church? Like to have a beer on the weekend with your friends while you watch the game? Alcohol is BAD for you. For shame! How about a burger? Trans Fat City, Baby! Shame on you for not watching your health for the rest of us innocent bystanders. You might fall on us and cause bodily harm because you don't adhere to the "standards of emaciation" imposed on all of society!
How about driving while talking on your cellphone? Ever do that? How about that time you forgot to put on your seatbelt? How do you feel about helmet laws? Do they protect you, or the other guy from hurting himself? And who cares? Thin the herd if people want to be stupid, but it should be up to the HERD as to what they want to do!
Now imagine that we all HATE you because of your CHOICE to do as you will in a FREE country...while all of your ADULT choices are legal and taxed! You pay and pay for that vice! :)
P.S. I don't smoke. But this imposition of the denial of rights by one "class" of people (Smoke Gnatzies) on another (Everyday People) irks me to no end.
I understand where you're coming from but to me this is an issue of where my rights end and somebody else's begin (or vice versa).
I understand where you're coming from but to me this is an issue of where my rights end and somebody else's begin (or vice versa).