Posted on 03/19/2007 10:22:16 AM PDT by pissant
A day after he implied that Ireland should not follow New York City’s example and pass a ban on smoking in all workplaces, Rudolph Giuliani called Mayor Michael Bloomberg to say that was not what he meant.
Bloomberg said the former mayor told him that he meant that Ireland, which currently has no smoking restrictions, should begin to restrict smoking slowly, rather than all at once.
“He just thought that sometimes you go partways to get there, let people adjust and then go the rest of the way,” Bloomberg said yesterday.
Giuliani said that it made more sense to restrict smoking to certain areas.
HUH? You can't smoke in the pubs in Ireland.
Of course it won't. The people in the mob agree with mob rule... until the mob turns around and comes after them.
They followed Rudy's and Bloombergs model and banned it last year.
Just a truth teller.
with absolutely zero respect for you.
I know. You only vote for non-smoking nazis.
Just one step in abolition of private property--right out of the Communist Manifesto.
On private property? Hell yes. I believe in the right of free association. If you don't want to go into Joe's Pub because it's a smoking establishment, go down the street to Josephine's Tea Room and Lace Panty Shop. I don't care, and neither does "Joe," probably.
Is it a conservative position that Non-smokers have no rights but must justshutupandtakeit?
You have the right not to breathe cigarette smoke if you don't want to. The way to do it and not destroy everyone else's freedom is for you to simply stay the heck away from smokers. Is that too difficult for you?
Just started month 2 as a non smoker.
Feels good to breath, save, and not choke the
people around me..
But I will always despise smoking nazis and
promise to never become one.
People should be free to do as they please as long as it doesnt harm others imo.
Not all.. there are a few of us who didn't fall in line with the sheeple and actually ENJOY smoking.
Some of us don't even want to quit.. shocking isn't it? Some of us can decide for ourselves what we like and dislike and didnt need nanny Rudy or Bloomburg to tell us how to live.
"Josephine's Tea Room and Lace Panty Shop"
LOL
These laws are the result of the democratic process wherein elected officials listen to their constitutents and respond accordingly. There is no "right" to smoke or drink anywhere in public.
Should I be able to go and ruin a fellow diner's meal by firing up my cigar?
Now in the past over which so many become excessively nostalgic smoking was not even done in mixed company and not at meals. Gentlemen would retire to the study for brandy and cigars.
You can always fast forward to the arguments on these types
of threads just for the entertainment value.
I skipped to page 3 right off to find the arguing.
Exactly the process our Founders feared would erode basic liberties.
There is no "right" to smoke or drink anywhere in public.
We have no "rights" anymore anyway. Everything can be infringed, the BOR be damned. That's what happens when too many people like you buy into the notion that a private business cannot run its business in the manner it sees fit when people are not forced to either patronize it or work for it.
No, I don't vote for statists. The smoking issue is a good indicator of whether a candidate has contempt for individual freedom and property ownership.
I didn't know that. I still don't know that since you provided nothing to substantiate that. I even said I didn't I hadn't heard of the story at all in a previous post.
A cradle-to-grave nanny state. Complete leftist control over everything you breath, drink, eat and think. That's what these people crave.
How the heck does he suggest what another country should do?
Thanks JaJ, I never saw that one before!
"There is no "right" to smoke or drink anywhere in public. "
Really?
You must be reading a different Constitution than I did.
"Amendment IX
The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people. "
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