What if people just stayed out of everyone else's business?
Posted on 10/20/2007 1:52:53 PM PDT by Wheee The People
“”What I am convinced of is that I couldn’t really enjoy the evening out having to endure someone else’s smoke...””
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So you are in agreement to strip away a business persons ‘private business’ right to run their operation as they wish?
Cigarettes, Pipes and Cigars are legal; if a business person wants to cater to those individuals who partake in tobacco, why are you giving the government the power to restrict their trade? Will you subsidize them, through taxes, for business lost?
If a business has a ‘Smoking Permitted’ sign on the door - don’t go in - you have no right to be catered to in any establishment.
I don’t like screaming kids - I don’t go to Chuck E Cheese - and I don’t have a right to pass legislation to ban kids from Chuck E Cheese because I am disgusted by the atmosphere there...and it could be a cause of elevated blood pressure which could cause a heart attack...
Gabz - Thanks for the Ping
I have never heard anyone else make that comment but it is the same for me. If I breathe tobacco smoke while I am eating, the food immediately loses all its flavor. It is like I have cardboard in my mouth. I have gotten up and left many a restaurant and my uneaten food because of this.
that's "voters," not "citizens."
wyoming is another sleepy, mind-your-own-business sort of place that's been hijacked by the left.
Wake up, Wyoming.
It’s legal and it grows in all fifty states. You are allowed to grow up to a tenth of an acre. It can only be for your own personal use -you cannot sell what you grow. Once the first crop becomes acclimated to your soil and environment and seeds are obtained from that crop, the next planted seeds do very well.
I see not too many people here agree with you, lol.
That’s a GOOD thing.
I saw how they conduct these polls in Minnesota a few years back. They put the “I don’t give a rats rear end” people down as for the ban.
Land of the Slaved, Home of the Sissy.
The stigma, yes, but the other factor is the everincreasing cost of cigarettes.
When the survey includes the question, “Should the SALE of tobacco be illegal?”, that answer will mean something. These surveys sound like they start with, “what color pony do you want for Christmas?”
Doesn’t tobacco have to be processed in some way before it can be smoked?
Tennessee recently enacted a statewide ban along with a much higher cigarette tax. Folks are flocking out of state to buy their ciggies, not only for the savings, but also to make a statement. The state of Tennessee, at last count, had lost 14 mil in revenue since this happened. I know to some of you folks in the richer states, that doesn’t sound like much but it is a tidy sum in Tennessee.
Very good point!
Wow! That many?
Oh hell yes I support these laws for restaurants and bars. And your mentioning Chuckey Cheese is a great example of why. If these laws weren’t in effect those establishments would smell like a forest fire during business hours.
Smokers are one of the most inconsiderate groups of people on planet earth. Rather than exercise some self-control, they make laws like this necessary.
As for your snide subsidy remark, the whole state of California has been made a non-smoking area in businesses for over a decade. Guess what, we still have restaurants and bars. Those owners are still turning profits. And smokers do show up at them. Strangely, after the laws were passed, they found the courage to go without a smoke for the time they were in these establishments. Amazing huh.
When political correctness has infected even the Western states, we might well and truly be doomed.
What if people just stayed out of everyone else's business?
Looking better every day.
Once we liberate that country, we should liberate this one.
Hysterical!
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