“”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
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.