Interesting, I was at a company meeting this week and the topic came up among a bunch of guys about city laws outlawing all smoking in restaurants. My partner, who is a great fellow and very republican, sadly was all for it, saying he didn’t want to have to take his two year old daughter into a restaurant and expose her to the smoke.
I pointed out that, first, as private property, the owner has the right to decide whether to allow smoking, and second, he doesn’t have to eat there and is free to go somewhere else. Sadly, I he didn’t seem to grasp the concept.
My next point was that, IMO, there are a lot of lifestyle choices you can engage in that will probably kill you faster than smoking for for a similar amount of time. And one of those is choosing to overeat, take on frank obesity, and be live a sedentary lifestyle.
Therefore, based on logic, I told them I think the state has just as urgent, or even a more urgent rationale for limiting peoples’ diets than stopping them from smoking.
Of course, logic and common sense has long ago ceased to enter into these type issues.
Two things come to mind. Have ya’ll ever seen the overall food in Mississippi? Everything is like every other food in the South, fried, battered, buttered and then fried again.
Secondly, define fat....I believe that I am still just fluffy.
“Interesting, I was at a company meeting this week and the topic came up among a bunch of guys about city laws outlawing all smoking in restaurants. My partner, who is a great fellow and very republican, sadly was all for it, saying he didn’t want to have to take his two year old daughter into a restaurant and expose her to the smoke.”
To folks like that, I say, “If you are so desirous of bringing your 2 year old daughter into the places I frequent, then you don’t object to all sorts of seedy characters showing up at Chuckie Cheese, right?” That usually shuts them down pretty quick.