Restaurants are private property - you are not required to enter, and you can be required to leave at the owner’s request.
Restaurants, while in public, are privately owned and it should be the decision of the owner whether to allow smoking, not the government's. Potential customers can decide whether they want to eat there or not.
Listen, you have to give adults a place where they can be adults. You don’t have to have every place, do you? Enough already. There’s room for most of us to be happy.
You’d love it here in Ohio where even PRIVATE CLUBS ARE ILLEAGAL. There’s also a sign posted at every public facility with a phone number to the State for reporting your fellow citizen.
So you think it’s OK to tell someone who OWNS a restaurant how to run his business? I don’t like smoke, so I would eat in a non-smoking restaurant, but there are people who enjoy smoking. It should be left up to the business owner whether to allow smoking, not the nanny state.
Really? Well, enjoy, friend, because, someday soon, "they" will come for something you enjoy and is perfectly legal and who will speak up for you???
"First they came for cigarette smokers and their right to smoke in private establishments, and I did not speak up or object, because I don't smoke and furthermore, believe it is a dirty, smelly, nasty, disgusting habit...........
"Then they came for foods that contain trans fats and I didn't speak up or object, because I eat healthy and besides, this did not really affect me.........
"Next they came after children for eating candy in school and I didn’t speak up or object, because I don’t have children or this is simply an isolated extreme situation…… (conn. student suspended for buying candy in school) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1984558/posts
Okay all of you defenders of the Nanny-Nazi-Police-State ( having delegated to themselves Extraconstitutional powers) who have begun arbitrarily regulating many of our personal (LEGAL) activities and choices, we tried to warn you, but you dismissed us as fear-mongering, self-serving, irrational, dotes.
(AND ONE OF THE BIGGEST OFFENDERS WAS ELLIOT--#9-- SPITZER WHEN HE BULLIED AND THREATENED CREDIT CARD COMPANIES FROM PROCESSING PURCHASES OF TOBACCO PRODUCTS ONLINE AS WELL AS FEX EX AND UPS FROM ACCEPTING SHIPMENT OF SAME)
We users of tobacco products tried to tell you this was all about POWER as opposed to legitimate "health issues," and all about "the chilluns," but you would not listen.
Well, the proverbial chickens are predictably coming home to roost. Which “right” or “freedom” do we all enjoy, will be the next target of the power-hungry-nanny-state? How do you like it now?
Really? Even Hookah bars and cigar bars where people go to enjoy a smoke?
“I am all for banning smoking in public places, restaurants especially, but preventing people from doing it in their own homes goes way over the top.”
I see that you have admitted that you don’t consider privately owned businesses that invites customers onto their property to be privately owned businesses. I’d like to personally thank you for bringing Kelo to our once great Republic.
You better go back and read the Constitution that you have sworn to uphold.