[cripplecreek]

The question becomes one of whether or not you consider a business owner's right to decide whether or not to permit smoking on their premises a right.

I shocked a liberal once when I suggested that a business should be allowed to deny service to blacks. Naturally they decided that I'm a racist but that doesn't change anything but the world itself has changed. A business that denies service to blacks is likely to be bankrupt in short order because few people would accept it as is their right. Its the same with minimum wage laws. A company that pays 50 cents an hour will lose their employees to a company that pays 75 cents an hour and so forth.

A free capitalistic society is a great equalizer.

[Smokin' Joe]

When Gulliver was in Lilliput, iirc, the cause of extensive conflict was which end of the egg the parties cracked.

Our media and even our Government have become so successful at fragmenting our society on hyped-up topics and 'issues' that we seldom see they are banning chickens even as we call for bans on cracking the 'wrong' end of the egg.

Consider that a study found only 7% of Americans to have common sense, and fewer than half practice critical thinking (or we wouldn't have the Pres__ent we have), we permit mob rule at our mutual peril.