Mean-spirited, petty busybodies put bar owner behind eight-ball

The Calgary Sun ^ | 30 July 2002 | PAUL JACKSON

[SheLion]

The Nanny State could care less about who they ruin and put out of business. It's their way or no way.

[SheLion]

What supercilious, sanctimonious individuals they are.

[Sloth]

People who smoke are dumb. But trying to control others' private property is indefensibly evil.

[SheLion]

People who smoke are dumb.

People who abort babies are dumb.
People who drink and drive are dumb.
People who abuse children or their spouse are dumb.
People who do not believe in freedom of choice are dumb.

The list goes on and on. What's good for you is bad for me and what is good for me is bad for you.

[Ipberg]

Prohibiting smoking threatens the government's revenue from cigarette taxes. It doesn't make sense!

[metesky]

People who brand other people without knowing them are dumber.

[nothingnew]

It's their way or no way.

Got that right, and it includes all the NGO's also.(particularly the anti-smokers and the gay agenda nazis).

FMCDH

[SteamshipTime]

Our national motto needs to be changed from "In God We Trust" to "Mind Your Own Damn Business."

[SheLion]

Prohibiting smoking threatens the government's revenue from cigarette taxes. It doesn't make sense!

You KNOW it doesn't make sense. The government raises the taxes through the roof, to "balance their budgets." But, they want a "smoke free everything." Which side of their mouth do you want to believe?

I think the people are waking up to this gluttony greed.

And especially when the Nanny's are dictating to a business how to run it, it's really going way over the top.

[SheLion]

People who brand other people without knowing them are dumber.

Hi metesky!

And your right!

[SheLion]

Got that right, and it includes all the NGO's also.(particularly the anti-smokers and the gay agenda nazis).

Here in Maine, they are making way for gays, but smokers are out. I can't get over it. And Maine is $itching about health care.

[TC Rider]

Tip for Charlie,

Put a set of stairs up to the roof.

Leave a cooler of warm p!ss beer up there.

Place sign on steps, "This way for under 18 and non-smokers".

Then you have 8000 sq ft for smokers and 8000 sq ft of fresh air for non-smokers. (hey, that beer will be cold by October)

[Malleus Dei]

I wish they'd banned smoking from any place open to the public here in the States years ago. Maybe then my father and sister would still be alive. Maybe then I could go out to a bar or a pool hall without being assaulted by unwanted and unhealthy tobacco smoke and made ill.

As conservatives you have to realize that your right to the pursuit of happiness ends when it endangers someone else's health - and smoking in public or in the presence of nonsmokers does exactly that. Smoking in a private place among other smokers or smoking in the open away from others is the harmless pursuit of your own happiness, but inflicting your unwanted, nasty and unhealthy smoke on other people who don't want anything to do with it and who are physically harmed by it isn't just rude - it's morally wrong. And that is why legislation like this is happening.

Save your own life and quit smoking now. Had you seen how horribly my father and sister died you would never go near tobacco again in your life.

[RikaStrom]

Isn't that the truth!

[TrappedInLiberalHell]

Mean-spirited, petty busybodies

I thought at first that this article was going to be about Tom Daschle and Dick Gephardt.

[headsonpikes]

Save your own life and quit believing government-funded lies now.

Your personal tragedy is no grounds for surrendering authority to the socialists.

Of course, you may be one, already.

Sympathy? It's in the dictionary.

[msgt]

Maybe then I could go out to a bar or a pool hall without being assaulted by unwanted and unhealthy tobacco smoke and made ill.

What makes you think you have the right to tell the bar owner/pool hall owner what he can do with his business? If you want a smoke free bar/poolhall, start one or find one that is already voluntarily smoke free. You have that right, but not the right to tell someone else they have to accomodate your preferences.

[John O]

Maybe then my father and sister would still be alive.

With condolences on your loss let me say that the evil cigarettes didn't jump out of the pack light themselves on fire and force your dad and sister to inhale. People are responsible for the consequences of their own actions.

Maybe then I could go out to a bar or a pool hall without being assaulted by unwanted and unhealthy tobacco smoke and made ill.

Guess what, if you don't like the smoke (or can't tolerate it) find a bar that's less smokey or don't go. If the bar owner decides he wants to permit smoking then he has the right to do that. It's his property and you are their under his rules. Stop whining. No one is forcing you to go there

As conservatives you have to realize that your right to the pursuit of happiness ends when it endangers someone else's health - and smoking in public or in the presence of nonsmokers does exactly that.

Depends where they are. In a privately owned building the owner makes the rules. If the smoke bother you, don't go there.

And that is why legislation like this is happening.

No legislation like this is happening because some people are trying to erode our property rights. It is an evil usurption of our rights

Now let me add that I am an anti-smoker. I figure that a smoker gets what he deserves. I even have a button that says "Cancer cures smoking". But they have the right to do it if they so decide and I cannot steal someone's property by supporting rules for his property that he doesn't agree with.

P.S. Be braced for severe flaming from the smoking lobby here

God Save America (Please)

[The Great RJ]

The hypocracy of these anti smoking nazis is that while they decry all forms of tobacco use, they readily take the taxes from tobacco sales. If the people's health were their only goal they would seek to ban tobacco altogether, but if that were to succeed there would be a large hole in their tax coffers.

[Chad Fairbanks]

Sympathy? It's in the dictionary.

Right between 'Socialist' and 'Syphillis'... ;0)