[Orangedog]

In a public place I have to smell your smoke. I don't want to. Tell me, if I go naked in public, that infringes on the rights of others in what way? Why are their laws against that?

Define "public place." McDonalds, Burger King or the bowling alley are private property.

In a public place I have to smell your smoke. I don't want to.

I don't like being in the same grocery store as a fat, spandex-clad single mother of four who lets her miscreants scream, yell and run all over the store...I just don't want to be exposed to it. So it would be okay to pass a law to make those people stay out of Kroger, right?

Tell me, if I go naked in public, that infringes on the rights of others in what way? Why are their laws against that?

Why? I don't know....maybe because it's not a good thing to induce spontaneous vomitting or driving men to poke out their own eyes with an ice pick ;)

Going naked in public hasn't scientifically been proven to harm anyone either.

Opinions vary.

[Lorianne]

You and I are not talking apples and apples. Private businesses should be able to set and enforce their own smoking policies.

Public places are streets and sidewalks, parks, libraries, city hall, etc. Places paid for by taxpayers. Taxpayers should set the smoking policies in these places (by the democratic process). As I've said, if they hold a referendum and the majority wants to allow smoking in public places in my community, I would abide by that law, while trying to change it. I wonder if the majority of smokers are that fair?

[husky ed]

Those are the same reasons I don't go to Walmart, inside McDonalds and a dozen other places.