I've got no problem with folks going to the owners of their favorite establishments to seek the VOLUNTARY change of smoking policy based upon customer request.
While I will not patronize such an establishment, I will support the customers and proprietors that work to do such.
All I want is for the proprietors to have the same right to make a business decision based upon custoner and employee requests to continue to permit smoking. Smoking bans remove that right from the owners, employees, and customers.
Anti-smokers claim they are just looking out for the rights of non-smokers. They are wrong. They are actually stealing the rights of most non-smokers.
Anti-smokers claim they speak for ALL non-smokers, but they don't - and they know it. As soon as a non-smoker says the antis do not speak for them, the antis call them liars regarding their non-smoking status.
Anti-smokers despise the Constitution and prove it every time they open their mouths.
That's how we feel, as well. But the Health Coalition in Maine made the restaurants go completely smoke-free in 1999. If a bar/restaurant sold liquor, they could have their smoking section. So, the bar/restaurants is where we go for our meals.
I was listening for the phrase and was not disappointed. Near the end of the call the nut said "It's for your own good." I don't think Hannity heard it or I believe he would have commented on it.
So what else could be for my own good? If I am unable to get around very well might I not have a two-story house "for my own good?" If I am prone to drink too fast might water be rationed to me "for my own good?" If I drive too fast and get a ticked might my vehicle be taken from me "for my own good?" If I cannot see that well might I be made to stay home "for my own good?" Where does it end?
The correct answer is: It will NEVER end. There will always be some do-gooder or some busybody who will demand that Government make you act according to the way THEY think you should act and have what THEY think you should have.
Eyes