Bill Aims to Ban Workplace Smoking

Newsday | 9/17/02 | J. Palmer

[Protagoras]

Or is he just making this up to justify his position?

He read something that someone else made up. Junk science.

[Protagoras]

If I am ever around you, I will make sure to light one up.

I don't even smoke and I would happily blow it in the face of anyone who advocated usurping the rights of property owners.

[Gabz]

LOL!!!!!!

[Protagoras]

Your car exhaust is a lot more deadly than my cigarette smoke.

His advocation of armed thugs usurping the rights of citizens is more deadly than all the other factors combined. Sadly, someday it will probably lead to the death of millions of citizens, as it has in the past. War is bad for your health.

[Gabz]

I don't even smoke and I would happily blow it in the face of anyone who advocated usurping the rights of property owners.

Exactly - and that is the point of this issue - private property rights - it really has very little, if anything with health or even smoking.

[SheLion]

Smoking is optional, breathing is not.

If you can't stand the smoke; get out of the breathing business.

[Protagoras]

it really has very little, if anything with health or even smoking.

Precisely. Just as the WOD question really isn't about drugs. They keep trying to convince people that it is.

These folks have the same position as Hillary. I wonder if they will vote for her.

[metesky]

Brian.Foley@co.suffolk.ny.us

[RISU]

You are the Selfish one. Most of us respect the rights of others to do and say as they please so long as they don't harm others.

In your case you buy into the fiction that you hurt others when you smoke, are willing to saddle the risk taking businessman with new laws that limit his own business, and you say I am selfish?

Here in Texas we are asking resturants to identify wether they are "smoking" or "non-smoking" then let the people decide for themselves, and permitting the businessman who takes all the risks to manage his own business.

But not YOU. Oh no, you have to decide for everyone, don't you?

You are hopelessly lost, freind. Fogot you were an "American". You don't really belong in this country if you don't believe in tolerance of others and their rights.

Can't stand the smoke? Get out of the area where it is. We smokers never banned non-smokers from public places, but you are willing to try to ban us from places. YOU aere the creep, not us.

[SheLion]

But YOU can decide on your own to foul the air and make it d*mned inconventient for others to breathe.

Nonsmokers are entitled to smokefree air.

Then smokers are entitled to smokey air; freedom and justice for all/men are created equal.

[Protagoras]

If you can't stand the smoke; get out of the breathing businesses that allow it on their private property.

There, I fixed it.

[SheLion]

That's their Right, and I oppose any effort to infringe upon it.

THANK you!!!!

[N. Theknow]

"Second-hand smoke kills tens of thousands of Americans each year and injures the health of tens of thousands more as well," said Foley,

What a crock! Oh, wait a DemoncRAT said it...never mind...consider the source.

[SheLion]

"Second-hand smoke kills tens of thousands of Americans each year and injures the health of tens of thousands more as well," said Foley

Yea, well Save Lives, not Big Tobacco!

WITHOUT Big Tobacco, millions of antis lives wouldn't be worth a plug nickel; Big Tobacco is where their money comes from to continue this BS against smokers!

[SheLion]

If you can't stand the smoke; get out of the breathing businesses that allow it on their private property. There, I fixed it.

Exactly!

[N. Theknow]

What I envision is a bar/restaurant suddenly becoming a members-only establishment. For a nominal fee ($5 a year?),

A restaurant in Fort Wayne, IN charges $1.00 for a lifetime membership in their "club" and gives a $1.00 discount on the first cup of coffee.

[Sloth]

People who smoke are uniformly dumb and often inconsiderate, but that is no reason to usurp the property rights of private businesses.

[Gabz]

These folks have the same position as Hillary. I wonder if they will vote for her.

They probably all did - which is why she is where she is and this bunch of clowns thinkks they can ignore the rights of business and private roperty owners with impunity.

[Musket]

It's very simple--or should be: whoever owns the business makes the rules, NOT the Government.

[Gabz]

We smokers never banned non-smokers from public places, but you are willing to try to ban us from places.

I can tolerate the no-smoking in public places - it's the forced no-smoking in private businesses where I have a problem.