And that is exactly what I do. My 23 year old son smokes - outside - my house my rules hehe.
Don't get me wrong - I think the lawsuits were a bunch of croc. I think all the anti-smoking laws are a bunch of bull. if you or my son or anyone chooses to indulge, that is your prerogative and no one should tell you if you can or cannot smoke.
I personally choose not to, and I choose to dine etc in a smoke-free environment. But I also know that if I choos4e to go to a bar or a casino, etc - then I am making the conscious decision to enter a smokefilled area.
Don't confuse my belief that cigarette smoke caused my cancer as a statement that I support any and all anti-smoking crap. All I was saying is that i know what happened to me, no matter what this study says - heck maybe I am that "Statistically insignificant" person - LOL!
You have every right to set your rules in your own home! A person¡¦s home is their castle, and I have all respect for you and anyone who enforces inside their homes what they want or do not want. That's a given. :)
Don't get me wrong - I think the lawsuits were a bunch of croc. I think all the anti-smoking laws are a bunch of bull. if you or my son or anyone chooses to indulge, that is your prerogative and no one should tell you if you can or cannot smoke.
The lawsuits and the war on the smokers is all about MONEY! Tobacco is legal, and since Big Tobacco fell on their knees back in 1998 in front of the Attorney Generals, I have lost all respect for them. Big T sold us out.
I personally choose not to, and I choose to dine etc in a smoke-free environment. But I also know that if I choos4e to go to a bar or a casino, etc - then I am making the conscious decision to enter a smokefilled area.
Preferring to dine in a smoke free environment is your right. I think there are enough non-smoking restaurants to do to accommodate non-smokers. It¡¦s the government intrusion that we are fighting. Leave the decision up to the owner and his patrons to allow smoking or not. We do not need more government BIG BROTHER moving in to tell us all how to live.
Don't confuse my belief that cigarette smoke caused my cancer as a statement that I support any and all anti-smoking crap. All I was saying is that i know what happened to me, no matter what this study says - heck maybe I am that "Statistically insignificant" person - LOL!
It¡¦s just very confusing to me that how anyone can dispute our governments DOE report. Thats like saying they are lying to us. And since there are so many anti-health groups formed now wanting to make it very hard on the smokers, and the DOE came out saying that ETS is not the killer the health groups want to make it, I ask: I think any anti who tries to dismiss the findings of the U.S. Department of Energy labs at Oak Ridge, should be confronted with the question: "Are you saying that DOE researchers committed scientific fraud and that their findings on ETS exposure are untrue?"
I'd like to see what any anti would say in response to that question.
There needs to be space for all of us. Especially when smokers go out to dinner and pay for it. Most of us now refuse to spend our money in an establishment that will not accommodate us. They say smoking bans aren't hurting businesses. But they are SO wrong. There just needs to be a "happy ground" for us all, without Big Brother stepping in.