[ImphClinton]

Laws prohibiting smoking in the workplace have been upheld for at least twenty years. People should not be forced to smoke second hand smoke just to choose bartending as an occupation.

As I suggested bars could have rooms for smokers as long as employees were banned from them under this law.

Your smoke is poison even if you deny that it is so. It isn't as fast as rat poision but just as deadly in the end. Tobacco would be made illegal if possible. The fact is it is not possible at this point, there are just too many smokers addicted to it. Society is the reason it is legal not science. It would be illegal were it a new product.

[Outraged At FLA]

"Laws prohibiting smoking in the workplace have been upheld for at least twenty years. People should not be forced to smoke second hand smoke just to choose bartending as an occupation. "

Actually, you are wrong. You have no proof second hand smoke is any more dangerous than the smoke that comes off of a flame broiler in any restaurant. Secondly, not all laws prohibiting smoking in the workplace have been upheld:

http://www.iowastatedaily.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2003/06/19/3ef1312298151

http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=&contentId=A17854-2003Jul6&notFound=true

http://www.cigaraficionado.com/Cigar/CA_Daily/CA_Weekly_Wrapper/0,2331,820,00.html

The government cannot stop the facilitation of people to use a product that is legal without stomping on several rights of the constitution.

Provided the lawsuit can get into court in front of a judge who is not a card carrying member of the American Heart And Lung Association, I cannot see how this law can stand.

[NotQuiteCricket]

I'm sorry, but the reason smoking is not illegal is because there is too much tax money going to the taxing authorities. If they get rid of smoking, all that money goes away. I smoke "for the children." Because the tax revenue supposedly goes to edumacation.

[cake_crumb]

"People should not be forced to smoke second hand smoke just to choose bartending as an occupation."

That is nothing more than a leftist, property-right-grabbing point with no basis in fact. As a long time bar manager, I can tell you that every bar I've worked in has had extensive ventilation systems. I also worked in a non-smoking bar and didn't smoke while I was running the place (obviously)

No one is being forced to make a choice of ANYTHING, except the mandatory, state-imposed "choice" to ruin their business.

Zealots like you can patronize and work in non-smoking establishments, where no doubt you argue the danger of cigarette smoking and the need to legalize pot and cocain.