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To: Just another Joe
It's easy to forget that fact but it is a fact that we are supposed to be a constitutional republic.

In either case, the electorate chooses the people to put in charge. You and your fellow citizens chose the politicians who passed these laws banning smoking. If you don't like them then convince enough of your neighbors to either overturn the bans or choose different politicians. All this whining is unbecoming.

111 posted on 01/13/2004 11:58:15 PM PST by Looking for Diogenes
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To: Looking for Diogenes
If you don't like them then convince enough of your neighbors to either overturn the bans or choose different politicians. All this whining is unbecoming.

That's what I did in Missouri last year. Cost me in the neighborhood of $1,500 of my own money too because big tobacco wouldn't touch it.
If it's whining to support private property rights for business owners when govs regulate something, NOT voted on by the people, that is put into place to regulate a "health hazard" based on suspect science and false studies, then call me a whiner.

113 posted on 01/14/2004 12:03:35 AM PST by Just another Joe (FReeping can be addictive and helpful to your mental health)
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