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To: Gabz
DMV is a public place. Joe's Bar & Grill is a private business establishment that invites the public in. If you drive or own a vehicle you are FORCED to deal with DMV to remain within the law. You are never FORCED to enter Joe's place of business.

There's another element of force involved. The government forces Joe to offer a service, smoke-free dining. Why not force him to offer exercise classes at the end of every meal, too? Because the majority of patrons don't want it? I guess that means that smoking bans have nothing to do with rights or objective criteria of public health, just majority whim. By that logic smoking restaurants were fine until the moment the opinion polls tipped against smoking.

312 posted on 08/16/2004 11:01:35 AM PDT by SupplySider
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To: SupplySider

Exactly.

And when the government forced Joe to offer the service, they took away Bob's target market, because bob's Place was already smoke-free.


313 posted on 08/16/2004 11:05:38 AM PDT by Gabz (BTW - have I mentioned lately I'm tired of rain?)
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