I spent 5 years in Germany. Wonderful country. However, don't believe all you hear about second hand smoke. When the war on the smokers didn't work, then the highly paid anti-smokers started on this second hand smoke kick. Telling everyone that our second hand smoke is killing them. This is all BS!
The result: I can now go into a bar or disco in Stockholm and enjoy myself without having to breathe other people's dirty lung air. I can't dance in Germany. The discos are too smoky.
Funny. I started dancing when I was 8. Turned professional at age 16. Started working at sports shows, TV and night clubs (very smoky, no smoke eaters at that time), and I also smoked.
I was in top shape. Smoking never once hindered my dancing or ability to breath.
Do you really think it's a good thing for the government to dictate how a private business owner is to operate just because you can't stand the smoke? This is a very slippery slope.
[Do you really think it's a good thing for the government to dictate how a private business owner is to operate just because you can't stand the smoke? This is a very slippery slope.]
But the slippery slope is already there. Lapdancing, toplessness...is all regulated. You are not allowed to operate in many places now without a properly inspected dishwasher. The Health Department can regulate what you can and cannot do to the nth degree in many places.
The corporate world is against smoking now.
I know large Republican business owners in red states who would fire any employee who they know smokes at home! With them, even if you go outside and smoke in your car...your history.
Why? Insurance premiums and the future requirements for keeping only a non-smoking workforce are only the tip of the iceberg. It is becoming socially and professionally unacceptable in a lot of places to smoke.
You can't love nicotine so much as to bang your head against the brick wall of such an obvious and irreversible trend.
The 25 meter law...it is because the employees in large buildings had created a gauntlet of smoke outside the main doors that innocent people had to go through just to enter the building. I have written to several corporate presidents in the past asking that the employees don't smoke outside the entrance.