Yep I can go down the street. How nice of you. Can I really? I mean that's really going beyond the call. I can actually go back out to the car and leave. Wow, I never imagined someone would be so thoughtful. Thanks.
Two people walk into an establishment to patronize it. One person pulls out an item, lights it and stinks up the whole restaurant. The other person doesn't invade anyone elses space. Nothing they do affects the person five, ten, twenty or more feet away.
To the smoker the guy who is at fault here is the person who doesn't smoke, doesn't inflict the residual effects of his habbit on everyone else. In fact, he should even be there. It is unreasonable for that person to think that he should be able to eat in an establishment with affecting anyone else.
The non-smoker hasn't taken an action. The smoker is that person. You would think that the non-smoker was doing something. He isn't. All he asks is for the other person not to do something.
If I went into a resturant, opened up a can of rotten fish, and let it sit on the table because it was a custom from the old country, I'm sure you'd think it was acceptable. Right? The smoke does essentially the same thing every time they light up.
You may not realize it, but hair picks up odors. If you don't wash your hair, you stink when you go to work. Yep, I've gotten all cleaned up after work, gotten dressed in a nice clean outfit. Put on a coats and gone out. And when I came home my clothing was unfit to wear again.
Go down the street? In an open smoking environment the restaurant down the street has smokers too. As I stated, I'm not willing to stay home so someone else can practice their filthy habit to my detriment.
Billionaire Bloomberg also wants the city council to outlaw smoking in all restaurants and bars, though in many neighborhoods, bar owners and their patrons like things as they are. Bloomberg has a problem more serious than a smoking habit. He is a blindly intolerant man who does not understand freedom, but thinks himself a great progressive. He is like the Puritans of old of whom it was said they opposed bear-bating, not because of the suffering it caused the bear, but because of the pleasure it gave the spectators.The mayor calls smokers "crazy" and "stupid." And given the cost to human health of the habit, the mayor has a point and a right to express it. But which is worse -- those who know the risks of smoking and freely choose to smoke, or those who demonize, tyrannize and rob smokers, for indulging in a habit of which they disapprove.
The Founding Fathers knew. They put their lives, fortunes and sacred honor on the line rather than be hectored and harassed by the Michael Bloombergs across the sea. And what did these men, Washington, Madison and Jefferson, do for a living? They were tobacco farmers.
Say it like it is, don't hide behind stinky clothing.
Well, I'll bet if you would refrain from that terrible addiction to food that you have for about two months you would make a lot of folks on this thread happy.