Now, they come up with this persuasive, scientific proof. If Ditka says it's OK, that is as close to proof as these idiots are going to get.
He runs a public place and if I am in it, I don't want to be forced to suffer the by-product of some other customer's personal weakness or stupidity. Whether that customer is playing a radio at max volume, burning strong incense, burning tire chunks or burning tobacco, he does not have the right to take my freedom.
The smoke nazis refuse to recognize how annoying their addiction is and their name calling isn't going to change that. They claim that since they got there first, they can burn what they want. That's facist thinking. But, they have an authority like Ditka backing them and they know how important that is.
As you drive around Chicago, please be kind to the little groups of people huddled outside buildings, off to the side. That is the smokers' ghetto, where poor people, too weak to over come their terrible addiction, go to smoke and talk about the fine support they're getting from Ditka. Freeze your a** off, you stupid smoker!
He runs a public place and if I am in it, I don't want to be forced to suffer the by-product of some other customer's personal weakness or stupidity. Whether that customer is playing a radio at max volume, burning strong incense, burning tire chunks or burning tobacco, he does not have the right to take my freedom.
He does NOT run a "public place," he runs a PRIVATE BUSINESS! Your freedom is not to enter. If you do enter, it's Ditka's "air," not yours.
The smoke nazis refuse to recognize how annoying their addiction is and their name calling isn't going to change that.
Smoke is not nearly as annoying or offensive and you and your kind, at least to normal people. And YOUR name calling isn't going to change that.
Freeze your a** off, you stupid smoker!
You're such a shining example of your kind. Bet you failed your IQ test.
Truth to tell, both are of equal value. Doubleplusgood.
Did it make you turn green, make you sick? Did it cause a brain tumor to start growing in your head within a few minutes?
Or perhaps the poison just made your nostrils a little uncomfortable.
Sorry to disappoint you, but Ditka's restaurant is HIS restaurant. Its not a "public place". If he didn't like you, he could ban you from it. On the other hand, if you don't like smoke, instead of bitching, go elsewhere. If a restaurant allows smoking, and I decide to light up, I don't want to have to hear your snide remarks, or see your dirty looks. I want to enjoy my meal without a hassle. If I'm in a no smoking establishment, I don't smoke.
As for being weak or stupid: Some of us just enjoy it. Some people like sky-diving, but personally, I'll never jump out of a perfectly functioning airplane. Everyone chooses their own life style, and are entitled to. Who the he$$ do you think you are to mandate no smoking, no alcohol, no fatty foods, no salt, no sugar, etc. In fact, just to pi$$ you off, I'm going to run around the living room WITH SCISSORS!!!
You said it here. IF. You have a choice. If you don't want to be there, don't go! In fact Ditka himself tells you that! There other places to go.
The perfect solution is to have both types of restaurants and bars. Some that allow smoking and those that do not. Any patron in the wrong place is there of their own accord and has no reason to gripe.
Most restaurants had non smoking sections and that still wasn't good enough for the anti-smoke nazis. So now they want it all. Why should only non smokers be comfortable? By having both types of establishments smoking and non-smoking, then both sets of patrons can be comfortable.
As for workers, the same applies. You know when you fill the application whether or not the place allows smoking. Don't want the smoke, then don't apply. If you apply, then you have made a choice to accept the smoke as part of the job. Just like people in factories pr other work places that have to work with questionable materials. Sure safety standards say that you have the 'right to know', but that's it. You can't refuse to work with it, because it would cost you your job. I've been in that type of situation. Some work places tell you up front, so you can make your choice then. Continue with the application for employment or walk out the door.
Choice. It's all about choice. And just as the non smoker gets a choice about going to a smoking or non smoking environment, so too should the smoker be given that choice. The choice shouldn't be eliminated.
Would people like choice of soda limited to ONE? Or choice of beer limited to ONE? And that ONE determined by someone else?
A consumer driven market is based on CHOICE! jmo
You sir, are on the wrong forum.
Perhaps you could be so kind and let us know what is wrong with the above statement. Just to help the thought process along, I have taken the liberty of bolding a few things you just might want to key in on.
Are SUV's ok? Guns? Turn off the test pattern, ok?
Now run along and slime your way back to DU. They love to assimilate your type.
LVM
I am a non-smoker, and there is only a few things that bug me more than smokers. Rest assured that one of those things is non-smokers who moan about smokers.
Simple solution: don't go there. How is that not a 'win' for all involved?
.......and you SURE wouldn't say it to MY face.
You have the freedom of not frequenting restaurants that do that. While restaurants can be considered public places, they are privately owned and I respect the rights of the owner to have whatever kind of "entertainment" he wishes to have in his restaurant. If he wants to play loud music, have people smoke, have girls dance naked on the tables, that's up to him. There are plenty of other restaurants to go to if I don't like it.
Enlighten us please. What pray tell is your definition of freedom? Exactly how is Ditka limiting your freedom?
WRONG !
He runs a private place and if you don't want to eat there you don't have to. You have your rights and we have ours ! I'm not a smoker but if a restaurant lets smokers smoke then it's their business not the Gov't. If the employees don't want to work there then they can work someplace else.
Then don't go in it. Its his public place, not yours.
So my little turnip, you are in a dance club, and what the music is too loud, something OSHA says is decibel hurting, and you being the stupid little statist wimp that you are, support the local, state, and federal governments forcing them to have to turn down the volume?
Ditto bright dance lights, obscuring dance floor fog.
Not that a paranoid little bootlick like yourself has gotten out to a club in the last 45 years. ”Cough, cough, my ears, my ears! My eyes, my eyes! I can’t see the dance floor, Mommy, take me home!”