So I guess you would have also fought the introduction of health inspectors into restaurants. What about all of the food preparation guidelines that must be followed. I suppose that is merely the nanny state imposing its will on the free market?
Silly examples don't work. Food preparation for an unsuspecting public versus the legal right of a business to run their operation as they see fit by allowing a legal activity on the premises. Until you make smoking illegal, you have no right to insist on enforcing the nanny-state on a business.
Regardless, if there were no health inspectors restaurants would be open to law suits if they prepare anything that hurt unsuspecting patrons. As corrupt as many so-called inspectors are you may have a good point.
Smoking is hardly an unknown activity when you walk through the door. One wonders why in the world you would even want to go inside a business that has smoking? Why not just not go there? Is that so hard for you to understand? Are you incapable of making such a decision, meaning which places to patronize and which not?
Please, this "argument" has been refuted so many times that it has scar tissue.
Restaurant patrons are not privy to the goings on in a restaurant kitchen, so health inspectors are necessary agents acting on behalf of the public.
On the other hand, restaurant patrons know from the minute they enter whether or not smoking is allowed. They can choose to leave or remain at that point.
Since you state that no restaurants in Florida allow smoking anymore, you should be in Nirvana.
So other than being here to throw gratuitous insults about smoking, and otherwise committing first-degree pecksniffery, what's your complaint?
Jeez, you guys need some new material. This one and the "pee in the swimming pool" are about due for the scrap heap, doncha think?
Here...I'll type slowly so you can understand...Government should protect the public from things the public cannot assess for themselves, like the temperature of the refrigerator or the cleanliness of the kitchen. It is NOT now and never has been government's right or mandate to protect the public from itself.
"So I guess you would have also fought the introduction of health inspectors into restaurants."Yes. They are government employees, and are the high cost low quality provider. I would prefer a private industry sticker on the door like Underwriters Laboratory, or CE, or ISO 2002 or any of the hundreds of private organizations that require members to meet standards. They do it better and cheaper. Of course you must think that government schools have better food than private restaurants and same goes with public housing and transportation vs private.
" What about all of the food preparation guidelines that must be followed."Must? What is this, commandment by scribbling? People must not murder and it happens regardless. What objective evidence do you have that the mere existence of these codes, papers, forms, edicts, books, and other symbolic pronouncements from on high have improved anything?
" I suppose that is merely the nanny state imposing its will on the free market?"It is an attempt to force it's will, as much as our fat, lazy, incompetent government employees can have will.
99.99% of everything made or done in this country is done without the government. Why the other is proof that govie inspection prove the point is factually unfounded.