Forgot to mention, although I realize most everyone knows, the casinos have an exemption from the smoking ban. The politicians can't even apply the law equally.
I would like to get peoples ideas on what can be done to put an end to the bans. We seem to do enough complaining about them (myself included), but where is the action? We can say "vote the rascals out", but here in New Jersey, you are only voting one corrupt politician out of office in favor of another who is probably as bad or worse.
Premise --- Secondhand smoke kills. Some people smoke. The people who smoke exhale into the atmosphere. Everyone breaths the same air from the atmosphere. Prohibit the people who smoke from smoking and the killing would stop. Everyone would live forever. AHHHH Utopia --- Shangri La. Very silly, isn't it.
04/23/2006 8:44:04 AM PDT
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Require managers in stronger language to refuse to serve or seat smoking patrons in a non-smoking place.
The above statement is a comment I copied from the news story. It seems to me that this indicates that the government could require managers of resturants and bars to use a certain kind of language to deal with people who smoke. My opinion is that this would be in violation of the first amendment to our constitution. It would infringe on freedom of speech in that the government could tell you what to say and how to say it to a certain segment of our population.