Second Hand Smoke

[devonin]

Government making smoking illegal = Government making taxes on cigarettes higher = Governments legislating towards the health of the population.

If you are ok with governments making such decisions in general, you'd support a smoking ban. If you are not ok with governments making such decisions on general, you'd not support a smoking ban.

No matter what you want to say, you cannot deny that smoking is -bad- for you and those around you. It comes down to which right is "more important" My right to go to all the same buildings you do without being made to second-hand smoke, or your right to create an atmosphere where a large segment of the population won't want to go, and which is intrinsically harmful to you as a person.

And as an aside, there's already a work-around in Canadian smoking-ban legislation. Smoking bans apply only to places of public access. If you file your establishment as a private organisation, and thus keep a membership for a fee, you can smoke.

So you get a guy with a laptop at the door, take a 5 cent lifetime membership fee, and jot the name down, and voila, you can have smoking there all you want.

Originally Posted by GuidoHunter

THAT is an infringement on businesses' rights and is an atrocity.

Hyperbole is the greatest concept in the entire universe.