Let me first say that I love non-smoking restaurants. There is nothing worse than getting a big whif of smoke just as your putting a big bite of syrupy waffle in your mouth. I love having a place to take my pregnant wife to eat and not have to worry about the smoke.
Shouldn’t the business owners be able to decide what kind of restaurant they want to run? isn’t that the point of capitalism? If you don’t like the way a business is run you don’t go there and if enough people don’t like it they go out of business.
I hate George Clooney and will never see any movie he is in. I know my two cents will never matter to him, and there will never be enough people that feel that way to actually put him out of work, but I am doing my part.
I realize that there is a difference because smoking is bad for you and people don’t want to be exposed to it, but until smoking itself is illegal then the business owner should be able to say that if you don’t want to be exposed then don’t come in here. Same thing goes with a porno shop. They just put out signs that say XXX you must be over 18. There is no such option with the smoking ban. Businesses that were geared towards smoking, where these laws have gone into effect have to close down. A mechanic can’t even smoke in his office that the public is never exposed to.
Imagine if you started a business and you called the Pink Palace. You had pink carpet and pink walls and pink chandeliers… Then along came a law that said you cannot have pink carpet in your business anymore. You’re ruined.
I hope that people stop going to businesses that allow smoking. I hope that it becomes so unpopular that any business that does allow it will quickly change or fail. I also hope that capitalism stays alive and well in America.
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15 March 2008, 21:54 UTCcomment by Steven
The anti-smoking crusade is about nothing more than elitism.
“They” have taken away the “right” to be racist, sexist, age-ist, anti-Semitic, homophobic, and so forth. So we went looking for new targets; Christianity (backfired; too much political clout, although its always open season on the Catholic Church for everybody), emigrants (a perennial favorite, dating back centuries), blonds (who either didn’t get it, and so ruined the fun — or did get it, and looked like, well, me).
So, who’s left that can be safely targeted? Smokers!
The only problem is, once we’ve been thoroughly marginalized, with the ability to enjoy a legal substance curtailed, and we never, ever have to be seen again, who will the oh-so-rightously concerned crusaders have to feel superior to?
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