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Why would you choose to be "trapped in any closed space with someone who is smoking a cigarette?"
If you had read the entire thread you would have learned that before the smoking bans, workplaces were often poisoned by secondhand smoke. I had to attend faculty meetings where the smoke of a few inconsiderate smokers impacted all of us who were in the room. Likewise with the faculty 'lounge', which was the only place that staff could congregate for lunch and planning. It was foul and disgusting and I am grateful for laws that prevent such behavior in 2012.
A. You walk up to bar and it says "smoking allowed".
B. You walk up to a bar and it says "Stink Bobs Allowed"
Why do you think you would have the right to complain about either activity?
You shouldn't have the right to complain about either. Nor how loud they play their music, nor the temperature of their beer, nor the height of their tables, etc, etc. Your right is to choose to not go there.
But the Nanny State Nazis want to tell business owners exactly how to run their business. This trend is growing every year.
Maybe you should campaign for a new nanny state law that prevents anyone from posting absurd statements. That would fit your nanny state utopia quite nicely.
Considering that just about everything else in America was better during the times before smoking bans, I would say that a little second hand smoke is a small price to pay for a much better country overall
Correct. Unfortunately, many don't value freedom and give it up quite easily.
If you had read the entire thread you would have learned that before the smoking bans, workplaces were often poisoned by secondhand smoke. I had to attend faculty meetings where the smoke of a few inconsiderate smokers impacted all of us who were in the room. Likewise with the faculty 'lounge', which was the only place that staff could congregate for lunch and planning. It was foul and disgusting and I am grateful for laws that prevent such behavior in 2012.
So you were not "trapped". You chose to enter those places.
If you had read the entire thread you would have learned that before the smoking bans, workplaces were often poisoned by secondhand smoke. I had to attend faculty meetings where the smoke of a few inconsiderate smokers impacted all of us who were in the room. Likewise with the faculty 'lounge', which was the only place that staff could congregate for lunch and planning. It was foul and disgusting and I am grateful for laws that prevent such behavior in 2012.
I'm assuming this is public school? As I've said before there is reasonable bans and that would be one of them. A ban there I could agree with but if it's a private employer in a private building that decision should be left up to the employer. Having said that I doubt many employers would lift the ban even if they could.
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As someone who is pretty allergic to cigarette smoke, life for me at least, is better with the ban. I m pretty sure it is inconvenient for smokers, but not as beyond inconvenient it was for those of who used to have to endure second hand smoke.
A smoker's habit should not be allowed to infringe on my habit..of breathing clean air!
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