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I'm still here in MA and while I agree with you on theory (banning something legal), I disagree in practice. If smokers want to kill themselves, I have no argument with that. But when their bad habits spill over into my airspace, I have a huge problem with that! I wonder how many years I've taken off the end of my life since I used to travel (fly) a lot before the smoking ban on aircraft.
MA bans smoking in just about all public places--restaurants, bars (!) and office buildings. Yay!
I feel strange advocating smokers rights, but here is some examples of what's next:
-banning peanut butter and jelly in the workplace---google this...its happening
-banning cologne and perfume
-banning people with pet dander on the their clothes
In 10 years you will submit to body mass indexing which will determine what you pay for health care.
I fully support the bans in public places like parks and public buildings but draw the line when it comes to private property.
I too remember the days of smoking at the mall. In fact, I was just in Belk the other day at Crabtree and some of their dressing rooms still have those little gold colored, built in ashtrays!
At this point I rather see it legal in parks, but make the fine for littering with a butt something draconian like $2000. Nothing ticks me off more than watching a smoker at a red light flick his butt out the window. Smokers don't even look around now to see if a cop is watching before doing it. It's not even littering to them.
I actually have seen people get ticketed for throwing butts out, but it's one of those things where 9 times out of ten, law enforcement never sees it. I once saw a cop in Cary pick up a freshly tossed butt and hand it back to the driver with a ticket.
Yes, some of them, but I choose to NOT eat in those places. I ask if smoking is allowed and if they say yes I go somewhere else.
When I lived in Seattle there was a restaurant/bar that chose to go completely smoke free. People were up in arms. Dire predictions that all the smokers would have to go somewhere else and the restaurant would go broke. Didn't happen. The restaurant remained popular (good food, good service, why wouldn't it remain popular) and it became one of my favorite places BECAUSE it was smoke free. And as other restaurants followed suit, I began to avoid those that allowed smoking. If we get to NC and there is still smoking allowed in some restaurants, I will do the same.
I'm not telling smokers they can't smoke. I'm just choosing NOT to be around it.
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