There are thousands of things that America won't let us do; adding one more like NO SMOKING ANYWHERE is hardly

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a significant loss of freedom, is it? It doesn't even increase the restrictions on our freedom by one-half of one percent, so let's support it so we all end up healthier and smell better!

Answer 1

Glad someone finally said it.

Answer 2

STOP SMOKING +!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!...

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Answer 3

I hate smoking.  I hate trying to get in and out of buildings without stinking like the nasty smokers that "guard" all the doors, and I hate trying to eat in a restaurant that puts a 2'  lattice wall between smoking and non-smoking areas and thinks that will actually stop smoke.  I generally don't have much sympathy for the smokers, who take a hit every time a new one of these laws comes out, because they're the same folks who smoke while  you're trying to eat because "I can smoke anywhere I please."  Well, now they can't, and they probably would still be able to, had they shown some basic consideration.

Unfortunately, as little sympathy as I've had for them, I can't actively support the kind of rampant banning we're seeing these days, simply because right now it's smoking, next it will be......what?    As a gun owner, I'm all too well aware of the fact that the 'give an inch, take a mile' rule is firmly entrenched in politics.  Simply put, the more they are allowed to ban, the more they will ban.  What will you do when they decide sugar is a contributor to obesity, so none of us can have it?  Coffee contains caffeine, which has been shown to be harmful to us, so none of us can have it.  

Be very very careful about supporting bans, because it's the other guy now, but it will without-doubt be you tomorrow.

Answer 4

I would agree, if the communities that pass 'no smoking laws, also are no longer allowed to sell, and thusly benefit from the sales tax, and the state excise taxes that have been disproportionately heaped upon the sales of tobacco products.

It is, the height of legislative hypocrisy, to ban the public use of a product that the same people banning it, benefit form the sales of it.

It is indeed quite revealing as to how the government views the sales of tobacco (by the taxation) as a necessary thing to allow, and yet, all of science PROVES that their are no benefits to a person's health in the consumption.

As we all recognize this, and that most agree that second hand smoke should be eliminated, it would seem obvious to anyone with a brain, that tobacco, should be banned altogether.

"Thinking doesn't have to hurt."

Along with olddawg's comment, I add, that what he says, is kind of in line with what I have stated.

Those that pay the excise and sales taxes on the tobacco products, should not be restricted from using these products in any community that benefits from these taxes.

As the sales tax is divvied up between both the state and the city where it was collected, the only reasonable rule as regards banning smoking in public or wherever, is to include a clause, that makes it illegal to buy or sell cigarettes in both the city and the state that has allowed or created such a law.

Answer 5

a deffinition of 'democracy' is.... tax purchased libertys.

...  if ya wanna pay the tax to have the liberty, fine.

... if ya dont pay the tax, leave those who choose too alone.