A Smoking Issue
This is a reply I just had to write for some reason on a Facebook group thread I came accross:
I appreciate where both sides are coming from. I just don’t see why there has to be a law – best government is that which governs least, and all that – except that it’s mostly to do with politics, politicians promising good health so they try to make laws that restrict a bar owner’s freedom of choice over whether to allow smoking or not.
By supporting these laws, the people, you and me, are just playing into the hand of the politician, who’s next agenda will most likely be to restrict something that you actually enjoy doing.
I’ve gone on enough, but whatever, here’s my simple view:
Bar A allows smoking: people who smoke or don’t mind smoking go there, have fun and are happy.
Bar B does not allow smoking: people who don’t smoke or don’t mind not smoking for a while go there, have fun and are happy.
Bar C: sees which bar is doing better financially and chooses their policy accordingly.
I would prefer to control my own reality, rather than leave it up to those bumbling politicians, but that’s just me.
September 2nd, 2008 at 11:05 pm
Gee, I’m glad you solved this problem. Sounds good.
Do your legislators agree with you?
September 14th, 2008 at 8:18 pm
The same Govt. legislators who banned smoking in public bars are also quite happy to collect the excise tax on smokes and then just put the money into consolidated revenue instead of ploughing every cent raised in excise taxes back into free quit smoking courses for ALL smokers and free health care for smokers!!!!!!!!
Cheer,
Happy Ex-Smoker(of both tobacco and the funny smelling green stuff!!??).