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<blockquote data-quote="BusynMember" data-source="post: 634091" data-attributes="member: 1550"><p>Sus, you make a point, but, as a non-smoker who doesn't want to wait until people decide to not inflict their dangerous habit on others, I'm glad there are laws banning smoking. There are always jerks who are difficult children and will show up just to fling the smoke in everyone's face and that one smoker could cause somebody harm or, at least, ruin a lot of people's dinner's taste. I remember when I was a teen, and you could smoke anywhere in a restaurant, some guy was blowing smoke in me and my friend's direction and making me cough. I asked him very nicely if he would please not blow it my way. There was just the aisle on his other side. He said, "No," and he did it even more so we left. Plenty of idiots are still capable of being that way. This was a grown man probably out with his wife (if it was a date, you'd think she would have been embarassed and walked out on him...lol). That memory stuck with me. He wasn't the only one who was rude, but he was the most blatant when two fifteen year olds were asking him in a sweet, innocent, non-jerky way...</p><p></p><p>I do not believe in freedom of choice if it infringes on the rights of others. And I think that's what smoking near others does. I guess I'm not much of a libertarian. I believe in good laws and I think this is a good law.</p><p></p><p>I'm happy with the direction this is going. It is one of the very few things I feel (in this country, at least) is actually going the way most people want it to. Casinos still allow smoking. As long as no laws ban it, it will take a long time for the owners to do it. And I'd go to the casino way more if they did ban smoking. As it is, I end up moving around so that at least a smoker isn't sitting next to me while I play. Hubby, as an ex-smoker, is even more intolerant of smoking...lol.</p><p></p><p>But thanks for your thoughts and a good discussion.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BusynMember, post: 634091, member: 1550"] Sus, you make a point, but, as a non-smoker who doesn't want to wait until people decide to not inflict their dangerous habit on others, I'm glad there are laws banning smoking. There are always jerks who are difficult children and will show up just to fling the smoke in everyone's face and that one smoker could cause somebody harm or, at least, ruin a lot of people's dinner's taste. I remember when I was a teen, and you could smoke anywhere in a restaurant, some guy was blowing smoke in me and my friend's direction and making me cough. I asked him very nicely if he would please not blow it my way. There was just the aisle on his other side. He said, "No," and he did it even more so we left. Plenty of idiots are still capable of being that way. This was a grown man probably out with his wife (if it was a date, you'd think she would have been embarassed and walked out on him...lol). That memory stuck with me. He wasn't the only one who was rude, but he was the most blatant when two fifteen year olds were asking him in a sweet, innocent, non-jerky way... I do not believe in freedom of choice if it infringes on the rights of others. And I think that's what smoking near others does. I guess I'm not much of a libertarian. I believe in good laws and I think this is a good law. I'm happy with the direction this is going. It is one of the very few things I feel (in this country, at least) is actually going the way most people want it to. Casinos still allow smoking. As long as no laws ban it, it will take a long time for the owners to do it. And I'd go to the casino way more if they did ban smoking. As it is, I end up moving around so that at least a smoker isn't sitting next to me while I play. Hubby, as an ex-smoker, is even more intolerant of smoking...lol. But thanks for your thoughts and a good discussion. [/QUOTE]
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