Stridr417: You can't light up in your cubicle, so why do you think you should be able to in a bar or resaurant?
You can light up in your cubicle, as well as in your house, appartment or other property of yours.
Your employer may disallow smoking in his cubicle that you call yours but which really is not.
Smoking is offensive to the majority of people, and public places where people are allowed to go to freely, such as a restaurant, should be free of smoke.
Public places are the places owned by public. In such places the public can certainly vote to disallow smoking because.
The restaurant is a private property and it is the owner that allows people to enter it. He is the one who should decide whether his place should be free of smoke, sound, smell or people.
You can't sit at a bar naked, or yell at the top of your lungs without getting kicked out.
Because the owner does not allow that.
Same thing.
You really do not see the diffeence between the owner imposing rules in his property or the government that sets rules in his provate property?
I see that you skipped this thread because you raise the issues already covered, so I will repeat muself using your examples.
If you allow your friends to smoke and eat at the same time in your private house, and also sit naked also yell at the top of their lungs, why would the government be justified in arrsting you?
And yeah, smoking is something that we will look back on as a quaint and dangerous habit in 50 years... get over it.
You are smugly claiming something that you have no way to prove as true. It indicates you are just a wishfull thinker who confuses his fantasies with reality.
Why don't you get over the fact that unless we live in a total police state worse than Soviet Union, people will smike, drink, use drugs and eat junk food? we have heard inane predictions like yours for centuries. Somehow the pessimists were proven right every time.
miko
