My Tall Ideas

I am a smoker.  I have smoked for over 10 years.  Is smoking bad for me…yes.  Am I an educated person…yes.  Do I continue to smoke knowing the facts about smoking…yes.  That is my choice and I have the right to engage in that activity as long as smoking is legal.  To publicly ban smoking is an absolute travesty.  It is strictly a form of Communism.  If I own a business and I decide to allow smoking in my establishment then I should have the right to do so.  For the government to come in and tell me that I can not allow people to smoke- which is absolutely legal- is Communism.  I understand that there is health issues involved with second hand smoke and people who don’t smoke have the right to not have smoke blown in their face.  If I have the right to smoke then those people should definitely have the right to enjoy a meal and a drink at a bar without having smoke bother them.  However, that does not give them the right to take my rights away from me because of that.  Business owners should be the ones who make the decision on whether to have their establishment allow smoking or not.  That is kind of the whole point of the “Land of the Free” isn’t it?  If non-smokers have the right to have restaurants, businesses, and bars be non-smoking, then shouldn’t smokers be able to also have restaurants and bars where we can go and smoke if we want.  Non-smokers do not have to go to our places.  And if we want to go to your places we can’t smoke.  Why is that so hard?  Everyone will still have their rights, non-smokers will be able to enjoy their clean air, and smokers will be able to enjoy their cigarettes.  What is wrong with having a bar that allows smoking and one that does not in the same city?  Does the smoking bar hurt any of the non-smokers who do not go into that bar….of course not.

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