Legislative intervention is strictly necessary (for people like me).
I don't think legislative intervention is strictly necessary because you can't find a bar in which to hang out.
As nasty or unhealthy as you may think it is, people smoking around you in a privately owned establishment that is willing to allow such practices is not a violation of your rights that the government needs to protect you from.
It is not your right to have your favorite bar be smoke-free. However, it is your right to find a new bar that that prohibits smoking.
Or better yet, open your own.
I wonder what will happen to the bars when the crusaders begin espousing the dangers of second-hand booze.
You get people who swear by our Constitution yet somehow think that torturing is OK. Perhaps they should read the 4th and 5th ammendments? This issue is a deep, dark stain on the freedoms we are otherwise so quick to espouse.
Unfortunately, The Constitution as a document put forth by the and agreed upon by its founding fathers only applies to United States citizens...not to enemy combatants in wartime.
It would be nice if the rest of the world would accept our Constitution as law, so that we could globally apply the more negative aspects of the Constitution and its ammendments (Like the 16th? World income tax?) as well as its positive benefits, but I'm betting that may not happen any time soon.
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Legislative intervention is strictly necessary (for people like me).
I don't think legislative intervention is strictly necessary because you can't find a bar in which to hang out.
As nasty or unhealthy as you may think it is, people smoking around you in a privately owned establishment that is willing to allow such practices is not a violation of your rights that the government needs to protect you from.
It is not your right to have your favorite bar be smoke-free. However, it is your right to find a new bar that that prohibits smoking.
Or better yet, open your own.
I wonder what will happen to the bars when the crusaders begin espousing the dangers of second-hand booze.
You get people who swear by our Constitution yet somehow think that torturing is OK. Perhaps they should read the 4th and 5th ammendments? This issue is a deep, dark stain on the freedoms we are otherwise so quick to espouse.
Unfortunately, The Constitution as a document put forth by the and agreed upon by its founding fathers only applies to United States citizens...not to enemy combatants in wartime. It would be nice if the rest of the world would accept our Constitution as law, so that we could globally apply the more negative aspects of the Constitution and its ammendments (Like the 16th? World income tax?) as well as its positive benefits, but I'm betting that may not happen any time soon.