I am impressed at how quickly everyone is adjusting to the nazi like ban on a right that owners should decide. I am sickened by the lack of support for something many would prefer to do, here are a few websites that paint a very different picture of the "statistics" that are espoused by the anti-smoking goliath that has definitely twisted their data to support their propaganda. I urge every smoker to exercise your free speech and send a letter to your city councilor and mayor letting him/her know they are fascists. I try and send one every few weeks to remind them, and to advocate the taxation of churches as they are imminently more dangerous and toxic to ones health.
Q: Don't people who are not smoking have the right to avoid breathing other people's smoke?
A: The issue of rights when it comes to smoking bans does not concern the rights of the non-smoker or the smoker. It only concerns the rights of the owner to provide a service to whomever he/she sees fit. The owner of a bar or club should have the right, having invested their own time and money, to provide any legal activity amongst consenting adults within their own premises. This is the only solution that protects everyone's choice, i.e. the owner is free to choose smoking or non-smoking, the employees are free to choose whether to work there and smokers/non-smokers are free to choose whether to enter or not.
http://www.smokingsection.com/issues1.html http://www.forces.org/