Smoking Ban Statewide as of Jan 1 2008

[thenewguy821]

I dont see how that is politically correct, when you smoke you bother non smokers, or atleast most of them. Do I bother you walking into a room and not smoking if you are a smoker?

I completely understand your point Mike, all I am saying is, Businesses should have the right to make their own rules about smoking in their establishment. If they want to allow smoking, and possibly lose the business of non-smokers, that should be their choice. In turn, if they want to make their place non-smoking, the smokers would have to choose another place to go.

it's not about freedom at all...........it's respect for others.

Understood as well. I try to respect other people's space when it comes to smoking. I don't stand right by a door, blowing smoke in peoples faces. When we were allowed to smoke in bars and restaurants, I wouldn't walk into the restaurant with a cigarette, knowing that I would have to walk through the non-smoking section to get to my seat.

Where this issue becomes about freedom, NOT respect, is when the government passes a law to restrict us from doing something. Little by little, the government is slowly taking away rights, but we, as a country, let them.

As I remember, the main reason people left England and formed a new country, was to get away from the totalitarian government that was limiting everything they did and over taxing everything. Now where are we? Different continent, same results. To think, it only took 230 years to come full circle.