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Originally Posted by DaneMcCloud
First off, if you drink alcohol, it doesn't affect me UNLESS under the influence, you hit me, cause an auto accident, etc. The act of drinking alcohol in NO WAY affects MY health.
No shit, Sherlock.
People could smoke at the gas pump for more than 50 years before that law went into effect. Why did it go into effect? Oh yeah, to save lives.
Of course, you obviously can't tell the difference between smoking at a gas station and smoking in a bar or restaurant because the effect may not be as immediate, but the end result could very well be the same.
So you're of the opinion that governments WORLDWIDE and state across the country are full of dipsh*ts because smoking has been banned in public places?
Wow, thanks for the insight, Mr. Science! 
Bullshit. Bull. fucking. Shit.
I LOVE how ALL these smokers on Chiefsplanet are just SO polite and don't smoke in the presence of non-smokers while they're at restaurants.
BS
I've been to KC twice in the past few months and going to restaurants and bars is nearly unbearable. I was recently at the Fox & Hounds on Metcalfe where some asswipe was smoking (and very heavily, I might add) in the NON-SMOKING SECTION. One of the people we were with was pregnant. Real nice, this smoker. Anyway, we tell the waitress and guess what? WE are moved to the non-smoking section. Whoo-Pee!
About ten minutes later, this disgusting human waste moves to table next to us and begins smoking and blowing it our direction! Yeah! So cool!
This kind of behavior is not legal in many other states and countries across the globe, but I guess it's OKAY for certain Midwesterners.
And people here WONDER why laws need to be enacted?
JFC
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Why am I not surprised there's not a single comment in that rant addressing my question. What's wrong with letting people and the market decide for themselves? I know that's a real tough concept for someone living in the People's Republic of California to wrap your noggin' around, but I did spell it out quite clearly.
Don't want it to affect you? Don't go. Seems to me that if there are plenty of folks who don't want to go someplace where smoking is allowed, the market will bring forth places that voluntarily prohibit smoking. If there aren't it won't.
As for your experience at the Fox and Hound, that's a failure of the business, and of you for not getting the manager to address it. It's not the governments job.
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Originally Posted by Mr Flopnuts
And everyone around here cries about the pussification of America until it's them partaking in it. Then it's different, and okay.
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Truth.
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Originally Posted by Bearcat
Yeah, because that should be one of the choices we have to make when choosing an employer.  |
Yeah, it should. More choices are always a good thing, IMO. It's certainly preferably to being dictated to.
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Originally Posted by Bearcat
It's annoying enugh when people sit in my cube after coming in from a smoke break.  |
Well, grow a sack and cope, or find another job if you can't handle being around a co-worker who makes a different choice than you.
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Originally Posted by Simplex3
So if 18% of the population had rancid gas and insisted on farting your direction while you tried to eat you wouldn't try and get something done about that?
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Nope, I'd find a restaurant where the management had a voluntary "no directional or excessive farting" policy. But that's just me.