12-09-2003, 12:02 PM
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I'd rather be on my boat.
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Join Date: May 2003
Location: Miami, FL
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Originally posted by sperbonzo
Thank god Miami is still a pretty free place. You can smoke if you are on an open patio, or if less than 10% of the revenues are generated by food. (so just plain bars and clubs are still smoking)
I quit smoking, personally, about 3 years ago. Now I just have the occasional cigar if I'm drinking, but the problem I have is this:
Who are these facists that think that they can tell a small business that they can't allow a legal product in their own place? If the anti-smoking people don't want to go to a smokey place, then don't. If a bar owner decides he will get more customers by banning smoking....it's his business, it should be up to him. If he wants to allow smoking....it's his business, it should be up to him.
I also don't agree with helmet laws, or seatbelt laws for people over 21. Next thing is that we will allow the goverment to make us where a safety harness in the shower. I AM TOTALLY AGAINST GOVERMENT INTRUSIONS. I know that the European ideas of socialism are gaining ground here in the US, and I hate that.
I will always come down on the side of individual freedoms, and that includes the freedom of business owners. If I have a business and I want to allow people to smoke there, and it's STILL A LEGAL PRODUCT, then it's nobodies business.
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I'll say it again....what about the rights of the business owner...there is an amendment to the constitution that talks about the right of free association ya' know? You guys are acting like someones resturant is public property....it isn't. It is someone's PRIVATE BUSINESS |
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