XPost: alt.activism, ny.politics, nyc.general 
 XPost: nyc.politics 
 From: jeremy@dcnet2000.com 
  
 Freedom Fighter wrote: 
  
 > This is a matter of the legal definition of private and public. Anyone here 
 > that can answer it objectively? 
 > 
 > 
  
 Having been a bar, restaurant and hotel owner and a smoker of cigars, yes. 
 It 
 is my place, if I do not like you I do not have to offer my services to you 
 and I can set limits of behavior, dress and comportment that suit me. 
  
 If I think you a misinformed anti-smoker with no understanding of science, 
 facts or even the limits of my personal control over my property, as long 
 as I 
 do not use race, religion or physical disability as a limiting factor, I can 
 keep you out. 
  
 My place is not a public place. 
  
 JJ 
  
 --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05 
  * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)