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 XPost: alt.activism, ny.politics, nyc.general 
 XPost: nyc.politics 
 From: liberty@once.net 
  
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 On Nov 12, 1:49 pm, "Freedom Fighter"  wrote: 
  
 > I don't care for inhaling the smoke from someone's cancerette even when 
 > outdoors, but there's nothing I can do about that - I am FORCED to put up 
 > with it. I can however advocate that indoor public spaces be kept free of 
 > this obnoxious pollution. 
  
 Then give the smokers a place to gather and keep away from it.  It's a 
 simple idea. 
  
  
 > Gee, I really feel sorry for the tobacco corpserations that for decades 
 > profited massively by feeding addicts their means of slow suicide! 
 > If someone in a bar wants to smoke, all they have to do is step outside to 
 > do it. How does that harm the bar's business? 
  
 The municipalities got their share of the loot, too.  Don't forget 
 that. 
  
 If you go into the Chelsea Brewing Company, you'll see a nice glass- 
 encased room on the upper floor.  After Bloomberg restricted 
 restricted smoking to only a small part of the restaurant to only at 
 the bar to only a part of the bar to a separate smoking room, CBC 
 built this room.  A few months after spending thousands and thousands 
 of dollars on this room, smoking was banned from all bars.  Is that 
 fair for CBC, and all the other bars and restaurants who underwent 
 this expensive nonsense. 
  
 Having someone step outside to smoke is a great way to treat them like 
 a second-class citizen.  Depending on the bar and the situation, you 
 have to grab all your possessions would lose your seat at the bar.  If 
 the weather's bad, you're even more screwed. 
 --- 
 People that would inconsiderately subject others to their toxic, obnoxious 
 smoke SHOULD be treated as second-class citizens. Blowing cigarette smoke in 
 someone's face is an obvious act of HOSTILITY. Polluting the air other 
 people breathe with such smoke is not much different. 
 --- 
 Bloomberg went after smoking and then trans fats.  What's next? 
 Mandatory excercise? 
 --- 
 Wouldn't be a bad idea, but impossible to enforce. Actually I respect the 
 right of others to foolishly neglect or impair their own health, but in the 
 case of tobacco smoke, others are harmed too. 
  
 --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05 
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