witchhunter said:
I'm with Gonzalez.
I don't smoke cigaretts, but I DO smoke cigars. I smoke in the bar, on my front porch, and in the car. If you don't like the smoke, stay the fuck out of my airspace.
I hate to break this to you but the bar isn't YOUR airspace.
Sure it is!
It belongs to me. The boundaries are defined by wherever the smoke goes. Any border disputes can be resolved by frenzied arguments, perhaps leading to fisticuffs!
witchhunter said:
I'm with Gonzalez.
I don't smoke cigaretts, but I DO smoke cigars. I smoke in the bar, on my front porch, and in the car. If you don't like the smoke, stay the fuck out of my airspace.
If your going to blow ass-stinky cigar smoke into my airspace, I have a right to complain.
I've mentioned before in these discussions that the restaurant I work at has no smoking, (and is now making more money than ever,) but even when we did allow smoking, we didn't allow cigars, because they smell like someone lit a toilet on fire, and make everyone's food taste like cigars.
Yes, you have a right to complain, and you have a right to go elsewhere when no one listens to you.
Well, non-smokers are the ones being listened to here. So you have a right to stay at home and be a pain in nobody's ass. I suggest you exercise it. Especially with cigars. You couldn't be more obnoxious if you were trying. Which maybe you are.
witchhunter said:
I feel that it should be the right of the owner of an establishment to decide whether or not to allow smoking, not the governement.
the owner of an establishment isn't a dictator running their own private country. if a business owner woke up one day and said "you know, i have a problem with this whole rape taboo ruining everyone's fun. i think i'm going to allow rape at my bar!", he wouldn't be in business much longer.
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doghouse_reilly
I'm lost
February 2004
FEB 10, 2005 12:13 AM
If they're going to ban smoking in bars, why not ban perfume and cologne too? I don't mind smoke but being in a roomful of guys and girls drenched in conflicting malodorous chemicals tends to make my eyes water.
And while we're at it, let's ban loud music in clubs (leads to hearing loss) and foul language (possible psychological distress).
By the way, these laws are really more for the benefit of the people working in restaurants and clubs, not the patrons. Patrons can leave, workers can't really. And don't tell them to get another job. If your skill is waiting tables, and all restaurants and bars allow smoking, you're not going to find a job with no cigarette smoke.
witchhunter
Jackson, TN
February 2003
FEB 09, 2005 09:41 PM