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Originally Posted by cfrizz
I'm sorry that your son has such a bad problem. However, your son's problem is just that HIS problem. He cannot pass it on to someone else sitting a few feet away from him.
Second hand smoke does damage not only to smokers lungs, but nonsmokers lungs as well. We all know it. Just like Jeannie, I have bad allergies, and there is nothing more disgusting then having my own nose, clothes, & lungs filled with the contaminants of someone elses cigarette. I don't like having to pop an extra pill, & shower to try to contain the backlash that my body puts forth to rid itself of the effects that cigarettes have on me.
No one is telling you not to smoke, we are simply telling you not to smoke where you can pollute everyone elses lungs as well as your own.
You are perfectly free to kill yourself, it's called suicide. You are NOT allowed to take anyone else with you, that's call murder.
It becomes the goverments (OUR) business since it is OUR money that has to be used for the medical treatments needed for smokers receiving care for lung cancer who are collecting disability/welfare.
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I don't need the lecture. Both my parent died of smoking based disease - my mother when I was 11. I don't smoke & I think that people who do are fools.
The "it's our money" argument is baloney. Nothing says that the government has to pay those medical bills. You don't get to volunteer to pay for them then control people's behavior on the basis that you are footing the bill. Although we are headed that way with Obamacare.
I have lived long enough to see that we have been letting the government nibble away at our freedom in this country by using the law to address every social problem that annoys us. You would think we'd learned that lesson from Prohibition.
This thread started off with the stupid cafe employee who couldn't grasp that an EBR is not a computer. So...I like to read on my EBR while I eat & this cafe is stopping me. Obviously we need a law to make them leave me alone, right? Or just maybe I should take my business somewhere else & keep the government out of it.
There are always arguments for giving up our freedom to the government. Until one day we wake up & find the government running most of our life.
And oh, yes, my son's problem is indeed his problem, not yours. And your asthma problem is your problem, not his. Neither of you has the right to use the law to make other people deal with your problems.