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Originally Posted by screwballl
First, if I ever end up somewhere here in the US that tries to tell me I cannot smoke in a public place, outdoors, I will fight it. That is illegal and I hope the courts start to step up and fight it as a freedom.
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Originally Posted by AlbertaCowboy
What people enjoy doesn't seem to matter much when someone else decides that it's his absolute right to deprive you of that enjoyment because he disagrees with it. Political Correctness is the DRM of society: it has no effectiveness, is a royal pain in the butt, and those who hate it ignore it.
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Unfortunately (and unlike other habits that some people enjoy, others don't like, and are still permitted in public), smoking is also a
health hazard, to those around smokers as well as the smokers themselves, and contributing significantly to the ill health of Americans and the high costs of our medical and support infrastructure.
So, accept it or not, there's actually a logic behind smoking bans and controls that effectively supercedes the perception of "freedom." If there were no health hazard, people would still be smoking everywhere. Let's be fair: It's not that people are purposefully taking others' freedoms away; it's a matter of public health.