[Mpls] smoking ban

[Michael Atherton]

Ed Felien wrote:

> Your freedom to swing your foot ends with my butt.

Does this imply that my foot is resting on your butt?
An unpleasant thought, but maybe an apt metaphor.
Maybe you should move your butt out of range of my
foot.
 
> Your freedom to smoke ends with my being forced to 
> breathe it in a public place.

How am I forcing you to breathe in a particular public
place?  Take a look at the photo of the Amsterdam
Café again:

http://www.umn.edu/~athe0007/images/Cafe1.JPG

There are many of these small cafes in the Red Light
District, why would you go into one if you were worried
about smoke?  Why can't people be allowed to sit
comfortably have a coffee, a smoke, and a newspaper?
No one is forced, there are no feet on butts, only
butts in ashtrays.

Michael Atherton
Prospect Park