[bcc][faked-from][heur][bayes] Re: [bcc][faked-from][bayes] [Mpls] Re: Smoking Bans, fascism, andillicit drugs

[Steve Nelson]

Jennifer Rubenzer
Plymouth
wrote

A smoking ban on private businesses is the equivalent of the government 
marching into our homes and telling us what we will be eating that 
night...or to many of our posters chagrin - whom we should be sleeping with.

We're talking about private businesses and personal choice.
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The doors on the bars have to open outward, Jennifer, to allow for quick 
exit in the event of fire.  This is required by law.  So are those 
illuminated exit lights and fire extinguishers.  And when your waitress goes 
to the bathroom she is required to wash her hands before returning to work. 
When the cook prepares food there are legal processes he has to go through 
as regards storage and thorough heating.  These are not a question of 
choice--they are matters of public safety.

Smoking in the workplace is also a question of safety for the staff as well 
as other patrons.  Second hand smoke is just a dangerous for the non-smoker 
as smoking.   A long term study in Japan from at least  10 to 15 years ago 
looked at non-smoking women married to smokers and non-smokers.  The women 
married to smokers had a much greater instance of lung cancer than the women 
married to non-smokers.

So this is a public health issue and not a question of choice.  No one is 
preventing a smoker from smoking in designated areas or the privacy of their 
own home.  Alcoholic beverages in a glass are not allowed to leave the bar 
to be consumed on the sidewalk and tobacco consumers are not being allowed 
to bring the habit inside from the sidewalk.

Steven M Nelson
Willard Hay
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