Smokers - do you follow the rules?

[Swan4Me]

OMG!

Nope. Don't hate children at all. In fact, I try hard not to hate anyone and succeed 99.9% of the time. Hate only hurts one person: the one doing the hating. .

Maybe i should have said dislike

 

[Planogirl]

So you aren't trying to compare a ballot initiative banning smoking to a ballot initiative banning same sex marriage? I thought you were but I'm glad you are intelligent enough to realize no rational human being would make that comparison.

One is something that belongs on a ballot and the other is a civil rights issue that doesn't. If the later does end up on a ballot then yes, I would vote the way I want and accept the outcome if it went the other way though I think in the long term it will be decided by the supreme court and not the states or the voters.

Some say that the right of private property owners to decide whether or not to allow a legal activity is being harmed by the outright ban on smoking. Property owner rights is another one of those contested subjects with the right to allow smoking of course only being one item.

Another consideration is the right of individuals. Some people become squeamish at the thought of mob rule.

 

[bengeneric]

This thread boggles my mind. The stupidity and ignorance of some is a disgrace. Apparently, many have nothing going on in their own lives that they feel compelled to instruct others. If you are a smoker, follow the rules. If you're not, mind your own business.

This!!

The way people act about smoking/not smoking on here is insane.

 

[FireDancer]

Some say that the right of private property owners to decide whether or not to allow a legal activity is being harmed by the outright ban on smoking. Property owner rights is another one of those contested subjects with the right to allow smoking of course only being one item.

Another consideration is the right of individuals. Some people become squeamish at the thought of mob rule.

You can still smoke all you want in your private property as long as you don't open that property up to the public. At least in Ohio you can still smoke in your own home for example.

Whenever you open up your private property to the public you have a different, narrower in most cases, set of rules to follow. In my home I can have stairways with no railings but if I were to open my home to the public as a business, like make it a bed and breakfast, I probably would have to install railings to meet code rules. An individual can also decide they don't like minorities and not let them in their home. If they opened their home to the public as a bed & breakfast they would probably run into problems with that practice. Most private, not commercial dwellings don't have to abide by ADA accessibility standards but private property that is a business does, even if the owner wants the right to determine for themselves that they don't.

When you are a business you have different rules, even though it is private property, and you have to abide by those rules. If they started banning anything legal in the private, not commercial, homes of individuals I'd be right there with you.