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Friday, April 08, 2005

Minneapolis Smoking Ban Ordinance

I'm not a smoker, but it is the right....(er, scratch that) ...it wasthe right of business owners to choose if they wanted to run a business that allowed smoking or not. And it was the right of patrons to decide whether to patronize those businesses or not. And it was the right of workers to decide whether to work there or not.

But not anymore.

Personally, I would rather be in a room full of people smoking, than people breathing flu germs into the air. So it is only the logical next step is to reduce our freedom even further by banning people who have a cold or flu from entering businesses. And if you are still too stupid to extend the chain of events, I'll do it for you: Next, people who are butt-ugly won't be allowed into bars because they make people sick to their stomach.

And so on.

My tax dollars did not go towards this ridiculous restriction of freedoms. There was always the freedom for businesses to proclaim themselves 'smoke-free', in the same way that businesses have the freedom to proclaim themselves 'television-free'. I would rather sit in a smoky bar with the air pollution than in a sports bar with audio and video pollution.

Smoke on,
-C

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