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Originally Posted by Salu
It's a hard balance to get between my rights and your rights, choice and discrimination and nanny state intrusion and law. The more selfsh we are as individuals in society the harder this is. My point is that we need to remember that we are a society and live as if we have neighbours rather than as if we lived in this world alone.
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That is never going to be a "choice" though as it excludes the word Public from Pub and makes it a club. Even then that would be bordering on discrimination nowadays wouldn't it?
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How is allowing a landlord/lady to choose whether to make his or her pub non-smoking or not any worse than banning smoking from pubs? Either way, one group of people is banned from the pub. At least if the people who actually run the pubs are allowed to chose, both groups of people are allowed to drink in one pub or another.
Remember, if some pubs are smoking, and some non-smoking, those people who do object to people smoking have the freedom to go to a non-smoking pub. Under the government's current plans, NO-ONE has the freedom to chose a smoking pub. Fair? I think not. Antisocial? Yes.
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At the end of the day smoking is pretty antisocial isn't it, let alone the health implications? Usually anything that involves emitting a putrid smell in public is regarded as offensive in society.
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So we should ban petrol and diesel vehicles then? After all, they both emit pollution which is nasty smelling and possibly dangerous..