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Originally Posted by clarie
I am not as concerned about your right to choose as I am about your, mine and everyone else's right to enjoy good health.
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Which you can enjoy fully by excising your right to not go into establishments where smoking is allowed.
Why should I not be allowed to chose to sit down with smoking friends while we eat and they smoke?
They are allowed to choose to smoke, so why am I denied the choice to passive smoke?
If somewhere is smokey and you don't want to go in there because of it, simply don't go in there, no one is forcing you to put your health at risk.
Do you also believe that tobacco products should be banned?
If so, how about alcohol?
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Originally Posted by Cris T
But that is a self-selecting group, so it doesn't really prove anything.
When 75% of people don't smoke, but only 40-50% of the people at the pub are non-smokers, you have to wonder why the non-smokers are staying away.
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Yes it does prove something.
People are exercising their right to choose.
People who stay away are staying away because they don't want to go there, leaving the pub free for everyone who does want to go there.
If the landlord wants to attract non-smokers, then fine, let him impliment a non-smoking policy, and people will still be able to excise their right to choose whether to go there or to go elsewhere which allows smoking.