Jim Bernstein wrote:
WM: From the palaver about this issue on this list, the shoe above also fits the non-smokers. You've made a lot of presumptions about what smokers do with their leisure time at the Target Center, the Guthrie, etc. It does not by any means describe the smokers I see.Since none of the other arguments don't work, I sense that the argument against the proposed ordinance is down to what I have always suspected: Smokers just want to smoke and don't give a damn about the other people in the room!
Most of them are poor and/or working class. They don't often go to the Guthrie or the Target Center--if ever. (I've never been in the joint myself and I haven't been to the Guthrie in ten or twelve years.) They do, however, go out for cheap breakfasts or a cup of coffee. The whole argument has been self-righteous and priggish. There is an assumption of entitlement, presumably for having chosen the "moral high ground." It calls for a Bronx cheer.
WizardMarks, Central
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