I'm unclear as to how a smoking ban limits ones ability to smoke. It simple
limits where one can smoke. As a matter of fact a smoking ban is the best of
all occassions. Smokers can feel free to step outside into the wide world
where they can smoke blissfully while exhaling their potent toxins into the
sky and then return inside the establishment where non-smokers are busy
breathing clean (er) air. The smoking ban doesn't limit your ability to
smoke, it enhances the places where non-smokers can go to be in public
fellowship with their smoking buddies. The only catch is that you have to
step outside for a moment to enjoy your nicotine. That isn't too much to
ask.
-Brandon Lacy Campos
-Longfellow
Writer, Poet, Playwright, and Rabble Rouser....
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From: "Michael Atherton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Subject: RE: [Mpls] Smoking Ban
Date: Sat, 5 Mar 2005 15:43:43 -0600
Jim Bernstein wrote:
> The Minneapolis restrictions on smoking do not ban that
> activity. Like drinking, gambling, sex (and other necessary
> bodily functions) the public does put some limits on where
> and when you can engage in these activities but they are not
> banned outright.
Funny, I thought that commercial sex and casino gambling are banned
in Minneapolis.
> Indeed, life may be unfair but people ought not to quit
> working to make it less unfair.
It seems to me that it is YOU who is making life more unfair.
You are not increasing my choices you are limiting them.
Michael Atherton
Prospect Park
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