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I don't know about bad names and slogans (per Mike Fratto), but I want to be able to go into any restaurant in town and not smell cigarette smoke. I'd like to be able walk into public buildings without walking the gauntlet of smokers clustered outside.
The argument about smoking seems to me just another version of the Tragedy of the Commons. The air we all breathe is a public resource that belongs to all of us. A person smoking has as much "right" to foul the air as a person who isn't smoking has a right to have clean air. So with all rights being equal, it comes down to what the majority wants. The rhetorical arguments are all just different ways of trying to persuade people to line up on one side or the other.
Your "choice" rhetoric does not persuade me because smoke-fouled air takes away from my access to clean air, thus, my "choice" of clean air is removed. My vote is still in support of a smoking ban.
Mary Baker East Side
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