Someone today called smokers "bullies".
As I contended yesterday, most people in favor of the smoking ban do not
frequent bars as regular customers. Who is the bully, when you decide what I
can
or can't do with my business...when you're not even my bread and butter?
I have heard there are places in other parts of the country that have
installed a smoking ban and after a year of bad business, are looking to revert
back
and rescind their non-smoking ban.
Someone else is going so far as to suggest making tobacco illegal.
Someone else is going so far as to suggest that government has the duty and
right to make it illegal to smoke in one's home.
This line of thinking is dangerous to personal freedoms.
It opens the door to all kinds of other freedom infringements.
Government has no place dictating free will. Even God is smart about that.
You proponents in favor of a smoking ban, what's next after you get it?
Will you make loud live music an issue? Why not? How about for the next
step
banning live Rock 'N Roll in clubs and bars? After all, it's bad for your
ears and mine.
All them bartenders and wait people, having to endure that night after night.
I'm sure they hate it. Don't you? No, you don't. Because you can just up
and leave the venue if you don't like it. You can return that steak back to
the
chef and have it nuked a little more because it was too rare. Just like that
bartender can leave that bar and get another quieter job. Smoke-free, if
he/she wants.
How many of you are wearing ear protection when you mow your lawn or snowblow
your driveway? Not many is my immediate guess. But...you want to ban Rock
'N Roll as entertainment because it's played too loud? Because you're doing
society a favor protecting everybody's ear drums?
It's a ridiculous argument, don't you agree. But it's logic. Your same kind
of thinking.
And it's this kind of thinking that bothers me. Because of all the
ramifications that can take place with the rest of us losing a little more
freedom.
I don't want to be like you.
I haven't forgotten what it's like to live and let live.
Stop imposing your value system on me.
Where is Tipper Gore today?
I'm going to continue to play my Rock loud.
And even though I don't smoke, I'm going to continue to patronize smoky
places.
And, I do more than just vote.
Myke P. Golben
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