Comments on: Straight Talk About Smoke-Free Workplace Laws

By: rbridges416

rbridges416 — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 03:27:21 +0000

OK, you can abstain …
OK, you can abstain. You’re not in middle school. You’ve been taught how to avoid peer pressure. And aside from that, alcohol itself doesn’t kill anyone who doesn’t drink it. it’s irresponsible people who break the established laws and drive drunk who kill them. My friends and I don’t ever get behind the steering wheel after drinking. So you’re missing the point; established laws regarding DUIs and decency need to be ENFORCED, new ones shouldn’t be created to take away from my responsible fun

By: rbridges416

rbridges416 — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 03:27:21 +0000

Seriously? …
Seriously? non-drinkers have the right not to go to a bar, which is the only place that might happen (at least here where there are open container laws to keep alcohol indoors, or at least on private property). And then aside from that, there are decency laws meant to prevent anything else you mention on this one, just speak up and have them enforced.

By: Mephistophilus

Mephistophilus — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 03:27:21 +0000

If I go to an event …
If I go to an event where there will be smoking or drinking I don’t or I don’t go, it’s that simple. Personal liberties for everyone or none for everyone. I’m so sick of the hypocrisy and zealots who need their war on “pick a topic, or group” in this country.

By: Mephistophilus

Mephistophilus — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 03:27:21 +0000

the staff …
the staff babysitting drunks, being forced to drink to fit in at company functions because pickling you liver and killing brain cells is socially acceptable and encouraged, the millions of taxpayers’ dollars spent on dwi or dui offenses…. or the best part having them crash into your family and maiming or killing them. Alcohol kills more people per year then crack, cocaine, and herion combined but let’s keep this country free and take away everyone’s right but alcoholics.

By: Mephistophilus

Mephistophilus — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 03:27:21 +0000

What about the non …
What about the non drinker’s rights? We love trying to avoid the minefields of alcohol containers in the parking lot, stinking like hobo after a drunk spills their drink on you, rude lushes constantly bumping into us on their way to and from the bar/bathroom, the stench of vomit/piss from the drunks who couldn’t/wouldn’t make it to the bathroom or missed, the angry drunks who feel it’s their right to be disruptive or intimidating,

By: rbridges416

rbridges416 — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 03:27:21 +0000

You’ll never take …
You’ll never take my beer away from me. What moral or legal ground do you even have for imfringing on my liberties and rights to do with my own body what i want? the smoking ban is for the benefit of the non-smoking patrons, not for the benefit of the smokers, who can (and many times should just) go kill themselves in their own privacy. don’t be a neo-fascist. keep this country free, protect our personal liberties.

By: cavork

cavork — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 03:27:21 +0000

I think there …
I think there should be a FAT free work place. Im for a health tax for junk food and a $30 tax added to a six pack of beer. It’s going to happen.

By: ryno23gocubs

ryno23gocubs — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 03:27:20 +0000

You people a so …
You people a so brain washed. Is there really proof that it really causes health problems? Even before they passed these laws, I have always been a considerate smoker. I rode in peoples cars, and been in peoples houses that didn’t smoke and they asked me not to. I have friends that don’t smoke but keep ashtrays in the house for there guest that do, but still I’ll go outside. But even if I’m someplace were its allowed such as a casino, I see old people with oxygen tanks, and I stay away from them

By: Godzie1

Godzie1 — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 03:27:20 +0000

Why should we go …
Why should we go outside! You stay home in your little bubble and keep breathing fresh oxigen then you might choke on a air bubble! Smokers been around for decades… Lived long lives and enjoyed themselves till some ignorant idiot L.Y. started bitching!

By: THEFXR

THEFXR — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 03:27:20 +0000

And in the news …
And in the news today?

“Tobacco Free Kids has argued that the bill will help protect America’s youth from cigarettes. It has been joined in its assertions by America’s largest manufacturer of cigarettes, which has spent millions of dollars lobbying on behalf of the tobacco bill.

Professor Radu, however, had a different perspective, arguing:

“I am convinced that these anti-tobacco extremists will eventually be held partially responsible for the deaths of millions of uninformed smokers.”"