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To: Lane3 who wrote (9489)	1/23/2006 11:25:45 AM
From: epicure	Read Replies (2) of 541654

Why should someone who is doing nothing affirmative to hurt others, be effectively banned from going in to establishments? If bars were allowed to have premises where you were punched for stepping in the door, I'm not sure that would be justifiable. You can't tell the victim of an assault "You shouldn't have gone in there"- and I feel the same way about smoking. So I don't see the problem. I feel the same way about people spitting in my eye- it's also an assault- and no business should be able to run a place that allowed people to spit on someone just because they happened to walk in the door. I think people should be able to do whatever they want (mostly) up until the time they physically interfere with a person. I'm very lax on visual intrusions, because they are avoidable- you can look the other way. But you can't breathe the other way, so we aren't going to agree on this. And btw, I'm all for smokers killing themselves with cigarettes, I just don't want to go with them. I don't believe in protecting people from their drugs of choice- but I do think where the user begins to make ME take the drug with them (goes for pot smoke too)- it's gone too far.

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