08-12-2007, 01:05 PM
Some smoke for thought!
First let me say that I am a smoker. How ever when I am out in a public place like a restaurant will respect the feelings of others that don’t smoke. Hell even I don’t like to smell smoke while I am eating. IMO this whole thing about smoking bans is BS. Not because of the health issues but because of big brother. If I am a business owner and run a bar in which most of my clients smoke I should have the right to do that. When big brother steps in and tells me I can’t that is wrong. If there are people that drink and want to hang out in a bar but don’t smoke (which I am sure there are very few) then let some other business open a bar that does not allow smokers then all of the non smokers can go there. But let the business owner make that choice not big brother.
What are you guys going to say when big brother concludes that nitro smoke causes cancer and could also cause birth defects if you decide to have kids? Then bans indoor nitro racing! Ya you could go outside but then you might have spectators that like to watch that will bitch that they don’t like the nitro smoke because it is dangerous to there health and want you to change to racing electric only. You think I am kidding, by passing this smoking ban you are all just one step closer to things like this. You got to figure that while racing indoor nitro you breathe 100 times more smoke than you would ever breathe in a restaurant or bar and smoke from nitro no less.
What I am getting at here is you guys that think this ban is a good thing better watch your backs. Big brother will start small with things like this smoking ban but over time will start going after bigger & bigger things in the future and will slowly take away some of the freedoms that make up this great country!!
Also I would much rather go to a restaurant and breath some second hand smoke that MAY give me cancer sometime in the next 50 years than to go out to a movie one night with my family and have us all taken out in one night by a drunk driver. So why not ban alcohol while were at it? It will never happen!
First let me say that I am a smoker. How ever when I am out in a public place like a restaurant will respect the feelings of others that don’t smoke. Hell even I don’t like to smell smoke while I am eating. IMO this whole thing about smoking bans is BS. Not because of the health issues but because of big brother. If I am a business owner and run a bar in which most of my clients smoke I should have the right to do that. When big brother steps in and tells me I can’t that is wrong. If there are people that drink and want to hang out in a bar but don’t smoke (which I am sure there are very few) then let some other business open a bar that does not allow smokers then all of the non smokers can go there. But let the business owner make that choice not big brother.
What are you guys going to say when big brother concludes that nitro smoke causes cancer and could also cause birth defects if you decide to have kids? Then bans indoor nitro racing! Ya you could go outside but then you might have spectators that like to watch that will bitch that they don’t like the nitro smoke because it is dangerous to there health and want you to change to racing electric only. You think I am kidding, by passing this smoking ban you are all just one step closer to things like this. You got to figure that while racing indoor nitro you breathe 100 times more smoke than you would ever breathe in a restaurant or bar and smoke from nitro no less.
What I am getting at here is you guys that think this ban is a good thing better watch your backs. Big brother will start small with things like this smoking ban but over time will start going after bigger & bigger things in the future and will slowly take away some of the freedoms that make up this great country!!
Also I would much rather go to a restaurant and breath some second hand smoke that MAY give me cancer sometime in the next 50 years than to go out to a movie one night with my family and have us all taken out in one night by a drunk driver. So why not ban alcohol while were at it? It will never happen!