Wednesday, September 09, 2009

Big HOORAY For Raytown: Smoking Ban Shot Down



L
ast night- Raytown's elected "council" The Board of Aldermen- shot down a proposal to ban smoking in that western Jackson county city.


Good for them!

This is America dammit- if a business wants to have someone smoking a fully LEGAL PRODUCT inside their establishment- it should be that business owner's right to decide.

Or the customer's decision whether or not to do business there.

I'm sure someday- the "health Nazis" will totally get their way and none of us will do anything that in any way shape or form is a detriment to our health.

I hope I'm dead by then!
_________

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

A smoking ban means, it will be against the law to use or oermit a legal product on 'private' property.
Is this the American way??
A Health issue??
smoke fom tobacco in a decently ventilated venue is a statistically insignificant health risk

Anonymous said...

It is clear that separation of smokers from non-smokers combined

with air exchange technology is a complete solution to this largely

artificial problem. All it takes is regulating authorities setting the

standards for indoor air quality on passive smoke, and the technology

does the rest. Such air quality standards are common in industrial

and environmental contexts. But, to date, no country in the world has

set them for smoking areas. It seems clear that the reasons are not

scientific, nor are they economic or technical: they are political.


As to the annoyance of smoking, a compromise between smokers and non-smokers
can be reached, through setting a quality standard and the use of modern
ventilation technology.

Air ventilation can easily create a comfortable environment that removes not
just passive smoke, but also and especially the potentially serious
contaminants that are independent from smoking.

Anonymous said...

If you're on medicare, medicaid or VA benefits, if you're on welfare, or WIC, or section 8 housing, you should be banned from smoking, drinking or driving without a seatbelt. I'm paying for your healthcare, and that means no smoking. If you want to smoke, pay your own way.

Anonymous said...

On the issue of smoking, Capt??? Geoffrey said, "I'm sure someday- the "health Nazis" will totally get their way and none of us will do anything that in any way shape or form is a detriment to our health.

I hope I'm dead by then!

Capt?? Geoffrey, if you are a smoker I'm sure you will be dead, definitely, from lung cancer. That's not my concern. What is my concern is who you will be taking with you from your second-hand smoke!

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