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Reply to "Restricting smoking in all public arenas"

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Originally posted by FDR:
The non-smoker's reasonable expectation that they can have safe air to breath trumps a smoker's "right" to smoke anywhere he wants to. By a long shot.



This is not about non-smokers right too breathe clean air, or smokers rights too smoke anywhere they want. The question is, does the government have a right to, in the interest of public health, pass a law and enforce it in a private business thereby taking away a business owners right to decide what's best.

The government eradicated many diseases by vaccinations. Do you think the government has the right too come into your home and hold your child down while they vaccinate him ?

There's a reason why police can't go into a bar and arrest somebody for "public intoxication".
Making a business' conformation too certain health standards being a determining factor about whether they can be opened or closed is one thing, but passing a law and enabling police to enter a private business to enforce it is quite another. If you start down that road, as Kindred said, you might as well tear up the Constitution.

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