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Joined: Jul 2000
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CEG\'er
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CEG\'er
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Originally posted by xdouble:
If someone wants to do something that is known to potentially harm them, they should have the right to do it.
Second hand smoke isn't a choice, that's the point. Smoking doesn't just affect the smoker, it affects everyone around the smoke. Delaware did a study last year and found that incidents of heart attacks during "bar times" have gone down as much as 30% after the smoking ban went into affect. Many of the actual heart attack victims weren't even smokers (both before and after the ban), but used to be around secondhand smoke pre-ban. The study didn't all out blame second hand smoke, but there is a correlation there that cannot be ignored as the study indicated.
I agree wholeheartedly with freedom to choose your own doom. Anyone wants to drink themselves to death, that's their decision to pickle their liver. But get in a 3000lb automobile and kill someone while DUI, and to prison the person will go, as it should be. It is the affects of smoking on others, just as the affects of alcohol produce unwanted societal results when driving, that are producing these laws.
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What it boils down to is that there is no reason that there cannot be sectioned off areas for smokers to enjoy their habit without bothering others. I personally think New Hampshire has it right with the "live free or die" motto.
That might work, if the area is completely sectioned off and does not share ventilation systems with the non smoking area. This was debated here in DE during the legislative sessions and the end result was that it would be prohibitively expensive for most businesses to provide a completely sectioned off area with independent ventilation systems just to cater to smokers. Hence the complete ban.
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Just my thoughts on the topic. If you don't agree, you can feel free to think less of me if that makes you feel better. 
Everyone's entitled to their viewpoint. Don't think any less of you.
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p.s. - I quit smoking yesterday, so I'm a little bitter at the moment.
Understood, and best of luck in your quest to quit, I know it's not easy giving anything like this up.  I still haven't been able to get away from caffeine/coffee myself.
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