Being a somewhat overweight {6'2" 270lbs} smoker living near and working in a very liberal college town I see and feel the discrimination first hand. Although I'm not obese and I don't require two seats on a bus or plane to be comfortable, I hear my share of "big boy" and "big guy" crap and usually it's coming from 150lb pipsqueak of a man haha. What pisses me off the most though is the stringent smoking laws recently passed by the city council, mostly liberals who pride themselves in accepting everyone as they are. You have to be 20 ft. from any door or entrance, no smoking in bars or restuarants, no smoking in any public places or anywhere the public might be, no smoking in private business's if the public has access blah blah blah yada yada yada. It goes on and on. For the most part the bars and a few of the restuarants continue to allow people to smoke in a smoking area and pay the fine. Better to pay the fine than run off the clientale. But few of the old places have closed, directly related to these new laws. If someone invests thousands of dollars in a business in your city and pays thousands in taxes every year they should be allowed pretty much run their business as they see fit within the context of reasonable laws. An excellant example is the place where I work, the owners are looking for property outside the city limits to avoid these new laws, and none of the owners are smokers. They just don't like the government instructing them on how to run their business.
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