-the wonderful environment and the goverment tangent-
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Please stop causing the government to create pollutants by providing you with electricity and taking away your trash.
I recommend you turn off your pc right now and cease eating.
Thank you for your participation.
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I'm going to utterly ignore the attitude. Not worth it. I am going to take your trash and make it useful, though.
You raise a valid point , how can we move to an environmentally sound society? I believe that the overnight elimination of all polluntant production is impossible, but I also believe that the protecting the environment outweighs convienience (for example, most people's reason for owning a car) and entertainment (the PC example). My solution would be for the government to say "This is the amount of pollution the atmosphere can handle*" (and food production would definitely be in the "neccessary pollution" category, btw. Food production really should be nationalised or something). I don't mind not getting consumer goods (and if needs be, electricity**) until they can find a way of making them without fucking up the air.
/tangent
Back to the smoking. I like the idea of the staff getting to decide, as has been done in English pubs.
On another not too unrelated tangent (I am TangentMan!), the anti-smoking laws add weight to the governments right to decide what is good for its citizens. As a prolegalisation type, this makes my job harder.
* It may be whacky science, but I'm reasonably confident a smaller amount of pollution can be safely dissipated into our environment.
** I'm reasonably sure you're not going to believe me. I like to think I can hold to my beliefs. It's just one of those things. I love having electricity. But I like knowing the planets not getting fucked too. It's just inefficient.