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i smoke and dont have much of a problem with this kind of ban
i dont think that forcing us outside is an unreasonable exercize of power.
but i also do not think that it follows directly from the worker health arguments that more often than not are the rationale for such bans.
it would make just as much sense to adopt the uk pub model:
no smoking at the bar,
air filters in the main rooms where people hang out.
the worker health matter is resolved, more or less, by pushing smoking away from where they are, not necessarily outdoors.
i dont see how these bans can be understood as an unreasonable exercize of government power in themselves.
all that said, i prefer bars where i can smoke if i want--i prefer not having to stand out in the cold during the winter--i am suspicious of the worker health argument, not in itself, but because it came out of a long campaign against smoking motivated by other concerns and only appeared as a tactical argument after a long conflict. i do not fundamentally believe that those who oppose smoking necessarily care at all about worker health.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
-kamau brathwaite
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