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Originally Posted by retsuki03
I agree that it is democracy in action, but I also believe this to be an issue of minority rights. Democracy has allowed a lot of things in the past. Would you be in favor of raising the tax on cigarettes by $3.00 per pack?
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That's fine with me. I know my local schools could probably use the money.
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Like I said before, it is an issue of freedom. Lets say I own a bar, and I want to allow smoking in it. People can come in and complain, say they don't like the smoking, as the owner of that bar- I should be able to tell them to go somewhere else if they don't like it. The government should not have a say in the policy.
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Being a business owner has never entitled one to complete control over what is and isn't allowed in one's place of business. Bars have always been subject to regulation. The fact is that if you want to run a business anywhere you must run it in accordance with the laws in whose jurisdictions you reside. Claiming that a smoking ban somehow results in a violation of owner's rights is flawed, because once the ban is made law, and perhaps subjected to judicial review, nobody's rights are being violated. The government absolutely has a say, because that is what our government is seemingly set up to do.