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Lebell · 03-02-2005, 07:03 PM

I do not smoke and never have.

I personally hate smoking and will be the first to complain if they're are smokers smoking in the non-smoking section of a restaurant.

But I also think that if a business wants to allow smoking, that's their business and it's mine if I want to patronize them or not.

I am not for allowing governments or businesses to intrude on the rights of smokers for one simple reason; it sets bad precedent. For the same reason I would support an interpretation of the constitution that made a persons private sex life sacrosanct and businesses incapable of firing individuals for the things they say and do outside of work that are not illegal.

In otherwords, unless there is an overwhelming reason to restrict the rights of the individual, I am generally for erring on the side of the individual and their personal rights.

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Lebell Cracking the Whip Location: Sexymama's arms...	I do not smoke and never have. I personally hate smoking and will be the first to complain if they're are smokers smoking in the non-smoking section of a restaurant. But I also think that if a business wants to allow smoking, that's their business and it's mine if I want to patronize them or not. I am not for allowing governments or businesses to intrude on the rights of smokers for one simple reason; it sets bad precedent. For the same reason I would support an interpretation of the constitution that made a persons private sex life sacrosanct and businesses incapable of firing individuals for the things they say and do outside of work that are not illegal. In otherwords, unless there is an overwhelming reason to restrict the rights of the individual, I am generally for erring on the side of the individual and their personal rights. __________________ "Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience." – C. S. Lewis The ONLY sponsors we have are YOU! Please Donate!