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Tilted Cat Head
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Location: Manhattan, NY
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Originally Posted by FoolThemAll
Private businesses should definitely not be forced into a non-smoking policy. Their business, their decision. Conversely, businesses shouldn't be forced into allowing smoke on their property... but then, I don't really hear many calls for that.
Public buildings funded by taxpayer money, that's a bit different. My inclination is to say this: let the taxpayers decide. Put it to a vote. And while I'm the odd case of a non-smoker who enjoys secondhand smoke, I'd probably vote for smoking sections or no smoking at all in such places. Oftentimes, people in public buildings are there by necessity or near-necessity. It's a matter of courtesy.
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I would agree with that, since some companies ask you to NOT smoke even on your free time as a completely smoker free workplace since it results in lower insurance premiums. Conversely a company should be allowed to pay whatever premiums they must in order to have the abililty to have smokers as employees and have a smoke filled environment.
The problem is that workers fall under OSHA rules and cigarette smoking falls under that apparently.
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