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Originally Posted by flstf
I understand that the majority can quite often dictate what the minority does. However I just don't understand why the non-smoking majority should insist on banning smoking in bars where the owner, the patrons and the employees do not mind. If everybody in the place smokes why should we force them to go outside?
I get the impression that many non-smokers really just want to ban smoking in all places in case they happen to want to go there. Either that or they are disgusted by the habit and want to force everyone to quit. Why else would they care about smoking in places they can easily avoid?
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Yeah, i don't know. I'm sure that there are a lot of reasons, more than you distill down into a two-sentence paragraph. I'm sure it would be pretty easy to claim that smokers just want to smoke inside, and that all this high falutin talk of the rights of private businesses is just a smoke screen(heh.) put up to avoid sounding like scorned addicts. I'm not going to claim that this is true for all smokers, to do so would be presumptuous and self serving in the context of my position.
In other words, people want what they want for all different reasons. The majority of people don't want to deal with smoke when they go to the bar. It sucks to be on the wrong side of public opinion, but the fact that nobody's rights are being violated means you kind've just have to deal with it.