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i don't regard this as a well-framed thread.
i entirely oppose these idiotic "free-speech zones" and the shallow rationales given for restricting the right to protest.
but i do not buy the absolutist line on this, and in particular want nothing to do with any potential linkage between this and guns. i have the feeling it's coming, and so there we are.
but thought i'd say something to comrade jazz:
i'm fine with cigarette bans in restos. i think most folk are.
i'm less fine with them in bars--but at the same time, i smoke less when i go out now, which is an unqualified good so far as i am concerned. but i still am ambivalent about the bans.
i was really really not fine with chicago's decision to implement the smoking ban at midnight on new year's eve, at which point it was around 15 below zero outside.
if i could choose, there'd be a diversity of spaces--some where smoking is fine, others where it isn't.
for all the reasons you adduce, too, in support of smoking bans.
if there were clubs where one could smoke, and you didn't like it, you wouldn't have to go. it's not as though your "right" for potential consumer choices overrides everything that might appeal to others.
btw none of this is terribly important in the summer, but in winter, it is. trust me on this.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
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