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Originally Posted by Anti-choice57  There should be certain standards to have when you are in a public area. I don't think smoking indoors in a public place exemplifies good manners. I'm not saying that the government should restrict people from putting their elbows on the table but all they have to do is step outside. I wouldn't be aloud to set off fire crackers in a restraunt because it would be anoying and I would instantly get kicked out. | But a restaurant, bar, coffee shop, etc are not public places, they are private establishments. If these establishments wish to allow patrons who smoke to remain indoors then that is their right. If a non-smoker does not wish to frequent these establishments, then this is their right.
Let the free market dictate. If you do not want to smell smoke when you go to eat, then go eat at a place that does not allow smoking. If not, then the only person you have to blame for your own discomfort is yourself.
dmk Conservatism, I repeat is not an ideology. It does not breed fanatics....But if you want men who seek, reasonably and prudently, to reconcile the best in wisdom of our ancestors with the change which is essential to a vigorous civil social existence, then you will do well to turn to conservative principles
-Russell Kirk- |