The smoking debate

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Originally posted by A Black Falcon
Oh, its such a terrible idea to want to protect the health of the bar workers... so sorry to even consider wanting more people not to get lung cancer...

It is a conscious decision to be either a smoker or a barhop. Therefore, no special governmental consideration should be given either way.

Even if secondhand smoke was even a tenth as dangerous as you claim it to be, there are many, many other professions that harbor a much greater and immediate risk to life and limb. In comparison to something as common as construction or utilities work, barhopping is of no significant health risk whatsoever.

Thus again, it comes down to that you're using a very weak issue of health to disguise your true imperative: To install more governmental control over business and life in general, both because your admitted dream is a completely government-controlled society, and because you simply don't like smoking personally. The issue of health risk to an extraordinarily small minority of people is just a way to give it some semblance of credibility. I'd have so much more respect for you if you were honest about that.