Legal or illegal?

[UofMLaxGoalie11]

1) Smoking in restaurants?
- No - It's my business, my patrons, if they like the smoke & accept the health consequences, my doors should stay open. Many businesses have prospered for decades smoke free, by their own choice... If the public/market demands no smoke, I wouldn't be able to keep my doors open. On a side note, I don't smoke, nor do I like to go to smoking venues... but, I do not believe that my want should control the minority or majority.

I thought it was best said "having a smoking section in a restaraunt is like having a peeing section in a pool."

With my current and previous jobs being in the service industry and being a non-smoker, I can say that I would prefer to see smoking banned, but I wont make a big fuss about it. I think it should be up to the owners to decide if it will be smoke-free or not. They are the ones who get to make the business decisions, how is this any different. If people dont want to be in a smokey environment, they dont have to go there. If they want to smoke, they will. Its about as simple as that.

[Kyle Berggren]

If people dont want to be in a smokey environment, they dont have to go there. If they want to smoke, they will. Its about as simple as that.

Agreed.

Applied:

If people don't want to worship the Devil, , the don't have to... If they want to worship the Devil, , they will.... it doesn't affect me.

If people don't want to burn the flag, , they don't have to... If they want to burn the flag, , they will.... it doesn't affect me.

I appreciate it when people take into consider my feelings when they make choices, but it's not their obligation.

As far as a restaurant being a public place, its not the street, it's a private business establishment. It's about as much a public place as a strip club or an Elk's Club, and just about anything else not owned by the government. If you don't like my restaurant, go somewhere else. Kids don't have choices, they're kids, their parents do. If they actually cared, they'd go somewhere else, but we license driver's not parents.

[DanGenck]

In my eyes, the most important concept here is how much government do we need? We're legislating things we have no business legislating... for instance (I'm sure I'll be the minority here)....

Should our government legislate...

1) Smoking in restaurants?
- No - It's my business, my patrons, if they like the smoke & accept the health consequences, my doors should stay open. Many businesses have prospered for decades smoke free, by their own choice... If the public/market demands no smoke, I wouldn't be able to keep my doors open. On a side note, I don't smoke, nor do I like to go to smoking venues... but, I do not believe that my want should control the minority or majority.

2) what can go into pepperoni?
- Yes - It's a tough one. Right now, it's an unregulated meat(or it was two years ago), you could be eating anything?.?.?. Does that mean it shouldn't come into the country? No, bring it. People should be able to get as fat as they want eating it (their own choice), but it would be nice to know what's in it (Information to help with that choice). We should also enforce the thruth-fulness of that information, but we'd rather... legislate things like the horse incident in Enumclaw, WA (pretty close to PLU).

4) burning of the flag?
- No - I'll despise it, but I have a choice on whether or not I'm around it.... I don't want to see any cross burning, rednecks, racists, idiots, or disrespectful kids with terrible parents, but I have to deal with it so I can wear a terrible shirt found on www.tshirthell.com if I want to.

Note: that is not a good site for those of you at the office, and I did erase 3) because it could have started its own rant as if mine wasn't long enough.

I applaud you for being one of the few "true" conservatives left in the world.