Anguille
Bane of the Urbane
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Find me a person that can't find work anywhere but in a smoking environment.
These issues could be decided on a case by case basis, there's no reason for wholesale restriction of the rights of people to engage in a legal activity. Especially in light of lack of evidence that shs does harm. That is the definition of selfish.
I'm done with this subject.
Find you person who can't find work anywhere but in smoking environment? Well, at one time, when bars and restaurants were exempt from employee protection laws concerning smoking, there were plenty of people forced to chose between giving up their jobs or working in a smoking environment. That same situation could likely reoccur if smoking bans are rescinded. You are also forgetting that in many depressed areas of the country people will do any job they can get to put food on the table.
If this were a case of smokers complaining that they should be allowed to smoke in hospitals or schools or other places where white collar people work, the issue would never come up because that would mean that white collar people's health would be put at risk. But saying it's okay to put the health of unskilled workers such as bar employees at risk, to single them out as the ones who won't get the same protections that other employees get, is discrimination against low income people. And seeing as more and more people employed in the food and beverage industry are immigrants and minorities, it might even be construed as racial discrimination as well.
These issues could be decided on a case by case basis.
I believe that has already been done. At one time smoking bans only applied to certain types of places of employment. Now it's been determined that all employees deserve equal protection.
the rights of people to engage in a legal activity.
It has become a cliché, but a person's so called right to smoke ends when it infringes on another person's right to breathe.
Especially in light of lack of evidence that shs does harm.
If you still think that secondhand smoke is harmless, even after all the evidence that has been brought forward over the decades, you have your head buried in the ashtray sand.