[Mishmash] Can it really be?????

[Hugh Gigante]

Re: [Mishmash] Can it really be?????Here's my take on smoking laws.

Smoking is not illegal. It probably is not any worse for health than someone wearing perfume (you should only know what is in that crap.

So, given that it is legal and smokers are part of the public (and therefor own public spaces just like everyone else) why do we allow their rights to be discriminated against?

Laws effecting private spaces are worse. Why do we allow fools to impose rules on, say a restaurant? That is, after all, a private place nobody is forced to enter. If a restaurant owner wants to allow smoking and people don't like it, they simply won't patronize the place . . . just like if he serves bad food. But it is the owners right to decide how to run his establishment, not some putz who got himself elected. 

I have a private company with less that 50 employees, which puts me under the radar for the social gestapo. Outside the rear door is a very neat sign.

It says "Employee non smoking area". Anyone who works for me knows they can step outside any time they want and not smoke.

BTW I got the idea from the pastor of my church.

Hugh
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  From: Robyne Kerr 
  To: Mishmash 
  Sent: Wednesday, January 02, 2008 7:33 PM
  Subject: Re: [Mishmash] Can it really be?????


    I think we have far too many laws and most are about making money than saving lives.  We have had the smoking laws in Tasmania for years and now it is just part of life.  The latest one is that you can't smoke in your own car if children are in it. They are gradually making public space a not smoke zone. I don't smoke but I don't agree with these kind of laws.




    I have smoking friends so I go to the smoking areas with them, every pub has an area set aside outside but that would be hard in the snow.  The smoking laws here are just getting stronger each year.

  Robyne   























    well, since i was already old in 2007 - i don't really feel any older today.  i went to my daughter's annual new years eve party last nite.  not as many there as usually because it started snowing and blowing around here in the afternoon and the roads were pretty bad.  (we live a in a very small rural town remember - no one cleans the streets and roads unles we get 6 or more inches it seems - and the country roads are the worst).   we played a game called catch phrase until people started to leave before midnite afraid they wouldn't get home at all.  then we played a game called scene it - about movies.  i was very bad at that one.

    this morning my friends called to see if i were going to go for coffee and i still had my jammies on - i told them to come over here and watch the parade with me so i had a house full of old women all morning.  i intend not to leave my house today.

     illinois just implemented a law today to have no smoking in all bars, restaurants, private clubs even and smokers have to be 15 feet from a door outside.   you know, i have been socially unacceptable with my smoking and so have most of my friends.  we have coffee every morning to check up on each other as we all live alone.   if someone isn't there and we didn't know ahead of time it is time to start calling them.  we're really upset about this law but will try it for awhile - if we decide coffee isn't fun anymore we will all congregate at my house.   my non-smoking friends are as unhappy about the law as my smoking friends.  i often wondered how the nazi's were able to just round up all the jews and they all got on the trains and filed into the showers.  i'm beginning to see more and more how that could have happened - we just blindly do whatever our legislators deem right for all of us and most of them are a bunch of hired blowhards.  they even want the citizenry to report on people disobeying this law.  now, didn't the nazi's implement that tattling on your neighbor plan?  ok - i've vented.  happy new year you guys.
    carole
    -------Original Message-------

    From: GALEHALLOCK at aol.com
    Date: 1/1/2008 10:20:15 AM
    To: mishmash at mishmash.net
    Subject: [Mishmash] Can it really be?????

    Happy New Years dear friends.  Can it really be 2008?????
    That makes me.........ahhhhhh........uhmmmmmmm........errrrrrrr............
    quite old!!!! 

    Gale






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